<p>What is the best way to get from BWI airport to a place to stay in 'foggy bottom"? Best way to and from GW university and BWI</p>
<p>Best = cheap and somewhat efficient</p>
<p>Without a rental car or taxi, I would do this…</p>
<p>BWI free shuttle from terminal –> Marc Train –> DC Union Station –> Metro Red Line to Metro Center –> Change to Orange/Blue Line –>Foggy Bottom. </p>
<p>(marc = Maryland Rail Communter)</p>
<p>I guess you’d back-track to get to BWI from GW. (I believe the college has a Metro stop.)</p>
<p>There is unfortunately not a cheap and efficient way to do this. Train is a possibility but not efficient. Cab is efficient but not cheap! 
I hate driving in DC so I wouldn’t want to get a rental car; plus then you end up paying for parking if you are in a downtown hotel near Foggy Bottom. I think decide whether you want cheap or efficient and if you want cheap, invest time in train rides - take the MARC from BWI to Union Station
[Commuter</a> Rail](<a href=“Commuter Rail - MARC & VRE”>Commuter Rail - MARC & VRE) and then
once you are on the DC Metro take trains to the Foggy Bottom station; the Foggy Bottom station is virtually right at GW.</p>
<p>The MARC Maryland Commuter Rail train doesn’t run very often. (If there is a way that I don’t know of that scoots you from BWI to Reagan, it is an easy Metro ride from Reagan to the Foggy Bottom station.)</p>
<p>When we visited GWU we stayed at the Doubletree Guest Suites. This worked out well for us. If you can get a low room rate, I would recommend it. The rooms are funny, kind of like four rooms in a square (kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom) than in most hotels but it was very convenient to GWU and nice to have extra room in our room.</p>
<p>I’ve gone from BWI to DC using a bus at the airport that goes to the Greenbelt station on the Metro & then taking the Metro into DC. It was cheap but time consuming because the bus only ran every 40 minutes. Had to do this because the MARC train mentioned earlier doesn’t run on weekends, otherwise I probably wuld’ve taken the MARC train to Union Station & then the Metro.
If you don’t have much luggage, this worked fine other than needing to account for time. If you’ve got more luggage than you can comfortably take on public transportation there are shuttle vans…you can get more info on them at the BWI website.</p>
<p>If the rates are cheaper, you could also stay in Virginia in the Roslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, Ballston corridor; all are on the Orange line and a short ride to Foggy Bottom.</p>
<p>It is for DD, staying with a student for free in Foggy Bottom 
But we spent a ton on the place ticket, so want to avoid peripheral costs being outrageous</p>
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<p>My daughter lives in DC and usually flies out of BWI because of the SouthWest fares. She does METRO to Greenbelt and then takes the shuttle bus up to BWI. It’s convenient and cheap and it’s all on Google Transit so you can see the next bus and trains from the iPhone. MARC train to Union Station would be perfectly fine, too. In addition to METRO subway from Union Station, there’s a CIRCULATOR bus route that may connect Union Station to Foggy Bottom. I know there’s continuous circle bus from Union Station that heads off in that general direction cross town. Google CIRCULATOR bus DC.</p>
<p>Reagan National is the most convenient for public transportation, but the limited landing slots mean few, if any, decent fares. Dulles is just a pain in the butt to get to. BWI is the low cost traveller’s airport of choice from DC.</p>