<p>We need to spend a few days in Jersey City in February.</p>
<p>I’m not a big city driver, and my husband thinks I should take the train.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me some advice? Should I suck it up and drive? Drive part way and take the commuter rail? Take Amtrak and try to find my way from Penn Station to Jersey City?</p>
<p>This is for a sporting event, so we will also need to schlepp some stuff.</p>
<p>Take the train, then a cab to Jersey. Tell the cabbie you want to be picked up after the game, and exchange cell phone numbers.</p>
<p>Take the train to NY, than NJ Transit to Jersey city, cab it from there. Taking a cab from NY to NJ will be a small fortune.</p>
<p>If you will be taking allot of luggage then driving is the only way to go. Schleping multiple suitcases through Penn Station and into a cab is no fun. It’s all highway driving until you get to Jersey City. And even then driving in JC is nothing like driving in Manhattan.</p>
<p>That’s why they have porters in train stations. $2/bag should cover it.
Driving from Boston to JC in February? Get real. Leave the driving to others.
If you really don’t want to pay for a cab, you can walk to the PATH station at 33rd street, and cross the Hudson by train as suggested above to save money. Good luck!</p>
<p>If the weather is like today, I would prefer to drive unless the experience of driving in that neck of New Jersey is very, very hair raising indeed.</p>
<p>Taking public transport when you have no clue is stressful, plus making sure (in the opposite direction) one gets back to Penn Station in time.</p>
<p>It may depend on the time of day you need to make the trip. If it is past (A.M.) rush hour, coming into NYC (by car) is not so bad from the east. If it involves any driving during the week 5-9 A.M. or 3-7 P.M., take the train. Amtrak comes into Penn Station. NJTransit is operates from the same tracks, very close by, there are elevators and escalators. I would take the train, i.e. Amtrak and then NJTransit, and then a cab from closest train stop. Good luck. Lorelei</p>
<p>Thanks especially to toblin and lorelei – it is good to hear that driving in JC is nothing like Manhattan, also that if we arrive midday we should be relatively okay, finally that it is relatively easy to find NJ Transit within Penn Station.</p>
<p>Okay, I did some research and it appears to me we would need to walk from Penn Station to the 33rd St PATH station in order to take public transport.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, NJ Transit doesn’t go to Jersey City.</p>
<p>Fendrock: it is a long block east from Penn Station to the 33rd St. PATH station. The other option is to take NJTransit to Newark (I think this is right), switch to PATH there. Check that out. Lorelei</p>
<p>Thanks, Lorelei, I did check out the Newark route and it appears Amtrak and PATH share Newark’s Penn Station. So the simplest route is to take Amtrak to Newark Penn Station and then PATH directly to Jersey City from there – 22 minutes per the PATH web site, and the PATH station right out the door from the hotel.</p>
<p>Case closed, unless I decide to throw all caution to the wind and drive…</p>
<p>Great solution…I forgot about Amtrak going directly to Newark. It is more expensive than NJTransit, but worth it to avoid the hassle of changing twice. Good luck! When do you go?</p>
<p>We will be in JC during our February school vacation, so in about four weeks.</p>
<p>We’ll take some extra time and visit Ellis Island.</p>
<p>I’ve never been, and I’ve always wanted to.</p>
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<p>Of course, driving would be far cheaper but I’m not sure I have the nerve.</p>
<p>I’d take Amtrak, but if you do decide to drive, Toblin is right about JC driving being much easier than NYC. Ellis Island is a great idea. Also, Liberty Science Center was just upgraded & might be a fun stop.</p>
<p>The easy way would be to book a hotel near the stadium and take a train and then a cab to the hotel. You can then walk to the game and back from the game. Take a bus/cab back to the train station when you’re done.</p>
<p>Teleportation. What we need is cheap teleportation…</p>
<p>I don’t know why nobody mentioned this, </p>
<p>Take the Amtrak Acela train to Newark Penn Station and take a New Jersey cab for a short ride to Jersey City. This way you don’t have to pay double fare like you would have to for a NYC cab.</p>