<p>At the United online booking form, when you enter New Haven, you should see two options–the airport, which is HVN, and the Railway Station, which is ZVE. If for some reason you don’t see the rail station as an option, it should work if you simply enter ZVE in the airport box.</p>
<p>There is a 2-hour layover at a minimum after the train drops you at Newark. But that’s not totally unreasonable for today’s anxious traveler. </p>
<p>I think United may be the only airline that bundles the train and the plane. I tried ZVE at Orbitz, Expedia, Kayak, and Delta, and it was an unknown location.</p>
<p>For United, it seems as if you can use the rail option to connect to any of its flights out of Newark. </p>
<p>And, oddly, it’s cheaper to originate your flight at the rail station. I tried a for instance, and out of New Haven, the cheapest ticket is $108; originating in Newark, the cheapest flight is $255–and it’s not non-stop. The same non-stop starting in Newark as the $108 is $397. </p>
<p>So the moral of this story for the frugal traveler is head for New Haven.</p>
<p>Well, once again I tried CT Limo for S’s spring break travel. Their website is changed, yes, but the same problem happens. When I click “Yale Phelps Gate discount”, when I get to the end it says “no trips available”. Tried again and just clicked just “Yale Phelps Gate” and it works–but it now costs $132 instead of the Yale discount $98. So…going with Go Shuttle again–costs $108 but certainly more convenient to make a reservation! Still wondering what’s up with CT Limo!!!</p>
<p>I emailed Yale Dining and did hear back that the deadline for ordering is this Friday.</p>
<p>“Hi - the correct date is end of day on Friday, March 1st.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Yale Dining”</p>
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<p>When is the deadline for prepaying meals for Spring Break? It says Dec. 19 on the website, but that was the deadline last time. Thanks.</p>
<p>“As a service to those students who will be on campus during spring break, March 9th -23rd, 2013 Yale Dining is offering lunch or dinner for $7 per meal at Pierson dining hall 3/9 - 3/16 and Ezra Stiles and Morse dining halls 3/17 - 3/23…
but you must enroll by the end of the day December 19th, 2012.”</p>
<p>Hope I’m not hijacking this thread…My kid will be doing an unofficial overnight visit to Yale next week. He’ll be travelling on Amtrak; coach can’t pick him up at the station because of NCAA rules. Can he grab the Yale shuttle to campus, or do the kids have to show id’s to get on?</p>
<p>He should be able to get on without showing an ID. Tell him to have that vacant, preoccupied stare of a stressed out Yale student trying to get everything done, and just walk onto the shuttle ;). </p>
<p>I rode the shuttle several times during Bulldog Days and certainly don’t fit the Yale student demographic and no one ever asked me for ID. Worst case scenario, there are cabs at the station, give him an extra $15 in case he needs to take a cab in.</p>
<p>Good luck to your son on his UOV, I hope it goes well!</p>
<p>This made me laugh as that’s pretty much how my kid (and everyone at his boarding school) looks at all times, so I suspect he’ll blend right in! Thanks.</p>
<p>So, my son has a 5:30 flight out of JFK on Friday. The issue is he has class until 12:30. So he’ll race back to Old Campus to grab a suitcase that is ready to go and should be able to make a 1:15 -1:30 shuttle which should get him there on time. The problem is, I honestly don’t know who is most reliable. I’m hearing weird stuff here about CT Limo, have decided that Q Conn may not be reliable enough because when he came home for winter break he said they took forever and were switching vans and some people were very worried about making their flight. Is Go Shuttle reliable? This time I don’t care about finding the best fare. I care about him getting to the airport on time with a reliable transport so he doesn’t miss his flight. Suggestions?</p>
<p>We have found Go Shuttle to absolutely be reliable. S has used it for the last 3 times now. I used to love CT Limo and used it all the time—but now I cannot get the website booking to work. I just booked GoShuttle for S’s trip home on Saturday with no problems.</p>
<p>I think that Friday the 8th is a huge day for airport travel for all the shuttle companies, so my bet would be they will all be running multiple vans/buses to all the airports. I would be more worried about reliability if you were looking at odd hour/off peak travel scenarios.</p>
<p>If the unthinkable happens and he misses his GoShuttle, I bet you could find him a spot on a CTlimo shuttle around that time as well, although let’s hope that doesn’t happen ;). A trick I learned with CTlimo, when you call their number (which we all have to do now since their web site is a disaster :mad:…) select the number that says to arrange for a private car, then plead with whomever answers to get you to a shuttle booker. Phone wait times are way shorter on the private car line.</p>
<p>I should also mention that S took GoShuttle for offpeak travel when he was flying out for summer internship interviews this fall, and it was always very reliable. Never had a problem. Of course, I knock on wood every time I say that. :)</p>
<p>My DS is a freshman and he is trying to figure out what he wants to do this summer…he is trying to find a research position on campus but hasn’t heard anything. The professors have not responded to emails (that’s the way he was told to communicate with them). He already turned down an internship so he only has the Harvard Summer program at Univ of Trento to fall back on but they are pushing for a firm commitment (we said to tell them yes as no money yet involved)…So any ideas on how I can ‘help’ him (guiding advice) find someone on campus to assist him in getting responses from Profs with Research this summer…he’s fairly good at figuring things out but expects everyone to respond to emails like he does!</p>
<p>In the last month, several companies have made on-campus presentations to the kids for internships. My son, a sophomore, went to one for Apple and Google. They encouraged students to apply on-line, which my son did. He received an interview for Google and is waiting to hear back. Given the lackluster economy though, I’m anticipating that my son will once again be waiting tables for the summer:(</p>
<p>My son went to lots of presentations in the past months…I thought he should take the internship offered by a Yale Global Scholar in Singapore but he had to give them an answer quickly…so he decided Nuro Science sounded more interesting (and we have to pay/not him being paid)…wanted something different than microfinance (has done that and still doing it with Elmseed)
Gibby…hope your son gets the google position…that could be fun…what is his major? A friend’s son had an internship with google last summer at the Manhattan office…we got to visit…amazing place!</p>
<p>Add my soph. to the list of kids desperately searching for relevant yet compensated summer opportunities. He’s had several offers of unpaid internships, but the shine is definitely off that apple, especially due to the cost of living in the cities they’re located (DC and NYC :eek:). He has applied for fellowships to pay for unpaid internships but hasn’t heard back yet, and frankly the amounts of many of the fellowships aren’t going to cover living in those cities completely.</p>
<p>His brother (a STEM major) had great paying summer internships every year of college. I guess that’s the curse of being a global affairs/econ major…If he can’t find something paid he’ll be back home this summer ‘digging ditches’ for the county, but making some nice $$'s</p>
Summer research - if your son has time, he should keep sending e-mails to professors he is interested in working for. They do not all respond. It is better to show in the email that you know something about the current research projects in the lab. Working up this knowledge takes some time, so this approach is not without costs, and the payoff is certainly not guaranteed.
Leadership postitions in whatever summer programs he participated in during high-school. All 3 of my kids have spent some of their college summers doing this.
Thanks.</p>