<p>tugtraveller: Thanks again for the suggestion. Daughter is all set to fly out on SW from BDL, and booked with CT Limo shuttle service.</p>
<p>I just booked a reservation online with CT Limo and received an email confirmation right away. Although I was not able to choose the discount option.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s the problem I had–cannot get the discount online. For those of you who called and booked with them, do they still give the discount?</p>
<p>Clarimom: No they no longer give the discount. I called already and asked before I booked online.</p>
<p>I can have him check, but I emailed them this afternoon and asked them to CC me on email confirmation and I have nothing and I did check my spam folder. Hopefully, I can get through tomorrow. I thought they did give a discount when I called, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>I just want to add my kudos to tugtraveller for not only making a great suggestion but actually doing the legwork to investigate the alternative and show it was viable. It’s people like that who make a forum like this truly invaluable.</p>
<p>Hello all! Mom of an incoming freshman here. University has been her dream since she was a little girl, and I couldn’t be prouder, although I have my worries as I’m sure you can understand. (There are days where she forgets to eat!) </p>
<p>Anybody here whose child did the Cultural Connections or OIS? How did the early move-in work? It looks with our flight schedule we won’t be able to stay for the move to permanent room, if she isn’t placed there initially.</p>
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<p>Amtrak costs as little as $32, but typically about $72 or $80 for a 2:15 minute trip to EWR.</p>
<p>Mumstheword: It would be more helpful to your child and more fun for you to fly out for Freshman move-in than accompanying her to the start of her pre-Move In program.</p>
<p>Yale puts on some fun stuff for parents, your child might want some help furnishing their suite, and you’ll get to meet the suite-mates and some of their parents. </p>
<p>For the pre-Move-In program, the student can arrive with basically just a large backpack (+sleeping bag for some programs?). Everything else can come with you when you fly for Move-In.</p>
<p>CT Limo emailed me this morning with the confirmation and a note that said reservations close at 5:00 p.m. implying that I called after, which I am not sure about. I politely suggested that when they are closed that the message say that and not “someone will be with you in a moment”.</p>
<p>The bottom line on dealing with CT Limo is to go into it with the same level of low expectations you go into the DMV with. You will not have a pleasant, easy, or customer-satisfaction oriented experience, however you will get what you wanted, namely relatively inexpensive and pretty reliable (no more than 1 or 1.5 hours delay) transportation to and from area airports.</p>
<p>DH just used Go Shuttle this weekend to/from LGA (and S used them several times this year for LGA and JFK) without a problem–easy to book online, convenient, reliable. CT Limo has lost our business.</p>
<p>I completely agree with you Yale84! This is my go to place for all my Yale questions! So glad there are folks like tugtraveller here to help me out.</p>
<p>Clairmom, Fo Shuttle seems good for the NY airports. I wish they would expand to Bradley. I wanted DS to be able to fly Southwest so he could bring home more stuff, so Bradley made sense, but now I realize ground transportation is more reliable for the NY airports. Live and learn. CT Limo was better when DD was at Yale.</p>
<p>Thank you memake! We’ll see what we can do about the flight schedules, because we’re international and the other kiddo has to start school.</p>
<p>RE Things to do at Yale</p>
<p>I will have a few hrs - potentially most of Monday free-- as I am passing through the area. K1 has an EC related commitment and we will meet for supper.
I had planned on seeing the British Museum, it is closed Mondays.</p>
<p>Have been in Yale’s other museum a few times-- Whats it like with the new renovation? Worth the visit? </p>
<p>Other ideas? </p>
<p>Also has anyone tried the steak place in town? carmenanthony.com ?</p>
<p>The new Art Gallery renovation is really great, but it’s also closed on Monday. The Peabody Museum of Natural History is open. I like it, but mainly for the dinosaur mural which you may recognize. You could go down to Wooster Square and get a pizza at Sally’s or Pepe’s.</p>
<p>The Peabody also has a recently opened ancient Egypt exhibit that looks pretty interesting:</p>
<p>[Overview</a> | Echoes of Egypt | Yale Peabody Museum](<a href=“http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview]Overview”>Overview | Echoes of Egypt | Yale Peabody Museum)</p>
<p>Couple of blocks from the Peabody: [New</a> Haven Museum - New Haven Museum](<a href=“http://www.newhavenmuseum.org/]New”>http://www.newhavenmuseum.org/)</p>
<p>And the Beinecke: [Beinecke</a> Rare Book & Manuscript Library](<a href=“http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/]Beinecke”>http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/)</p>
<p>Suzanne, glad I was able to help. The Yale Parents thread has been a wonderful resource for us, too. I have learned so much here over the past 12 months. Very happy to pay it forward.</p>
<p>I’m so glad to be able to join this group, both for my daughter’s sake and my own! Here is a question: I have heard that parents need to reserve rooms for graduation years in advance. True?</p>