My Greyhound Journey to New York City

This video shows the portion of my trip to New York City from Whitby, ON to Syracuse, NY.

I rode the GO Train from Whitby to Union station in Toronto. Then, I took a taxi from Union Station to the Toronto Bus Terminal. From there, I boarded a highway bus which took me all the way to the Port Authority Bus terminal in New York City. The bus crossed the Canada/USA border at Niagara Falls, and also stopped in Buffalo and Syracuse in New York State.

My ticket was purchased from Greyhound, but the trip was chartered to 'New York Trailways'. I was very satisfied with my trip on the bus. Very affordable and compfortable.

Check out the continuation of this video to see my arrival and first reaction seeing New York City for the first time in my life.

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[OhHeySuzy]

Just wanted to stop in and say thank you for this video. It's great, and it really eased my nerves (I'm leaving soon to NYC from Montreal by greyhound, and I've been reading tons of posts online about how terrible greyhound is and how the passengers are all criminals or weirdos. I knew that was an exaggeration, but still). I'm glad to hear you had a relatively normal, non-life-threatening trip to NYC with Greyhound. There is hope! haha :)

[auesr]

@cjhoyle I'm going to see SMT's concert, it's going to be a whole bunch of singers from the same company performing. And they're korean.Thank you for answering all my questions.

[cjhoyle]

@auesr When you buy your ticket, you have the choice of buying a ticket for New York, NY (which takes you to the Port Authority), or a ticket for New York, Penn Station (which is what you probably want). It's the same bus that takes people to both places. It stops at the Port Authority first, and most people get off there, and then it continues to Penn Station. I'm sure you would be able to purchase your return ticket to depart from Penn Station too.

What concert are you going to see?

[auesr]

@cjhoyle You said the bus also drop people off at Penn Station, how does that work? So the bus stops there for a short while then heads to Port Authority? Can you get on a bus at Penn Station?

[cjhoyle]

@auesr Well I'm pretty sure that they make an effort not to oversell the tickets for each trip, so if they've done everything right then you should still be able to get on the bus even if you are the last in line. However, you will probably be less stressed if you are near the front of the line.

As far as I know, everyone waiting for my bus was able to get on without a problem, I don't know what they would have done if there was though.

[auesr]

@cjhoyle What if you're one of the last in line and you can't get on that ride because the bus is full? Did that happen to anyone? and what was the solution?

[cjhoyle]

@auesr I got off at The Port Authority Bus Terminal (42nd and 8th Ave.). The bus also drops people at Penn Station, which is the same building as Madison Square Gardens.

Check Greyhounds website, but I believe they want you there an hour ahead of the departure time. People seem to start lining up an hour before, and being near the front of the line is probably a good idea.

I hope you have a good trip!

[auesr]

@cjhoyle Which stop did you stop at in new york? the one near madison square garden? cause the concert is going to be there, how many minutes in advance do you have to arrive to get on the bus if you had the tickets already?

[cjhoyle]

@auesr I wouldn't expect so. They x-ray everything that goes through and they probably wouldn't have a problem with that, but I am not a US Customs agent so I can't give you a definite answer.

[auesr]

If I brought a sign/banner with neon lights for a concert, will the customs allow that? I'm also taking a bus from Toronto to New York.