Shuttle or Bus to Port of New York

[Ssolomon1956]

We often cruise out of NY with two other couples.  We’d love to find another option to get to port…possibly a shuttle or charter bus.   We live near Philadelphia and/or Wilmington DE area.  Currently we take a train and then taxi to the port.  As we are getting older it becomes harder to manage luggage etc.   Does anyone know of anything?

[njhorseman]

2 hours ago, Ssolomon1956 said:

We often cruise out of NY with two other couples.  We’d love to find another option to get to port…possibly a shuttle or charter bus.   We live near Philadelphia and/or Wilmington DE area.  Currently we take a train and then taxi to the port.  As we are getting older it becomes harder to manage luggage etc.   Does anyone know of anything?

Although it's probably not going to make a difference in the answer to your specific question, there are three cruise terminals in the Port of New York:  Manhattan, Brooklyn and Cape Liberty (which is in Bayonne NJ but part of the Port of New York). Answers to questions about transportation, lodging, etc. are often very dependent on which cruise terminal you're sailing from so you need to specify your cruise terminal in order to get a meaningful reply.

 

In any event I'm not aware of any shuttle or charter bus services from Wilmington or Philadelphia to any of the three cruise terminals. Have you checked with your cruise line to see if they offer anything?

Probably your best choice for door-to-door or nearly door-to-door service will be a car or limo service based in your area. This company uses the words "shuttle service" for transportation to the cruise terminals, but looking at their website it looks like a car/limo service. I know nothing about them...perhaps someone else does : https://www.kinglimoinc.com/our-services/personal/cruise-terminals/ .

Edited December 13, 2023 by njhorseman

[Ssolomon1956]

I was referring to Manhattan.  Thank you.

[GTJ]

13 hours ago, Ssolomon1956 said:

We’d love to find another option to get to port…possibly a shuttle or charter bus. We live near Philadelphia and/or Wilmington DE area. Currently we take a train and then taxi to the port. As we are getting older it becomes harder to manage luggage etc. Does anyone know of anything?

In prior years Greyhound Lines operated regularly scheduled service from Philadelphia to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, but that traffic withered away and eventually the service was discontinued. I know of no companies presently operating such regularly-scheduled service. There would seem to be little reason to believe that the demand for such service would have revived to any significant degree today, and I would doubt that any carrier would risk its resumption. Indeed, the exceptional proximity of the Port Authority Bus Terminal to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal largely obviates the need . . . it would be more convenient and flexible to simply use an ordinary Peter Pan Bus Lines or Greyhound Lines bus from Philadelphia or Wilmington to Port Authority.

 

It can be much effort to put together a chartered party to hire a charter bus to transport such a group. But certainly if you're able to get together with other people in the Philadelphia and/or Wilmington area then you could charter a bus for yourselves. If it is three couples (six individuals) then you might be able to charter a smaller minibus or van to transport yourselves, though the ride would not be as comfortable as a full-size motorcoach.

 

The word "shuttle" has no well-established meaning, so you will find various companies using those words to describe whatever type of service they have to offer. Many times companies will use the term "shuttle" in its generic sense--of moving people from one place to another place--to describe their ordinary hired-car service.