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The decision to book Delta for my Rochester-Detroit flight was not easy. Delta (Connection) was the only airline flying non-stop from Rochester to Detroit, and they had multiple flights over the day. They were, however, not the cheapest. A quick search on multiple OTAs turned up multiple cheaper options from United and American. The difference was not very large. This left me thinking if I should take the risk of flying a connecting flight, or be done with a direct flight at a higher cost. I did not want to get stuck in Detroit, and decided to book the direct flight instead. This flight would get me to Detroit with over 4 hours to spare for my connection.

After having spent over a month in Rochester, and kind of adjusting to the place, it was not an easy task packing up. Some last minute purchases from Walmart added to the baggage, and I had to struggle a bit to pack all of it into the two bags I had with me. It was fun packing my bag - a lot of tricks went in to get all my stuff int…

After getting off Megabus, we had to walk all our way to the Port Authority bus station - we had chosen to walk since taking the train or the bus would've taken the same time! It was a long back to get to 42nd street. Once we got near the Port Authority bus terminal, our priority was to get some dinner. We headed to Villa Fresh, for some good italian food. After dinner, we headed to Port Authority Bus Terminal. We had a tough time hunting out the platform where our bus would depart from. We kept roaming around the same place for a while as we kept following signages. After a bit of walking around, I enquired with a bus operator, who gave us precise instructions to get to the platform.

It was a very confusing route, and we got to the platforms located at the basement level of the north building. The gate details were given to us at the time of reservation itself, and we headed straight to Gate #62. This gate is also an arrivals gate. Our bus was to depart only at 0045hrs, and a fa…

I was excited from the time I saw photographs of megabus! Travelling on the upper deck of the double decker bus was high up on the bucket list as I prepared travel plans. Unlike Greyhound, Megabus offered only point-to-point bookings. The return journey from Washington was the last choice I had, to try the megabus. We (I and my colleague) decided to book our return journey from Washington with a break at New York. We finally decided to book on megabus from Washington DC to New York, and on Greyhound for the last leg from New York to Rochester.
Megabus had around 20-odd departures from Washington DC to New York - some of them operating non-stop, and some with a pick-up point at White Marsh, Baltimore. I looked at all the departure leaving between 1700hrs and 1830hrs - we had to connect to a 0045hrs departure from New York to Rochester. Finally, I booked seats for the bus departing at 1800hrs. I opted for seats on the second row in the upper deck - the first row was terribly expensive,…