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  • I need to attend a wedding in the Reading, PA area this June. I would like to travel there from Boston, MA, without renting a car. Is this reasonably possible? I do not need a car once I arrive in Reading. I need to be there for dinner Friday night and all day Saturday for said wedding. Possibilities I would consider, but do not seem like obvious solutions: * Flight or train to Philadelphia, find transport to Reading from there. * Travel to Albany, where I could meet up with my parents who will be driving down from the Burlington, VT area (so asking them to pick me up in Boston is rather out of the way AND makes it harder to avoid NYC traffic. Unfortunately, that also puts Philadelphia south of their route.) * Travel to elsewhere that doesn't require a great detour from the Burlington, VT-Reading, PA drive my parents will be taking. It's not that I mind driving - it just seems silly to pay for the rental car when I'll be spending the whole weekend with my parents (and their car) anyway.

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    The cheapest option would be to take a train or bus into NYC then take the Bieber bus from NYC to Reading. I've done both and it's a pretty straightforward, though long, experience.

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Fly to ABE and have your parents pick you up there. ABE to Reading is a short, easy drive.

http://biebertourways.com/ runs a bus that connects Reading and Philly, and you could pretty easily take a Megabus from Boston down to Philly. I'm betting that would end up being a pretty darn long trip. If meeting up with your folks in Albany is doable, I'd probably take a train from Boston out to Albany and hitch a ride with them.

thebigdeadwaltz

You could take Greyhound from Boston to Burlington, but it takes five-ish hours. Megabus is four hours. You can also take Greyhound from Philadelphia to Reading, which is a bit over two hours, for what Google Maps says is a bit over an hour drive. Greyhound to Albany looks like it usually involves a transfer and is 4-ish hours. Amtrak is also an option for Albany, I think.

hoyland

Looks like http://webstore.biebertourways.com/schedules.asp also goes from NYC to Reading, in about 3 hours.

sepviva

The http://www.amtrak.com/lake-shore-limited-train train will take from noon to 5:35 pm to get you to Albany, but you should be in Pittsfield, MA by 3:36 pm; if your parents take US 7 from Burlington that wouldn't be a huge detour.

Monday, stony Monday

How about flying to Allentown (ABE)? My parents live near Reading and I've flown there before when it was cheaper than Philly. It's a tiny airport, but you could likely get a cab or have someone pick you up there. It's about 30 miles from Reading.

cabingirl

Yeah, I was going to suggest that you meet up in Pittsfield, MA as well. (I live about a half-hour north of Pittsfield, so it sprang to mind.) It's not a "cute New England town" by any stretch, but there are a few cafés & interesting shops downtown where you or your parents could while away some time if you had to wait. Parking is easy; the transportation center where the trains arrive has a garage below street level. Note that it's 4.5 hours from Pittsfield to Reading (says Google Maps), so if you went this route you'd be arriving in Reading at 8 PM at the earliest. (Later if your train is delayed; http://www.amtrakdelays.onlineschedulingsoftware.com/, over the last five days the train has been 24 minutes late on average.) This might mean that you'd have to travel on Thursday instead of Friday if you need to be there for Friday dinner. Similarly, coming back you'd have to leave Reading around 11:30 AM to safely catch your train back to Boston.

Johnny Assay

Amtrak runs from NY/Philly to Reading on the http://www.amtrak.com/keystone-service-train It's just over an hour from Philly to Reading. The link includes an updated schedule.

mochapickle

Amtrak runs from NY/Philly to Reading on the Keystone line. Amtrak's Keystone Service doesn't get closer than about 30 miles from Reading. It doesn't look like there's been any passenger service to Reading since 1981.

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