<p>Has anyone every taken the Chinatown Bus (Fung Wah) in either direction? How was your experience?</p>
<p>my friend lives in NJ, but his gf goes to Manhattan College, so he always takes the Fung Wah to visit her. He says that the Fung Wah makes excellent time and goes really fast and he likes it a lot. BUT i've heard rumors that it breaks down every so often.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I live in NJ too and I always take the Greyhound home. literally, i just took it home Saturday afternoon and came back Sunday morning (lol...my two friends were the leads in their musical, but I had a Chamber Singers concert on Friday and another Sunday afternoon, so I only went home for Saturday). If you take the Greyhound at a time that doesn't have traffic, it always gets to Port Authority in 4 hrs and 20 minutes. You can order tickets a special way online, through the "Special Fares to NYC discount" and it'll only cost 20. (used to be 18...grr). I like the Greyhound because I then take an NJ Transit bus home straight from Port Authority, and taking the Fung Wah would mean getting on the subway to go to Port Authority anyway, dragging luggage along the way. But to each his own.</p>
<p>Didn't a chinatown bus flip over last year killing the people inside? Personally, I would pay more for a greyhound and have the peace of mind that my bus isn't going to fly off the high way exit.</p>
<p>Actually I'm currently in the same dillema of paying 15 bucks for a Chinatown bus or paying 50ish for a greyhound to visit NYU Stern.</p>
<p>why fifty?! if you go online to greyhound.com, click US, and there's a rectangle that says "Special Fares to NYC." When you click it, it'll have a list of all your options, and the Boston to New York option is 20.</p>
<p>And yeah, I heard that about the Fung Wah too. Greyhound it is! lol</p>
<p>Which Greyhound stop is the closest to Medford?</p>
<p>I also don't see anything that says special fares to NYC. Maybe it doesn't exist if you start in NYC.</p>
<p>no, it does. promise. twenty bucks.</p>
<p>The greyhound is a nonstop that goes from NYC's Port Authority to Boston's South Station. the bus terminal of South Station is adjacent to the train terminal - you simply walk next door, get on the Red Line of the T, and go to the Davis stop. The Tufts campus is located about a ten minute walk from Davis, and the Joey (shuttle) will pick you up from right across the T exit and take you to campus if you live uphill or have luggage or something.</p>
<p>I've taken the Fung Wah and Travel Pack a bunch of times. I think that the NY/DC route is the one that has more gang issues on it. One of the buses now departs from South Station - so it's really easy to get in and out of Boston. </p>
<p>The buses are clean; I also really like them because they get to NYC faster than the Greyhound. Greyhound stops for about 30 minutes in some rest stop in CT... which I completely do not like because it adds a lot of time to the trip. We can all hold it for three hours and get snacks before hand... in some ways, I would rather drive to NYC than take the bus and wait around forever.</p>
<p>aw, 30 minutes?! we usually only stop for ten.</p>