<p>I’m visiting both in one trip. </p>
<p>Amtrak says $52…</p>
<p>Surprisingly, the cost of the megabus says $6 between Yale and Boston. If only there was a megabus in Boston…</p>
<p>If you can get to Boston by bus, it’s about $7.50 for a train ride from Boston South Station to Providence. I’m not sure what you meant by your last sentence.</p>
<p>You realize that traveling to boston first is going to add at least another 1.5 hours to the trip each way.</p>
<p>Are you trying to travel on a 3 day weekend or other popular weekend? Maybe try to find out through friends if anyone else is driving down there?</p>
<p>Greyhound seems to be about $30 each way.</p>
<p>Amtrak is more expensive, but superior in every way.</p>
<p>The cheapest fast way (as jake suggests) is to take the Greyhound bus, but the crowd can be a bit more rough around the edges than on the megabus-type services. It’s always funny how the youngins forget that the Greyhound bus exists. The yuppie bus services like megabus didn’t exist until like 5 years ago.</p>
<p>The cheapest long way is the megabus to Boston and then the T down to Providence. As i_wanna mentioned, that’s gonna involve a lot of extra time spent traveling.</p>
<p>Oh wow I see - thanks so much for all the advice! Yeah - I think I’ll just take the Amtrak then.</p>
<p>Just another thought: there’s also a Shore Line East that runs from New Haven (Union or State Street) to New London [very southeast corner of CT] for $8.50 each way, and from there you could hypothetically catch a bus or an Amtrak from New London to Providence. But that might be a pain in the neck to schedule, and would only end up shaving a few bucks off the price at most. So Greyhound or Amtrak is probably your best bet.</p>
<p>^I thought about mentioning the SLE, but the way Amtrak prices their tickets, I don’t think it would make much sense to do that unless you can find a bus from New London to PVD. If so, that might make sense. Timing on the SLE sucks, though.</p>