Originally Posted by
Ladysail
guv1976….I tried not to be confusing….I’m staying at the Newark Doubletree before my cruise for 3 days. Will take PATH back and forth to Manhattan in that time. My Plan A after the cruise is to walk to Pier 79 from Pier 88, take the ferry back to Battery Park City, hop on PATH to Newark Penn. if I feel that using the bus with stairs is not an option, then my plan changes at Newark Penn….Plan B is to go back to the Newark Doubletree and take their shuttle back to the airport. This would be easier but I’m a supporter of public transportation and would like to go the distance.
OK. I'm a big supporter of public transportation too, but I do recognize that there are times when some forms of public transportation are less suitable than others. If I had a heavy suitcase that was too large to fit under the seat of a bus that lacked luggage racks, I would avoid that mode of transportation. There are express buses from the Port Authority Bus Terminal (42nd Street and 8th-9th avenues) which provide a one-seat ride to the EWR terminals. These buses have "underloaders" for baggage storage so that you do not have to lift large, heavy luggage into and out of the passenger section of the bus. Both NJTransit and Amtrak provide train service from Penn Station New York (34th Street and 8th Avenue) to both Newark Penn Station and the EWR Airport Rail Station. But you would have to get yourself from the pier to one of those terminals. (I, personally, would probably take a taxi from the pier to one of those terminals if I were in your situation. If I were just traveling with a roll-aboard rather than a large, heavy suitcase, that would be a different story.)
I do not think that it makes much sense to go back to the DoubleTree Newark after your cruise to attempt to take their airport shuttle. Are you even sure that the DoubleTree would let you ride their shuttle, since you would presumably have checked out of the hotel a week or two earlier?