Skipping Second (of two) legs of Greyhound trip and retreiving luggage
Oct 30, 2019, 2:45 pm
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Skipping Second (of two) legs of Greyhound trip and retreiving luggage
I'm asking this question for my daughter to be sure there are no potential issues. She booked a Greyhound trip from New Haven to scenic Newark Penn Station, connecting at Port Authority in NYC, with an hour and a half transfer. She now wants to just skip the second short trip from NYC to Newark completely, but changing the ticket is out since there are no more seats for sale from New Haven to NYC on the first bus. Any problems here? Even if she checks a bag on the first bus, they would give it to her at NYC, right?
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
Oct 30, 2019, 5:04 pm
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I'm asking this question for my daughter to be sure there are no potential issues. She booked a Greyhound trip from New Haven to scenic Newark Penn Station, connecting at Port Authority in NYC, with an hour and a half transfer. She now wants to just skip the second short trip from NYC to Newark completely, but changing the ticket is out since there are no more seats for sale from New Haven to NYC on the first bus. Any problems here? Even if she checks a bag on the first bus, they would give it to her at NYC, right?
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
IMHO, she should be able to retrieve her luggage, though since I never check luggage, I don't have knowledge of that.
Oh, and in my role as forum moderator I took the liberty of updating the title to reflect that she is skipping second leg as skipping connection could imply more connections later.
Nov 12, 2019, 11:17 am
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I'm asking this question for my daughter to be sure there are no potential issues. She booked a Greyhound trip from New Haven to scenic Newark Penn Station, connecting at Port Authority in NYC, with an hour and a half transfer. She now wants to just skip the second short trip from NYC to Newark completely, but changing the ticket is out since there are no more seats for sale from New Haven to NYC on the first bus. Any problems here? Even if she checks a bag on the first bus, they would give it to her at NYC, right?
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
[These questions may sound naive, but I only fly and of course doing something like this on airplane connections would be a bigger deal]. Thanks!
"If you're transferring from one bus to another, you need to collect your bags from the first bus and bring them to the next."
Note that things might be different if she were traveling on a single "through" bus from New Haven to Newark that made an intermediate stop in Manhattan.