Best way to get to JFK from DC? Parking? Hotel?

[Anonymous]

Trips of 10-16 days so the park and fly options are coming in over $400. Family of four. What have others done? Recommendations? Is parking always available at JFK or does it fill?

[Anonymous]

Why do you even need to do this?

You can fly out of Dulles non-stop to many European cities (I assume that is why someone would be flying out of there???) and most of the big carriers from JFK have feed from the 3 DC airports to connect to their flights so how did you end up needing a stand alone leg from DC to JFK?

Alternately connecting out of one of the 3 DC airports via just about any other US Hub would be far preferable to driving to JFK to get a flight.

There is parking at JFK but it is an awful drive and would be a terrible way to start or end a trip, especially a long one.

You can take the train or the bus to Manhattan and then get a taxi or subway to JFK but that will also be a pain to do.

Assuming you are going to JFK to get an international flight you are probably adding 6-7 hours to your travel time for what benefit exactly over a better routing?

[Anonymous]

It's saving us thousands for our routings. Even with Kayak, we can't hack them together. Buying sep. would be high risk and still a lot more for four RTs.

[Anonymous]

I have never seen the lots fill up but you can check the status online. https://www.panynj.gov/airports/airport-parking-jfk.cfm

The long term lot 9 is $18/day so I'm not sure how you're getting the $400 total. You park in that lot and take the free airtrain directly to your terminal. Easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's saving us thousands for our routings. Even with Kayak, we can't hack them together. Buying sep. would be high risk and still a lot more for four RTs.

For four people you are saving thousands? Where are you going that you save thousands?

Only a handful of carriers don't have interline agreements for domestic feed (I think maybe Norwegian doesn't) so assuming you already bought the tickets I'd just spend the $200-$300 a ticket for a RT from DC to JFK at this point.

In a perfect world you haven't bought the tickets yet and can come up with a better way to do this - its probably worth paying the fee to a travel agent to come up with something better than what you found on-line.

But JFK is a terrible airport and the drive to JFK is terrible too so I'm intrigued about what destination costs thousands less from NY - the DC travel market is one of the most robust in the US and includes some discount int'l carriers now too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never seen the lots fill up but you can check the status online. https://www.panynj.gov/airports/airport-parking-jfk.cfm

The long term lot 9 is $18/day so I'm not sure how you're getting the $400 total. You park in that lot and take the free airtrain directly to your terminal. Easy peasy.

Thanks -- this is helpful. I meant $400 with the hotel park and fly deals because free parking is usually limited to 7 days.

[Anonymous]

JFK serves way more destinations that iAd and bwi combined.

Answer the Q or move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's saving us thousands for our routings. Even with Kayak, we can't hack them together. Buying sep. would be high risk and still a lot more for four RTs.

For four people you are saving thousands? Where are you going that you save thousands?

Only a handful of carriers don't have interline agreements for domestic feed (I think maybe Norwegian doesn't) so assuming you already bought the tickets I'd just spend the $200-$300 a ticket for a RT from DC to JFK at this point.

In a perfect world you haven't bought the tickets yet and can come up with a better way to do this - its probably worth paying the fee to a travel agent to come up with something better than what you found on-line.

But JFK is a terrible airport and the drive to JFK is terrible too so I'm intrigued about what destination costs thousands less from NY - the DC travel market is one of the most robust in the US and includes some discount int'l carriers now too.

Haven't bought one set of tix yet but still 200-300 times four is a lot. We can get to a part of Asia for $550ish from NYC but there is no connected carrier.

[Anonymous]

It's going to be brutal but I'd just do Amtrak and a taxi (not at rush hour though).

[Anonymous]

We got super crazy cheap tickets to Europe in the summer but also had to go out of JFK. We were going to drive and do long term parking, but had a narrow window for the drive, so finally decided to fly, so spent $600 on tickets. And then a thunderstorm blew through, so we missed our flight, and since they weren't linked, we were pretty screwed. Made it to JFK, and took a taxi to a cheap hotel ($20, $100). Ate breakfast the next morning at a diner ($40), walked around, taxied back to airport ($20) and then waited for the international desks to open up. Mercifully got put on the same flight just a day later with no fee! But to get seats together had to upgrade one seat ($40). Ate lunch and dinner in airport. ($50). Plus had to buy some stuff for kids to keep them happy ($40).

On the trip back, we took the LIRR to Penn station (whatever that was, $20?), bought dinner at Penn ($60), then Amtrak to DC ($350), then Uber ($12).

Don't be like us. That cost us $1352, which would have added $338 to each ticket, which was pretty close to the price it would have been to fly out of Dulles (though Dulles would have cost us long term parking).

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have never seen the lots fill up but you can check the status online. https://www.panynj.gov/airports/airport-parking-jfk.cfm

The long term lot 9 is $18/day so I'm not sure how you're getting the $400 total. You park in that lot and take the free airtrain directly to your terminal. Easy peasy.

Thanks -- this is helpful. I meant $400 with the hotel park and fly deals because free parking is usually limited to 7 days.

You're welcome. I moved from DC to Brooklyn a year ago and can vouch that the drive onto Long Island to JFK can be brutal. The roads getting from NJ onto Long Island are simply not equipped to handled the volume of traffic they they regularly get. Depending on how your flights will time with needing to drive during rush hour, I agree with the suggestion to take Amtrak to Penn Station and then LIRR to JFK. It will be far more pleasant than starting and ending your trip with hours of unpredictable NY traffic. I say this having lived in DC for 10 years, NY traffic is no joke.

[Anonymous]

Amtrak stops at Newark Airport. Then maybe there's a shuttle serivce from Newark to JFK (or grab an Uber)?

[Anonymous]

Driving is probably best but you could also bus to NYC and then take the airporter shuttle to NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amtrak stops at Newark Airport. Then maybe there's a shuttle serivce from Newark to JFK (or grab an Uber)?

No. Amtrak stops at Newark Penn station, not the airport. And there's no shuttle from Newark to JFK. If you're taking Amtrak, go all the way into the city and transfer onto LIRR at Penn station.

[Anonymous]

Amtrak stops at Newark penn AND EWR