Anonymous wrote:I live in the Philly area and would just pick one of the airport area hotels. They're fine for this purpose. I haven't stayed there but I've heard the Marriott, the Aloft, and the Hampton Inn suggested.

If you're driving up I would do one of the park-sleep-fly deals because parking at the airport is messy.

I live in the Philly area and would just pick one of the airport area hotels. They're fine for this purpose. I haven't stayed there but I've heard the Marriott, the Aloft, and the Hampton Inn suggested.

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There's a Marriott right there. The area around the airport isn't "super yucky" --it's all airport stuff. Garages, runways, etc. Then there's cargo and then highways. It's not like there are neighborhoods around there to walk around. If you just want to sleep and eat and be at the airport just stay there.

There is a hotel in the airport if that's your preference. But, IMHO the area right around the airport is super yucky. I would not want to stay in any of those airport hotels, just based on the area alone.

I'd rather stay in a nice center city hotel and then get to the airport via Septa Regional Rail.

PHL has Regional Rail commuter trains every 30 min all day long to/from Center City from the airport, costs about 7 dollars each way per person (kids ride free under the age of 12.) It's a 30 min ride from PHL to the Center City Stations (Suburban and Jefferson).

You can also take a cab, there's a flat rate of 32 dollars from center city to the airport and it's ~15 min ride unless it's rush hour.

Septa Airport line schedule (buy your ticket from a kiosk on the platform, otherwise there is an on-the-train surcharge of $2 more): https://schedules.septa.org/current/AIR.pdf

Philly cab info:
https://www.phl.org/getting-around/taxis-and-limousines

Anything downtown is a quick Uber away. Otherwise just stay at the airport.

Staying for one overnight as connecting flight out of PHL is the next morning. Thank you for any recommendations that you may have.