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Would like your learned experience please.  Three of us would like a ride from Doubletree at the Newark airport to Port Liberty for Anthem.  The hotel has a shuttle which charges $25 PP.  I looked up taxi rates, and they're saying $60-$75 for the 14-minute ride to the port.  Are the taxis really that expensive?  Thanks for any enlightenment!!

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35 minutes ago, ladysail2 said:

Would like your learned experience please.  Three of us would like a ride from Doubletree at the Newark airport to Port Liberty for Anthem.  The hotel has a shuttle which charges $25 PP.  I looked up taxi rates, and they're saying $60-$75 for the 14-minute ride to the port.  Are the taxis really that expensive?  Thanks for any enlightenment!!

Yes the taxis are really that expensive.  The Uber/Lyft rates are much less.  As a solo I would go with the $25 shuttle rate.  If you’re sharing a ride, the Uber/Lyft rate would be less per person.  The traffic can really back up at Cape Liberty - I left late last year because of a norovirus cleaning  and that was a huge mistake.  It was almost an hour from the nearby light rail station to dropoff.  
 

If you’re not using the hotel shuttle, you should leave between 10-10:30 am.  Anthem typically boards early.  I saw a post from the 1/5 cruise that said their boarding started at 10:35, which is really early.  No guarantees of course that that will happen on 1/27.  I’m planning to leave NYC at about 9 am for my public transit trip on PATH to Hoboken and light rail to Bayonne.

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9 hours ago, 138east said:

Yes the taxis are really that expensive.  The Uber/Lyft rates are much less.  As a solo I would go with the $25 shuttle rate.  If you’re sharing a ride, the Uber/Lyft rate would be less per person.  The traffic can really back up at Cape Liberty - I left late last year because of a norovirus cleaning  and that was a huge mistake.  It was almost an hour from the nearby light rail station to dropoff.  
 

If you’re not using the hotel shuttle, you should leave between 10-10:30 am.  Anthem typically boards early.  I saw a post from the 1/5 cruise that said their boarding started at 10:35, which is really early.  No guarantees of course that that will happen on 1/27.  I’m planning to leave NYC at about 9 am for my public transit trip on PATH to Hoboken and light rail to Bayonne.

Thank you for all that advice, 138east.  I hope to see you at the Meet & Mingle!!

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