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or those of you interviewing at George Washington....which is the easiest, closest airport to fly into?
W222 said:Lived in DC for several years so here goes, Reagan would be easiest to fly into and get to GW BUT WOULD BE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. Reagan tickets seems to be about 100-200 bucks more than BWI or Dulles. Dulles is sorta a pain because you gotta get a cab back into DC from Virginia, which would also be expensive. BWI has a ton of flights and most are pretty cheap, ALSO BWI has a nice door-to-door airport shuttle service for about 25-30 dollars (much cheaper than a cab). BWI is also accesible by train and that would take about an hour and cost about 15 bucks. The easiest would in my opinion be BWI or Reagan. Cab from Reagan to GW would be about 20 bucks.
injera said:Why is BWI so bad? You can take the marc to Union Station, and take the metro straight from there to GW. Thats not that difficult....especially if it saves you couple hundred.
John Deere Gree said:For one, if you arrive on a weekend the train service SUCKS ( I would say nonexistant, but I think they changed that).
Also if you do take the train you are on their schedule, miss a train and you may wait a while for another, and if you don't time your schedule right miss a flight. If it saves you a couple hundred then I'd consider it, but I doubt there would be that much a difference in pricing between the three airports unless there's somethign huge going on in DC or unless it's a last minute sort of thing.
For those who ever want to go to DC for any interview at a DC school. I highly recommend Reagan (DCA).
fakin' the funk said:For the record there is also a Metro bus, B30 I think it is, that runs every 45 min or so from BWI to Greenbelt metro station on the green line. If you don't have a lot of luggage but do have the time, the round trip from BWI to Foggy Bottom costs ~$12.
Plus you get to see scenic Prince George's County, Maryland.
John Deere Gree said:I call absolute BS on this one. First of all I lived in Baltimore this past year and made several trips back and forth between Balto and DC.
1. Do not fly into BWI if you want to be in DC. Depending on time of day the trip can take 45 minutes to the heart of DC to 2 hours if traffic gets horribly bad.
2. Reagan is the easiest and most convienent. If it costs more than $100 more to fly into Regan than Dulles (or BWI-but you're ******ed if you fly to BWI) then I might consider changing venues.
3. Metro is easy. From the Airport all you'd ahve to do is take the Blue line from Nat'l Airport to Foggy Bottom. Once up on street level the Hospital is a mere block away. It's extremely easy and wouldn't cost more than $2 (unless you go during rush hour then it might be around $2.50. The metro is nice and clean and safe (as long as you aren't on it during the wee hours of the mornign then you might see the crazies)
4. Do NOT fly into BWI.
5. Check studentuniverse.com for flights into Reagan (assuming you are a student). I managed to get tickets this summer for under $100 to NYC from Reagan (non-student price was around $225).
6. Do NOT fly into BWI.
injera said:Why is BWI so bad? You can take the marc to Union Station, and take the metro straight from there to GW. Thats not that difficult....especially if it saves you couple hundred.
SanDiegoSOD said:You can get to GW from any of the airports - Reagan, Dulles, or BWI. If you can save big at any particular airport, use that one, and then go to wmata.com to find public transportation to GW.
W222 said:Dulles is sorta a pain because you gotta get a cab back into DC from Virginia, which would also be expensive.
John Deere Gree said:Georgetown...I still say Reagan. Unfortunately GT is not on a metro line (yet) and it's at least a mile walk from the nearest stop (Foggy Bottom).