Penns Landing/ Festival Pier

Seeing a concert at Festival Pier in a few weeks and am looking for a reasonable place ($150 or so) in the area to stay the night.

Will SEPTA get me from the airport to the penns landing area or is renting a car a must?

Ideally would love to just use public trans from the airport and be able to walk to the show from the hotel. No time to sight see, just there for the show and flying out the next day.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Penns Landing/ Festival Pier

You can often get the Hyatt Penns Landing for that price via hotwire, depending on the date I would check there first. That said, any of the hotels in the historic district or old city is a short to medium walk to Penns Landing.

Septa from the Airport to Penn%26#39;s Landing is probably more trouble than it i worth, as the R1 from the airport doesn%26#39;t come quite that close to the river. I%26#39;d go with a cab, should not be too expensive.

Penns Landing/ Festival Pier

The closest hotel to the Festival Pier is the Comfort Inn Downtown/Historic District, a good choice for what you%26#39;re looking for. If you decide to stay there and want to take public transportation, it%26#39;s possible especially since it sounds like you%26#39;ll be travelling light. You would take the train from the airport to the Market East Station where you would switch to the subway, the Market Frankford line, eastbound to 2nd Street. From there you would have to walk across the bridge over I-95 , descend to Columbus Blvd. and walk the couple of blocks to the hotel. Or you could spend about $30 for a taxi as Loonbeam suggests and enjoy the ride, which would take you about 20 minutes.

thanks for the info loon and tom.... will check out the suggested hotels. septa doesn%26#39;t appear to be the way to go, maybe get lucky and find a hotel shuttle, otherwise looks like a cab.

cheers- t

had a great time in Philadelphia thurs/friday...from the concert at festival pier to the ease of walking the historic district. The Holiday Inn on Arch was also a good spot to branch out from. Was refreshing to be able to see so many historical sites and not be charged an admission fee!

the cheesteak was good at Campos (couldn%26#39;t make it to Tony Lukes..) but it%26#39;s the SoHo brick oven pizza i%26#39;m comin%26#39; back for..

cheers philly- t

Thanks for posting, glad you had a great time in Philly!

Suzanne

The Holiday Inn on Arch is my #1 recommendation for the Historic District, great location, decent prices and always nice people...

I%26#39;m huge on Soho Pizza (the pizza and the great sandwiches). Glad you had a good time.