[Idyllchat] airport

[Irvjane at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/20/2007 8:49:24 AM Central Standard Time, 
vmorrow at triad.rr.com writes:

> 
> We are traveling to the Swiss Heartland this summer.  Which airport  
> is better to leave from.. Boston International or JFK?  Thanks

Don't know the answer to your specific question, but Newark's EWR emulates 
most major European airports in that one can reach it via intercity train.  
Untourists living somewhere along Amtrak's NE Corridor could get a short ride to 
their town's station and start their Untour on the train.

Swiss Untourists reach their host village by train from Zurich's ZRH, and 
Provence Untourists can grab a TGV right in Paris's CDG terminal and get to 
Marseilles about as quickly as if doing the domestic hop by air. Go a day early to 
see the town and stay at the Ibis Hotel across the street from the airport 
transit bus stop (if you cannot pick up your Idyll car at the RR station) and 
across from a side entrance to Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles.  

Occasionally we have done the Gatwick-to-Heathrow connection via National 
Express Speedlink bus, and that apparently is easier than an airport-to-airport 
connection in New York City.

Our home airport is Houston's IAH so usually we take a nonstop to any of 
several European airports (just shifting the connection hassles to overseas, of 
course).  But it's really nice on the return not to need to clear customs as 
when touching down at an intermediate USA airport.

Once on an Austrian train-riding trip with The Society of International 
Railway Travelers we connected on Delta in Cincinnati's CVG.  Our European flight 
departed at the gate adjacent to that of our domestic arrival.  That was 
wonderful!  (Versus, say, connecting in Atlanta's ATL, typically from the end of one 
prong to the end of another prong.)

Finally, if you have an early morning departure (or a late-evening arrival), 
consider the ParkSleepFly option.  For not much more than the cost of two 
week's airport parking, you can drive leisurely the night before to an airport 
motel (not being overly concerned with any delays from, say, a flat tire), spend 
the night and sleep an hour later the next morning, eat the motel's breakfast, 
and then take their courtesy bus right to your departure terminal's door.  
Reverse all this when you return, picking up your car that's been left free or 
at nominal excess-days charge in the motel's parking lot.  See
www.parksleepfly.com 

Irv Smith
Missouri City TX



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