Ground transportation in non-Philadelphia Pennsylvania

There were a few reasons that we chose the hotel we did for Langhorne, but two big ones were that it was close to the park and also had a park shuttle.

We did appreciate the fact that they got into the local spirit by decorating the lobby with Sesame Street characters as well, and that is how we get our pictures for the day.

I want to focus a little more on the transportation aspects, and this becomes an issue for other areas in Pennsylvania. In Langhorne, Easton, and Hershey, at check in were were always asked for information on our car, not whether or not we had a car. The car was just assumed, which did not happen in Philadelphia or Minneapolis.

This made more sense as we began to observe how much these places were not designed for pedestrians.

Since Langhorne was our first destination, we noticed it first there. As we got into town we started looking around to get our bearings, and I saw that the only foot route between our hotel and the park was either via the highway overpass, which did not have great shoulders and sidewalks, or under the overpass along the train tracks, which somehow seemed even more dangerous.

There is a mall and a bus system, and apparently people will often park at the mall and bus to the park, but even if you are local you will probably not walk to the park.

We arrived late one night, and there was nowhere easy to get to, so we used the hotel sundries store, which meant basically cups of soup or oatmeal. Based on that, learning that there was not a free breakfast buffet was even more disappointing. Eating in the park was okay, and then the next night we ordered in, which was not great.

I'll get more into the other towns when we get to them, but as a general rule, shuttles are important, and cars are important. If the hotel has a shuttle but you don't have a car, plan ahead for meals and other needs.

They just aren't planning on you walking.