{"id":17585,"date":"2010-11-18T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:47:06","slug":"bus-from-nyc-to-hartford-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/17585\/bus-from-nyc-to-hartford-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Megabus Launches NYC to Hartford and Amherst, Offers 1,000 Free Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Megabus gave away 1,000 seats for launching a <a title=\"nyc bus service to providence article on offManhattan.com\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2010\/08\/17\/bus-from-new-york-to-providence\/\" target=\"_blank\">new market<\/a> the free tickets were gone in a couple days. Thursday, shortly after wheeling out 10 new routes from D.C., the budget motor coach is introducing New Yorkers to two more destinations: Hartford, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts. Travelers eager to snatch up these cheaper-than-dirt-cheap seats can begin booking now, although service will not commence until December 15.<\/p>\n<p>For information about how to reserve a free ride to Amherst or to the home of <a title=\"Mark Twain house in Hartford\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/06\/09\/mark-twain-house-museum-hartford\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a>, read on after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;There are more routes planned for Megabus,&#8221; said Coach USA&#8217;s Meghan O&#8217;Hare. &#8220;All the buses will have the same amenities: free wifi, power outlets, reclining seats, and fares as low as $1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For free service from NYC to Hartford and from NYC to Amherst, use promo code: NEWNYC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>To learn more about the bus company and the 14 other destinations it services from NYC, check out <a title=\"Permanent Link to Megabus Review: Making Green Travel Fun and Easy Since 2006\" href=\"..\/2010\/05\/12\/megabus-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Megabus Review: Making Green Travel Fun and Easy Since 2006<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Photo: Courtesy of Megabus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Megabus gave away 1,000 seats for launching a new market the free tickets were gone in a couple days. Thursday, shortly after wheeling out 10 new routes from D.C., the budget motor coach is introducing New Yorkers to two more destinations: Hartford, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts. Travelers eager to snatch up these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,322,325,271,1614,316],"tags":[143,222,254,428,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-17585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-connecticut-destination","8":"category-massachussetts","9":"category-new-york","10":"category-news","11":"category-off-the-press","12":"category-weekend-getaways","13":"tag-bus","14":"tag-cheap","15":"tag-free","16":"tag-green-travel","17":"tag-megabus"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":20391,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/n38516443678_1036217_8220-300x225.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}