PIUG Northeast Workshop

Wednesday, October 8, 2003
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Hilton Woodbridge, Iselin, NJ

Plans, Trains and Automobiles

Travel Directions to the Hilton Woodbridge

Hotel Reservations

If you plan to stay overnight at the Woodbridge Hilton for the NE PIUG Meeting, please be sure to ask for the PIUG room rate. This will be a reduced rate for you of $149/night and it will also reduce our meeting room costs if we meet a minimum. The rate applies for October 6th-9th. You must mention "PIUG" when making reservations.

Reservations made on or before September 15th will qualify for the PIUG room rate.

Travel By car

Travel By Train

New Jersey Transit (NJT) or Amtrak to Metropark Iselin station. Trains arrive here from Washington DC, Baltimore MD, Wilmington DE, Philadelphia PA, Trenton NJ, Princeton(1) NJ, Newark NJ, New York NY, Connecticut(2) and Boston(3) MA.

Walk right (south or west ) to Wood Ave.
Left onto Wood Ave.
Hilton is about 0.5 mi from train station.

Notes:
1. How do you get to Princeton? Study really hard.
2. How do you get to Yale? Study even harder!
3. How do you get to Harvard? Why would you want to go to Harvard?

Travel By Air

From Newark International Airport (17 miles)

By train from the airport

See http://www.amtrak.com/stations/ewr.html for details. The Newark International Airport Rail Station (EWR) is connected to the airport terminals by a monorail. The charge for this monorail is included in Amtrak and New Jersey Transit (NJT) fares for tickets sold to and from the Newark Airport Rail Station.
"To ride the monorail (or pass from the monorail to the rail platform), Amtrak guests must present their Amtrak ticket receipt showing Newark Airport as the destination or boarding point to the gate agent. (New Jersey Transit passengers will likewise need to have their NJT ticket to or from Newark Airport Rail Station.)".

Get off at Metropark Iselin station.
See "By Train" (above) for more details

By car from the airport

Take US 1+9 (NORTH) for about 1 mi.
MCCARTER HWY [HWY 21 (NORTH)]
US 22 (WEST) about 4.4 miles.
GARDEN STATE PKY (SOUTH) about 9 miles. Get off at exit 131, Route 27 (SOUTH).
Right turn onto Route 27 south. Go about 0.3 mi.
Turn left onto Wood Av. Go about 0.2 mi.

Other airports

Things to do Around Iselin

Visit New York City

Visit Philadelphia

Newark

Newark Museum, art
Ballantine House. Restored Victorian home of brewer John Ballantine. Art
New Jersey Historical Society

New Brunswick

New Jersey Museum of Agriculture
Rutgers Univ. Includes the Geology Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Gardens and Helyar Woods

Other Points of Interest

Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. Best access for this trip is from Jersey City.
Morristown National Historic Park. George Washington slept here during the winter of 1779-80.
Edison National Historic Site, West Orange NJ. Edison had over 1,000 patents, but perhaps the most important thing he invented was industrial research. The first movies - including the first Westerns - were made from his studios near here.
Thomas A. Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum, Menlo Park NJ.