A Market for All!

If you love food and shopping, especially shopping for some fresh produce from the field, there is a place that you should really visit, if you have not been there before. This wonderful place is Reading Terminal Market - Philadelphia’s historic farmers market place, where you find fresh produce from the field, Amish specialties, fresh meats, seafood, poultry and even interestingly unique hand-made pottery and crafts from all over the world. At Reading Terminal Market, it is not impossible for you to meet new people and even make some new friends because of the multitude of diverse people that goes there.

When it comes to food, it is not an easy task to meet everyone’s taste buds all in one place, but when you are at Reading Terminal Market, there is almost something for every PA bus rental visitor. From bakeries to various types of restaurants, there is literally great food at every corner to cater to your liking. You can choose to have your main meal in one restaurant and then go to another one to have your dessert, if you want to! There are also great spots where you can have a cuppa with your girlfriends and just talk all day long. And when you are done with the chatting, you can also do some shopping with them.

To make it an even more attractive place to have good food and fun, Reading Terminal Market has also launched $7 Meal Deals where participating food merchants offer breakfast or lunch options for only $7 but sales tax are excluded at some of the participating food merchants, though. So, before you place your order for food at any of the restaurants or food merchants there, all you need to do is to check with the food merchants if they have the offer available and if the sales tax are included.

And if you are one who enjoys cooking and fresh produce is a must in your grocery list, there are so much you can get out of hopping for freshly picked vegetables and fruits from the farms here. The prices are considered quite reasonable too.

While Reading Terminal Market is a great place to hang out, the only downside about this place is that it closes early, so if you don’t want to miss out trying out the delicious food, great ambience and friendly people there, it is best that you make it a point to get there early. It’s been said that if you intend to eat at any one of the restaurants here, it is best to be there at least 2 hours before closing time.

Lake Resort Rental Bus Getaways in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic region of the United States. According to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, the state has 4,000 inland lakes and ponds, excluding Lake Erie. The state's water is home to many species, including smallmouth bass, pickerel and northern pike. Aside from fishing, other water recreation abounds like skiing and boating. Enjoy your vacation and stay at one of the numerous lake resorts located throughout the Keystone State with a bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coach or school bus rented from Bus Rental Pennsylvania.

Take a Pennsylvania rental bus trip to Raystown Lake at the Lake Raystown Resort ,where rental bus visitors can view sunsets from private balconies at the lodge. The resort offers a variety of accommodations, including camping cabins, lodge units, beachfront bungalows, cottages and villas. Rental bus visitors can enjoy numerous amenities while staying in the resort, such as full bathrooms, fully equipped kitchens, air conditioning and cable TV. The resort also offers campsites with water and electric hookups of 30/50-amp service, wireless Internet connection, fire rings and picnic tables. Additionally, the resort has a full-service marina on-site. Fish and explore the lake by renting boats like Jon fishing boats, canoes, pontoon boats or houseboats. Lake Raystown spans 8,500 acres and offers a wide variety of water sports like boating, fishing, water skiing and wakeboarding. Other activities include hiking and biking along the marked trails that surround the lake.

Mountain Springs Lake is located a rental bus ride away in the mountains of the northeastern part of the state. The resort encompasses 325 woodland acres and offers 37 cottages, lodge and cabin rentals by the lake. Cottages feature amenities like gas-burning stone fireplaces, covered porches, picnic tables and waterfront views. The 76-acre Mountain Springs Lake provides outdoor enthusiasts plenty of activities, including boating and fishing. Unwind by the lake or hike the many trails alongside the water. Other activities include tennis, cross-country skiing, swimming, bird watching, bicycling and horseshoes. Rental bus guests are provided with complimentary rowboat and paddle boat use.

Split Rock Resort is situated on 125-acre Lake Harmony in the western region of Pennsylvania and is easily reached by rental bus. The resort offers various amenities and is surrounded by mountain scenery, forests, streams and lakes. Choose from lodge units that overlook Lake Harmony or rustic cottages that feature fireplaces. One- and two-bedroom suites are also available. Additionally, rental bus visitors can enjoy the resort's water park, outdoor swimming pool, golf course, beach swimming area, fitness center, hot tubs and sauna. Activities within the resort abound. Guests can ski, boat and fish the lake or hike the many nature trails nearby. Fish species you may catch include bass, sunfish, trout, bluegill and perch.

Visit Pennsylvania with a rental bus for a true back to nature experience at one of Pennsylvania’s many lake resorts. Plan your rental bus trip by giving Bus Rental Pennsylvania a call today, and you’ll be pleased with their friendly and helpful service, and their fully equipped fleet of rental buses.

Visiting the Franklin Institute

Philadelphia is a fun, exciting city to visit, more so if you’re traveling in a group, and the best way to travel in and around Philadelphia is with a charter bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coaches or school bus rented from Bus Rental Philadelphia.
Benjamin Franklin is one of the towering figures in American History. As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Ben Franklin was also a noted author, politician, diplomat, musician, satirist, newspaper editor and postmaster. But he is also famous for his prowess as an inventor and a scientist. His early experiments in electricity paved the way for other great American inventors such as Edison, Marconi, Bell and Tesla. Benjamin Franklin’s legacy of profound curiosity about the world we live in and what makes it work lives on in the Franklin Institute.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum is located in Center City Philadelphia, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Established in 1824, the Franklin Institute was founded to honor Benjamin Franklin's genius for invention and science research. Moving into the current building in 1934, the Institute opened its doors as an interactive museum, decades before the term became vogue. Due to the museum’s location on the busy Franklin Parkway, parking space is at a premium, so organize your visit with a rental bus from Bus Rental Philadelphia. Using a rental bus allows you to get off right at the doorstep and with no worries about finding suitable parking.
Inside the museum, you will find lots of exhibits and attractions dealing with scientific principles such as electricity, steam, flight, machines and more. A large part of the Franklin Institute Science Museum is given over to exploring the principles of flight. Enter the Blue Angels Flight Simulator and experience a ride with famous U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerobatic display team. Also on display are exhibits from the Wright Aeronautical Engineering Collection, where the visitor can examine actual drawings, models and calculations made and used by the Wright brothers in their successful quest for controlled, powered flight.
Visit the Train Factory where you become an engineer in charge of putting a 6,000 ton steam locomotive together. Inside Space Command you enter a life size mock up of a space station, and explore the realities and practicalities of space travel. Exhibits show the history of space exploration from the time when humans first looked at the night sky and named the constellations to today’s high tech exploration of space with high powered telescopes.
If you’re planning to visit Philadelphia’s most visited museum, the Franklin Institute Science Museum, give Bus Rental Philadelphia a call to arrange for a rental bus and enjoy our friendly, personalized service.

Enjoy Amusement Galore in Pennsylvania

If you’re planning a party bus vacation and are an amusement park junkie, than for your next group bus rental holiday, you have to plan your travels to Pennsylvania by bus or limo with Bus Rental PA.

Now what is there to do in Pennsylvania you might ask? Well, located in a small wooded valley in Central Pennsylvania, originally known, as “Peggy’s Farm is America’s largest free-admission amusement park – Knoebels Amusement Resort

This family-owned and -operated amusement park, picnic grove, and campground in Elysburg, Pennsylvania has been open since 1926 and has more than 57 rides, two wooden roller coasters, a 1913 carousel, and a haunted house dark ride that was featured on the Discovery Channel. Small as it is, it brings about a very big fun factor.

Tour bus visitors who has been there knows that Knoebels has won the Amusement Today Golden Ticket Award for best amusement park food for the past 14 consecutive years from Amusement Today and has won assorted awards over the years from organizations such as Amusement Today, American Coaster Enthusiasts, and The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.

If you like Roller Coasters, there’s the “Phoenix”, a relocated and restored Herb Schmeck (Philadelphia Toboggan Company) wooden roller coaster design that took 2nd place in the 2011 Golden Ticket Award competition for the worldwide wooden roller coaster category. There’s also the Twister, a 1964 John Allen design; the steel “Kozmo's Kurves” and “Black Diamond”, a steel indoor roller coaster. It will most definitely be the highlight of your charter bus vacation.

For carousels lovers, Knoebels has “Kiddieland” a small merry-go-round built by Stein & Goldstein in 1910; and the “Grand Carousel”, built by Kramer Carousel Works in Brooklyn with a frame by Charles I. D. Looff and 63 hand-carved horses by Charles Carmel in 1912/1913. It is one of the few carousels remaining with a working ring dispenser that allows riders on the outside row of horses to reach out and grab steel rings as they pass with the rider who successfully grabs it receiving a prize of the cost of the ride in tickets.

Meanwhile, train lovers in your party bus vacation group can delight in “Old Smokey”, an anthracite coal-fueled miniature steam locomotive narrow gauge train ride, whose track meanders through part of the park. There’s also “Pioneer”, a gasoline-powered narrow gauge railroad installed around 1960 that track travels from near the edge of the park into a wooded area where there are feeders for viewing the local wildlife.

Now, no visit to Knoebels would be complete without a visit to their award-winning Haunted Mansion Dark ride, there are numerous other rides and attractions that will keep the whole family occupied with something they’ll love during the bus rental visit.

So gather the family up, book your ticket with Bus Rental PA and get ready for a whole lot of rides, games and fun galore.

Take a shopping day trip with a bus rental PA

If you are trying to plan a group shopping day and feel overwhelmed, your worries are over. Choosing a bus rental PA as your travel source can make this tedious task simple.  If you are looking to not worry about how you and your group are going to get to PA then a bus rental to get there is a great choice.

A common myth about charter bus rentals is that they aren't comfortable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Booking with a bus rental PA for your transportation needs will make everyone in your group enjoy all the sites PA has to offer while traveling in comfort. Our luxury motor coaches have high back reclining seats, TV, DVD players, CD players and restrooms to make you trip there more enjoyable. We provide the driver that will get your coach bus group to and from every scheduled stop on time, every time.

The state of Pennsylvania is not only a great place to go for an educational vacation and a view of some of the most historical attractions in the United States, but can be a fun place to go for a day of shopping. Pennsylvania shopping in Philadelphia is perfect for visiting big name department stores, while smaller tourist towns such as Lake Erie or Hershey cater to Pennsylvania shopping for souvenirs and unique things to bring home from a vacation. The Reading Terminal Market is one of the oldest Pennsylvania shopping centers in the state. This is one of the most popular shopping centers in all of PA. Manayunk is a neighborhood located north of the Pennsylvania Art Museum and the center of downtown Philadelphia, where you can also see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. The Manayunk shopping area is filled with historic homes, many of which have been converted to modern shops. Small privately owned boutiques characterize this area.

Located in the town of Gettysburg, this is the main Gettysburg shopping outlet in Pennsylvania. Everything from the latest styles clothing and apparel to home wares and furniture can be found at this Pennsylvania shopping mall. The shopping center itself has been constructed to resemble Civil War era neighborhoods in keeping with historical themes of Gettysburg. While in town, be sure to stop by the Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

So whether you are looking to transport a group of students or a group of your close friends and family for a shopping trip, relying on a bus rental PA is the choice to make. A bus rental PA is ready to show your group a pleasant and fun time. Let one of our trained reps answer all your questions and assist in helping you put together your next outing, let us design a package that fit your travel needs as well as your budget.

Nothing says Philly like cheesesteak sandwiches

Whenever Philadelphia is brought up, three things come to mind – Philadelphia brand cream cheese, Will Smith and the legendary Philly Cheesesteak - a long, crusty roll filled with thinly sliced sautéed ribeye beef and melted cheese.

Our bus rental PA customers agree that the best cheesesteaks offer a balance of flavors, textures and what is often referred to as the “drip” factor. Toppings include fried onions, sautéed mushrooms, ketchup and hot or sweet peppers. Believe it or not, consumption of this sandwich has its etiquette and you can experience it all with or without our bus rental PA services, honestly speaking.

The origin of the cheesesteak can be traced to South Philadelphia hot dog vendor Pat Olivieri who put some beef from a butcher on his grill. A bus rental PA bus driver smelled the alluring aroma and asked for his own steak sandwich.

As rumor has it, word soon got round about the charter bus driver's delicious lunch had spread, and cabbies around the city came to Olivieri demanding steak sandwiches. Soon after, Olivieri opened up Pat’s King of Steaks, on 9th Street and Passyunk Avenue, to sell his new creation, adding cheese to the recipe.

When ordering, you must answer two critical questions - what kind of cheese do you want? (Whiz? Provolone? American?) and, do you want onions?

So when asked (“Whiz wit?”), The correct answer is is “Wit” for “Yes, I would like Whiz and onions,” or “Widout” for “No, just the cheese.” For any other toppings, just ask normally.

Remember, if you don’t know what you want or have your money ready to go, be prepared to be sent to the back of the queue. This is the kind of fun and unique experience that you will never get to have in any other cities in the country, we reckon and you should experience it all with Bus Rental PA.

So, if you step off your charter bus, party bus, coach bus, sleeper coaches, passenger bus, mini bus or school bus from Bus Rental PA in Philadelphia, and crave a taste of a real local favorite, you’ll want to look for one of these places. Our charter bus drivers who know all the popular routes in PA like the back of their hands should have no problem bringing you to all of the local favorites.

Pat’s King Of Steaks grills sizzle away 24-hours a day located at the same location it’s always been (it’s only location) at 9th Street & Passyunk Avenue. Geno’s Steaks, located across the street from Pat’s, also lays claim to the origin of the Cheesteak with Geno’s founder, Joe Vento, claiming it was he, not Olivieri, who first added cheese to the cheesesteak. Just ask the charter bus driver who is servicing you if he knows where that is.

For the past 40 years, the two shops have waged a friendly competition to win the title of best cheesesteak in town, with Geno’s Steaks competing against Pat’s King Of Steaks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 1219 S. 9th Street.

Even if you do not have a need for a charter bus, mini bus, coach bus, passenger coach, luxury vehicle or party bus right now, please keep Bus Rental PA's charter bus customer service number handy for future references.