Re: [85attendees] ATL Travel Items (fwd)

Looks like Breeze cards can be per-purchased for an extra $2 at
http://www.breezecard.com/.  Although I bet they only deliver within the
US...

On 10/17/2012 6:47 PM, John R Levine wrote:
>> 1. For those arriving on international flights, is the MARTA station
>> accessible and if so how? (iirc, it is near the domestic exit.)
> 
> For domestic passengers go downstairs to the interterminal train and take 
> it to the terminal, a/k/a the T concourse.  You can walk from there to the 
> MARTA station and to shuttles and taxi.
> 
> For international passengers, due to stupid TSA rules you're considered 
> not to have gone through security after you emerge from customs so you 
> can't take the interterminal train.  You can take a free bus from the 
> Red/zone 3 area of the curb to the domestic terminal or there are shuttles 
> in the Green/zone 4 area that are supposed to take you downtown.  I 
> wouldn't know, I always take the subway.
> 
> One you're at the domestic terminal, to take the subway, unless you have a 
> Breeze card, buy a ticket for $2.50 from a machine at the subway station, 
> and take any train.  All trains from the airport stop at Peachtree Center.
> 
> The last train leaves at 01:18 weeknights, 01:00 Saturday and Sunday 
> nights. After that there's no reasonable alternative to a cab.
> 
>> 1b. The site says exit at Peachtree Center but not how to find the 
>> Hilton from there.
> 
> It's less than a 10 minute walk.  Here's a map.
> 
> https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Peachtree+St+NE&daddr=Hilton+Atlanta,+255+Courtland+Street+Northeast,+Atlanta,+GA+30303&hl=en&sll=33.759755,-84.385885&sspn=0.005307,0.008551&geocode=FS8hAwIdAFn4-g%3BFe4oAwId12n4-in_8i4MdwT1iDGXvin7jyOSlQ&oq=Peachtree+Center++Station,+Peachtree+Street+Northeast,+Atlanta,+GA,+United+States&dirflg=w&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=17&t=m&z=17
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
> PS: Am I the only person arriving in Atlanta by long distance train?
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