Hi jet setters it's calvin i'm at philadelphia international airport today
and i'm gonna take the train into the city i'm gonna go on the septa
it takes about 25 minutes to get there and it's under seven dollars so let's go
and see what that's like
okay everyone i'm in the international arrivals hall of terminal A
at the philadelphia airport and the first thing we need to do is find the
septa train platform so we have to go down some long hallways
and a couple escalators but i'll show you what that looks like
if you're at the other terminals just look for the signs that say train to the
city so let's go and find the platform
okay now that we've made it to the platform this is where you buy the
actual ticket so there are machines here right behind
me there's one just in front of getting onto the
platform and all you need to do is walk up to the machine and we're gonna buy a
quick ticket we're not going to deal with the key card right now because
that's you have to pay a little bit extra for
that and you have to load it up for a longer period of time so pick the
quick ticket and then we're going to go to the downtown 30th street
station so click on that and it's going to be $6.75
the machines take coins cash debit cards and credit cards so all
forms of payment and all you need to do is if you put
your credit card in you do need to put your zip code in if it's a US card so
once you do that you push if you want the receipt or not
and then the ticket's going to come out through the bottom
now you don't need to go through a gate or validate it or do anything like that
with the ticket once you have it you can just go onto the platform the
conductor may ask to see it so make sure you have it handy for that
and then when we get off at the station in philadelphia i'll show you what we
need to do but we're going to need to scan it
through uh the gate to get out so make sure you
keep it handy and don't lose the ticket because then you'll be paying extra
money so let's head on to the platform and
i'll tell you a few more things about our journey into the city
okay i have popped through the door and i'm on the platform now waiting for my
train and basically they train ride into town
takes about 25 minutes depending on which terminal
you're leaving from it's going to be a bit faster for the people from terminal
A and the train during the week leaves
every half hour on the weekend though it's
every hour so you'd have to time yourself a little
bit that's the one downfall of the system
is that it's not super frequent it's super fast to get into the city
and it's super cheap but it's not super frequent
so just if you go to the septa site ahead of time you can see what the
actual times are the one i'm on today is leaving at 11
after the hour into town so there are two carriages on
the train so don't walk too far away from the entrance otherwise you might
have to make a dash to the train it should be here in a
couple minutes so let's see what it looks like okay before the
train comes i do need to make one correction though
if you do buy the key card you do need to validate that
before you get on the train so there's these little kiosks
all along the side of the platform you need to
tap that to validate it and then you're going to tap it when you get off at the
station as well but if you got the quick ticket like i bought
you do not need to scan that onto this machine before we get on the train we're
probably going to look at our ticket
okay jet setters we're in 30th street station right now which is in downtown
philadelphia as you can see it's a really quick trip
in and for under $7...6.75 i think that's a bargain to get into the city
this station is connected to the main 30th street station in philadelphia
and you can take amtrak from there you can take more septa trains
or you can even take new jersey transit so it's a great place to
transfer to other things and it's a half a block away from the 30th street
station which is the same name but for the trolley cars and the subway
and all that kind of stuff so if you have to go a little bit farther in
philadelphia you can do that if you're staying
downtown it's anywhere from a 10 to 15 minute walk to a lot of the
hotels but don't get off at 30th if you're staying in rittenhouse square get
off at suburban station and if you're in
washington square get off at jefferson station
one thing i need to remind you of is that you do need your ticket to get out
of the station just swipe it through at the turnstile it'll
open up and then you can go through so i hope you guys enjoyed that video if
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you along until next time happy travels everyone