Hello wonderful travelers.

I am trying to give my family members some advice on their Pittsburgh to Boston road trip. They are flying in to Pgh from Texas and originally were going to take the train for the east coast road trip but opted for renting a car. Except they wanted to train from Pittsburgh to NYC, back to Pittsburgh and then start the journey north by car. That is a lot of money and the train takes 11 hrs so its not making any sense (2 long travel days and 2 days in NYC) . But they don't want to drive and park in Manhattan. Do you have any suggestions for a place to stay in either New Jersey or possibly PA where they could stay and park at a hotel and take a train or bus easily into the city? And then I can suggest that they just go north with no back tracking!

Thanks so much!!