Trailways Bus Terminal

Kingston, United States

2.4

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7 reviews

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+1 845-331-0744
Website:
www.trailwaysny.com
Address:
400 Washington Ave, Kingston, NY, 12401
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Today 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Closed now
Local time (Kingston) 3:10 PM Sunday, June 1, 2025

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Monday 5:00 am – 10:30 pm
Tuesday 5:00 am – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 5:00 am – 10:00 pm
Thursday 5:00 am – 10:30 pm
Friday 5:00 am – 10:30 pm
Saturday 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Sunday 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm

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7 reviews of Trailways Bus Terminal

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Place rating: 2
Lake Katrine, NY
My boyfriend takes the bus from Kingston to NYC regularly to travel to work and back and not only is it expensive but the parking lot sucks and has a million obnoxious rules. Where are people waiting to pick up supposed to park?! It’s always packed with cars just lined up all over the place.
Place rating: 2
Brooklyn, NY
People are very friendly. Bus service is _​terrible_​. How can the US have _​worse_​transit than most 3rd world countries? The only thing worse than Trailways NY is Amtrak. This bus station is adequate when nobody is traveling, but catch it on a day when people are trying to get to NYC, and you might as well choose to walk. Granted, the Port Authority is 1,000,000 times worse. That’s about as much as can be said in favor of Kingston’s bus terminal.
Get there early because buses are often over-​booked. Online ticketing is hopeless. The site looks like it was designed in the 1990s. New Paltz has become a far more popular town in the past 25 years, so the bus may well be packed. Buses going to NYC often come down from places further upstate, so seating is unpredictable. And count on other riders to dump as much stuff as possible on their seats in the hope that you’ll choose to stand all the way to NYC.
The bus operation is family-​owned, which explains a lot.
Place rating: 3
San Diego, CA
I recently took a day trip to Kingston, NY to visit some friends whom I missed dearly. At first I was going to take the Metro North to Poughkeepsie and have someone pick me up there, but learned that for an extra few bucks I could get on the Trailways bus, straight to Kingston.
By no means is Trailways better than Metro North, but it does go to obscure towns that MTA or Amtrak won’t take you to. Leaving Port Authority in NYC was delayed by 40 minutes (with no explanation whatsoever), but leaving Kingston was extremely painless, as it headed for NYC right on time.
They have a nice offer where you can take a day trip from NYC to Kingston for $ 40 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. You MUST go and come back the same day, but you do save $ 9.50 off the regular round trip fare. This was a nice incentive for me to visit my old college friends, and get out of NYC for a day.
Place rating: 1
JAMAICA, NY
Very cumbersome online ticketing and inadequate customer service. After ordering your tickets, first you get a receipt, then you get an email, and then the tickets are in the email attachment. If you don’t or can’t print them out, you will not be allowed to board the bus and have to pay for another ticket. Nevermind that you can call corporate headquarters and they can look up your ticket in a matter of minutes, or that you can show them on your iphone the email and tickets, you lose the whole ticket if you don’t bring the paper printout. These tickets are also non transferable (photo id required at time of boarding). Your penalty for not printing the ticket is the full price of another ticket.
Place rating: 3
Albany, NY
ok, this is better than the chicken bus in central america, and maybe a step above the some of the older greyhounds, but that’s about it. its pretty much no frills. it gets you to the port-​authority and back to kingston.
i’m not sure why riding on the smelly bus with a wise-​acre driver is supposed to be better than the day-​liner boats down the hudson that grandma used to brag about, but whatever.
also, if you ever drive in uptown kingston, and get a red light on the corner of north-​front street and washington ave in front of the station, watch out. the drivers are notorious for blowing off the light, and trying to squeeze in and out of the station. they’ve never hit me, but i’ve seen them take a bumper off a car once.
Place rating: 3
Brooklyn, NY
Most of my traveling is done from city to city. But since my parents moved to the Catskills, occasionally I need to go where no plane or train will, and that’s when I end up on the bus.
It’s usually about $ 25, which could be worse, but there are always problems. These aren’t Boltbuses. They aren’t even Megabuses. These are old coach buses, and you’re lucky if they have a working bathroom. I would just settle for working air-​conditioning, because I’d rather pee my pants than sweat for two hours straight. Because as everybody knows, you ain’t cool until you pee your pants.
Also, I would like to express my appreciation for the one particular driver with Marine sensibilities, whose «Ooh-​rah!» that punctuates all his instructions. He makes an uncomfortable bus-​ride just a bit better.
Place rating: 3
Walton, NY
I have used them many times for transportation down to NYC (from Kingston) and back… The parking is free in Kingston and Rosendale, but at the station in New Paltz you have to pay more than a little bit… There have not been any major probelms in all my trips. The bus did break down in New Paltz Thurday morning but the delay was only about 15 min because there was another one not far behind.