Are you, by any chance, a teacher?

Definitely don't bring a car to Harvard Square (although there are lots of garages) With the T, you won't need it. Check out www.harvardsquare.com for restaurants and hotels. The Irving House is nice, so close, & much more reasonable than the big hotels, but the Charles is worth the splurge. And don't miss the great Harvard museums-the 'best of'exhibit at the Harvard Art Museum (at the Sackler) and the dinosaurs, Glass Flowers, and hundreds of animals from around the world at the Harvard Museum of Natural History www.hmnh.harvard.edu
are great for kids of all ages.

thank you. We decided to pass on Boston for this trip. It adds too much money for too short of period of time.

Here is a radical idea. Go see Yale, much closer by train and as you use Metro North not Amtrak, way cheaper.
(like $14 each way and only 2 hours from NYC) School is much prettier than Harvard and they give tours. Plus the last Indiana Jones was shot right in the dining hall. We also take credit for Mona Lisa's Smile.

newyorker that is not a bad idea... we could go and not even spend the night.

You wouldn't <i>want</i> to spend the night - after all, it's New Haven, not Cambridge/Boston :)

Even closer and cheaper: while in NYC take the 1 train to 116th St and visit Columbia.

Ellen :-)

LOL, dmlove, when my D was looking at colleges we drove around and around looking for the New Haven equivalent of Harvard Square! All we found was a pair of fuzzy dice to hang from the rear-view mirror.

Oh my goodness - ya'll are so funny!