Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on Delta Airlines, which operates 2 regularly scheduled daily non-stop flights from Minneapolis (MSP) to Philadelphia (PHL), departing between 1:00pm and 7:22pm. Usually an Airbus A319 or Boeing 757 is flown for this route. The average travel time from Minneapolis, MN to Philadelphia, PA is 2 hours and 30 minutes.*

* Some flights must connect with additional service on this airline.

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Regularly Scheduled Flights to Philadelphia (PHL) from Minneapolis (MSP)
				Daily Non-Stops		Select Non-Stop		Earliest Flight		Last Flight
	Delta Airlines			2		-		1:00pm		7:22pm
	Continental Airlines			2		2		7:10am		7:22pm
	Northwest Airlines			2		3		7:10am		7:22pm
	US Airways			1		5		6:00am		4:30pm

During your Philadelphia vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:

Please Touch Museum
This is one of the best indoor activities in town for a family with young kids, and the location is great -- just off the Parkway, 2 blocks south of the Franklin Institute (though the museum hopes to expand and move to Penn's Landing in the next decade). Dedicated to a unique fun-filled educational, cultural, hands-on experience, the converted factories help bring out the creative, exuberant, and receptive in us all.Once you're in, you can park strollers, check coats, and buy tickets at counters that cater to kids. Exciting hands-on exhibits like "Growing Up" encourage parent/child participation and focus on specific social, cognitive, and emotional areas of child development. "Me on TV," installed in 1993, allows children to experience being behind the camera and on stage in a television studio, including sound effects and camera angles. An exhibit of oversize settings and creatures comes from celebrated author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. The museum collaborates with the Franklin Institute to operate the 38,000-square-foot CoreStates Science Park between May and September, on the lawn between the two institutions. It's a great playground for the mind and body. Small children particularly love the cloud that they can make "rain," and the miniature grocery store.The Please Touch Museum is not a day-care center; you cannot simply drop the kids off, and you won't want to. Educational activities like storytelling and crafts are available daily from 11am to 3:30pm. It's also a great place to celebrate a child's birthday if you plan ahead.

Free Library of Philadelphia
Splendidly situated on the north side of Logan Circle, the Free Library of Philadelphia rivals the public libraries of Boston and New York for magnificence and diversity. The library and its twin, the Municipal Court, are copies of buildings in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (the library's on the left).The main lobby and the gallery always have some of the institution's riches on display, from medieval manuscripts to exhibits of modern bookbinding. Greeting cards and stationery are sold for reasonable prices, too. The second floor houses the best local history, travel, and resource collection in the city. The local 130,000-item map collection is fascinating. The third-floor rare book room hosts visitors Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm, with tours by appointment. If you're interested in manuscripts, children's literature, early printed books, and early American hornbooks, or you just want to see a stuffed raven, this is the place.If you're hungry, the Skyline Cafe (Mon-Fri 9am-4pm) is a very nice location for a snack and one of the only dining options on the Parkway. There's also an active concert and film series.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Even on a hazy day you can see America's third-largest art museum from City Hall -- a resplendent, huge, beautifully proportioned Greco-Roman temple on a hill. Because the museum, established in the 1870s, has relied on donors of great wealth and idiosyncratic taste, the collection does not aim to present a comprehensive picture of Western or Eastern art. But its strengths are dazzling: It houses undoubtedly one of the finest groupings of art objects in America, and no visit to Philadelphia would be complete without at least a walk-through; allow 2 hours minimum. Late hours on Friday have become a city favorite, and there is a new bar open in summer in the elegant front courtyard overlooking the city skyline.The museum is designed simply, with L-shaped wings off the central court on two stories. A major rearrangement of the collections was recently completed, and paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts are grouped within set periods. The front entrance (facing City Hall) admits you to the first floor. Special exhibition galleries and American art are to the left; the collection emphasizes that Americans came from diverse cultures, which combined to create a new, distinctly national aesthetic. French- and English-inspired domestic objects, such as silver, predominate in the Colonial and Federal galleries, but don't neglect the fine rooms of Amish and sturdy Shaker crafts. The 19th-century gallery has many works by Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, which evoke the spirit of the city in watercolors and oils.Originally controversial 19th- and 20th-century European and contemporary art galleries highlight Cézanne's monumental Bathers and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which doesn't seem nearly as revolutionary as it did in 1913. The recent gift of the McIlhenny $300-million collection of paintings is one of the great donations of this type and adds strength in the French Impressionist area.Upstairs, spread over 83 galleries, is a chronological sweep of European arts from medieval times through about 1850. The John G. Johnson Collection, a Renaissance treasure trove, has been added to the museum's holdings. Roger van der Weyden's diptych Virgin and Saint John and Christ on the Cross, one of the Johnson Collection, is renowned for its exquisite sorrow and beauty. Another, Van Eyck's Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, is unbelievably precise (borrow the guard's magnifying glass). Other masterpieces include Poussin's frothy Birth of Venus (the USSR sold this and numerous other canvases in the early 1930s, and many were snapped up by American collectors) and Rubens's sprawling Prometheus Bound. The remainder of the floor takes you far away -- to medieval Europe, 17th-century battlefields, Enlightenment salons, and Eastern temples.The museum has excellent dining facilities. A cafe, open Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 4:30pm, dispenses simple and reasonable lunches and salads. The museum restaurant down the hall is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30am to 2:30pm, Sunday from 11am to 3:30pm. All main courses are under $20. There's also a lovely little Balcony Café just up the stairs as you enter the museum, for espresso, soups, sandwiches, and pastries.The PMA has brought millions into the economy over the past decade with blockbuster exhibits of works by Picasso, Cézanne, van Gogh, and Degas, plus mounted wonderful fashion exhibits of Schiaparelli. The Museum recently acquired a massive Art Deco former insurance headquarters a block away, though they are not sure what they will feature here.

Make your reservations for discount hotel rooms in the Philadelphia area, including:

Bank Street Hostel
This 140-year-old former factory and its two neighbors, located in a very convenient part of town, offer spartan (although newly repainted) accommodations for travelers on a budget. The dormitory-style rooms are spread over four floors of the complex. Extras include free coffee and tea, a pool table, and a lounge with a large-screen TV. Kitchen facilities and washer/dryer are available for use. Clean, dorm-style bathrooms are shared. Discounts on food and other items at area merchants are available.

Adam's Mark Philadelphia
The Adam's Mark looks like an airport control tower, but you'll find an extensive brick complex of connected restaurants and function rooms. Eighty percent of the hotel's business is conventioneers, and the lower levels contain 50,000 square feet of meeting space. Friendly service, good value, and individual touches such as customized safe keys make up for the hotel's somewhat ungainly size and its slow elevators. Rooms are on the large (and drab) side.The Adam's Mark's food and beverage operation really shines. The gardenlike Appleby's is several notches above your average coffee shop, with all-you-can-eat meals, 30-foot ziggurat skylights, and local antiques. Lines start forming early at the Marker, an improbable re-creation (and improbable combination) of French château, paneled English library, and Western ranch that's relaxing, with well-done American cuisine. It seats 150 on three levels, and evenings bring American regional cuisine. Quincy's has hors d'oeuvres (complimentary until 7pm), nightly backgammon, big-band dancing, or jazz.Facilities: 2 restaurants; lounge; bar; indoor pool and outdoor pool; 2 racquetball courts ($10/session); fitness facility with Stairmaster, Nautilus, and Lifecycle equipment; Jacuzzi; sauna; car-rental desk; salon; same-day laundry service and dry cleaning.

Philadelphia Marriott
The Marriott chain opened the biggest hotel in Pennsylvania in January 1995, linked by an elevated covered walkway to the Reading Terminal Shed of the Convention Center. And it's gotten bigger. In late 1999 Marriott converted the historic 1926 City Hall Annex across 13th Street at Filbert into a 500-room Courtyard by Marriott, the largest in the Courtyard division. So all together, you have your choice of 1,910 rooms, two fitness centers, and 10 restaurants and lounges -- all linked with one another and with the Convention Center.The hotel's major auto entrance is on Filbert Street (two-way between Market and Arch sts.), with an equally grand pedestrian entrance adjoining Champions Sports Bar and retail on Market Street. The lobby is sliced up into a five-story atrium, enlivened by a 10,000-square-foot water sculpture, a lobby bar, and a Starbucks. Setbacks and terraces provide plenty of natural light and views from the rooms on floors 6 to 23. Rooms are tastefully outfitted with dark woods, maroon and green drapes and bedspreads, a TV armoire, a desk, a club chair and ottoman, and a round table, but, overall, rooms are slightly less elegant than those of the top hotels. Comfortably sized bathrooms have heavy chrome fixtures and tuck sinks and counters in the corners for more dressing room space. Closets are spacious; there are large desks with dataports in the Courtyard's rooms. Service is impeccable, thanks to the well-trained, knowledgeable staff.