America West Arilines Flights from Allentown (ABE) to Philadelphia (PHL)
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on America West Arilines, which operates 4 non-stop flights from Allentown (ABE) to Philadelphia (PHL) departing between 6:00am and 9:10pm on select days of the week. The average travel time from Allentown, PA to Philadelphia, PA is 39 minutes.*
* Some flights must connect with additional service on this airline.
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During your Philadelphia vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
A 15-minute peek into the Athenaeum will show you one of America's finest collections of Victorian-period architectural design and also give you the flavor of private 19th-century life for the proper Philadelphian. The building, beautifully restored in 1975, houses almost one million library items for the serious researcher in American architecture. Visitors are welcome to the changing exhibitions of rare books, drawings, and photographs in the recently reconstructed first-floor gallery; tours of the entire building or collections require an appointment.
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.
Mutter Museum
p>Kids will be fascinated by this hugely entertaining collection of medical oddities in an appropriately dark, dank, horror-film setting in a grand 19th-century building in Center City. Three operative words apply: goiters in jars. You'll also see 20,000 other spooky objects at the Mutter Museum, including the "Secret Tumor of Grover Cleveland" and plaster casts of famously conjoined twins Chang and Eng, housed in a paneled, double-height gallery within the College of Physicians. This medical institution was founded by Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; it's not an active medical school, but is an educational society with an important historical library. Everything in the Mutter, which began as a private collection in the 1850s, is very Young Frankenstein: 10,000 horrifying antique surgical implements, shelves of swollen brains floating in fluid in vintage glass jars, and even the thorax of John Wilkes Booth.
Sheraton Suites Philadelphia Hotel
For just a bit more dough than the Four Points across the street requires, you get a suite with a beautifully furnished bedroom and living room that encircle a dramatic eight-story atrium. A 2001 rehab redecorated suites in white, brown, and maroon, with cherrywood furniture. The outer room contains a business desk and chair, convertible sofa bed, and armoire with TV. The bedroom, with the choice of a king or two twin beds, has another TV and phone, and bathrooms are similarly handsome. There is a wet bar with coffeemaker and small refrigerator in the kitchenette, and the bathroom has a marble-topped vanity. Airport noise is minimal.
The Latham
A landmark apartment house from 1915 to 1970, the Latham's charm, congeniality, and small attentions bring to mind a small, superbly run Swiss hostelry in a great setting off Walnut Street. On weekday mornings, the lobby -- a high-ceilinged salon with terrazzo highlights -- is filled with refreshed executives, though the hotel does no convention business. Weekend packages are great bargains. The reception staff is quick and professional. The guest rooms, redone in Victorian motif in 1998, are not huge or lavish but perfectly proportioned and decorated with cheerful striped silk. Full-wall and lighted facial mirrors, large marblelike basins, and over-size towels highlight the white-toned bathroom interiors.
Chamounix Hostel Mansion
The oldest building offering accommodations in town, this renovated 1802 Quaker farmhouse is also the cheapest. Chamounix Mansion is a Federal-style edifice constructed as a country retreat at what is now the upper end of Fairmount Park. It has six air-conditioned dormitory rooms for 44 people, with limited family arrangements, and another 37 spots in a fully renovated adjoining carriage house. Guests have use of the renovated self-serve kitchen, the TV/VCR lounge, free videos, and bicycles. Write or call ahead for reservations, since the hostel is often 90% booked in summer by groups of boat crews or foreign students. You can check in daily from between 4:30pm and midnight (which is the hostel's curfew) and show an American Youth Hostel card or IYHF card for member rates. Checkout is from 8 to 11am. Call AYH directly at tel. 215/925-6004 for information on hostel trips in the area.
