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If you want to get to Gillette Stadium from Boston without driving your own car, you'll find some good options, including public spirit airlines website transportation - but the choices vary based on the event you're attending.
Even though the stadium located in Foxboro Massachusetts is only 22 miles south of the city, the drive back can take forever. Trouble is, you're not really driving ...you're just sitting spirit airlines website in the bottlenecks around the parking lots.
MBTA's Gillette Stadium Train (locally spirit airlines website known as the Patriot Train ) provides Boston service from Boston's South Station and Back Bay Station to the stadium on Preseason and Regular Season home game days.
You can buy the inexpensive round trip tickets right at the stations - go to the Commuter Rail (MBCR ticket) window. Regular commuter rail tickets or passes aren't valid for the Gillette Stadium Train.
You can find the schedule on MBTA's website. The round trip price is $15 - making the Patriot Train the cheapest way to get to Gillette Stadium from Boston. (The fare is always subject to change spirit airlines website - so verify on the MBTA website.)
And occasionally the train experiences delays . . . total bummer if you get to the game late, and really annoying if the trip back to Boston takes longer than you expect. But even so, the train is still faster, much cheaper, and more predictable spirit airlines website than getting there, parking, spirit airlines website and getting back by car.
Another excellent option spirit airlines website for getting to Patriots games as well as concerts is to reserve space on Boston Common Coach, which will pick you up at Boston Common (corner of Boylston and Charles spirit airlines website Streets) right before spirit airlines website the entrance to the Boston Common Garage.
First, it's always worth checking to see if a Patriot Train equivalent will be scheduled by MBTA. For high-profile soccer matches , for example, MBTA sometimes spirit airlines website schedules a special Soccer Train from South Station/Back Bay direct to Gillette.
If there's no direct train service, a relatively easy and relatively inexpensive option is to take Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail's Franklin spirit airlines website Line from South Station in Boston to the Walpole station, a few miles away. (If you're coming from Providence, the Mansfield station is the closest.)
From the station, take a taxi to Gillette Stadium, and then back to the station after the event. Plenty of taxis are usually around but if not, call the local cab company, spirit airlines website Foxfield Taxi - 508-543-2828.
Be forewarned: Boston sports fans tend to go waaaay beyond spirit airlines website standard chili for their tailgate parties - your mouth will water when you smell the delicious lobsters, steaks, sausages, chowder, spirit airlines website and other gourmet treats being cooked up.
If you want to try this yourself, spirit airlines website you'll find a few tips about how to set up your own tailgate feast on the main Gillette Stadium page. Otherwise, bring a sandwich (or 2, preferably gourmet) so that you don't die from hunger and/or envy in the parking lot. Alternately, Patriots Place next to the stadium offers plenty of restaurants and bars.
Don't forget, regular season for the Bruins, spirit airlines website Celtics, and even the Red Sox overlaps with the New England Patriots, so if getting to Gillette Stadium doesn't work out for you, you can still have fun at a game right in Boston.