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The city of Plymouth Meeting with population of about 8,000 is located in Montgomery County, Southeastern Pennsylvania, 12 miles (about 20 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Plymouth Meeting is part of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-New Jersey metropolitan area. The approximate number of families is 3,000. The amount of land area in Plymouth Meeting is 9.796 sq. kilometers. The distance from Plymouth Meeting to Washington DC is 126 miles (about 203 km). The distance to the Pennsylvania state capital, Harrisburg, is 85 miles (about 137 km, as the crow flies). Plymouth Meeting is positioned 40.10 degrees north of the equator and 75.28 degrees west of the prime meridian.

The Plymouth Meeting area nearby attractions include historic sites, art museums, located a short way off Winterthur Museum and Garden, Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia Zoo, King of Prussia Mall, Valley Forge National Park, several miles to the west, also downhill skiing at Spring Mount, the Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, quaint Skippack Village, etc. For comprehensive and all-round information about all the attractions of Plymouth Meeting and surrounding area you can address to the office of Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau - 600 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/834-1550 or 888/847-4883). Plymouth Meeting area is convenient to fine dining, shopping and entertainment venues. As for the matter of tourism, the city of Plymouth Meeting and area offer accommodations & dining, sports & recreation, nightlife & other entertainments, attractions & sightseeing, and many other points of interest in the Montgomery County of Pennsylvania!


Accommodation

Plymouth Meeting and area accord visitors a warm greeting with a good selection of hotels, all monitored for quality and standard in order to provide their clients with value for money accommodation. The city offers various accommodations situated around the area to suit your needs.

Our website is always ready to help you in making the perfect and wise choice for your Plymouth Meeting accommodation and to provide really convenient, quick and secure on-line hotel reservation and room booking. There are several pleasing Plymouth Meeting Accommodations recommended by your fellow travelers.

Hotels. Plymouth Meeting and area offer splendid and comfortable rooms in such pleasant hotels as Courtyard-Plymouth Meeting - 650 Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA; Doubletree Guest Suites-Plymouth Meeting - 640 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA; Springhill Suites Philadelphia-Plymouth Meeting - 430 Plymouth Road, Plymouth Meeting PA; Hampton Inn-Plymouth Meeting - 2055 Chemical Road, Plymouth Meeting PA; and others. Our website offers you an extensive selection of different-star hotels with great diversity of hotels’ locations and services! You can always find the perfect place to stay in Plymouth Meeting and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Apartments. Plymouth Meeting and surrounding area habitat and house-owners offer finest accommodation and lodging for corporate vacationers and renters - furnished and unfurnished apartments, houses, villas for vacation rental and much longer stay - Carriage Hill Apartments - 2098 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA; Place One Apartments - 777 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA; Plymouth Rock Apartments - 1919 Sandy Hill Road, Plymouth Meeting PA; Sussex Square Apartments - 515 Plymouth Road, Plymouth Meeting PA; and some others.

Vacation Rentals. Plymouth Meeting vacation rentals offer great possibilities of accommodation and lodging for corporate and individual renters and vacationers – that’s the perfect offer for vacation rental and longer stay.

Hostels. Hostels in Plymouth Meeting and area are a unique form of accommodation unlike hotels or motels. Rooms are dormitory style, and are usually furnished with bunkbeds. Nearly all hostels’ facilities are shared with other guests. This shared facilities arrangement keeps the cost per guest low and creates a warm and greeting communal camaraderie between guests.

Bed & Breakfast. Bed & Breakfast accommodations in the city of Plymouth Meeting and area give you an inimitable and personalized travel experience with a touch of the region’s local flavor. Furthermore this sort of accommodation is not so expensive as luxury hotels, resorts and apartments, however it gives all the opportunities in exploring and enjoying the attractions of Plymouth Meeting and area.

Enjoy your staying!


Meal

Plymouth Meeting accords visitors a warm greeting with a good selection and wide range of restaurants, all monitored for quality and standard in order to provide their clients with perfect dining, drinking and appropriate services as well. The city and area offer a variety of restaurants, bars, cafes and other eateries situated around the area to suit your needs.

There are a good few of pleasureful Plymouth Meeting restaurants and bars of various ranges recommended by your fellow travelers.

Restaurants. Plymouth Meeting and area restaurants and other eating houses of different service standards and various price ranges offer a presentable diversity of dishes’ and beverages’ tastes. The predominant cuisines in Plymouth Meeting and area restaurants are the American and Italian cuisines.

Bars. There’re enough bars, pubs and other entertaining imbiberies in Plymouth Meeting and area. The originality, calibre of the staff, variety of dining-drinking facilities and perfect services in such pleasing bars as J B Dawson's Bar, Toland's Bar, Wilde Bills Tavern, Olde Black Horse Tavern, 7th Heaven, and others, intensify travelers’ interest to Plymouth Meeting and area, making this tourist destination much more attractive for visitors!

Bar-Restaurants. Such a composition of peck-and-tipple, dining-drinking and show-music-dance-entertaining enterprises in one establishment attracts much more visitors of Plymouth Meeting, both those enjoying respectable, cosy atmosphere at the luxury-decorated dining-table or groaning board in magnificent restaurant’s hall and those, who prefer perpendicular bub-and-grub with a pretty partner at the bar and smooth dancer to the get-up-and-go music accompaniment.

Cafes. One of the most convenient and pleasant forms of dining and rest is to take some refreshment and to sit with a cup of coffee at the table in café, coffee shop or tea-house. And there’re quite enough cafes in Plymouth Meeting and area to supply all visitors’ wants.

Bon Appetit!


Culture

Although Plymouth Meeting’s cultural events and abilities are not so diversified and intensive as those in nearby Philadelphia (about 12 miles, as the crow flies), Plymouth Meeting and area offer cultural attractions and events suitable for even the most discriminating tastes.

There are several Plymouth Meeting cultural venues and organizations for visitors to become familiar with. Also, Preschools, Elementary, Middle and High Schools, Learning Centres, Arts and Music Schools, Libraries, and so on – all these institutions suppose high-class cultural upbringing and education in Plymouth Meeting and area.

Galleries. It might bring a great pleasure, aesthetic delight and benefit for guests interested in fine arts to visit such Plymouth Meeting and area galleries as Plymouth Meeting Gallery, Plymouth Meeting Art Expo, and others.

Museums. Visitors (as well as locals) will enjoy touring such nearby museums as Woodmere Art Museum, Pennsylvania Historical Museum, Childventure Museum, Roth Living Farm Museum, Johnson House Museum, Richard Wall House Museum and others.

Movie Theatres. No doubt cinephiles will be interested in visiting Plymouth Meeting’s General Cinema, located on West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/397-0784).


Transportation

Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) - 8500 Essington Avenue, Philadelphia PA (215/937-5499 or 215/937-6937), is about 17 mi (27 km, as the crow flies) from Plymouth Meeting PA. The Airport serves as the principal gateway for the fifth largest metropolitan population in the United States. Situated on 2,302 acres, the Airport consists of six terminals and four runways. Handling about 500,000 aircraft takeoffs and landings, PHL processes around 25,000,000 passengers a year.

As for the matter of Airport Transportation to and from the majority of Plymouth Meeting and area hotels - shuttle bus service is available for their registered guests. Such additional forms of transportation from the airport to the Plymouth Meeting area as taxicabs and rental cars are also always at your disposal.

Public. Public transportation of Plymouth Meeting area includes bus lines, operated by Romanos - 1065 Belvoir Road, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/272-7671).

Rent a car. Such reputed car-rental companies as Enterprise Rent-A-Car (610/279-6500), Budget Rent-A-Car (610/834-9366), Kulp Car Rental (610/272-6277), and others - have rental-car operations in Plymouth Meeting and area.

Limousine service. Several companies offer limousine services around the city of Plymouth Meeting and area. These include - Corporation Limousine Service (610/277-5466), CHL Limousine (610/941-0560), Mac-Jo Limousine Service Incorporated (610/277-9793), King Limousine Service (610/265-3050), Londie's Limousine Service (610/279-7471), etc.

Taxi. Of course taxi services of Plymouth Meeting and area are always at your disposal - Yellow Cab (610/277-1234), Norristown Radio Taxi Incorporated (610/275-9700), Montco Suburban Taxicab Co (215/572-6100), etc.


Travel Agencies

Travel agencies, tourist companies and excursions bureaus offer their services for your Plymouth Meeting and area tours and traveling: Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau - 600 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/834-1550 or 888/847-4883); Liberty Travel - 457 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/825-4950); Rosenbluth Vacations - Plymouth Meeting Mall, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/825-9010); and others.

Tours. Whenever you like – enjoy wonderful tours and cruises, offered by such tour operators, as Boss Tours (610/279-0967), R & J Tours Incorporated (215/739-9522), J L Tours (610/688-0307), Culture Quest Tours (215/923-1415), and some others…


Travel Information

You can always be thoroughly advised in Plymouth Meeting travel news and latest area information while exploring our website as well as some other sites, e.g. WorldCityPages.net, TripAdvisor.com, Digital-Neighbors.com, 50States.com, ValleyForge.org, StateGuide.com, PlymouthMeetingPA.com, WorldCityHotels.net, etc.

Guides. Our website will help you find out where to eat and what to see, how to book flights, hotels and cars for Plymouth Meeting and a great number of destinations worldwide.

Maps. There’re websites with detailed maps, plans and descriptions of Plymouth Meeting and area for quick and comfortable local orientation, driving directions and how to get around here: MapBlast.com, MapQuest.com, MultiMap.com, ExtendedStayNetwork.com, TripAdvisor.com, RatesAndAvailability.com, MoreAvailability.com, DigitalFrontDesk.com, etc.

Weather. In an average year temperatures in Plymouth Meeting can vary between 600F (170C) and 1000F (310C). In other words Plymouth Meeting experiences the full range of North American weather, from blistering hot summer days to snow-bound, freezing periods in deep winter. Being prepared for possible diversity of weather conditions during your vacations, you'll make your Plymouth Meeting stay more pleasant and enjoyable.

Some websites can conveniently and quickly inform you at any moment about the local current weather and the weather forecast for your Plymouth Meeting vacations: Weather.com, Weather.Yahoo.com, BBC Global Weather - BBC.co.uk/Weather, OHwy.com, StateGuide.com, WUnderground.com, Hurricane.AccuWeather.com, ExperiencePA.com, ShoppingInPA.com, InstaWeather.com, WorldCityPages.net, FallInPA.com, City.State-PA.us, 1HotelFinder.com, BeerExpedition.com, etc.


Entertainments

Once you're in the mood to be entertained - nightlife hot spots and other entertaining venues of Plymouth Meeting and area are waiting for you! So, when it's time to unwind and have some fun, visit local bars, nightclubs, taverns, pubs and dance clubs.

Plymouth Meeting and area have many unforgettable entertainments and several places where you might listen to music or dance and take your pleasure the night away. There are enough opportunities to have a drink or a bite to eat around Plymouth Meeting and neighbourhoods; you'll find restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, pizza joints, each with its own style and personality, where you can listen to various kinds of music, from pop-music to jazz, from classic to rock music, and others.

Casino. If you’re fond of gambling - do enjoy the excitement, exhilarating action and play your favorite casino games in gaming houses and casinos of Plymouth Meeting’s nearby area! Your fellow travelers recommend Casino Liberty in Philadelphia PA, Casino Concepts Inc in Southampton PA, and some others.

Clubs/Nightlife. Nightlife in Plymouth Meeting and area follows just the same tradition; whether you prefer to dance the night away in nearby music-dance nightclub (as 7th Heaven, De Medio Tavern, Old Time Saloon, Pat's Bar, etc.) or just relax with an after-hours cocktail or two.

Attractions & Sports. Tennis, golf, hiking, cycling, swimming, basketball, volleyball, karate, gyms, health and fitness centers, – all this is far from the full list of sporting, sanative and recreational facilities of Plymouth Meeting and area.

Parks and Gardens. Plymouth Meeting and area boast of remarkable parks, marvelous gardens and other recreational facilities for walking, playing, sightseeing and so on. Some of renowned parks in Plymouth Meeting and area are Valley Forge National Historical Park, Evansburg State Park, Elmwood Park Zoo, Fort Washington State Park, and others.

Sightseeing. Whether you’re a tourist or a long time resident of the Plymouth Meeting area, you always have many sights to see and enjoy. While exploring our website you can find information about a great deal of sightseeing tours and beauty spots all over the world.

Music. There’re several wonderful musical venues in Plymouth Meeting area – each of them is a must for music lovers - you’ll be ravished by sweet music!

The Music Training Center of Plymouth Meeting, PA provides musicians and bands with the opportunity to sharpen their live performance skills and produce professional quality recordings. MTC's state-of-the-art stage and recording studio are run by Brian Bricklin, a veteran performing artist and record producer, who has produced records for many of Philadelphia's finest bands.


Shopping

Plymouth Meeting and area have no shortage of shopping, that's for sure. The city’s and nearby areas’ shopping has everything from the high fashion to the take home souvenirs. For many visitors, shopping is an important part of their stay in Plymouth Meeting and area. Here you'll find many opportunities to practice this particular kind of "sport and entertainment". The choice is yours - from local giftware to the more generalised goods available at department stores and shops in the city center and nearby areas.

Plymouth Meeting and area shops include - Plymouth Meeting Mall, Target Stores, Ikea Philadelphia Store, Bridal Shops, Fabric Shops, Gift Shops, Pet Stores, Hobby Shops, Toy And Game Shops, and many others.


Insurance

Why Buy Travel Insurance for Plymouth Meeting vacations? The answer is easy. Whether you travel for business or pleasure, international travel involves risk. You may arrive at your destination to find that your luggage with personal items has disappeared. A personal emergency may necessitate your early return to your Home Country. Travel companies offer insurance services and advices for your Plymouth Meeting traveling: Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau - 600 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/834-1550 or 888/847-4883); Healthcare Strategies - 3031 Walton Road # B, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/941-9400); Monahan Charles F - 920 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/275-7600); Benefits & Planning Group - 225 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA (610/825-9214); and others.

A medical emergency may require hospitalization or even air evacuation. In most cases, your existing insurance will not provide adequate protection for these and other risks. Without appropriate travel insurance, you may be exposed to significant financial liability. The travel insurance is designed to take the risks out of home and international travel, so you can have an enjoyable and productive trip.


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