Help to learn more about the New Cumberland (Philadelphia, Lancaster: to rent, how much)

[espero]

Hello everybody! My name is Nadia, I'm from Russia. This summer, I and my friend Katya come to your city. I would very much like to learn more about your town, what there is of interest, what they live. I would like to know where we shoot better accommodation (double room) and how much it will cost per week. In advance thank you very much !!!!!!

[BevoInPA]

You are coming all the way from Russia to visit New Cumberland? New Cumberland is a small suburb of the state capital, Harrisburg. Harrisburg is across the mile-wide Susquehanna River. I can't think of any hotels in New Cumberland. There is a Comfort Inn, Best Western and a few other hotels/motels in the adjacent municipality, Lower Allen Township near the interchange of I-76 and I-83. I think they are all priced around $75 to $85/night. You would need a car if you stayed in one of those hotes.

There isn't much to do in New Cumberland except a small one-screen movie theater and a few restaurants. I would stay in downtown Harrisburg where there is the state museum, science museum, state library, riverfront park and City Island. You would not need a car and you can walk to the Amtrack station and get into central Philadelphia.

[espero]

Dear Senior MemberThank you very much for the info I arrive in New Cumberland to work summers at the hotel Comfort Inn maid, so wanted to know whether there anywhere to rent a room and how much it cost. I very interested to know if any of the new Cumberland people from Russia?

Once again, thank you very much

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[BevoInPA]

There is a Russian Orthodox Church about 30 miles northeast of New Cumberland in a small rural town called Lykens in Dauphin County. There is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Mechanicsburg. I think it is on Trindle Road. There is also a Greek Orthodox Church in Camp Hill. I know this is probably not what you had in mind but Harrisburg is overwhelmingly of German descent with lots of Lutheran Churches and Plain People (primarily Bretheren in Harrisburg but also Mennonite and Amish in nearby Lancaster County). There is a Bretheren College, Mesiah College, a huge Bretheren retirement community called Messiah Village, and the names of many towns are of German descent (New Berlin, Hamburg, Harrisburg, Gettysburg, and Heidelberg).

I am not aware of any Russian immigrants in the area. There are a few immigrant communities. I think New Cumberland and Camp Hill have large, affluent Indian (from India) immigrant population with a large temple off Lewisberry Road in New Cumberland near the Comfort Inn. Indian immigrants started Hersha Hospitality in New CUmberland which is one of the larger hotel operating companies in the United States.

There is also a Korean immigrant population on the West Shore. Steelton, on the East Shore, is about the closest Harrisburg has to a melting pot community with Serbs, Croatians, Koreans, and others.