An Excellent Alternative to New York City!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 8/12/05
Three family members and I just arrived from a single night at the Holiday Inn Express Meadowlands in Carlsdadt, New Jersey. We got one night free with our Priority Club Reward Points, and we left the hotel without paying a penny, not even for additional taxes and such. The hotel is up-to-date, extremely clean and offers many amenities, such as a matching fridge and microwave in our room, which had two queen-sized beds rather than two double beds, much to our content. The hotel apparently has both an indoor and outdoor pool, but we only witnessed one of them, the indoor one, but were unfortunately unable to swim in the short period of time we spent there. The television channels were excellent, with several sports/cartoon/specialty channels, something to please the whole family. Our toilet 'broke' at one point, but with a little manipulation, we got it going again without having to call a care-taker. The service was friendly and courteous and breakfast was incredible and had more than we were expecting, with fruit, cereal, muffins, danishes, doughnuts, toast, juice, coffee, and hot, gooey cinnamon buns that were to die for. We travelled into NYC by bus, which brought us straight to the port authority in Manhattan for a small charge, which beats paying attrocious prices for parking in a lot. All in all, we had a great stay at this hotel and would be more than likely to return in a future visit to New York City!