Essence Express Elizabeth EWR Airport

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This hotel looked like a jail. The rooms were disgusting and filthy. The room had a dirty shirt outside our door. The bed was dirty, had cigarette holes on the comforter. The entire room stunk of weed. Every surface was dirty & sticky. We could not even sleep there and they refused to refund us. It was horrible. Please do not stay there unless it’s an emergency and you have no other choice.

parking was easy and room was so clean

Everything was great!!!

I like the room. All that matters. Everything is good as usual.

This is a very good property to go to when you are at EWR and you need an overnight stay. Considering the cost it is a very good option. Friendliness and attentiveness of the staff is also a plus factor. I didn’t explore the surroundings but seemed like an okay area. I recommend this place.

Everything is good as always .

Heater was roaring loud and still didn’t keep the room warm. Sheets were stained. Whole place very unkept.

No frills but was a fine place to stay for a few nights and downtown Elizabeth is about a ten minutes walk away.

The lady at check is very nice to and she is so beautiful.

DO NOT BOOK A STAY HERE. The location is great because it's so connected to many local transit options, and the other reviews made it seem like it would be a dated but otherwise acceptable option. Unfortunately the hotel is in serious neglect. We found large amounts of hair between bedsheets, trash swept under the bed, sticky clumps of unknown residue near the bedframe, a mix of wood shavings and translucent shell-like objects up above the headboard, and a dead German cockroach of significant size under the headboard. The hotel refused to refund us because we'd already been checked in for 1.5 hours. I explained that was the time it took us to have dinner, discover the grime we were about to spend the night in, and decide whether or not this was preferable to dealing with further travel and expense after a tiring 20-hour day. In return, the receptionist informed me that people tend to come to this property to stay a couple hours and then leave, so he could not issue a refund but instead offered to switch us to a different room. I declined the invitation to discover what new horrors lay behind the other doors at the hotel. We instead traveled by foot and train in pouring rain from 1-4am in order to sleep at the airport terminal of our next departure, which ended up providing us a much cleaner and more comfortable rest for the night than we would have had at this hotel. I was thankfully able to get a refund (not through the hotel), but FUTURE TRAVELERS BE WARNED.