DO NOT STAY HERE. First of all, this hotel is the equivalent of an hourly rate motel along the highway in Newark, New Jersey. I picked this hotel because it said it was a five star resort and it actually had a decent amount of reviews. I truly have no idea how it got these reviews and the only rational way is maybe back in the 1990s it was a decent hotel and just never got kept up or all of the reviews are written by drunk hillbillies. This hotel failed in every category possible…the rooms and facilities were dirty, the food was disgusting, and the staff were scammers and rude.
Check in:Get ready to wait until 3pm on the dot to be let into your rooms. The lobby was filled with at least ten guests and suitcases waiting to be let in even though the resort seemed relatively empty. Multiple signs on the front desk said “Check in at 3pm”...kind of a weird thing to be insistent on especially if there are rooms available. Anyway, we waited until 3pm and then went to our room.
Rooms: My room had an overpowering stench of Dollar Tree brand air freshener and mold. There was a giant bathtub that looked like it had seen horrific things in the middle of the room, along with a brown stained toilet and multiple rollaway beds. When we asked for the extra bed to be removed, the staff rolled their eyes and kept asking why can’t we just leave it…it was in the middle of the doorway. The mini bar was stocked with water and sodas, but when we went to open the waters, we realized that all of the