Hilton Hotels in Hasbrouck Heights

We were booked for 5 nights to attend our daughter's wedding (no confirmation number or email follow up ever given--we booked as part of a wedding so had only a phone call with ”Jeff” to go on)...we found our suite not ready, so another suite on a different floor was substituted. The booking process by phone was convoluted and ”Jeff” rushed us off because he had a meeting he had to attend. The room was tiny (for a suite), dark, smelly and neither the telephone nor the TV remote worked. The Keurig machine was perched so high up I couldn't reach the water reservoir. The $16 breakfast was slim pickings, to say the least. The front desk only provided the bride's welcome bag when we reminded them, the after-party restaurant went bankrupt five days before the wedding and they didn't tell the bride until two days before (they had lost their liquor license)...in fact, the whole experience was so unpleasant, we went down the road to Homewood Suites, booked the remaining four nights there, told them how shoddily the Holiday Inn situation was, and stayed there, even though we had PREPAID and STILL WERE REGISTERED in the suite at Holiday Inn, which we had to go back and forth to for wedding events...we were willing to take the financial hit just to be able to enjoy our daughter's wedding. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know...A particularly shameful incident was when we checked on the room on the third day and found that all our personal belongings we had left there had been stolen--the bride's welcome bag, unopened bags of snacks for the after party, a cooler which we'd bought because we now had to provide our own food and beverages for the after party IN A CONFERENCE ROOM....this hotel let us down in every way. Other guests (two separate guests) were given keys to rooms that were occupied -- and one walked in on a compromising situation! Never again for this place--for the same price we had bright, airy, spacious, clean rooms and a full kitchen five minutes down the road at Homewood Suites.

The check in process was painless, and I even arrived early. No issues. The room itself was nice and clean. I enjoyed the kitchen and it was well-stocked (silverware, plates, paper towels, etc.). The fridge was a bit small, but worked for a short stay. The bed was somewhat comfortable, pillows too soft for my liking. I did not try the breakfast, as I am dieting, but it smelled good in the lobby area, and it was very popular. I did not try out the gym, but it looked serviceable. The pool is currently closed for renovation.