$99 Marriott rooms in Newark

Two Newark-area Marriott properties are offering a surprisingly good $99/night deal for Thanksgiving weekend, good November 24 through November 27, if you book by tomorrow. Neither is in downtown Newark, but both the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel and Newark Liberty Airport Marriott ought to have decent mass-transit connections to downtown.

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mha
Two Newark-area Marriott properties are offering a surprisingly good $99/night deal for Thanksgiving weekend...

Of course they are, because who the hell goes to Newark over Thanksgiving weekend? (Besides us, I mean.)

It should be noted that neither of these hotels are particularly close to the Prudential Center; they're both by the airport, as Mark says, which is a few miles from downtown Newark. Unless you felt like taking a walk through a not-particularly-nice part of Newark/Elizabeth, you'd probably wind up taking the Newark Airport AirTrain (note that the Newark Liberty Airport Marriott is on the airport grounds, the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel just off) to the Newark Airport New Jersey Transit station, and then switch to a NJT train going to Newark Penn Station. Just figured I'd let you know what you'd be signing yourself up for.

Josh '99

mha
Two Newark-area Marriott properties are offering a surprisingly good $99/night deal for Thanksgiving weekend...

Of course they are, because who the hell goes to Newark over Thanksgiving weekend? (Besides us, I mean.)

It should be noted that neither of these hotels are particularly close to the Prudential Center; they're both by the airport, as Mark says, which is a few miles from downtown Newark. Unless you felt like taking a walk through a not-particularly-nice part of Newark/Elizabeth, you'd probably wind up taking the Newark Airport AirTrain (note that the Newark Liberty Airport Marriott is on the airport grounds, the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel just off) to the Newark Airport New Jersey Transit station, and then switch to a NJT train going to Newark Penn Station. Just figured I'd let you know what you'd be signing yourself up for.

Doesn't this also entail paying a premium compared with other NJT fares for a comparable distance?

jtwcornell91

Josh '99

mha
Two Newark-area Marriott properties are offering a surprisingly good $99/night deal for Thanksgiving weekend...

Of course they are, because who the hell goes to Newark over Thanksgiving weekend? (Besides us, I mean.)

It should be noted that neither of these hotels are particularly close to the Prudential Center; they're both by the airport, as Mark says, which is a few miles from downtown Newark. Unless you felt like taking a walk through a not-particularly-nice part of Newark/Elizabeth, you'd probably wind up taking the Newark Airport AirTrain (note that the Newark Liberty Airport Marriott is on the airport grounds, the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel just off) to the Newark Airport New Jersey Transit station, and then switch to a NJT train going to Newark Penn Station. Just figured I'd let you know what you'd be signing yourself up for.

Doesn't this also entail paying a premium compared with other NJT fares for a comparable distance?

Yes, in that the AirTrain fare ($5.50) is included in the one-way NJT fare ($8.25) from Newark Penn Station (or any other origin point) to Newark Airport. (For comparison's sake, the one-way fare from Newark Penn Station to North Elizabeth, the next station past Newark Airport, is $2.75.) I'm not sure whether you can buy the NJT Newark-Penn to Newark Airport fare unbundled with the AirTrain fare; theoretically, I suppose you could take NJT to North Elizabeth and then call a taxi, though I have no idea what the taxi situation is like in the area.

(My personal views about the fact that it's free to take the AirTrain to parking lots and rental car facilities, while it costs $5.50 to take it to the NJT transfer point, are, I suppose, a conversation for another day and another forum.)

Josh '99

jtwcornell91

Josh '99

mha
Two Newark-area Marriott properties are offering a surprisingly good $99/night deal for Thanksgiving weekend...

Of course they are, because who the hell goes to Newark over Thanksgiving weekend? (Besides us, I mean.)

It should be noted that neither of these hotels are particularly close to the Prudential Center; they're both by the airport, as Mark says, which is a few miles from downtown Newark. Unless you felt like taking a walk through a not-particularly-nice part of Newark/Elizabeth, you'd probably wind up taking the Newark Airport AirTrain (note that the Newark Liberty Airport Marriott is on the airport grounds, the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel just off) to the Newark Airport New Jersey Transit station, and then switch to a NJT train going to Newark Penn Station. Just figured I'd let you know what you'd be signing yourself up for.

Doesn't this also entail paying a premium compared with other NJT fares for a comparable distance?

Yes, in that the AirTrain fare ($5.50) is included in the one-way NJT fare ($8.25) from Newark Penn Station (or any other origin point) to Newark Airport. (For comparison's sake, the one-way fare from Newark Penn Station to North Elizabeth, the next station past Newark Airport, is $2.75.) I'm not sure whether you can buy the NJT Newark-Penn to Newark Airport fare unbundled with the AirTrain fare; theoretically, I suppose you could take NJT to North Elizabeth and then call a taxi, though I have no idea what the taxi situation is like in the area.

(My personal views about the fact that it's free to take the AirTrain to parking lots and rental car facilities, while it costs $5.50 to take it to the NJT transfer point, are, I suppose, a conversation for another day and another forum.)

There are so many things wrong with NJ Transit, from fare structure to capital programs to everything else, that it needs its own forum.