I spent two nights at the Hilton - Newark Airport. The exterior could use a brush up, but the decor throughout the hotel is outstanding. Really good designers worked on this place, and it shows everywhere - from the lobby, bar, and restaraunts to the hallways, rooms, and bathrooms. You really feel special when your suroundings are so beautiful.

Another huge plus is the food. It's superb! While some items are definitely pricey, it's not exorbitant. There's plenty to suit every budget, and even the priciest items are well worth the cost.

Room service is really quick, too. Twenty minutes was the longest I had to wait for anything!

I booked a single King for $94 - a great price for the area - on the Hilton website. The room had a desk and chair, an armoire with TV and drawers, a seating area with a round glass-topped table and 2 attractive chairs, and a comfortable bed. The bathroom was smallish, but gorgeous, with great lighting and the Crabtree & Evelyn goodies other reviewers have noted.

There was a floor-to-ceiling windon, the bottom third of which opened. It was really neat because the building is designed so that guest room windows are angled for complete privacy. That is, you can't see any other guests, they can't see you, and no buildings are close by.

Fortunately, I was on the airport side of the building. So I had a view of planes taking off and landing every few minutes. And I couldn't hear a thing! You are encapsulated in a completely sound-proof environment at the Hilton. Like I said, it was really neat.

The entire expereince of sophisticated design, whisper quiet privacy, and outstanding food and service really puts you in a New York state of mind. Very exciting.

The only drawback was a significant one: my room was dusty, really dusty. I am not overly sensitive to dust, but when the vacuuming has been surface, rather than deep, I can definitely tell. And surface vacuuming is what housekeeping at the Hilton does.

I asked housekeping to give my room a good vacuuming while I was out the second day. I came back to find that they basically just sprinkled more of the scented carpet granules tbroughout the room. Even after vacuuming it up, they had spread it in such heavy conscentrations that I bought a clean-air machine at a nearby Lowe's to handle the heavy stench of perfume combined with accumulated dust.

That was enough to give me pause about returning to the Hilton Newark Airport and recommending it in a review. I don't know - so this is the best I can do:

If you tolerate dust well, go for it. You will LOVE this Hilton.

If you don't tolerate dust well, stay at the Hampton Inn in Linden. I've stayed there several times. It's dust free and has a free shuttle to and from the airport.

Happy traveling!

We stayed at the Hilton across from the Newark Airport on 3/24/06. We weren’t expecting much considering the location, but were pleasantly surprised. We had a really nice view of the airport from the eleventh floor, through a window that was just about floor to ceiling. The room was clean and comfortable. They provide nice bath products (Crabtree & Evelyn) and there's a coffee maker in the room as well. The hotel also seemed very clean and well-maintained. We left our car in the hotel parking lot for a week and took the complimentary shuttle to and from the airport. It was very convenient. One night at this hotel, (which included parking for the week and the airport shuttle), cost only about $15 more than parking at the airport for the week. We would definitely recommend this hotel and will stay there again next time we have an early flight out of Newark.

We stay at the Hilton frequently when flying in and out of Newark Airport. Most of our stays have been above average, however my last two stays at the hotel were disappointing. I stayed at the hotel before and after a trip in mid-April. My first stay was fine except for slow food service. Room was clean, spacious and well equipped. My second stay, the hotel was full and the hotel suffered because of it. The front desk attendant was friendly enough, but did not enter my wakeup call for the time requested. I was put in a handicapped room on a smoking floor right near the elevator despite being a Hilton Honors member and specifically requesting non-smoking FAR from the elevator. It was a loud, nightmarish night, topped off by a missed wakeup call. I rushed to make the shuttle which I was told ran every 15 minutes. After waiting for more than 15, the man vacuuming the lobby said it ran every 20 minutes and I had just missed it. The hotel made it right by dropping me at my terminal instead of the remote location which helped me make my flight. Nothing about the stay was particularly bad but it was only OK and not up to the usual standards of this hotel.

A hotel is only as good as its worst room, which I must have had. The Hilton is a beautiful and well-located hotel. We arrived at 11 PM from London (for us 4 AM) and were exhausted. Although my daughter was distressed, we decided not to report the bathroom door that would not close or lock, as that would have entailed a visit from maintenance. But I did call the front desk to ask how to reset the clock radio which was programmed for one hour later than the actual time. The desk clerk confirmed that it is not guest-adjustable (!) and that she would have to come up. I declined and decided to make mental allowance for the time difference.

Being so tired, the last thing I wanted was sunlight streaming into the room at 6 AM but I was unable to pull the curtain tight despite several attempts. The TV was impossible to turn off with the remote. The hairdryer was hidden in the armoire and required a call down to have it located, incorrectly at first. The clock radio, TV and hairdryer are systemic problems but the bathroom door and curtain were maintenance issues that should have been caught by quality control, if not reported by a previous guest (which is hard to imagine).

When I brought the litany of problems to the attention of the front desk manager in the morning, she was sympathetic but said she could not compensate me monetarily because I had booked through Hotwire ($64 vs $169 through Hilton's web site). I wondered aloud whether the Hilton deliberately books Hotwire customers into inferior rooms to discourage its use, which the manager adamantly denied, but it is hard to imagine that so many problems could afflict one room. This was my first Hotwire experience and, despite the manager's protestations, I am reluctant to use it again.