Holiday Inn Hazlet

Not bad. Breakfast was good. Cut my foot about six times on bed due to spikes sticking out. I’ll upload pictures.
Minimal number of towels. Water hot almost immediately at the top of the dial. Soap and shampoo minimal. Bed okay. Pillows okay.

Stayed here on a road trip with my dad to the east coast. This is the PERFECT place to stay if you want to visit New York but don’t actually want to stay in the city. It’s only about 5 minutes from the train station and you can just drive there, park pay a few bucks for a parking ticket, and hop on the train to pen station New York and within an hour you’re coming out of Madison square garden. It’s pretty awesome. The rooms are clean and we ended up getting two different rooms while we were there. We initially had room number 216, then left and decided that it was the best place to stay to go to New York. We came back and got room number 116. 116 had the same layout as 216 just green painted walls. At the front desk you will find very nice staff who can give information about the area and while helpful, respect your privacy. This place also has a bar and restaurant which my dad enjoyed. There was a band playing on Friday night and a lot of people enjoying themselves. Amazing place to stay if you’re taking a road trip.

If you have any other options I would recommend staying somewhere else. Really old outdated rooms. It’s a holiday inn (which is typically a family hotel) but their kids meal prices are $ 8+ in the stupidly overpriced restaurant. When I pointed out to the front desk that in the hotel rooms they have a totally different menu with a free kids meal option he said (I promise I’m not kidding) «well you should’ve called the front desk to make sure it was the right menu». So just to give you a taste of how you’ll be treated here. Honestly so ridiculous.

Nice clean room. Friendly helpful staff at front desk. Banquet facilities were nice. This is an older Holiday Inn but it has been kept up. Bed was comfy, with nice pillows. Shower was good, plenty of nice hot water. Overall a good stay.

Super front end staff, clean rooms, clean pool, near to beaches and attractions, fair prices, highly recommend, would absolutely stay here again

The bartender was the only good thing about this hotel. Was staying with a wedding party earlier this month, and there were two shuttles arranged to take guests to the ceremony. The first shuttle took the guests to the wrong wedding, and the second (which is the one I was on) got there an hour late and arrived just in time to see everyone leaving to make their way to the reception area. When we got back to the hotel, complaints were made about missing the «I do“s and the guy at the front offered us free breakfast. As if free breakfast could make up for the fact that I missed one of the biggest moments in my best friend’s life. I spoke to a different gentleman in the morning on an empty stomach, and demanded a refund. He took our names and numbers and said that when the boss comes in, it will be taken care of. I even called a week or so ago to check on the status of said refund. They took my name and number again. It’s been three weeks, and I have yet to see any effort put in towards compensation from this royal f*** up of a hotel. Also, apparently some other rooms in our party had issues with the plumbing, causing them to relocate. Didn’t have to go through that, but I think it’s safe to say that you just shouldn’t stay at a hotel that doesn’t care enough about the people staying there.

Sam, the GM took care of my sisters wedding party needs. He and his staff did a great job on the rooms side. The hotel could use additional signage as it’s very easy to get lost in.
The catering couple who handle all the banquet space are not very good at what they do. My sister did not like the food at the tasting and in the end they told us they weren’t going to accommodate the price they verbally told us. Although it would’ve been convenient to have the event and hotel rooms at the same venue, we did not feel the caterers would try to accommodate our needs and ended up going with another venue that was cheaper and had much better food.

The rooms are average the front desk new guy ‘Jeremy is awesome’ he should teach the breakfast staff a few manners. Asked for water, never got it. Place had maybe 5 ppl not busy at all. Ordered a dish and rudley told they don’t have it.

I had an awful experience here at this hotel. Customer service was awful very mean at the front desk and they overbook rooms and never made it right to my family please do not stay at this hotel !!!

I have stayed at this place multiple times over the past 2 years, and never had a bad experience. The staff is always friendly and is very helpful. The restaurant is not that special, but the beer is cold.

We went to a wedding at Addison Park which was terrible because Addison Park watered down the alcohol on us (See my Addison Park Review) but the best part of that weekend turned out to be my stay at the Holiday Inn. We had a good time there the Hotel staff didn’t break our balls. I even lost my wallet with $ 300 cash in it and a member of the Holiday Inn staff returned it to me.

We arrived at this hotel after my boyfriend had a long day of driving and wasn’t feeling up for the trek home. Someone at a gas station had directed us to this hotel because the prices weren’t steep and it was close by. We were greeted by a lovely front of house lady who’s name i didn’t get (she was working last night 7÷27÷14) and she helped us get booked and situated.
We got to the room there was a nice comfy bed, a beautiful bathroom, microwave and mini fridge (although i don’t think the fridge was working) One star was taken off because the food service was a bit of a mess with us calling being transferred and then being told that the menu in our room is brand new and they don’t have the things needed yet to make some of the items.
Plus: The shampoo and lotion are from bath and body works, so you leave smelling awesome!
There is a pool that we didn’t get to use due to us only being there one night but it looked nice. Same with the gym.

I called to make a reservation for a friend’s wedding and was told that the block of rooms were sold out and that my only options were to stay for three nights, or not stay at all. It’s on a Saturday during the first week of May, how could it be that busy? I usually stay at Hilton’s and have never had a problem there, now I’m stuck with driving further away to find a hotel

Extremely friendly staff — and had a great time. Really older hotel but had been remodeled and was updated. Did not eat at the restaurant/​bar because of reviews of others but that is a separate entity.
Room was quiet and worked for the week.

This place seems to get better each time I stay there. Rooms are good, they keep it clean, the staff is very nice, and the food is way better than I find at other Holiday Inns. Special thanks to Abby (Front Desk), Ron & Kathy (Bayshore Bar), and especially Karen, who runs the Breakfast. She made every morning a pleasure, remembered my name, my family, always a friendly smile and a great meal. Can’t wait to get back there for her chocolate-​chip pancakes!

I hate giving this Holiday Inn a one star, but this is solely based on the restaurant.
If you are staying here, do not go near the Bayshore Grill. Especially for breakfast.
My brother, friend and I went in at 10:15am for breakfast, and sat and waited in an empty restaurant for almost 15 minutes before the waitress came from out back talking on her cell phone. She gave us a half hearted apology and took our order. After we placed our order, our buddy was informed that, she had shut down the grill to the pancakes 45 minutes ago and he would need to order something else. She also told us she had places to be so if we could be quick with our food she would appreciate it.
She rushed our food out, and we had to ask several times for OJ and water and coffee. She brought our OJ out with Saran wrap on the OJ Bottle. If she wasn’t butting into our conversation every ten minutes, she was on the phone with who knows who, swearing and yelling.
She made us pay as we were still eating, and got upset when the credit card machine didn’t work, she got on the phone with somebody and started swearing and yelling again.
We paid in cash and got out of there ASAP
We mentioned it to the hotel manager, who apologized and were very nice to us. She even gave us free movie passes.
The Hotel itself was nice, the rooms were clean, and the beds were comfy.

This is where we were sent after a can celled United flight out of Newark. Clean, remodel led motel. Fitness center and pool. everything closed at 10 pm???

The first time we stayed here, the front desk staff was so unhelpful and difficult, it was far from a positive experience. BUT the room was clean and comfy (thanks Holiday Inn!) And after we got the check in problems sorted out, our stay was good.
This time the staff were much better.
Since it is one of the more conveniently located hotels to our favorite beach, right on the highway and super close to the Parkway, I see more stays here in our future.
Tip: They have complimentary coffee in a little room next to the front desk all the time.

Rooms were clean but didn’t feel clean, you probably know what I mean. No matter how clean some hotel rooms are they just don’t seem like it with a sort of stickiness to everything.
I wouldn’t stay here again due to that and the overall outdated feel for it. It was kinda of like staying at an old bowling alley with the smells, stains, and décor.

I thought Holiday Inn meant pretty awful (this from the spoiled private school kid) but this experience set a whole new low in terms of dealing with lousy/​uncaring management — and being in a hotel populated with threatening, intoxicated, chain smoking, Jersey Shore trash that took over the parking lot and the lobby in their faux tough-​guy stances as you wondered if they were going to break in your car and steal everything, or maybe just set it on fire and light another one of their cigarettes with it.
WORST HOLIDAY INN EVER.