Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst/Meadowlands

it's a good place to base yourself out-of-town NYC but still well-positioned to get into the city, especially with a bus stop going straight to the Port Authority Terminal. The rooms are good - large and well presented. The staff are great!

Major building work was underway in the Reception area - which was noisy and reduced the available facilities e.g. the Bistro considerably. We were informed that there would be work underway - but only the day before our arrival - presumably just so as we could not say we hadn't been informed, but after the cut-off date for us not cancelling. On the first evening we were charged $25 for 2 v small beers - no glasses, nowhere to sit inside, only one staff member, with no idea as to how we could even pay. We resolved to not buy any more drinks, breakfasts, thereafter - so the hotel did miss out on a lot of potential revenue from us, as a result...

I want to start off by saying that every person we met working at the hotel was very kind. Unfortunately, that is the only positive thing I can say about this hotel. Prior to arriving we did receive an email that the computer system was being updated, but no information that the hotel would be under construction. The fitness center, advertised on the website, was closed. They did give us access to the fitness center at a sister hotel "next door" which required crossing a busy highway to access. We were there for three nights on Memorial Day weekend, and each day was worst than the last. The hotel was a construction zone with most of the lobby blocked off and 1 working elevator. We were traveling with a guest with a disability, and 1 of the 4 handicap spaces was unusable due to construction materials stored in it, clearly an ADA violation. We were awoken at 5am to the sounds of construction vehicles and their back-up alarm. We planned staying until the check-out time on our last day, but after receiving an email that water would be shut off for an undisclosed period of time at 10am we left early. The fact that this hotel stay was approximately $200 per night in this condition makes me loose all trust in the Marriott brand.

The breakfast was very good and our server was excellent.

usually there are two bottles of water supplied by a hotel for the coffee machine. However there was none in our room. Luckily we brought a few bottles with us.