Newark, NJ area is like the armpit of America. I recently stayed at the Airport Holiday Inn...now the Ramada. Nightmare finding the place with confusing roads, hotel staff were rude, rather 3rd worldish, no one ever answered the phone live and when I left they didn’t print up a receipt nor e mail it to me like they said. New Jersey/New York area gets on my nerves anyway and I’m from there originally-—no thanks!
I agree about the area around the airport. Crazy confusing. Hotels scattered down dead end routes. Frontage roads going to nowhere yet they seem to be labeled as major thoroughfares. No good places to pull over and get your bearings. Even my GPS breaks down trying to get to a Newark airport hotel at night. One wrong turn and you are in the Holland tunnel it seems like.
HAHA! I am from there too and don’t miss it at all. I had to laugh because I also refer to it as the “armpit of America”.
The worst part for me is the stretch from The Parkway Exit(Hess refineries begin) right on through to the Meadowlands(polluted swamp). It always smells like you are driving through the world’s largest kitty-litter box.
Just try closing the windows and shutting the vents...lol....there is no escape!