Holiday Inn Express Hauppauge – Long Island

In a lot of ways it’s a typical IHG middle of the line facility. Nice professional staff, clean room with mini fridge and microwave, free wifi, and breakfast. Hotel’s site did disclose they are undergoing renovations, but in my mind that means «pardon our dust». Would have been helpful if they mentioned some specific things impacted such as half the parking lot closed off and workers using the elevators to load equipment and furniture on (leaving only one elevator for guest use).
Still a decent place to stay if the price is right. About $ 110 a night seems good for the area. Defiantly not a tourist area, and with inconvenience of renovations, it should really be around under $ 100.
Breakfast was relocated down stairs in one of their meeting rooms and was a little below the average for a typical IHG HIE spread. Usual coffee, eggs, toast, bagels, but the only juice they had was in little plastic (6oz) cups with foil tops that you had to peel back to drink. Looks like something you would get in elementary school. One would think that a facility that caters to the business crowd would have something a little more «normal».

We stayed here for two nights and were pleasantly surprised. Didn’t expect much for a Long Island hotel. The room was very clean and roomy, parking was convenient and the breakfast is amazing… There were many choices, much more than the usual chain hotels. The reason for 5 stars is because it was an unexpected pleasant experience.

. A different rate each night?! My client is as disappointed as I am. I loyally book 6 nights, yet as occupancy goes up, so too does my nightly rate!!! Charge me for a bottled water? Wouldn’t a bottled water be a nice perk for someone who books 230 rooms /​nights (and conference rooms) per year?
One plesent, knowledgeable staff member of several is not a good ratio. My room carpet felt gross beneath my feet and socks. Exposed wiring from the HCV unit? An iron that left a rust stain on my shirt was replaced with another iron that was equally unacceptable. I wanted to return to being a loyal Holiday Inn brand customer, however, I’m going back to Courtyard by Marriott.

I usually stay here when I come to the Hauppage area for work. I’m not super snooty when it comes to hotels. Beds are comfortable, firm and soft pillows, rooms and bathroom is clean, free breakfast, the wifi isn’t spotty and it’s close to my office. No complaints here.

Room is gorgeous.
Bed comfy.
Clean room.
Why 3 stars?
My room had a handicap accessible bathroom. No big deal right?
Well the stall shower had a seat in it (which was in the up position)
No ledge to place soap/​razor/​shampoo etc
And the shower head itself was a hand shower that was about 17 feet near the ceiling.
If in its cradle, it would spray onto the shower wall about 2 feet above your head. The only way I could rinse the soap off my body was to use it as a hand held.
I pity the person who uses this room as a handicapped individual and tries to shower.

I stayed here for 3 nights in July, 2013.
Pluses:
–Right off the LIE.
–Can always find free parking in their lot but sometimes not close to the building.
–Centrally located.
–Less than 1 hour drive to Hamptons.
–1 hour drive to Montauk
–1 hour drive to Manhattan with no traffic.
–2 hour drive to Manhattan with traffic.
–30 minute drive to Hicksville LIR train station with service direct to Penn Station in Manhattan.
–1 hour drive to Orient Point Ferry Terminal for Ferry to New London, Conn. Fastest way to Boston and Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.
–Good free breakfast – they have hard boiled eggs! Standard HIE breakfast.
Minuses:
–We were up high on the west side of the building (back side) and with the windows closed it was so noisy from the cars racing by on the LIE. The hotel sits on the LIE. I used earplugs and it was still noisy.
–Our King room was a bit warn, but not badly.
–Form Note from housekeeping one day telling us that if you are not out of your room by noon, they will not make up your room that day. I have never seen this before in a hotel.
–Our Non-​smoking room had a light musty smoking odor – asked for a change 1^st night but they were booked solid. We dealt with it – not too bad, we just kept the window opened but then there was the highway noise.
Value Statement: If you pay 100 or less a night it’s a good value. More than 100, value decreases the higher it gets.
When we returned to Long Island 2 weeks later for the second half of our trip we stayed elsewhere but we would consider staying here again. It’s fine.

Took a bit for me to post a quick review on this HI. I stay here every-​time my company sends me down to Melville, rooms are clean, amenities are all there. On my last visit the front desk staff did the best to make sure my room was available! I recommend this to anyone coming down to the island… Quick note would be for you to book early early !!

We’ve stayed here three times, and the staff is wonderful. The parking is tight, but there is overflow parking behind the building and kind of a ways down which is a little sketchy and creepy.
The breakfast wasn’t awesome, the bacon was like cellophane and the eggs were gross and runny. I ended up taking an apple which was waxy and flavorless. At least the coffee was good. The staff keeps everything clean and the dining area when fully packed and cranking they stay right on top of cleaning up after people who seem to think they shouldn’t have to clean up after themselves (i hate that).
the one major complaint i have is hallway noise. during our last stay, the people in the next room were partying at 2am with the people across the hall and the slamming of the doors and the back and forth between rooms and loud talking in the hall was so loud. Most hotels I’ve stayed at have heavier more soundproof doors, but these ones suck. Eventually a girl came out of her room on the other side and laid into them to shut up. I was expecting a fight but … things settled down quickly. In the morning at 6am we had baseball teams getting up to get out to breakfast and games, and the kids running up and down the hall and yelling had me up for the day.
The pool area and the gym are nice. Not too much chlorine in the pool and it is open at 5:30am… which is nice for when you get woken up by kids running up and down the hall and don’t want cellophane for breakfast.
We were attending a family reunion in Stony Brook but the HI Express there was twice as expensive as this one so we passed on staying over there. Perhaps the extra money was for the heavier soundproof doors.

Mind you this is not a 4Star Hotel but I would definitely give them four stars for effort!
This is, after all, a chain hotel under the Holiday Inn umbrella but the staff seems to work hard to make the best of the resources they have to make this hotel as nice as possible… making fresh popcorn and baked cookies in the evening for guests passing through the lobby and, late at night, they dim the lights a bit and light the fireplace in the lobby to make it seem a little more homey. Adding to that, this is one of the only reasonably priced hotels on the island!
I stayed here for several months while traveling to the island on business.
I actually weathered two storms at this hotel, hurricane Sandy and winter storm Nemo. Although the hotel did lose power for approximately 2 days during Sandy, the hotel had a generator to help provide necessities and the whole staff stayed on duty the entire time to accommodate guests in any way they could.
During Nemo, which produced about 3 feet of snow in Suffolk County, the actual Hotel Manager was outside helping people dig their cars out of the snow drifts which completely covered many vehicles!
This hotel is clean, comfortable, and well maintained. The staff is friendly and work hard to accommodate any requests or special needs you might have.

Clean room, not so friendly stuff. If going here in the winter season, ask if they did their heater maintenance as we were passed from one room to another. The heaters were not working properly with the 2 rooms we were assigned to. I could have given this hotel a higher rating but the inconvenience of moving to another room at wee hours in the morning is just so INCONVENIENT. We were here celebrating our 15^th year wedding anniversary.