Riviera Hotel Corporation

place looked old nothing compared to the pictures online. security guard and front desk were pretty nice. got to our room and it smelled disgusting! not to mention the hallway itself smelled like straight up weed. area did not feel safe at all. they def need renovation. didn’t last 10 minutes there. never going there again.

Worst hotel I have ever stayed in my entire life. The rooms did not have heat, hot water and bed were full of bed bugs. The manager was very rude with handling any type of business. Very poor and ran down establishment. Did not receive a refund from my terrible bed bug experience. I was also charged $ 40 to send a forgotten photo item. $ 18.75 from the post office sending the photos and $ 20 for handling through the hotel. Avoid at all costs!

Awful hotel. Rooms/​bathrooms/​gym were stinky dirty and old. Most of the machines in gym doesn’t even work properly. Located in bad neighborhood. I had to call security because I wasn’t able to lock the old door

On my first time trip to New Jersey and New York we were very fortunate to run into this little diamond in the rough. Once we parked our car in the fenced and locked parking lot we walked though the bullet proof lobby, and took a trip up the elevator which looked like it had dents that were made by a week pistol or a large caliber BB gun. The room we received was pretty spacious, and very descent given the low price. We had no problem with bed bugs, or anything breaking. The biggest issue we had was that the hotel decided to charge us an extra $ 100 because there was a preexisting dent in the wall which was the size of a basketball. I advise anyone who is willing to visit this hotel to notify the front desk of any irregularities that you find in your room, or you will be charged. I hope the dishonest business practices of this hotel are not a good reflection of other businesses in this poverty stricken area.

Let me start by saying I’m pretty upset that you have to even rate 1 star on Unilocal because this place deserves ZERO stars.
Right when we arrived we were followed into the lobby from outside by a group of teenagers that were not staying here. Simply loitering and being obnoxious. Once we went to check in they took a particular interest in our room number, and then followed us to the elevator asking us all kinds of questions and bothering us. At this point I’m pretty confident we’re about to get robbed. As traveling musicians we had lots of expensive things/​instrument cases so we would definitely make for a robbery jackpot. We go up to our floor (not before we have to hold the door of the elevator open to answer more invasive questions from street strangers) to a pretty smelly, torn up, and quite frankly ugly room. Still pretty positive we’re the prey of some kind of hotel stick up mixed with the mediocre quality of the lock/​door, we decide to board the door up with the furniture in the room. That’s how concerned for our safety we were at this hotel. Now you’re probably thinking I’m a moron for not investigating this hotel/​neighborhood but it was not me who booked it. It was my assistant who I fired literally because of this incident.
Moving on… Once we’re settled in our now panic room/​doomsday zombie apocalypse ready room I decide to start reading Unilocal reviews about this place. Where I come to find very recent reviews about bed bugs. This was the icing on my dry awful cake. I am currently itching myself as I type this so it is probably too late for me, but if you’re reading this, save yourself. Do not come here. If you work here and you are reading this, f**k you. It’s probably not even your fault but f**k you.
Did I mention that a security guard had to take us to our room, and that the front desk was encased in bulletproof glass? That was tight.

RUN!!! Far far away!!! In the straight ghetto. Dilapidated. Sweltering. Bullet proof glass. Security guard HAS to let you in your room/​unlock your ac. And then he stayed an awkwardly loooong time. BED BUGS!!! New room… Pubic hair and a tick. Refund! F this place in the a.
P. s. Our rate was $ 75 before the refund. But… I’m pretty sure all the hookers pay by the hour.

I would give negative reviews if I could! I made the mistake of booking through a website that rhymes with Snotwire a week prior to our stay. We chose the area because of its close proximity to the airport for our overnight layover from Italy. I was with a group of 3 other lades and our first red flag was when we were advised by our «classy» EWR taxi driver to reconsider our hotel because it was not in a safe area. We chose not to listen and got dropped off. Our first impression of this place was terrible. There were people loitering outside engaging in questionable acts/​transactions and walking in and out of the hotel freely. A guy approached us trying to sell us razors. The hotel lobby could have passed for a homeless shelter and smelled like a combination of month old fried food and body odor. The front desk was enclosed in bullet proof glass and obnoxious people were disturbing what appeared to be the only employee working that night. Oh but wait… there was a security guard watching the basketball game in the lobby. Needless to say, we did not feel safe and elected to stay at another hotel. We were turned down by one taxi driver, then passed on another because he clearly had anger issues. In the middle of all of this, a random guy in a truck full of people approached us asking if we needed a ride. We declined and he sat in his car in front of the hotel stalking us. We ended up using a well known app for a ride to another hotel. When we made our leave the guy that was watching us peeled out in anger with his tires squealing. The creepy thing is that he had luggage in trash bags stacked in the bed of his truck. Most likely belonging to the previous people he gave a «ride» to.
The Riviera deserves negative stars and in my opinion does not merit a place on any travel site.
The experience me and my friends experienced was absolutely terrifying and we were frankly scared for our lives. Meanwhile Snotwire refuses to issue a refund. Stay away!

Can i rate negative 200? Omg omg do not come to this ghetto stinking crackhouse, the place is old, it stink soo bad, it’s creepy, its ghetto like, noises that will keep you awake afraid for your life all night. Do not come to this place

I decided to book here even tho the reviews were bad. I walked into my room and I thought it was so cute. It was like a little studio apartment with nice hard wood floors. It’s an older hotel but it’s nice, in my opinion. The area is kinda bad for someone who isn’t used to the area. I like the hood tho so it didn’t matter to me. It’s cheap af and not bad at all. The PATH is an über away. I will definitely stay here again next time I’m in Newark.

Total dump, with an unfriendly staff, in the middle of the hood. The Only redeeming qualities it had was that it was reasonably clean, with half decent wi fi.

Where do I begin? This place is a hell hole. It reminds of a horror movie where some sort of black stuff comes through the crack of the walls. Currently I’m in this place and they do not offer any refunds! Please stay away and save your money!

Awful. Sketchy. Had to kill a cockroach in the bathtub when my girlfriend wasn’t looking. I guess this is comparatively cheap for hotels close to NY, but you could drive a few miles away and get a Days Inn or Red Roof for the same price. They didn’t have shampoo. They didn’t have shampoo?

I would give 0 stars if I could. Check TripAdvisor. Those reviews are about right. I didn’t book this hotel, so I have to suck it up for a night. It’s ghetto and not worth the price. Bed is probably 40 to 50 years old. Security guard at front is nice and desk clerk is not inviting at all. It may have been the double bullet proof wall he was behind and sliver of a opening you had to speak to him through. Newark in itself is nothing special.