We pulled into the town late afternoon and had to find a hotel to stay at. Sadly anything that wasn't too sketchy was either sold out or the only rooms available had 1 bed in them. Finally we found one that had two beds that didn't sound too bad from the reviews. Boy were those reviews misleading. This place looked like a prison from the back. After checking into this God awful hotel called the Best Value Inn we headed out to get some dinner. We drove around for a little bit and ended up going to this BBQ place called Local Smoke BBQ. Here we both had some amazing chicken, some pretty damn good ribs and a nice slice of corn bread to top it off. The chicken and ribs both were very juicy and fell off the bone and the BBQ sauce they had was very good as well. After filling up on some good ole BBQ we headed back to the hotel to call it a night.
The next day we both woke up really early so we just hung around the hotel room till lunch time came around. Then we set out for the original Jersey Mikes! But first we made a quick stop at this local skate shop close by to check out some of the boards and stuff. It was a really cool place, Luke ended up getting a new deck and they guy who helped us out was very friendly. After leaving the skate shop we headed to Jersey Mikes. Which isn't actually called Jersey Mikes. The original jersey mikes is just called Mikes Giant Subs. Its a really cool little sub shop in the middle of the town. Here we got a turkey sandwich Mikes way, a Mug Root Beer and some Lays potatoes chips and boy did it all taste delicious and fresh! After eating at Mikes Giant Subs we decided to pack up and head to Woodbridge, NJ!
Once we made it to Woodbridge NJ we headed to the Metro Park train station to take the train into New York since we couldn't check in yet. The train ride wasn't bad at all, it only took about 30 minutes and it took us right to the Penn Square Train Station. From here we headed to the streets. We found this one street that was blocked off and it had a bunch of tents set up where people were selling food, jewelry, clothes, etc. We saw a roasted corn stand that looked pretty good so we decided to get some. After walking around the city a bit longer we headed back to the train station to go back to try and check into the hotel. Here we had some of the WORST hotel service in the world! You can read all about it on my yelp review here. After that whole debacle we took our business else where to the Renaissance Hotel down the street. Here we had an amazing room and absolutely no problem checking in. It was much better than the Hampton Inn.
Wow, hotel experience sounds awful! I'm sure NYC will be so much better.
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