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Ah, well Madison Square Gardens area is one of my regular spots, and JFK is about the same as EWR, so long as you use the Airtrain to Jamaica and then the Long Island Railroad. It's also cheaper, with a combination of contactless payment and the LIRR TrainTime app to get their $5 off peak tickets. The Airtrain is currently $4.25 until Labor Day then it reverts to the usual $8.50. With that single change at Jamaica you can get to Penn Station in around 40 minutes, and Penn Station is under MSG. EWR is a bit more clunky.
My reference to contingency is that if you imagine going through DUB Preclearance, this typically is fast and efficient, maybe 20 minutes. But in reality passengers tend to allow 2 or more hours to get through it. That's not necessary but the airlines recommend it, and effectively you are building in 2 hours to get through CBP, whereas it may well only take 30 minutes at EWR on a bad day. So you add in 90 minutes contingency unnecessarily.
I would say most travellers would prefer a single trip and BA.com won't offer this alternative since it's longer and slightly more expensive as you have to pay Dublin's transit fee. Otherwise some passenger will buy this by mistake not aware of the modest hassle that DUB airport can bring.
Ah okay The Hotel I would say is about a 10-15 minute walk away less than a mile from Penn Station all I remember is the other person saying there was a direct train basically to Newark from Penn Station. But yeah that makes sense that EWR international arrivals aren't as bad as JFK international.
Honestly I know I'm a bit odd looking at doing this one stop but honestly heard London City is a really easy airport to use the BA jets are meant be quite comfy seats only flown on the KLM Embraer in past imagine they are similar though. Plus it might be different fly on a A320LR not flown on one of those yet think that's what Aer Lingus flys to Newark on anyway.