Originally Posted by Weatherboy
I agree with the other posters here about the food in the hotel. While their sports bar has nice snacks to go with the drinks, the best bet is within walking distance outside of the hotel --the Frog and the Peach is one of the best in the region while Terra Nova across the street has awesome Cuban/Cuban-American food with occaisional live entertainment. The hotel is also about a 10-15 minute walk from the New Brunswick train station, so it is easy to connect there.
There are quite a few very good restaurants in NB, from very inexpensive to fairly pricey (at least by NJ standards, although perhaps not as expensive as NY restaurants). There's a great Mongolian grill place (all you can eat for lunch, I believe) in downtown NB.
Originally Posted by Weatherboy
If you want to be able to walk around and enjoy yourself off the hotel property, the New Brunswick Hyatt is an obvious choice over the East Brunswick Hilton. However, if you're in the area for business and have no intentions of leaving the property, the Hilton will give you a nicer room at a lower cost ...even though you'll most likely have a view of the NJ Turnpike (as apposed to Route 18/27 from the Hyatt.)
Actually, the Hilton is usually much more expensive than the Hyatt -- at least every time I have checked. The Hilton is actually closer to my workplace, and I'm Gold (soon to be Diamond) HHonors. However, the price differential is typically so great that I can't justify staying at the Hilton. Of course, most of the time that I do stay at the Hyatt, I use Priceline (typically can get $35 to $45) for the Hyatt whereas the EB Hilton does not participate in Priceline.