Overnight EWR hotel due to United Mechanical failure?
 

Any idea what the hotel choices are when a United flight is delayed overnight due to a mechanical failure?

I would think any hotel you get is a blessing on its own.

No choices. UA contracts with many places and takes what it can get at the time it determines a need. If there is a choice, the better selection will be held for F and GS, but even that isn't a guarantee.

Got the Wyndham Garden Inn once

LOL your choice is "yes" or "no".

And sometimes not even that.

I would prefer the Residence Inn at Jersey Gardens. Get in some shopping before the flight. They are not giving out the Marriott...or the Renaissance.

Only UA pilots stay at the Marriott.

And those with trip interruption insurance.

We've been given the Ramada once when we were stuck at EWR. Terrible place, regretted every second there. For the future I will just get a room myself and see how much UA is willing to reimburse me...

Greetings - Dirk

I stayed at the Ramada for a night after Sandy when I was worried during the gas rationing about getting a cab the next day to take me to EWR. I survived.

actually yelling "NO NO NO I AM NOT SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR I'M GOING ON FLYERTALK" constitutes a "no" lol

That is -and has been- my preferred strategy (with any airline).

This. Getting trip insurance in advance goes far and beyond what UA will ever give you, even for mechanical, and it definitely gives me more peace of mind.

Does anyone have experience paying for your own room and then submitting to insurance -- for example based upon the Chase travel insurance when booked with their CC? If the airline offers you a room due to a mechanical and you get your own room will the insurance still pay for the room or will they say that United offered and you turned it down therefore we will not pay?

Although I can't offer definitive confirmation or negation, I think you overestimate the coordination between UA and Chase.