From the airport to the hotels
Getting to/from the airport is challenging. It only takes 16 minutes if you get everything right, but there are a whole lot of highway changes just as you leave the airport. Click here for what you'll see.
Airport to Holiday Inn
From the Newark Airport to Holiday Inn
When exiting the airport, you'll see signs with a lot of highway numbers. It's confusing! Look for the signs for Highways 21 & 22 (Elizabeth and Newark)-Keep following those signs until you have to decide between them.
-Take Route 22 (on the left) toward Union/Hillside (sharp curve).
-Drive approximately 3-4 miles and you'll see a sign for the Garden State Parkway (may just say GSP) - you want SOUTH (North comes first, on the right - ignore it). Get in the left lane, but it will be the second exit on the left. Do NOT take the first exit (it's tempting, trust me) for Springfield. Exit left to the GSP, Garden State Parkway SOUTH.
-Take GSP about 6 miles to exit 135 (insert joke here) - Clark/Westfield. Hotel is in Clark, just off the highway - you'll see it from the parkway. Exit RIGHT.
-Stay left - but in the right of the two lanes when going straight (if you turn right, you'll be heading toward our house).
-After the traffic light, you'll be in a horrible roundabout. Stay in the right lane, but turn left at the second light to go UNDER the parkway (otherwise you'll end up back on the parkway). Then you'll have another stoplight under the parkway. You'll be in the middle lane. Follow signs for Linden. You’ll go straight. Some cars will turn left, some will veer slightly right, but you won’t. Beyond the intersection, you’ll veer left, toward the hotel you can see in the near distance, like a lighthouse beaming psychic thoughts at you. After veering left, get in the right lane, because you’ll need to cut off any cars coming from the merging outside lane (welcome to NJ!). Merge over to the far right lane where you’ll be on Valley Road. Hotel is on your left.
Holiday Inn Guest Directions
From the Holiday Inn to Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim (TBEMC); Services start at 6 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 36 Valley Rd, Clark, NJ to 338 Walnut Avenue, Cranford, NJ
-Pull out of parking lot and make a left onto Walnut Avenue
-Drive 1.5 miles. TBEMC is on the left, just past the Walnut Avenue Elementary School field. Park on the street if the lot is full. The lot won’t be full on Friday night!
From TBEMC to Deli King (Friday night); dinner starts around 7:30 or whenever we get there after services/oneg
Estimated time: 8 minutes
338 Walnut Avenue, Cranford NJ to 30 Clarkton Drive, Clark, NJ
-Make a right out of the parking lot and drive on Walnut for about .9 miles.
-Make a right at Raritan (stop light) – golf course on your right, Dunkin Donuts on your left.
-Drive past our new Whole Foods (on your left)! Drive .9 miles.
-Make a left on Clarkton Drive (stop light) into ugly strip mall shopping center (welcome to NJ). Deli King is in the back, on the left. It’s also ugly.
From Holiday Inn to Deli King (Friday night); dinner starts around 7:30 or whenever we get there after services/oneg
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 36 Valley Rd, Clark, NJ to 30 Clarkton Drive, Clark, NJ
-Exit hotel on Valley Road, making a right. Drive .1 mile.
-Make a right at the merge/traffic circle, but you want to make a slight right and then GO STRAIGHT. If you stay too far right, you will end up turning onto the Garden State Parkway. You will be very late if that happens, but you’ll have a good story. Once UNDER the Garden State Parkway, you want to be in the RIGHT lane. Lots of cars in the left lane will try to get into your lane. Poor urban planning. Be nice and let them in while cursing at them under your breath, because many of these people just want to cut in and know better.
-Drive about .5 miles and make a left at Raritan (the next traffic light after going under the parkway). This is the world’s longest traffic light and the left lane stretches waaaaaay back, so get in it early if you can. About 20 cars can turn left at the arrow. I know, because I sit there a long time and sometimes count. Don’t judge me.
-Drive about .3 miles and turn left on Clarkton Drive (stop light) into the ugly strip mall shopping center (welcome to NJ). Deli King is in the back, on the left. It’s also ugly.
From to Deli King to Holiday Inn
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 36 Valley Rd, Clark, NJ to 30 Clarkton Drive, Clark, NJ
-Easier but slightly longer route: Turn right out of Clarkton Shopping Center and drive .9 miles, past our new Whole Foods shopping center (i.e. dirt pile).
-Make a right on Walnut Avenue and drive less than a mile to the hotel, on your right.
-Shorter “Jersey” route that is more confusing - traffic circle: after turning right out of Clarkton Shopping Center onto Raritan, drive .3 miles and turn right at Central Avenue (big stop light with White Diamond diner on right corner).
-Get in the middle lane when going under the Garden State Parkway, and follow signs for Linden. You’ll go straight when under the parkway. Some cars will turn left, some will veer slightly right, but you won’t. Beyond the intersection, you’ll veer left, toward the hotel you can see in the near distance, like a lighthouse beaming psychic thoughts at you. After veering left, get in the right lane, because you’ll need to cut off any cars coming from the merging outside lane (welcome to NJ!). Merge over to the far right lane where you’ll be on Valley Road. Hotel is on your left.
From Holiday Inn to Homewood Suites
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 36 Valley Rd, Clark, NJ to 2 Jackson Drive, Cranford, NJ
-Exit hotel on Walnut Avenue and make a left
-Drive about .6 miles and make a right on Raritan (stop light)
-Follow Raritan past Centennial/North Stiles Road (stop light), about 1 mile, to go in the side entrance of the hotel.
-Make a left at Coleman Avenue into the parking lot
Homewood Suites Guest Directions
From Homewood Suites to Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim (TBEMC); Services start at 6 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 2 Jackson Drive, Cranford, NJ to 338 Walnut Avenue, Cranford, NJ
-Make a right on Centennial Road from the hotel entrance, and drive or .9 miles.
-Make a left on Lincoln Avenue (at the light – school at the far right corner). Lincoln curves slightly after going over the bridge, which was flooded during Hurricane Irene. You can see video on YouTube. Drive about .5 miles.
-Make a left on Walnut Avenue (traffic light) and drive about .3 miles or less.
-Make a right into the parking lot at the temple. If the lot is full, park on the street.
From TBEMC to Deli King (Friday night)
Addresses: 338 Walnut Avenue, Cranford NJ to 30 Clarkton Drive, Clark, NJ
-Make a right out of the parking lot and drive on Walnut for about .9 miles.
-Make a right at Raritan (stop light) – golf course on your right, Dunkin Donuts on your left.
-Drive past what will be our new Whole Foods (dirt pile on your left)! Drive .9 miles.
-Make a left on Clarkton Drive (stop light) into strip mall shopping center (welcome to NJ). Deli King is in the back, on the left.
From Homewood Suites to Deli King (Friday night - dinner starts around 7:30 or whenever we get there after services/oneg)
Addresses: 2 Jackson Drive, Cranford, NJ to 30 Clarkton Drive, Clark, NJ
Estimated time: 5 minutes
-Leave from the hotel parking lot’s side entrance (south side – closes to the Garden State Parkway), on Coleman Avenue. Make a right on Raritan Road. Drive about 1.9 miles. You’ll see a big dirt lot on your left, across from the golf course. That’s going to be our new Whole Foods. Yay!
-Turn left on Clarkton Drive (stop light) into the ugly strip mall shopping center (welcome to NJ). Deli King is in the back, on the left. It’s also ugly.
From Homewood Suites to Holiday Inn
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Addresses: 2 Jackson Drive, Cranford, NJ to 36 Valley Rd, Clark, NJ
-Exit hotel on Coleman Avenue, and make a right on Raritan
-Drive about one mile on Raritan and make a left on Walnut Avenue at the stop light (Dunkin Donuts will be on your right at the corner).
-Drive about .6 miles and make a right into the Holiday Inn
To Chez Kaplan
We're not putting directions to our house on the website, but there will be directions in your hotel bags (if you're staying at the two reserved hotels). Or email us (rsvp@kaplanink.com) or call for directions - home is 908-232-5498, Mark's cell is 650-274-8830 and Debbie's is 650-520-1471.
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