Name: Essex Street Inn & Suites Ascend Hotel Collection
Address: 7 Essex Street, Newburyport, MA
Telephone: (888) 420-1643
Rating: 4.25

We stay there every year...

Liked: Centrally located
Disliked: Parking area is too cramped

Exceptional

Liked: Rooms were light and airy. Furniture was clean, modern and well placed, bed was comfy. Complimentary breakfast was really good, considering it was complimentary.
Disliked: The noise from room next-door was fairly audible in morning. Wall very thin.

Superb

All in all. Nice place....

Liked: Typical continental breakfast. Location is perfect if you like to snoop around the many little shops in the downtown area. The room was nice and big.
Disliked: What needs to be addressed is the size of the parking spaces. If every car parked perfectly in each designated space, you couldn't get out of your car. The spaces are good if all of the guests were to come there on skateboards. There was construction going on within a chimney in our section. The racket was ridiculous, but it was work that needed to be done to make the fireplaces safe and functional. The work began at 9:00 a.m. and stopped late afternoon. I was sick on the second day there and stayed in our unit all day and unfortunately had to put up with the noise that was deafening at times. But even though I was sick, I had to take sides with the "Inn" and put up with the noise. The ONLY choice that they had was for the construction to take place between 9 and 3. It would have been nice to get a warning from the "Inn" about the construction. This would give potential visitors to opt out of staying in that particular area.

Nice inn in historic downtown

Liked: The location is great, walkable to the beautiful downtown.
Disliked: The breakfast was good and plentiful but mostly packaged. Homemade baked goods would have been a nice touch.