Traveling back home my wife and I needed a quick stop as well as gas and this fit that need well…read more Stopping early on this Sunday morning the parking lot was quite empty and inside was very clean including bathrooms. If you are looking for a drink or food you'll find Burger King, Starbucks, and Panera Bread for chains. Otherwise they have the convenience style store Applegreen. Lastly if you want more of a self-serve non Starbucks coffee when you walk in they have a self-serve coffee area. They also have a limited amount of seating options to enjoy your food/drinks while taking a break. Prices for any of those places and gas are higher than you'd like to pay but not surprising since your options are limited to this spot. It is the best option to avoid having to leave the highway system.

I'll probably never be a fan of the redesigned Thruway travel plazas. I find them generally…read moreinefficient when it comes to accommodating folks. I do feel this is one of the better ones, and maybe lessons were learned from feedback on the first ones. This plaza has a lot more space for folks to sit or enjoy something to eat and drink. It's also nice that all the restaurants in this plaza are open on Sundays (which is currently not the case for many of the plazas westbound). The combination of Panera, Burger King, and Starbucks works well. I think the "U" shaped men's room is also an inefficient design, but I'm also satisfied to see multiple "family" style rest rooms available. I think a lot of other folks prefer this plaza, as it seemed busier than a lot of the other plazas eastbound on the Thruway.

"You can't be forever blessed Still, tomorrow's going to be…read moreanother working day And I'm trying to get some rest That's all I'm trying to get some rest" (Paul Simon) The Schuyler rest stop on I-90 West is a small one. It has just a Dunkin and a Green Apple convenience store inside and a Mobil gas station outside. The bathroom was clean and looked pretty new, which led me to a curious observation. The men's room had none of the hot air hand dryers that have been common for the last decade or so. They didn't even have a paper towel dispenser on the wall. The only option for drying my hands was a roll of paper towels standing upright on a sink. Kind of bizarre, don't you think?

Don't be Schy when it comes to reviewing Schyler. I'm not going to be Schy when I tell you this…read morewhole thing is a scam. This is yet another example of absolutely awful price hikes and upcharging and price gouging at rest areas. Every Fast Food Outlet in here is massively overpriced, some more than others. Coffee is almost twice the price it is supposed to be. The gas here is anywhere from $0.10 to $0.40 more expensive than it would be off the highway, but off-highway gas is kind of a no-go because you have to pay extra in tolls to get off and on the highway again, nearly negating the difference. Not to mention waiting at the toll booth oftentimes, costing you several minutes. They know the majority aren't going to do that and they upcharge you accordingly. Grr. So they really screw you over with this toll road and these plazas. Now they are good for stopping and resting and sleeping, pretty safe with all the trucks around, and they have pretty decent facilities, but having said that, the service at a lot of these little places is awful. And perhaps worst of all, if you nap for too long, then when you try to get off and pay your toll, you could well get the third degree about being on the Thruway for too long and they could accuse you of trying to cheat the system. Good times all around.

This is one of the new travel plazas on the New York State Thruway. It's been completely redone…read morereconsidered rethought redone. They have electric charging stations here. There's a Starbucks, Sunoco gas and apple tree. Easy parking.

Applegreen has ruined the NY Thruway travel plazas. This one is particularly bad: the lines to the…read morefood concessions block linear access to the store at back AND the restrooms. There's less space and fewer places to rest here than in the old plaza. I'd give it a one but the EV chargers work.

Very clean establishment vending machines so the credit card or cash to use them which is not bad…read morebut there's no service people but the place kept peccable so if you have to go to the bathroom, this place is a must.

"It does the job." The next rest area on I-81 NB is 131 miles!! So if you're continuing north to…read moreSyracuse, Oswego, Watertown, the thousand islands, or Ontario, you may want to pay this place a visit. It was clean enough and had a few vending machines. It also had a now old-school area full of tourist brochures and free seasonal tourist magazines for things in the region. My mom would always love collecting these on our drives, I somehow resisted the temptation this time. Would have been 5 stars but the parking spots are the dumb angled ones and the cleanliness wasn't quite what you find on the NYS Thruway. Still a nice rest stop compared to what you'll find on most of America's toll-free interstate highways. I think the hand soap was even the moisturizing kind! Wow.

Pass by this spot so many times and it was time to put my procrastination to an end. I made a quick…read morestop so I can experience the welcome center. The place has a lot of history boards, a small hike, a tiny park for kids to play, a dam/fall and obviously the I love ny sign inside the welcome center. The welcome center has restrooms and vending machines. It's definitely worth a quick stop here.

Great place to stop and relax along the NYS Thruway. Full of history, tourism, gifts, food, and…read moredrinks for the road. Staff is friendly and helpful.

Everything, the bathrooms were clean, a variety of fast food places and coffee shops to pick from…read more. You have the option to take a shower and do your laundry. The massage chairs complete the experience

Another example of how Applegreen has ruined the New York Thruway service plazas: how hard could…read morehave been to put a roof on the outside seating? Everything about the service areas is worse now, plus they're very cramped.

"Well, I'm flyin' 'cross the land tryin' to get a hand…read morePlayin' in a travelin' band" (Creedence Clearwater Revival) When you're traveling long highway distances, what do you look for in a place to stop? Easy parking? Yup, plenty of spots. Gas station? Yup, there's a Mobil here. Restrooms? Yup, clean and neat with a gizmo I've never seen before. Built-in hand dryers in each sink unit. Food and snacks? Yup, a big Applegreen convenience store. Coffee and donuts? Hell yes, a nice Dunkin where I bought a great cold brew. There's not a lot else here. In fact, there's nothing else other than what I described. But all of your travel essentials here.

This was stop along the New York State. Thruway has been updated in the last few years. There's a…read moreDuncan and an apple tree, along with a mobile gas station. There's plenty of easy parking here. These new designs are great, wide open spaces clean bathrooms.

This is a newly renovated restaurant in New York. There's a Starbucks, Burger King, Applegreen,…read moreplenty of car charging stations, gas , and easy parking. Drive thru Starbucks.

I ran in and ran out just to use the restroom and it was clean. Which is all I can ask for. I'll…read morehave to stop again in the future for food.

The best plaza if you'd like to have your hair done into a Mohawk…read more Has the same problem as all the other plazas. Other than the cool fact that it's in the Amsterdam area (but not that Amsterdam unfortunately), the gas is 10-30 cents overpriced but you can't get off the highway to get gas because you have to pay more in tolls if you do it that way. The food here is all pretty awful (haven't tried all of it though) and everything inside is overpriced, as usual for these plazas. They do have free Wi-Fi but don't stay too long, because if you fall asleep here or get caught up on your laptop, the people at the toll booth when you exit, will think that you're playing them for fools and will try and charge you full price $25 or so, because you stayed on the highway too long. Sigh. But at least you'll have an awesome Mohawk hairdo.

This was one of the grossest travel center experiences I've had. The air conditioning broke at the…read morestart of the summer and won't be fixed because the plaza is scheduled for demolition and remodel at the end of the summer. This is highly inappropriate since staff there have to endure the heat and guests were all complaining. A rest stop is supposed to be a reprieve, not a place you try to avoid. The flies were awful and the McDonald's staff had to have fly swatters while they work. There is no ice cream vendor open here anymore. Further, the women's room was filthy, more on par with a port-a-potty in cleanliness and upkeep (watch out for no toilet paper). It's a heat wave summer. Travelers need healthy places to stop. This was not it.

Roadtrippin! Along…read morethe way you will see things that make you smile and wonder! This stop was one of those . These AppleGreens are the convenient store of the East Coast, for if you get off the turnpike the toll will just bill your license plate. They are all inclusive for the area. Actually it's a great little store inside. Along the wayside, this is where the humans go for snacks and drinks, and the potty . The car parks outside at the gas pump station and gets its fuel. They are separate entities. It's wild, being from the West Coast . You feel like an outsider. "Being that outsider," we are going to just see what these little applegreens have to offer. The unique experience is different station to station too. On a road trip, I'm the individual that has to go potty every few hours. So we have to stop "a lot !" This particular roadtrip, we spent a lot of time in these road side shops. It was great . This is better than others. They have comfortable chairs and even places to sit for a while. The snacks are a local flavor. We actually found chocolate covered Oreos. We are in upper New York, and we still found trinkets with New York City badging for a souvenir. The experience at these little shops is quite different and unique compared to where we live. Time to get to living and enjoying life again. When you stop have fun doing it see how life is different from your ways.

Wow!!! So apple!! Apparently the Frappuccino machine wasn't working at the cafe but otherwise…read morealright. Sink confused my girlfriend's stepmom i guess. Good applegreen. Classic frog trashcan is a plus. Didn't use it though, very sorry. Much love from MI!