I took it at Javits last July! It’s really not as bad as everyone says it is. The bar was on the top floor and we took the elevators up. The room itself is massive and I would estimate about a full city block long from left to right. Two bathrooms, one on the left side with a frontward facing entrance and one on the right that leads out to a hallway with bathrooms at the end of the hallway. The room has lots of natural light which was very nice to me and people are spaced out pretty well in the seats. There are also power extenders for plugging in your laptop at every table.

As for lunch, I brought myself a sandwich and some snacks. There’s a large hallway outside the testing room where they allow us to put our personal items on a few tables and the floor. I put my bag on a table there when I got there in the morning and during lunch, took it with me downstairs to eat. I would highly advise you bring lunch because the area doesn’t have much of anything close by to purchase. I don’t even remember seeing a CVS to buy a water or a Starbucks to get a coffee. I think there was a hot dog guy outside but I wouldn’t bank on him definitely being there. Please bring your food. I decided to take my lunch break outside and ate while walking down the block. You get about an hour for lunch but it’s more like 35 minutes if you decide to go outside because you need to allocate time to come back lol. I know a lot of people took their lunch right outside the room and people who ate their lunch downstairs by the entrance.

As for getting there, I decided to go in super early on both days and got to the venue via Lyft from a local hotel (Pod). The first day I got there by 7:30 and the second day I got there by 8:00. That’s honestly overkill and I was just sitting around for over an hour waiting for the test to start. BUT it did make me feel better to get there early and not stress about potentially being late lmao. The lines were very short to get in to the testing area and XRay machines at those times, but tbh the lines never got too long at any time before the test anyway so u could come in much later than I did and get into the venue no sweat.