Comfort Inn To Open In All Its Ugliness
Prolific Brooklyn photographer Sam Horine aka f.trainer posted this photo to Flickr recently of the Comfort Inn that has been so ungraciously dumped in our midst by the style hounds at McSam Hotel LLC who are also responsible for bringing us that other vision of loveliness, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express . That “Coming Soon”…
Prolific Brooklyn photographer Sam Horine aka f.trainer posted this photo to Flickr recently of the Comfort Inn that has been so ungraciously dumped in our midst by the style hounds at McSam Hotel LLC who are also responsible for bringing us that other vision of loveliness, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express . That “Coming Soon” sign has appeared at some point since Gowanus Lounge paid a visit to the site two weeks ago. As Mr. Horine notes in his Flickr post, though, this is a bit of a challenging location:
Across the street, there are two motorcycle clubs. in the back, the hotel faces the wyckoff housing complex and at the end of the block there is an abandoned school.
What do you think? Is this the best we could have expected for this location? Should we just count ourselves lucky to have a cheap place to stash the relatives and move on?
Comfort, Gowanus Style [Flickr] GMAP
the horrible part is they’re not cheap! gowanus holiday inn wants $200 a night!
the last time i stayed at the marriott, i paid $250. no jacuzzi, and i think i paid $8 for a half-pint of beer, but i will stay downtown if its only 10% more.
Anonymous 1:38p – hah, loved that.
EJ – Yeah, I meant to comment only about HIE, and I agree with you on all accounts.
No idea what decor, amenities or management will be like at the Comfort Inn or at the other new hotel about to be constructed at the corner of 3rd and President.
Each place will have to prove itself (or not) accordingly, and HIE definitely has the more preferable location of the bunch.
I’m actually glad to hear that, Webster, but the Holiday Inn express is location-wise much superior to the Comfort Inn…. and even so, it cannot be said that your experience there will have any bearing on what it’ll be like to stay at the Comfort Inn.
But I am happy to get your report on the HIE!
Please, webster, don’t interfere with the daily whining on this board. Don’t you realize that silly things like facts only stand in the way of a great bitch session? How dare you point out irrelevant truths, such as Brooklyn’s need for more hotels or the fact that people are willing to invest in our neighborhoods. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Good timing on this article.
I hate to disappoint the haters here, but I just stayed at the Holiday Inn Express just last night (due to having our upstairs floors refinished yesterday) and I can report the following:
It’s actually really nice.
The room was immaculate and very comfortable, decorated in a manner much classier and more tasteful than we’d braced ourselves to expect.
The bathroom was actually (to our even greater surprise) appointed in more of a spa style, with the jacuzzi bath (/shower) tub and the room itself very tastefully divided from the main bedroom by a huge wall of frosted glass. Again, tastefully done…the effect in the main bedroom gave it a bit of modernism, and it made the bathroom spa aesthetic feel just that more airy, open and calming with all that natural light.
So, for a stay in the neighborhood (not going to Manhattan), um…
We loved it, well worth the mere $209+tx per night (especially compared to $450/night at the Marriott).
Sorry to dissapoint, just some real (and surprising) data offered here.
So, at least as far as the Holiday Inn Express goes, management there has done a great job pulling off a bit of a shocking, positive surprise.
Folks, it actually doesn’t suck. To our great suprise, it’s actually one heck of a nice (perhaps much-needed) asset to what is otherwise considered to be more of a rough, fringe nabe.
ps- where’s Typekey?
Nice photograph. I like the sky effect.
“I’d feel guilty putting my ex mother in law in this dump.”
it’s amazing that you have been inside already!
I hate to make excuses for the builders, but as WT Econ says, zoning pretty much guarantees that you can build hotels here only in sketchy areas. Given that, it’s hard to blame them for not investing the extra scratch to pretty things up more.
Or does anyone want to volunteer their adjacent block of 7th Avenue or maybe a nice Fort Greene park block for a hotel?