Hotel Le Bleu Rates: A Brief History
In honor of a post on the Doree Chronicles noting that room prices for Gowanus’s high-end Hotel Le Bleu now start at $136 per night, we’ve put together a timeline showing the property’s rates (wished-for and real) over the past few months. September ’07: Le Bleu not yet open; website shows rooms starting at $365…
In honor of a post on the Doree Chronicles noting that room prices for Gowanus’s high-end Hotel Le Bleu now start at $136 per night, we’ve put together a timeline showing the property’s rates (wished-for and real) over the past few months.
September ’07: Le Bleu not yet open; website shows rooms starting at $365
October ’07: Le Bleu GM says he’s confident people will pay $300-$500/night when hotel opens
November ’07: Hotel opens; rooms start at $306/night
December ’07: Le Bleu website shows rooms available from $270/night
January ’08: Rooms start at $136/night
Hotel Le Blah [The Doree Chronicles] GMAP
At Long Last, Hotel Le Bleu Opens [Brownstoner]
Hotel Le Bleu Reviews Trickle In [Brownstoner]
You bet I want this hotel to fail. Why? Because it’s developers stole my views of the Manhattan skyline, at what cost to the value of my home I shudder to think. Yes, I hope it fails. I hope it rots from disuse and crumbles into the earth. And that’s not smugness; that’s bitterness.
i think everyone is missing the point of 11:31 post.
Who is young and hip and wanting to stay on 4th ave no where near anything that most people think of as New York City?
Even if they do have a poor young under 35 year old friend with no kids living in the neighborhood. Why wouldn’t they just shack up with them?
and aren’t there more parents of the Park Slope parents with the means and need to stay in a hotel in the neighborhood?
Hotel Le Jolie, this hotel’s even uglier sister, has also slashed its rates. Anyone stay there? Do they do hourly?
This hotel is directly on 4th, 1:02.
If the owners built this hotel (and financed it) with the idea that they would be fully booked from day 1 at $365 a night – then I predict that they will be severely disappointed.
If they built this hotel with the idea of getting in early before the 4th Ave boom, and expect a gradual improvement of the area and the ability to sell rooms for a premium then these guys will do do exceptionally well.place
An excellent restaurant and cool lounge/bar with outdoor deck will only hasten to bring about the locations success.
All the hotels are in the industrial areas west of 4th Avenue because outer borough zoning only permits them in such places, and a couple of other locations like Downtown Brooklyn.
The reason — an assumption that any outer-borough hotel would only be used for the homeless, drugs, prostitution, “hot sheets,” etc.
Well, if those hotels hads been located on 5th Avenue or perhaps even directly on 4th, it would have prospered. Now, guess what we are likely to get.
People have been wanting to hate this hotel since the get go.
Makes no sense in a city that needs more hotel rooms.
So fine…you don’t like the area…
A lot of people thought the Upper West Side was a hellhole 30 years ago.
Now they are multimillionaires.
Leave the gentrifying to those whose minds are not as closed as a nun’s nether region.
I did read them, 12:19.
The first guy (5/5), total RAVE.
Second (2/5), your boy, the whiner who is too stupid to read a subway map and switch at Pacific off of the R.
Third (4/5), the complaints were the drab location, the lack of Valet parking and the small lobby. They went out of their way to compliment the front desk staff, the quality of the accommodations and mentioned that when the restaurant opens up, that will negate one of their negatives.
Fourth (5/5) was some dude who needed a room fast and took a risk and LOVED it.
Finally, there was “Amit” (3/5), who while certainly not raving, felt it was perfectly decent. Given Le Bleu’s pretensions, perhaps this is unacceptable–but the guy felt like it was okay.
So, to summarize–to RAVES, one very positive, one average and one pan. How again to you argue that Trip Advisor reviews are (in your earlier post) “terrible?”
Maybe you need to read your own fatheaded posts.
Do they wash the glasses in your room for that price or do they just rinse them in the sink and wipe them off with a dirty bath towel?