Hotel Le Bleu: Will the High Prices Fly?
With the Hotel Le Bleu’s grand opening just around the corner, someone from the Brooklyn Eagle was able to duck inside the 4th Avenue boutique hotel for a peek. The verdict? “A finished room was on par with some of the boutique hotels in Manhattan–thinking Hudson and Gansevoort, and the Blue went one better: big…
With the Hotel Le Bleu’s grand opening just around the corner, someone from the Brooklyn Eagle was able to duck inside the 4th Avenue boutique hotel for a peek. The verdict? “A finished room was on par with some of the boutique hotels in Manhattan–thinking Hudson and Gansevoort, and the Blue went one better: big views looking west to the harbor and north to Manhattan.” So what price luxury hipness? According to the hotel website (screen shot on the jump), rooms run from $349 to $399 a night. It’ll be interesting to see whether folks are willing to drop that kinda coin for a stay on the decidely un-upscale 4th Avenue. What do you think?
Inside Brooklyn’s Soon-to-Open Hotel le Bleu [Brooklyn Eagle] GMAP
Hah, yeah.
Oh crap. Work. See ya on the flip side.
thanks webster. but really, we should leave 6:43 alone. clearly he prefers to pay the rack rate.
Speaking of getting boutique hotels in Manhattan for under $400-500/night etc, here are the current end-of-summer specials at the Hudson for example, with rooms starting at $260/night:
http://www.hudsonhotel.com/hudson_hotel_specials.asp
Anonymous 6:43am, you might want to reconsider your your post.
Yeah, definitely still a great deal at twice that.
They must have had a sudden block cancellation or something (maybe an event or group was moved), and had to lock them down fast, throwing them on their specials list at various discounts (only mentioned on the schrager site itself).
No idea. All I know is that I was lucky enough to have looked at just the right time because those disappeared quickly.
I’m still getting over the $119 per night at the Hudson. That was a score and a half. I also doubt we’ll see that again anytime soon, but it’s a bargain at twice that price.
http://tablethotels.com rocks, have been using it for the past 4-5 years solid, not just for deals for friends and clients in town, but also especially for us great getaways elsewhere (Paris, London, SF, Montreal, Greece, Caribbean, Far East, wherever…)
It’s a miracle I’ve still saved enough to be an owner in Brooklyn at all, in retrospect. (doh!)
Don’t be so hard on yourself (I use them all the time too).
Dude, what is up with me and parentheticals.
(sorry, hah..)
webster, very well written and informative post. thanks for the tips re: getting discounts for visitors and thoughts on Hotel Le Bleu.