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
Well there’s this term called “typo”, 1pm. And the fact that your only response is to point mine out, seems to say I won the argument! And to prove my point you’re judgemental.
I don’t live in Williamsburg, 12:48. I think someone else’s comments seem like mine maybe, somewhere in there. I actually live in Park Slope.
i don’t agree that the restaurants in williamsburg are better than park slope. i think both have some nice places, sure, but williamsburg is not somewhere that i choose to hang out. i just don’t “feel it” as they say.
while park slope may not have what you consider to be the best restaurants in the city, some are quite good and it’s also nice to be just a hop away from the really great ones on smith street and increasingly on vanderbilt.
we like different things. let’s let it go. thank god we don’t all like living in the same neighborhoods.
Hey 12:40, what you really “half” to cure is your poor grammar.
because 12:48 – I live in this part of brooklyn and own a brownstone! Why is it that there has to be this crazy divide between neighborhoods? why can’t people admit that “brownstone brooklyn” is good for some things (i.e., beautiful architecture, raising children) and not for others (i.e., great bars and restaurants). Of course there are much better bars and restaurants here than many parts of Manhattan (UWS and UES for example) but you must admit they are inferior to Wburg.
Actually, 12:42, those comments of mine did pertain to real estate. One, that the developers took a really really long time to complete the hotel. Which if we’re looking at that, means they had carrying costs the whole time on their loans that they’re now going to be hitting the ground running trying to pay off.
Secondly, speculating on the level of experience of the hoteliers – why wouldn’t we? When the whole topic of the thread is asking us if we think they know what they’re doing, by setting those prices. When one analyzes a business, what you’re doing is analyzing the good or bad judgement of the owners.
What’s judgemental is you declaring someone must not be hip because their parents are conservative, in your post at 12:20. That’s personal, judgemental and smug. So is calling someone “ignorant” and “asinine” simply because that person made very logical analysis of a place and – GASP – had an individual opinion that differed from yours.
These comments remind me of when Florent opened on Gansevoort Street in the ’80’s.
first of all, calm down 12:45. it’s all in good fun.
secondly, why is someone who loves williamsburg so much reading a blog about brownstones, of which park slope is pretty much the defining neighborhood for?
hmmmmm…..
it’s not called burnedoutbuildingsandkidsintightjeans.com
Another statement of yours that’s completely retarded, 12:20, is that only hip parents can have hip children! And hip people never have conservative parents. So dumb. Can you even believe you said that? Oh yes you can, because you are a typical smug and judgemental Park Sloper.