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
6:43, I believe you’re the ignorant one. The Soho Grand Hotel has a rate of $421 per night on their website as of 30 seconds ago. And that’s without trying to get any discount. So where would most tourists prefer to stay, do you think – The Soho Grand or Hotel Le Bleu?
Anon 6:43am,
Tablethotels.com, the very best place to go to book the very best boutique hotels in Manhattan, routinely has rooms from $200 up per night.
Look right now for dates a month + out, and you will find $240 per night etc. at many of the nicest boutiques.
Heck, I booked $119 per night at the Hudson hotel on 3 weeks advance notice for a relative coming in to town (although that was a special deal on the schrager hotels web site). But honestly, I don’t expect to find that deal ever again.
$300 is probably the best deal one can find in Manhattan via Tablethotels for one of the very best boutique hotels in Manhattan, and $400-$600 more the average for those when things are booked.
Now, on to Hotel Le Bleu. As I said above, it will be packed.
Many will pay the rack rates of $300-$400, and many will get discounts (which will be offered to keep the place packed…just a fact of life of hotel and airline inventory sales optimization).
But Hotel Le Bleu, like its mid-tier (Holiday Inn Express) and lower-tier (Comfort Inn) new neighbors, will be utterly packed given heavy demand in neighborhood (even if just serving neighborhood, before tourists factored in).
And if the resto/bar is any good (or even if just the views are good) it will be frequented by locals too, if only for the view (but it would be nice if food was good and drinks good and reasonably priced, too). So long as they don’t utterly mess that up (unlikely).
So, like in many NY hotels, resto/bar (especially given the view) won’t be just hotel guests.
I would go to check it out. Why not?
Everyone on this board is misinformed. You cannot get a “boutique” hotel room in manhattan for $400 or $500. Hotel rates in manhattan are astronomical right now. That’s why $400 is a discount. You are all ignorant.
and herein lies the problem of brownstoner.
the last poster commented a full 18 minutes after the one previous, where the person corrected that it was the marriot.
this leads me to believe that people don’t actually READ what other people say, they simply spew out whatever it is that’s on their own agenda or try to find the fault in any little thing they read.
it’s really unhealthy. very bush-like. open your minds folks. it’s what’s wrong with where the country is headed right now. and i’m not just talkin politics. LISTEN TO PEOPLE.
There is no Brooklyn Hilton – maybe Marriot.
Brooklyn Marriott, that is.
Swimmin’ pools, legal stars.
For what it’s worth, despite the doubters (along similar “high price for utter crap bldg/location” lines)…
Holiday Inn Express is not only nice (stayed there for fun little getaway with the wife while work was done at home), but it’s also been booked solid since it opened.
Brooklyn Hilton prices are regularly $400-$500 per night, and it’s usually booked to capacity as well, so it seems to me (especially since there are very few available places to stay near the huge PS/Carroll Gardens and other surrounding, densely-populated communities with hotel needs) that until the supply side of this increases dramatically, things will still tend to be tightly booked around the neighborhood.
Sorry, actual local hotel business environment data trumps mere speculation every day of the week.
Thanks Carol Gardens 6:14. Nice to have another voice of reason in here. I can’t wait to see just exactly how trendy an overpriced hotel filled with Park Slope Grandparents will be. Sounds like a major party to me!
5:27 #1, you don’t find Park Slope mothers and their offspring interesting? That’s the first thing you’ve said that makes sense. Thanks for restating the obvious.