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
I should also add, however, that I don’t think they’ll have any issues filling the place.
But as I suggested above, hotels are all about rack rates…and discounts.
5:27 #2, I don’t need or care to convince you of anything. But for the record, I live in Brooklyn Heights and I’ve been to Park Slope enough times to be able to form an opinion. So shut your piehole and stop assuming.
I personally would send Shatner to negotiate on my behalf.
I’ve seen him, he’s smooove.
They may get these rates, but not from everybody.
(hah hah hah)
I am skeptical. Although I like Park Slope very much, I agree that even European tourists will prefer an equally “cool” hotel in Manhattan to this place. Visiting grandparents are not gonna fill it up. And I really don’t get the comparison to Florent, either. Sure, the meatpacking district was kinda smelly and weird when Florent opened, but the restaurant was actually pretty cheap! And small, so you didn’t need an army to fill it up. If M. Morellet tried to charge 30 bucks for an omelette back in the late 80s THEN people would have laughed at him.
“Why didn’t I also mention the world famous Park Slope stepford wives/moms? That’s one damn thing I know about Park Slope.”
You have yet to say one thing to convince me you aren’t sitting in Iowa, reading about Park Slope in New York Magazine online.
perhaps because i don’t find park slope mothers nor their offspring as fascinating as other people seem to.
they are human beings trying to live their lives just like everyone else.
sorry one of them ran over your foot with their stroller that one time.
next time, they’ll kiss it, wipe your ass and send you on your way…
Good point 5:21. Why didn’t I also mention the world famous Park Slope stepford wives/moms? That’s one damn thing I know about Park Slope. Talk about cutting edge…
if that was the only thing you had to comment on from my post, it’s clear i have my answer.
5:15, sorry I missed that. I must be used to much wittier sarcasm.