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
2:02 I would just like to say that it was me who made the original typo, and someone else pretending to be me responding snarkily to the person who pointed out my typo! So things are even more pathetic than you imagine on this thread (but somehow I’m still reading it.)
See here:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d118/pi_icons/icons/kate_toepick1.png
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrnd-rO456Q
Once we hit the typos conversation, it was only appropriate.
you are talking to a crowd that doesn’t venture beyond the state border too often, i’m afraid 1:57.
from my experience, people on here seem to view europeans like their mothers in law.
the prices are not crazy if you think of any currency but the dollar. It is cheap for just about anyone to come to the U.S. today. If you were going to stay in the equivalent anywhere in Europe it would cost you 350 euro a night or $500.
I enjoyed toepick too, but have no idea to what it refers. Can anyone enlighten?
1:38/1:40, thanks for confirming it. i suspected that you must be smoking something!
yup. you know it! you want some, i’m in park slope livin the good life! stop by sometime if you are man, i mean WOMAN enough to wade through all those pesky strollers!
it’s like alice in wonderland!
“Toepick” at 1:19. I loved it. I laughed and didn’t know why.
Maybe that should be the “safe word” around here when things get heated! And we want to lighten things up.
yet people are willing to pay astronomical prices to live above an oil slick (greenpoint) or on a landfill (battery park city) or in the midst of the worst terrorist attack in u.s. history (downtown) or, or, or
i mean, prices in nyc don’t make sense, period. i really don’t see the big fuss.
i COMPLETELY agree with the poster who said this is what everyone said when florent opened on gansevoort.
the people who denounce 4th avenue and this hotel are closed-minded. period. they are not the leaders of this world, they are the followers. we need both, i suppose, but these same people apparently do not realize that every neighborhood from the uws to soho to hells kitchen to the lower east side used to be a hellhole and now there are apartments on avenue d that sell north of a million dollars.
Just to stir the pot a little bit…I think that Dekalb Avenue in Ft. Green has the best restaurants in BK!
With regards to the Hotel, I hope it does well. I am young (under 30) homeowner in BK, and I do chilling and “trendy” places from time to time. If the hotel is able to pull of a nice bar/lounge scene, then I am there!
BTW – Not even sure why people are legitimizing comments about Williamsburg with response. C’mon, Williamsburg!?!?!