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
1:38/1:40, thanks for confirming it. i suspected that you must be smoking something!
Ah, I scrolled up. There was another 1:19p.
Okay. Still funny, as if people here really will argue just about anything.
1:44, i believe 1:34 was responding to the first comment at 1:19. i need a process map!
Okay, now this is getting really funny.
Exactly how was 1:34pm responding to 1:19pm’s bizarre comment?
1:38, and if you want to go to a park, you get on a subway and go to central park. and which of the animals told you they’re being held against their will? do dogs on leashes all over brooklyn tell you the same thing? you should bottle this talent of yours dr. doolittle.
and why do you assume i’m a guy? perhaps you should stop congratulating yourself on your responses and try to be less sexist.
o-kay, instead of pissing on each other, let’s talk about the hotel…. but first, a little bit about me: i’ve worked in the cheapest hotel in (not this) town as well as the most expensive and lived in both park slope and williamsburg. frankly, i think trudy (12:14) has it right. management can probably market this thing but most of the guests are going hate themselves when they see the location. if you’re going to pay these prices, you’re going to want to be in manhattan or at least dumbo or williamsburg. or, if you’re going to be behind the taxi garage and five blocks down fourth avenue from the subway, then you want to be saving some money. but as much as the prices, boutique hotels are all about that lifestyle-thang. as others have pointed out, you want to walk out the door and be on bedford avenue (either one) not the gowanus. based on my experience, i ain’t feeling it.
oh yeah…and it’s a helluva lot easier to smoke the herb in prospect park!
three good reasons for ya.
perhaps because people in prospect park know that if you want to go to a zoo, you get on a plane and go to san diego.
or how about this…? maybe some of us in prospect park aren’t really fans of animals being caged against their will to live a life being gawked at by guys like you!
yeah, i like both those answers.
I just don’t see how these prices will fly. Europeans (or any other tourist with bucks) can spend that much and be right in Manhattan. The Holiday Inn Express on Union seems to be doing relatively well but they aren’t charging nearly that much per night. I do wish them well and hope they find their niche, but it’s pretty nervy to charge that much for that location.