Someone Paid $2K to Stay in Hotel Le Bleu During Irene
Tough to know what’s crazier about this story in The Daily News: Is it that Hotel Le Bleu on 4th Avenue was charging $999 a night during the hurricane, or that someone was willing to book a room at that rate for two days? The newspaper notes that Le Bleu’s regular rates are around $250…
Tough to know what’s crazier about this story in The Daily News: Is it that Hotel Le Bleu on 4th Avenue was charging $999 a night during the hurricane, or that someone was willing to book a room at that rate for two days? The newspaper notes that Le Bleu’s regular rates are around $250 a night, and that the nearby Fairfield Inn & Suites reported that about 30 percent of the people who booked rooms on Saturday were there because they needed a place to stay during the hurricane, but rates weren’t raised. Hotel Le Bleu is in the city’s Zone C, but it’s also a block away from the Gowanus Canal, which is in Zone A.
Brooklyn’s Posh Hotel Le Bleu Squeezed Irene Shelter Seekers for $999 Per Room [NY Daily News]
Photo by Super Fun Squirrel
Crap hotel designed for naive outlanders, Eurotrash and other degenerates.
completely appalling on every level.
completely appalling on every level.
This place is just absurd. I noticed recently that the top floor restaurant space has a “for rent” banner draped over it. Posh is a funny word for it. Do they really get their posted rates on a regular basis?
I also love how they always take photos that crop out the dialysis unit and taxi garage.
It is appalling – I will never ever let anyone I know stay there (and I recently had family do so). And the quote from the employee is equally infuriating:
A Hotel Le Bleu employee reached by phone, who would not give her name, said the high prices didn’t slow business at the hotel with the distinctive exterior bathed in blue light.
“If you can pay, then it’s on you,” she said.