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Aloft Brooklyn: Late To the Party, But Hey, There's a Pool!

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 216 Duffield St [map], Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11201-5303
April 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM | by | Comments (2)

When we heard rumblings from Brooklyn that the borough's new Aloft was set for imminent take-off, we scampered over to the website, fully expecting to see a May opening date. Silly us.

Of course, the latest opening date is June 9.

That's not the only downer, either. Based on our last update, we were expecting opening rates around $189 a night. Fool me twice, Starwood. The rates for June 9 start at a whopping $254 a night. (That's $295.16 with tax).

While the Aloft concept is pretty cool, and we welcome their addition to the NYC hotel scene, let's not forget that this is downtown Brooklyn. Not Williamsburg, not Park Slope, or Prospect Heights, or even pretty-as-a-postcard Brooklyn Heights. The hotel is in a business district with lots of city government buildings, schools, blinged-out jewelry vendors and sneaker shops lining Fulton Street Mall.

If we wanted to pay $300 a night, we'd cross the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridge and at least situate ourselves in a more cozy, restaurant-filled neighborhood. We'd probably even be able to pay less for that in Manhattan if we went the Quikbook route, tried a blind booking site or waited for a hot flash sale.

Since we'd like to leave this on a positive note, though, we did find this photo of the new Aloft's pool on Flickr. Who knew?! We seem to have missed this silver lining on the hotel's own website, but we're happy to know that there's a place to cool off this summer.

That is, if we can bring ourselves to fork out $300 to stay so close to Flatbush Avenue...

[Photo: Aloft Hotels via Flickr ]

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That is also Sheraton Pool

That pool pic is the same as the pool pic for Shearton Brooklyn, next door to Aloft
commenterny on April 27, 2011 at 5:58 PM #Permalink

Bargain!

Just booked the Hotel from 17th till 21st of June for 132$ per night without tax! Lucky me, hope it will be open when we arrive there...
carlo1402 on June 3, 2011 at 9:53 PM #Permalink

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