Postcard from the Slope

IT’S OPEN: THE PARK SLOPE HOLIDAY INN

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The Park Slope Holiday Inn Express is now open. You can kick your guests off the Aero mattress in the living room and tell them to book a room on Union Street.

You can’t beat the location. It’s right near the R-train. But it isn’t exactly picturesque.  Imagine if you had lofty visions of a Park Slope Holiday Inn. You envision it as somewhere near the park, cafes, cutting edge restaurants. Then you pulled up to that rather uninspiring spot.

You might be a tad surprised. Disappointed. Pissed off. 

But if you’ve been fully prepared in advance for the fact that it is on a rather unsightly Gowanus Street just down from a gas station, it won’t bother you at all. In fact, it’s kinda cool.

I wonder how the rooms are and what they cost?

The new Holiday Inn Express is on Union Street between Fourth and Third Avenues near the Brooklyn Lyceum, just blocks from Issue Project Room, down the way from Union Hall, just a block from Fifth Avenue with its shops.

I wonder if the new Holiday Inn has a nice lounge/bar. It would be fun to have drinks there (Singapore Sling, White Russian). Or meet colleagues for a business meeting.

How about a swimming pool? Can we bring the kids?

The Park Slope Holiday Inn Express is now open for business. Tell your friends and family the Hotel Chez Moi is CLOSED.

5 thoughts on “IT’S OPEN: THE PARK SLOPE HOLIDAY INN”

  2. It’s called supply and demand Chandru. It is as simple as that. Not enough supply and too much demand. When compared to Orlando, New Orleans (pre-Katrina anyway) and Las Vegas, NYC has many fewer holtel rooms relative to its population.

  3. Business opportunity anyone?????
    How is it that our friend Chandru is beginning to sound like Jean and Luise? Soon he will be cooking up batches of (organic) jalapeno pepper jelly to sell at the Co-op. What next, dear?

  4. Moderately expensive…$139 to $209, BUT: higher when you really need it!
    I wonder why hotel prices in NYC (or Park Slope) are so much higher than other places. Don’t quite understand the economics, is it that you have to bribe someone or what? In San Francisco, not exactly the cheapest town around, there are a number of downtown “boutique” hotels, very nice but small rooms in 10 or 12-storey buildings, for the same price.
    Business opportunity, anyone?

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