Both add a nightly fee, and both pools close for the winter. 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge if you want to wake to the Brooklyn Bridge from a Bridge King and walk across it after breakfast; The William Vale if you would rather pay from about $260 for a balcony of your own, with Midtown in view from the Manhattan View rooms and Williamsburg's bars at the door.
The viewAn eco-minded hotel at the Pier 1 entrance to Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the bridge in its north windows and the Lower Manhattan skyline in its west ones.
$$$From about $470 a night
Choose 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge if
The catch
A $45 nightly amenity fee plus tax is added to every room at check-in, covering the house car, the classes and the pool whether you use them or not.
The all-rounderA Williamsburg tower where every room has a balcony and the rooms at its west end face Midtown Manhattan, with a rooftop bar and a summer pool.
$$From about $260 a night
Choose The William Vale if
The catch
The entry King with Balcony is sold on neighbourhood views. The Manhattan skyline is promised only in categories with Manhattan View in the name and in the penthouse Vale Garden Residence.
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1 Hotel Brooklyn BridgeThe William Vale
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
The William Vale
The verdict
Both add a nightly fee, and both pools close for the winter. 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge if you want to wake to the Brooklyn Bridge from a Bridge King and walk across it after breakfast; The William Vale if you would rather pay from about $260 for a balcony of your own, with Midtown in view from the Manhattan View rooms and Williamsburg's bars at the door.
Questions people ask
Both add a nightly fee, and both pools close for the winter. 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge if you want to wake to the Brooklyn Bridge from a Bridge King and walk across it after breakfast; The William Vale if you would rather pay from about $260 for a balcony of your own, with Midtown in view from the Manhattan View rooms and Williamsburg's bars at the door.
Book it for the window. Pay for a Bridge King on a high floor and the Brooklyn Bridge is the first thing you see each morning, then budget for the $45 nightly fee and the subway ride to Midtown. A design-led, eco-minded hotel whose case is its place: inside Brooklyn Bridge Park, facing the bridge and Lower Manhattan, with a lively rooftop on top. Midtown is a subway ride away, and the pool is a seasonal plunge rather than a swim.
It has a rooftop pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Book it for the balcony, the rooftop and a Brooklyn base that still looks at Manhattan, and pay the step up to a Manhattan View room. Accept the subway ride to Midtown and a pool that only opens in summer. A tall, glassy Williamsburg tower where every room has a balcony and the rooftop bar is a neighbourhood fixture, so the hotel is busy and social and priced in the mid-range. Manhattan is in front of you rather than outside the door, and the pool only counts in summer.
It has an outdoor pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.