Best hotel to stay at in NOLA. Close to French Quarter?

[plynn]

Need a good place to stay one night that is close to the French Quarter. Any ideas?

[Yankeegirl]

Holiday Inn Chateau LeMoyne is only one block off of Bourbon Street. Stayed there for my sisters wedding several year ago and it was nice. Hope this helps.:)

[Rowan555]

If you want a really special night, the Monteleone can't be beat. If you want a good value on Canal St, Drury Inn has a cruise package, and the Mariott on Canal often has very low rates (and is a nice, but LARGE, hotel).

[LSUcajunmom]

Just recently stayed at JW Marriott on Canal for the NO Bowl. Great hotel, great location. Front and center to everything. Walking distance to everything. It is smaller than its sister hotel the Marriott across the street. And I paid $70 a night thru price line for it.

[hattack]

If you enjoy B&B's, Hubbard Mansion on St.Charles Avenue...which is on the trolley line

[Donna1127]

Royal Sonesta on Bourbon Street..it was our sanctuary from the craziness of Bourbon Street. Of course we did go during Southern Decadence weekend, but that's another story.:D

[klmorg]

There are soooo many. We enjoyed our stay at the Iberville Suites in NOLA, French Quarter.

[Crusin Kelly]

1) IF you dont stay at the Royal Sonesta... at least go to the Desire Oyster bar on the street level. The Oysters Desire are to die for ! ! !

 

2) Last time I was in NO, I got a pretty good deal at the Ritz Carleton ~70 per night weekday evenings... 2 blocks from Bourbon Street. Fabulous bar downstairs with in-house Jazz some evenings.

[KansasTexan]

Need a good place to stay one night that is close to the French Quarter. Any ideas?

 

 

Define "good". ;) I like my NOLa hotels old and quirky. Where ever you book, ask about how many beds and if you need a rollaway be CERTAIN to understand if you can get it. It's not available in many NOLa hotel rooms.

 

The Monteleone is my favorite. Beautiful, historic, outstanding bar. Can be spendy, depending on the season.

 

I recently stayed at the Dauphine Orleans. It's just a couple streets from all the craziness of Bourbon Street. Completely different vibe but also supposedly haunted (the bar).

 

Iberville Suites (next to the Ritz) has worked for me, too. If you have time on your hands...book spa treatments at the Ritz. Now, THAT's living.

[HeidiHo]

We enjoyed the Hotel Ste. Marie just a half block off Bourbon St. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't as expensive as a lot of the others.

[luddite]

Quality Inn on O'Keefe.

[caribsun]

We have stayed at JW and Intercontinental during Mardi Gras and paid 130.00 through Priceline.

[kmc500]

Define "good". ;) I like my NOLa hotels old and quirky. Where ever you book, ask about how many beds and if you need a rollaway be CERTAIN to understand if you can get it. It's not available in many NOLa hotel rooms.

 

My preference as well. Last Spring we stayed in the Hotel Lafayette on St Charles. We had a corner suite with an iron balcony all the way around the perimeter.

 

Walking distance to Harrah's casino, and to many restaurants, including Ruths Chris. $10 cab ride to the port, and it was on the St Charles trolley line.

 

Absolutely beautiful, well kept, and great service. Very reasonable rates as well.

 

 

Kevin C

[Izzybeff]

In two weeks we are staying at the Country Inn & Suites on Magazine st. It has fabulous reviews online. It's a remodeled warehouse so I'm looking forward to checking it out. Less than 2 blocks from Bourban st. and a few blocks from the Casino. Reasonable rates too. They do however charge for parking.

[Lovefuninthesun]

We love the old, restored places -- check out bedandbreakfast.com for some great B&Bs

[Rowan555]

If you're wanting to get the best deal, I wanted to mention that we've booked downtown hotels 3 times through Priceline, and each time we ended up at the Marriot, and it was $79 a night. If booking a location outright is costing considerably more than that, I'd give Priceline a go.

[momto2inkc]

We've got the Marriott on Canal St booked for $49 a night. It seems like a good location and the price seemed pretty darn good!

[ghia007]

I did a GREAT deal of research for a precruise French Quarter hotel that I thought would be most "french quarter like". I came up with Place d'Armes. My mother felt that Harrah's met her needs best. As mother was paying the bill....Harrah's it was.

 

I went so far as to speak with a couple at the pool in the courtyard, they loved the hotel but did caution me about the interior room. They booked one and were not happy that it did not have a window. They were young and perhaps did not have the word "interior" in their vocabulary list. If it had been my choice I would have chosen Place d' Armes for the location and the price. Harrah's was very nice.

[Regestd]

We stayed at the Place D' Armes on a trip to NOLA last May and loved, loved, loved it! I had done my research regarding the inside rooms and booked a balcony. The courtyard was spectacular and we were lucky enough to get one of the "private" balconies on the street. Since the hotel is on the route of Haunted Tours we could sit outside and listen to them talk about the hotel's ghosts in the evening... tons of fun. Three blocks off of Bourbon street was a perfect loction and only 2 blocks to Cafe Monde. I would recommend the hotel to anyone that wants to experience a "french quarter" hotel.

[cah14522]

We'll be driving into NOLA (again) but it seems like the hotels we've stayed at previously with Stay & Park packages no longer off that package? Any suggestions on a reasonably priced hotel, with parking included, and near the quarter and port? I know, not too much to ask...right?

 

Thanks in advance!

[EthelnElmer]

Check out Stay123.com.... they still offer a couple of hotels at resonable prices!

[havocfan]

Has anyone stayed at the Frenchmen hotel in New Orleans?

[OCruisers]

Royal Sonesta right on Bourbon St. is our favorite! :)

Once when it was booked, we stayed at Place D'Armes which the thought was fine and quite convenient.

 

LuLu

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[WLHyatt]

Place de armes, but it has no stay and park packages. It is the best hotel we have stayed at in the Quarter.

 

If you want to stay more than an overnight before or after the Prytania Park hotel has a stay and cruise package. The only stipulation is that you have to stay one day on one end of the trip and two on the other end of the trip and then parking is free. Last time we stayed one night before the cruise and two nights after, this time we are coming in on Friday for a Sunday sailing then staying until, Monday before driving home on Monday. Makes for a good week-and-a-half vacation out of what would be a hectic couple of days getting there and back. It also lets us rest a little before driving the 12 hours back home.

 

We used to do all of our land based vacations out of NOLA, every year for about 10 years and those are the two "New Orleans" style hotels we liked the best.