Where to Stay in New Orleans Right Now
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These days, the hotel scene in New Orleans is as diverse as the city itself. Historically, many of the Big Easy’s most beloved properties have included grandes dames in and around the French Quarter and the Garden District, but now, there are boutique accommodations popping up all over town that are pushing design and hospitality forward.
Visit, and you'll find art-filled hotels opening inside freshly restored classic buildings that had begun to lose their luster—including a former orphanage and a 19th-century Catholic church—and livening up unglamorous neighborhoods like the Warehouse District and CBD. Best of all, no matter the intended clientele, they all play on NOLA’s many strengths: lobby bars serving innovative cocktails, restaurants that don’t skimp on local flavor, live jazz nights, drag brunches and the outsized Southern hospitality that makes this city so special.
Maison Métier
Warehouse District
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A member of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt, this Warehouse District hideaway contains 67 rooms and suites and feels less like a boutique hotel than the mansion of an eccentric art collector. Take, for instance, the delightfully offbeat lobby lounge, where you’ll find tiger-pattern rugs, Egyptian hieroglyphic art, Mardi Gras masks and cabinets of curiosities—a hodgepodge of global influences that feels as if it’s been assembled over decades of travels. This “Living Room,” as the hotel calls the lounge, becomes a hub for daily activities, such as afternoon iced tea service and free evening wine and charcuterie. Continue through a hidden door to reach the moody, Paris-inspired Salon Salon bar, which has a menu including French wines, house and signature cocktails and snacks like frog legs, deviled eggs with paddlefish caviar and beef tartare with truffle pommes frites.
Virgin Hotels New Orleans
Warehouse District
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Leave it to the Virgin brand to bring a fun-loving, personality-filled boutique property to this up-and-coming corner of the Warehouse District. The 238 guest “Chambers” feature curvy bed frames, stocked SMEG fridges and quirky framed artworks, while common areas include a library-like lobby café and a rooftop pool bar. Downstairs, the lively and sun-drenched Commons Club serves creative cocktails, brunch and dinner menus that offer twists on New Orleans classics and “social hour” snacks like muffaletta sliders. Check the hotel’s website for live events such as drag brunches, sultry soul performances, sunset DJ sets and even Pilates sessions with adoptable puppies.
Kimpton Hotel Fontenot
Warehouse District
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Kimpton is a brand that inspires rabid loyalty, with perks like a daily free wine hour and a program that lets guests order live plants to their rooms. The Fontenot, in the Warehouse District, leans into the Cajun concept of lagniappe, or “a little something extra”—look for seersucker robes, a minibar stocked with NOLA treats and even an artist-in-residence program celebrating the likes of Saint Michèle Atelier, an avant-garde, sustainable design house. The 235 guest rooms and suites match a sophisticated, French-inspired black-and-white palette with details like cane headboards and tamboured armoires. King Brasserie & Bar serves Gulf seafood gussied up with techniques from the French Riviera, resulting in dishes like Gulf fish amandine and crawfish-bolstered bouillabaisse, while the colorful Peacock Room bar is known for its ostentatious design and punch-bowl cocktails.
The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans
French Quarter
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Few New Orleans hotels boast as prime a location as the Ritz-Carlton, which occupies a 1908 Beaux-Arts building on Canal Street in the French Quarter. Its elegant interiors take inspiration from Garden District mansions, and its spa is the largest in the city, with 20 treatment rooms, a café and a boutique. The stylish Davenport Lounge is the place to go for afternoon tea or evening cocktails, while M Bistro remixes ingredients from Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi producers in innovative dishes like Cajun corn bisque and mahi mahi with blue crab beurre blanc.
Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans
French Quarter
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Towering 34 floors above the Mississippi River, the Four Seasons occupies the 1960s-era World Trade Center building. The 341 guest rooms and suites pair the brand’s signature crisp neutral palette with Southern-inspired details, such as shiplap walls and upholstered headboards with three-dimensional flowers. Award-winning chefs Donald Link and Alon Shaya are responsible for the dining options at the hotel: Link is behind the steakhouse and oyster bar Chemin à la Mer, while Shaya designed the menus for the opulent lobby Chandelier Bar and the Creole-inspired Miss River, where signature dishes include a carved whole buttermilk fried chicken. As part of the hotel’s robust list of experiences, guests can also sign up to snorkel a reef at the nearby Audubon Aquarium, sample a guided oyster flight with beverage pairings or even enjoy a private concert at Preservation Hall, the historic French Quarter jazz club.
The Windsor Court
Central Business District
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Opened in 1984 by an Anglophile local businessman, this luxury hotel, with 314 rooms and suites, nods to British history and culture throughout. That means traditional afternoon tea service in Le Salon, a statue of St. George in the front driveway and a museum-caliber collection of art valued at over $10 million, with some pieces dating back as far as the 17th century. The corgi-loving late queen would have found the “pampered pets program”—which offers plush dog beds, treats and food and water bowls—rather fetching, and the 2,780-square-foot James J. Coleman, Jr. Presidential Suite is likewise fit for royalty, with features that include a private library, a butler’s pantry and a baby grand piano.
The Pontchartrain Hotel
Garden District
Opened in 1927 as a luxury apartment building, this Garden District landmark was converted into a hotel in the 1940s. In 2016, the property re-emerged from a total overhaul with 106 guest rooms featuring Moroccan rugs, tufted green velvet headboards, floral drapes and dangly chandeliers. The hotel is perhaps best known among locals for its quartet of bars and restaurants: the Bayou Bar, which serves Creole-inspired classics accompanied by live jazz; the historic Silver Whistle Café, a hub for New Orleans movers and shakers since the 1950s; Jack Rose, which attracts as much attention for its kitschy decor as for its menu; and Hot Tin, a rooftop bar with 270-degree views of the city and the Mississippi River.
Hotel Saint Vincent
Lower Garden District
There’s something imposing about the red-brick and wrought-iron exterior of this 75-room Lower Garden District hotel, which started life in 1861 as an orphanage. But head inside and you might be surprised by the whimsical decor: psychedelic marbled wallpaper, robes and bed frames; hand-painted tropical plants crawling up the walls of the Paradise Lounge; and an art collection that runs the gamut from abstract paintings to neon signs. After spending a day in the sun by the courtyard pool lined with Mexican Saltillo tiles, grab a meal at San Lorenzo, a seasonal Italian restaurant, or the French-Vietnamese-inflected Elizabeth Street Café. The coolest spot on site might be ByGeorge, a lifestyle boutique selling luxury items from major international brands as well as Hotel Saint Vincent-branded candles, playing cards, eye masks and kimono-style robes.
Hotel Peter and Paul
Marigny
Hotels in New Orleans don’t often come as storied as this stay in the Marigny that reimagines a 19th-century Catholic church, school house, rectory and convent. Public spaces feel intentionally trapped in time, with stained-glass windows, marble fireplaces and cypress-wood trim, while the 71 rooms go heavy on gingham fabrics and antique fixtures, with special amenities like claw-foot tubs. (The wrought-iron bed frames embellished with tiny crosses found in some rooms feel especially at home here.) The Elysian Bar is a lovely spot for cocktails—with drink names like the Mother Superior and the Dearly Beloved—and the old convent space holds a tiny shop called Sunday Best, featuring eyewear, perfume, trinkets and the hotel’s signature gingham robes.
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