Best Boutique Hotels in New Orleans

New Orleans has the most distinctive hotel architecture in North America. The French Quarter's Creole townhouses with their iron-lace balconies, the Garden District's Greek Revival mansions, and the Warehouse Arts District's converted cotton warehouses have all produced boutique properties that couldn't exist in any other city.

French Quarter

Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street opened in 1886 and has the rotating Carousel Bar, the most beloved bar in New Orleans. Dauphine Orleans Hotel occupies five historic buildings and operates as a more intimate alternative to the French Quarter's larger properties — pool, courtyard, and the kind of attentive service that the neighbourhood's larger hotels have given up on.

Garden District

The Pontchartrain Hotel on St Charles Avenue is a 1927 landmark that has been thoughtfully restored — the Caribbean Room restaurant, the rooftop pool, and the streetcar line outside the door make it the best-located boutique hotel outside the French Quarter. The Garden District's antebellum houses and oak-canopied streets create a sense of the city that Bourbon Street entirely misrepresents.

Warehouse Arts District

The Warehouse District — adjacent to the Convention Center but worlds apart in character — has become New Orleans's best restaurant and gallery district. The Ace Hotel New Orleans in the Hale Boggs Federal Building occupies a converted mid-century federal building and has a lobby that functions as a neighbourhood living room. The proximity to the National WWII Museum, the Ogden Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Center makes it the best base for cultural travellers.

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