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New Orleans Guide for Visitors and Locals |
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It's a remarkable thing, but even with the thick layer of catastrophic damage around it, the core of New Orleans remains as magical and seductive as ever.
It should be cliché to use those words, but when even news anchors and relief workers who have never been to the city before find themselves falling into local ways and going to efforts to return again and again, you know there is something powerful about the place.
The visual delights of the remarkable French Quarter and Garden District remain. Once again music flows from random doorways or is played right in the street. Jazz, Cajun, blues, whatever -- you'll find yourself moving to a rhythm and wondering if the streets really are dancing along with you.
There are delicious smells in the moist, honeyed air, which seems to carry a whiff of the Caribbean while caressing your skin, almost as if it were alive...
And then there's the food. Don't get us started on the food. |
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| New Orleans Events and Festivals - See What's Happening This Month in New Orleans! |
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New Orleans Nightlife & Restaurants... |
| Many bars stay open all the time or have varying hours depending upon the night or the season. While New Orleans function on limited resources there is plenty of great bars are open. |
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| New Orleans Restaurants serving virtually every variation on the city's culinary style from po'boys and red beans and rice to old-line dishes lavished with butter or cream fill the French Quarter... |
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TRAVEL PLANS TO NEW ORLEANS |
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 Though tourism is not what it was pre-Katrina, as a general rule, just to be on the safe side, always book ahead in spring and fall.
And if your trip will coincide with Mardi Gras or Jazz Fest, book way ahead (and we can't stress this enough) -- up to a year in advance if you want to ensure a room.Sugar Bowl week and other festival times when visitors flood New Orleans also require planning for accommodations, and there's always the chance that a big convention or sports event will be in town, making it difficult to find a room. (Though we have to admit that's often when the maligned anonymous chain hotels do come in handy because they may not be the first choice of regular visitors.
If a convention didn't take one over with block booking, there is often an extra room for a decent rate floating around.) You might conceivably run across a cancellation and get a last-minute booking, but the chances are remote at best.You should also be aware that rates frequently jump more than a notch or two for Mardi Gras and other festival times (sometimes they even double), and in most cases, there's a 4- or 5-night minimum requirement during those periods. Click Here |
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