New Orleans-Lodging

. . Lodging

Our favorite area to stay is the Garden District. The action centers around St. Charles Street-a main Mardi Gras parade route with old beautiful, classical New Orleans houses. Transportation is easy and fun with streetcars of the 1940’s vintage, whose routes terminate on Canal Street, a stone’s throw from the French Quarter.

This year we splurged for one night in the “Quarter”. Actually, we got a super mid- week deal at the Place d’Armes, a beautiful old hotel one block off Bourbon StreetWhat’s better than a second floor private room with balcony overlooking St. Anne? It’s a 50 yard line front row seat (more like a 40 yard-Bourbon St. is on the 50) with the “street stage” below-featuring vendors, street performers, drunks; you get the picture – a people watchers’ paradise.