I would not recommend this hotel to anyone other than someone who desperately wants to stay in the French Quarter and can't afford to stay anywhere else. We stayed for Mardi Gras 2008. First, the elevator - tiny, slow, etc. There's no way to access the stairwell from the first floor even though we were only staying on the second floor.
Our room was not great. There was a very long, very narrow hallway at the entrance, and then the room itself was not very big. It had very high ceilings, which I guess could be nice. We had a pleasant view of an alley and constant noise from workers outside. The beds were not very comfortable - we had two double beds and one of the beds dipped in the middle. The bathroom was alright. But there is no room anywhere to put things - no shelves in the bathroom, and the sink is tiny so there's no room there. And in the main part of the hotel room, there is just one small table where the phone, clock, lamp, etc, is, and no other table or desk to put anything. Very inconvenient!
The breakfast was horrendous! We picked this hotel over a similarly priced one just because it had a free breakfast. But when we went down, there were a couple stale biscuits on a plate and a few pieces of melon, and very bad coffee. We wandered into the main part of the restaurant and thought that was the breakfast - eggs, sausage, bacon, breakfast potatoes, it looked great - but you had to pay for that one! The free breakfast for hotel patrons looked like the prior day's leftovers from the nice breakfast for paying restaurant customers.
The only good thing about the hotel is its location, which is close enough to everything for Mardi Gras but still far enough out of the way that you don't have to deal with drunk loud people at all hours.
If you stay here, I'd suggest parking at Harrah's - it's a couple of blocks to walk, but if you play at Harrah's for 30 minutes (and you can do penny slots for 30 minutes) you can park for free as opposed to the $25 or $30 rate the hotel charged each day!










