Long an outlier among Southern cities, New Orleans continues to evolve, but without losing an ounce of its distinctive character. Heavily influenced by both Europe and the Caribbean, it's got personality to spare, a fact that's reflected in its uniquely eclectic selection of boutique hotels.
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The French Quarter
There’s a certain class of hotels that guests, especially the famous ones, seem to have a hard time leaving — places like Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, or the old Chelsea Hotel in New York. Add to the list New Orleans’ Audubon Cottages, a perfect picture of genteel Big Easy leisure if ever we’ve seen one. The seven private residences, centered around a quiet, leafy courtyard in the French Quarter, take their name from the naturalist John James Audubon, who showed up in 1821 and didn’t leave until he finished his famous Birds of America series the following year. More...
7 Rooms
1 Verified Reviews
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The French Quarter
Certain parts of New Orleans had been quick to trade history and atmosphere for a quick tourist buck. But the Soniat House is the precise opposite of the phony drunken theme park atmosphere which was once so readily available elsewhere. This, a peaceful residential district in the lower Vieux Carré, is the authentic New Orleans, all nineteenth-century Creole charm, and this hotel is as authentic as they come, three 1830s townhouses converted into the city's finest boutique hotel. More...
33 Rooms
64 Verified Reviews
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Central Business District
It is time to go back to New Orleans: if not for the Mardi Gras shops selling Comme des Garcons, and fusion cuisine replacing the beignet. International House hotel still manages to fuse old and new successfully — it is modern without being obnoxious, stylish without being frigid. It is, in fact, one of those most rare things in life: a boutique hotel with soul. More...
117 Rooms
225 Verified Reviews
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Central Business District
Loft 523 is an oddity in old-fashioned New Orleans — a boutique hotel in a completely modern style, one that would look at home in New York or London. Where many New Orleans hotels aim for a French mansion style, all antiques and ivy, Loft 523 is stark, minimal, contemporary. From inside, one could be forgiven for thinking of Soho; the fact that the French Quarter begins just a block away may make for a case of culture shock. More...
168 Rooms
259 Verified Reviews
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Uptown The Garden District
Who doesn’t love a good makeover story? It wouldn’t be quite fair to cast the old Henry Howard House Inn in the role of ugly duckling, but the transformation of this Greek Revival mansion, at the hands of a pair of New York hotel developers, was a dramatic one. Now, the historic building gets its star turn, reopening its doors as the Henry Howard Hotel, an 18-room boutique that’s every bit as graceful as you’d wish from a long weekend stay in the Big Easy. More...
18 Rooms
7 Verified review
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The French Quarter
There are touches of French Quarter influence all over the W, from the wrought-iron gate outside to the Venetian chandeliers hanging in the restaurant; all very appropriate for one of America’s most European cities. But it stops well short of kitsch — this is 21st-century New Orleans, not some gothic period piece. The rooms are sunny and bright, with cheerful splashes of magenta keeping the vampires at bay, and some rooms have French doors opening onto balconies with views over the courtyard pool. More...
98 Rooms
3 Verified Reviews
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Warehouse District
There’s no place in the American South better suited to the Ace aesthetic than New Orleans, perhaps the most colorful city in the country. And it’s hard to imagine a better building for the task than this Twenties Art Deco edifice, in the newly revitalized Warehouse District. Ace’s favorite designers, Roman and Williams, had plenty to work with here, a richly detailed backdrop for their trademark eclecticism. The result is predictable, in a good way: it’s more or less what you’d expect when America’s hippest hoteliers set up shop in one of America’s coolest cities. More...
234 Rooms
4 Verified Reviews
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