10/10 Excellent
Jason
10 Sept 2025
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Just about everything about this place was amazing. It's an ancient building moldering away in one of the most humid places--the French Quarter--on our planet, yet this hotel felt crisp and clean and brightly illuminated, albeit in a dark and mysterious way. I have a penchant for decay. I look for it everywhere. Yet I found it here more in atmosphere than in dilapidation. The all night watchman plays guitar to three slinky felines who curl, raise their backs, then curl again. The cats seem like embodied spirits who know a lot more about the universes than any of us reading this review. My two criticisms: an ambiance-destroying reference to a ghost that haunts the hotel--nothing drives out ghosts more than specific reference to them or, worse, trying to make them a brand of your hotel--and spotty WiFi, which continually reminded me that I hadn't stepped back into some mystical, Gothic southern past but that instead I'm still very much (as far as reality goes) living within the modern world.
Jason
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025
