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Haunted History Tours present the New Orleans Garden District Ghost Tour. Be scared as your walking tour departs from The Pontchartrain Hotel and heads over into the fragrant, beautiful Garden District. The Pontchartrain Hotel is located at 2031 St. Charles Ave. Find yourself awe-inspired as you gaze upon Ante Bellum mansions while your tour guide tells [...]
Located in the French Quarter at 115 Bourbon Street – Ralph Brennan’s Red Fish Grill seduces palettes making them beg for more even when miles away from New Orleans. This multi award-winning casual New Orleans seafood restaurant is located in the first block of Bourbon Street, next to Canal St in a renovated 19th Century [...]
Located at 2306 Esplanade Ave in New Orleans, Louisiana lies the Degas House, where the famous French Impressionist painter, Edgar Degas stayed for a few months during 1872 – 1873 with his family, the Musson’s. The Degas House is located approximately 11 blocks north of the French Quarter – a short five minute, $5 taxi [...]
From the Mississippi River to Bourbon St, the French Quarter was the place to be this past Halloween. People dressed up in a range of costumes, with the majority of them being laugh out loud-able as opposed to being scary. Large groups dressed in themes such as geishas, ghost busters, and vampires, while zombies performed [...]
On our recent visit to New Orleans we had the pleasure of staying at one of the French Quarter’s elite accommodations, Hotel Monteleone. (Thank you so much for inviting us!) Located on Rue Royal or Royal Street, the exterior of Hotel Monteleone captures that Old Orleans feel with large open windows, gold trim, and white stoned [...]
Our first experience with Hotel Monteleone was in 2004 during our first trip to the Big Easy. We stayed on Royal Street at a terrible hotel that wasn’t very impressionable as we can’t remember its name. Today it appears to be an empty building. The things we remember most about that terrible experience was the nauseating, cherry-scent [...]
Hotel Monteleone is taking Halloween, mixing it with murder, and making a whole weekend out of it! From October 30th – November 1st, guests can enjoy two nights/three days of deluxe accommodations at Hotel Monteleone where Keith & Margo’s world renowned Halloween Murder Mystery Weekend takes place! Located in the heart of the French Quarter, [...]
