Best hotels in New Orleans

New Orleans hotels tend to trade on one of two things: the address inside the old city, or the theatre of arrival. The top of this list is where both come together, in buildings that have been grand for a century and still act like it. Further down, the case gets more particular, resting on a courtyard, a restaurant, a view of the river rather than the whole performance. The order below is the stay itself, room by room, service by service.

Chosen and ordered by our editor, checked against live inventory · guest scores from each hotel's own reviews · rates for 2026-10-25, one night, two guests

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The Windsor Court★★★★★

9.8/10 guest score 396 reviews from $838/night 5-star

Free cancellation

The Windsor Court has always operated a notch above the rest of the Central Business District on sheer material weight: Italian marble in the baths, oil paintings and antiques through the public rooms, and a scale of suite that most competitors simply do not build anymore. The Grill Room carries the city's only 4-Diamond dining room, which alone changes the rhythm of a stay here, since dinner becomes a destination rather than an afterthought. Rooms run large by any American city's standard, let alone New Orleans, and the traditional décor is handled with restraint rather than fuss. Service has the practiced formality of an old English club, unhurried, address-you-by-name, the kind that takes itself seriously without being stiff. This is the hotel for people who want the grandest possible version of New Orleans without setting foot in the Quarter, and who don't mind paying for a level of polish few other properties here attempt.”,

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Compare withThe Ritz-CarltonNew Orleans Marriott Warehouse Arts DistrictHotel MonteleoneKimpton Hotel Fontenot by IHGFour Seasons New OrleansThe Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans

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Hotel Peter and Paul, an Ash Hotel★★★★

9.4/10 guest score 417 reviews from $339/night 4-star

+ $23 taxes & fees

Hotel Peter and Paul is the outlier at the top of this list, a converted 19th-century church-and-schoolhouse complex in the Marigny that trades marble and chandeliers for reclaimed wood, aged plaster, and a kind of considered shabbiness that never tips into precious. The rooms are compact and specific, each one different, with an eye clearly trained on furniture and light rather than square footage. A shared lounge and terrace, plus an on-site restaurant, give the place a neighbourhood clubhouse feel rather than a hotel one, and the location outside the Quarter proper rewards anyone happy to walk a few extra blocks for quieter streets. It suits guests who care more about atmosphere and design than about turndown service and a formal dining room. What it gives up in polish and scale it gets back in character, and there is nothing else on this list quite like it.”,

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The Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans★★★★★

8.9/10 guest score 647 reviews from $401/night 5-star

+ $2 taxes & fees

The Roosevelt earns its place through sheer presence: the block-long lobby with its gilded ceiling and marching row of chandeliers is one of the great interior spaces in American hotelkeeping, and the Waldorf Astoria stewardship keeps the restoration crisp rather than tired. Rooms are large and correctly old-fashioned, with the 42-inch televisions and bathrobes doing the modern updating without disturbing the period feel. Domenica handles the Italian side of dinner well, and the Sazerac Bar downstairs is a genuine piece of the city's drinking history, not a themed recreation of one. It sits right in the CBD edge of the Quarter, walkable to everything, and it draws a crowd that wants old New Orleans grandeur delivered with contemporary competence. What separates it from the top two is a slightly more corporate, convention-adjacent feel at busy periods, but the building itself still does most of the work.”,

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Compare withThe Ritz-CarltonFour Seasons New OrleansThe Windsor CourtJW Marriott New OrleansInterContinental New Orleans by IHG

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Four Seasons New Orleans★★★★★

9.3/10 guest score 404 reviews from $849/night 5-star

Free cancellation

The Four Seasons occupies the old World Trade Center tower on the river, and the view is the argument here more than anything inside the rooms: Mississippi bends and barge traffic from height, in a city where almost nothing else offers that vantage. The amenities read as expected for the brand, fitness centre, bar, restaurant, round-the-clock concierge, competently rather than distinctively done. Rooms are comfortable and quietly finished rather than characterful, which is really the trade against the hotels above it, all professionalism and glass, less personality and patina. It suits travellers who want a dependable, well-run stay with a genuine river outlook and don't need the property itself to carry the city's history. The riverfront setting, on the edge of the Quarter and the Warehouse District, is the strongest card it has to play.”,

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The Ritz-Carlton★★★★★

9.1/10 guest score 507 reviews from $733/night 5-star

+ $40 taxes & fees

The Ritz-Carlton sits inside a converted 1908 Maison Blanche department store on Canal Street, and the bones of that building, the tall windows, the scale of the original floor plates, still show through the expected Ritz finish of minibars and designer toiletries. The 25,000-square-foot spa is a genuine point of difference on this list, giving the hotel a wellness dimension none of the others really compete with, and M bistro's Cajun-Caribbean menu is a reasonable, if not electrifying, dining option. Rooms are comfortable and correctly appointed rather than memorable, which is the trade here against the hotels ranked above: less individual character, more reliable brand execution. It suits guests who want the spa and the Canal Street address more than a strong sense of place inside the room itself. As the closing entry among the top tier, it does everything competently without quite matching the theatre of the four hotels above it.”,

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Hotel Saint Vincent★★★★

9.6/10 guest score 125 reviews from $339/night 4-star

+ $27 taxes & fees

Hotel Saint Vincent occupies a converted 19th-century orphanage in the Lower Garden District, and the building does most of the talking: high ceilings, wrought iron, tiled floors, and rooms that feel more like an old New Orleans apartment than a hotel. San Lorenzo handles the Mediterranean side of things, there's a coffee shop for slower mornings, and the courtyard pool with its bar is where the place actually comes alive in the evening. Two bars and a run of nightly receptions give it a social, unhurried rhythm rather than a polished corporate one. It suits people who want a hotel with some age and eccentricity to it, not a glass tower with a view.'It trades the address of the Quarter or the CBD for a quieter, more residential stretch of the city, which is exactly the point for some travellers and a drawback for others who want to walk out the door into the noise.

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The Pontchartrain Hotel★★★★

8.4/10 guest score 319 reviews from $225/night 4-star

+ $61 taxes & fees

The Pontchartrain sits in the Garden District, an old-guard hotel with the kind of formality that comes from decades of hosting the same city's society events, and it holds its place here on the strength of that atmosphere rather than any single flashy feature. Rooms lean traditional, with flat-screen televisions as the one obvious concession to the present, plush seating, and bathrooms stocked with robes and proper toiletries. The Silver Whistle Café covers breakfast, and there's a more eclectic dining option on-site for evenings, plus a bar that has its own local reputation. It works well for guests who want a slower, more genteel version of New Orleans, away from Bourbon Street's crowds. What it gives up against the top of this list is the immediacy of the French Quarter and some of the design distinctiveness of the newer boutique arrivals.

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Hotel Monteleone★★★★

9.2/10 guest score 1,060 reviews from $615/night 4-star

Free cancellation available

Hotel Monteleone has been in the same family for generations and sits a block from Bourbon Street, which makes it as much a piece of the city's furniture as a hotel. The Carousel Bar, with its slowly rotating counter, is the reason many people book here at all, and Criollo restaurant handles the serious eating without much fuss. There's a heated rooftop pool, a proper spa, and a fitness centre, so the amenity list is broad even if the rooms themselves are more traditional than daring, done in a fridge-and-safe kind of practicality rather than any striking design statement. It suits travellers who want a genuine slice of French Quarter history and don't mind trading some room-level polish for the address and the bar. Ranked here, it gives up some of the intimacy and design ambition of the hotels above it, but not the sense of being somewhere specifically New Orleans.

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Hotel Le Marais★★★

9.0/10 guest score 1,229 reviews from $217/night 3-star

Free cancellation

Hotel Le Marais sits deep in the French Quarter, close enough to Bourbon Street to hear it, and the rooms lean toward a fairly standard elegant-modern template with flat-screen televisions and bathrobes rather than any strong local character. Its saltwater pool, heated and set for evening use, along with a quiet courtyard, are the best reasons to linger rather than just sleep here, and the fitness centre and shared spaces round it out for guests who want more than a bed. It's a reasonable pick for people prioritising walkability to the Quarter's nightlife over architectural distinction. Set this far down the list, it concedes both the historic weight of the older hotels above it and the design ambition of the boutique properties, offering convenience and comfort instead.

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Henry Howard Hotel★★★

9.6/10 guest score 106 reviews 3-star

Henry Howard Hotel takes its name from the 19th-century architect associated with the Garden District mansion it partly occupies, and the terrace and garden views are the most distinctive thing it offers, a genuinely pleasant spot to sit with a drink at the end of the day. It's a smaller, quieter operation, with a communal living room that gives it a boarding-house warmth rather than a big-hotel formality, and a bar/lounge plus a daily continental breakfast cover the basics without excess. This is the pick for someone who wants a low-key, residential-feeling stay in the Garden District and doesn't need a pool, spa, or restaurant on-site. Closing out this list, it trades scale and amenity range for intimacy and a genuinely handsome outdoor space, which is a fair exchange for the right guest but a real absence for anyone wanting more from their hotel.

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