French Quarter · stay 1 of 9
A French Quarter weekend package to reserve around one shaded courtyard
This French Quarter weekend package puts you in a small hotel built around a brick courtyard on the quiet lower end of the Quarter, where the streets are mostly houses and the mornings belong to people sweeping their galleries.
- Corner
- Royal and Dumaine
- Walk to the square
- 5 minutes, 0.2 miles
- Nights
- Three
- Offered
- September through May
from $340 per person, two sharing a room $680 for the two of you
Where you sleep
Royal Street and Dumaine Street cross in the residential half of the Quarter. Hotels on these blocks are converted townhouses and their old rear buildings, turned into rooms around a courtyard, usually twenty to forty rooms, with a fountain, banana plants and a stair climbing to a gallery. Rooms facing the courtyard are quieter than rooms facing the street, and the quote says which one you have.
Rooms, classes and suppers counted in the figure
- Three nights in a small courtyard hotel on the lower Quarter streets, a room for two. Whatever nightly charge the hotel puts on every guest is counted inside, near Royal and Dumaine, not added at checkout.
- A Creole cooking demonstration with lunch at the table, in a cooking school's own kitchen.
- Held seats for one early evening set in a small music room at the edge of the Quarter.
- One French Quarter courtyard weekend itinerary in writing: who each supplier is, where to find it from Royal and Dumaine, and the terms it keeps for changes.
Left for you: the road, the taxes, the valet
- Getting to New Orleans and back. From the Atlanta office the drive is about 470 miles; how you travel is yours to choose and arrange.
- Louisiana and New Orleans hotel taxes and the per-room nightly charge set by the state and city, both collected by the hotel. The quote shows them in dollars.
- Meals beyond those named above, and tips for staff.
- Parking. Hotels in the Quarter and downtown usually charge for it by the night.
- Streetcar and taxi fares in the city.
The ironwork on these galleries is cast, not forged, and most of it went up in the middle of the nineteenth century. Look up at the corners of the blocks around Royal and Dumaine and you will see vines, grapes and cornstalks worked into the railings.
Months this stay suits, and months it fights
January and the stretch from September to December are the sensible months: cool enough to walk at noon, with ordinary room rates. February, March and April carry parade and festival weeks, when Quarter hotels set minimum stays and higher nights, so the from-price here starts in January and the quote shows the real figure for your week. June through August are left out on purpose; the Quarter in July is hot from breakfast on.
Where the French Quarter courtyard weekend's $340 per person comes from: January is its least costly month, when the federal room figure for New Orleans is $162 a night. Halve that for each of three nights near Royal and Dumaine, then add $95 per person for the two named pieces.
Confirmed by each supplier once you say yes
The hotel confirms the room type and whether its nightly charge covers anything beyond the room. The cooking school confirms the date of the demonstration, which runs on set days. The music room confirms the set time and how many seats it will hold for you.
Until you say yes, no hotel room near Royal and Dumaine and no seat is held. After it, you pay the hotel and each operator for the French Quarter courtyard weekend directly, each on its own terms, and each sends written confirmation for your three nights. The form below already has the French Quarter courtyard weekend checked.
5 minutes from Royal and Dumaine to the square, traced street by street; the faint lines are the other eight walks.
Price this stay for your own dates
The form takes New Orleans requests 24/7. A planner in the Atlanta office answers in writing by the end of the next planning day, Tuesday to Saturday, with a written quote that names the hotel and every operator, their prices and their own cancellation terms.
Rather talk it through? +1 (404) 876-6517. Planning calls Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern.