Faubourg Marigny · stay 2 of 9
Frenchmen Street music weekend: reserve a guesthouse within earshot of the bandstands
This Frenchmen Street music weekend keeps you in a guesthouse thirteen minutes from Jackson Square and a short walk from the block of Frenchmen Street where live bands play most nights of the week.
- Corner
- Chartres and Frenchmen
- Walk to the square
- 13 minutes, 0.6 miles
- Nights
- Three
- Offered
- any month of the year
from $315 per person, two sharing a room $630 for the two of you
Where you sleep
Chartres Street meets Frenchmen Street at the river end of the Faubourg Marigny, the neighborhood just downriver from the Quarter. The guesthouses here are Creole cottages and side halls with tall shuttered doors opening straight onto the sidewalk, often four to ten rooms with a shared courtyard. Light sleepers should say so: a room at the back is the one to ask for.
Rooms, classes and suppers counted in the figure
- Three nights in a guesthouse in a restored Creole cottage in the Marigny, a room for two; the guesthouse's own nightly charge, if it has one, sits inside this figure for Chartres and Frenchmen.
- A held table and a set supper menu at a room with a live band, one evening.
- Seats for a seated evening concert in a small music hall, a second evening.
- An itinerary for the Marigny music nights that names the guesthouse and each operator, with its address and its own rules for changes after you reserve.
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.
A sousaphone carries the bass line in a New Orleans brass band. On a small stage it stands beside the trumpet, and in a room this size you hear both without a single microphone.
Months this stay suits, and months it fights
It works in any month, which is why the from-price starts in June, when the federal lodging figure for the city is at its yearly low. The music does not stop in summer, though the evenings stay warm and many rooms in the neighborhood are small and close. Late April and early May are the busiest weeks on Frenchmen Street.
Behind the $315 per person for the Marigny music nights: a room at $138 a night, the federal number for New Orleans in June, taken three times near Chartres and Frenchmen and shared by two, then $105 per person for the two named pieces.
Confirmed by each supplier once you say yes
The music room confirms the evening, the band, the time of the set and the menu of the supper. The music hall confirms the second evening and the seats. The guesthouse confirms the room and its stairs, because several of these cottages put the rooms one floor up.
A Marigny music nights quote holds nothing near Chartres and Frenchmen. Accept it and you pay the guesthouse and each operator directly under their own terms, with confirmations for all three nights arriving in your inbox. The form at the foot of this page starts from it.
Red: the 13-minute route from Chartres and Frenchmen. Pale lines: every other stay's route, all on one scale.
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.