Orleans · Hotel shortlist
The best hotels near New Orleans French Quarter
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These are my five favourites in Orleans, out of the 87 that qualified. I read what other travellers scored them before I picked, so the order follows the guests, 4.7 down to 4.6.
All five are inside 1.0 km of New Orleans French Quarter, so you can walk it.
Highest rated of the five
The Windsor Court
★★★★★4.7 from 1,642 reviews
The Windsor Court comes out on top of this list, and not narrowly: 4.7 from 1,642 guest reviews is a score that holds up at that volume, which is the whole test here. A perfect ten from nine people does not beat it.
It is a 5 star property, found under poi and around $439 a night on the dates we checked.
87 hotels in Orleans qualified for this list and five made it. Olivier House Hotel is the one I would book if the first is full.
All five, ranked
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The Windsor Court
★★★★★4.7 from 1,642 reviews
1.0 km from New Orleans French Quarter, about a 12 minute walk
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2Olivier House Hotel
★★★★★4.8 from 966 reviews
300 m from New Orleans French Quarter, about a 4 minute walk
- Pool
- Parking
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Accessible
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3The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans
★★★★★4.6 from 3,562 reviews
800 m from New Orleans French Quarter, about a 10 minute walk
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4The Mayfair Hotel
★★★★★5 from 316 reviews
800 m from New Orleans French Quarter, about a 10 minute walk
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5The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel
★★★★★4.6 from 6,282 reviews
900 m from New Orleans French Quarter, about a 11 minute walk
How this list was put together
87 Orleans hotels qualify for this list. We ranked them on guest rating first and on how close they are to New Orleans French Quarter second, then took the top five.
Two things decide these lists. The first is my own time in the city: every hotel on this page is one I have stayed in, walked into and looked at, or gone back to check. That is where the shortlist starts, and it is why some well reviewed places are not on it.
The second is the numbers, and those are what set the order. The rating and review count come from the big travel sites, pooled through Google, so a score here reflects Expedia, Booking, Hotels.com and the rest together rather than any one of them. I also read the review breakdown by topic, which is where the figures on service, breakfast and location come from. Hotels with fewer than forty reviews are left out altogether, because a rating that thin is not a rating. No more than two come from one neighbourhood.
What I do not do is move anyone up the order. The ranking is the guest score, highest first, and nobody pays to be on the list.
Distances are straight lines from published coordinates, so the real walk is a little longer. Amenities are as recorded by Google Hotels and can change without notice. Rates are an indicative nightly figure for a midweek autumn stay, not a quote. Check the booking page before you commit.
Talia Ben-Ari Turkey, the Gulf and Egypt
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