My girlfriend and I booked a cruise sailing from New-Orleans. The hotel we initially planned to stay at was fully booked so we found this rustic hotel in NOLA, a 7 minutes drive to the port. We spent 2 days there from Feb 21-23 so exactly during Mardi Gras. The hotel location is perfect. It is far enough from all the crowd and parade to not hear it too much from our room but close enough to walk it (a 7-8 minutes walk). It is close to great restaurants such as Sofia ($$$$), the grocery store, pharmacy, etc.
The room is a great size. Lots of spaces. We had a king bed, separate living room with rustic couches and a TV with Chromecast capabilities, kitchenette with a full size electric range, Nespresso coffee machine with pods. Please note that the TV doesn’t have the cable for regular TV so you need to stream everything from your phone: Netflix, Prime Video, your local TV app, etc.
The room also has a dryer/washer in the same appliance. This is pretty cool. I had never seen that before. Basically we would just put our “dirty” clothes in it and start a full wash and dry cycle and leave for the day. We would arrive with our clothes clean and dry. Pretty cool stuff especially when you don’t want to pack too much stuff for the cruise. You can just wash some before onboarding.
The only 2 things I’d say I didn’t like about the room is the shower. The size is good but the bathroom tiles are at the same level as the shower floor so the floor was soaked wet