About Hotel Monteleone
A family-run hotel that dates back to 1886, Hotel Monteleone offers luxury accommodations at the heart of New Orleans. The hotel sits in the iconic French Quarter, close to all of the city’s famous landmarks.
Guestrooms are decorated in a timeless style, featuring high ceilings with crown molding. In-room amenities include cable TV, Keurig coffeemaker, iHome audio center, refrigerator and safe. Complimentary Wi-Fi is available. Guests can enjoy views of the French Quarter or the Mighty Mississippi.
The hotel features a day spa, fitness center and heated rooftop pool. Meetings facilities and a business center are also available.
The award-winning hotel restaurant, Criollo, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and specializes in Creole and Cajun cuisine. The Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge features a revolving bar.
Hotel Monteleone is within walking distance of Bourbon Street, Jackson Square, the French market, and all of the French Quarter’s shops, restaurants and bars. This accommodation is also known as Hotel Monteleone, Hotel New Orleans Monteleone, Monteleone, and Monteleone Hotel.
Positive Reviews
positive:
French Quarter location is spot on.
Located in New Orleans' French Quarter, Hotel Monteleone is at the beating heart of the Crescent City. Guests find that it's possible to walk to just about every famous landmark in New Orleans, including Bourbon Street, Jackson Square and even the Superdome.
positive:
Carousel bar lives up to the hype.
The Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge may be the most famous bar in all of Louisiana. Guests are relieved then to find that it lives up to its reputation. The rotating bar is a spectacle in itself. The only downside is that the bar can become very busy.
positive:
Old South hospitality shines through.
Past guests have reported that the hotel staff is hospitable and friendly, lending a feeling of the Old South to proceedings.
Negative Reviews
negative:
Historic hotel a little rough around the edges.
While many guests thoroughly enjoy their time at Hotel Monteleone, others note that the hotel is looking a little frayed around the edges. This shouldn't come as a big surprise for a building that's more than 120 years old. Chipped paint, peeling wallpaper and soiled carpets are some of the criticisms levied at the hotel.
negative:
Check-in process can prove lengthy.
Some guests report that the check-in process can prove lengthy, with long queues forming quickly. It has also been noted that check-in time, which some find to be fairly late in the day to start with, is sometimes pushed back to early evening.
negative:
Hustle and bustle can get a little too much.
The Monteleone's status as a Historical Hotel of America tempts many non-guests to visit the establishment. Add to this a world-renowned bar, the hotel's favored reputation with ghost-hunters and its central location and you have all the ingredients for a very busy location, something guests have been put off by.