Where Should I stay for Mardi Gras?

Question:

Thanks for any help you could provide and thanks also just for your time.

Answers:

It depends on how hammered you are going to get. If you stay in Gretna, the hotels are cheaper. You can drive to the Algiers ferry and park your car, and ride the ferry across to canal street in the French quarter. Or you can stay in fat city, which is at the other end of canal street and out toward lake Pontchartrain. They have a Sheraton out there. I think it is in Metarie. The closer you stay to downtown, the more expensive the hotel will be. Many are booked for years in advance during Mardi Gras, but since Katrina... I don't know. Make your reservation early is all I can say.

Hope you have a great time!

First time nice! well during that time alot of hotel's jack their prices up so if you are trying to save money i would recommend u try hotels farther from the city like in the New Orleans East which is like 8 miles from downtown has a couple of hotels of the interstate 10 like Hampton, Best Western Avalon and La Quinta u would see them if you were driving from the East. Or you can try hotels near the airport like the Radisson on Veterans Blvd(12 miles) pretty reasonable their. To me any hotel off the interstate away from the city will be good on prices. But when u say its your first time! You would regret it if you didn't stay downtown during all the mayhem to look out your hotel window and its 330am and the party is still going on Canal Street is priceless.( not saying u may not be out there during that time) And when u say Antique touches u will only see that if u are staying in a a hole in the wall hotel in the french quarter.

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