Hotel Monteleone
Hotel · French Quarter
214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Highlights
Iconic hotel with famed Carousel Bar, plush rooms, rooftop pool
Iconic hotel with famed Carousel Bar, plush rooms, rooftop pool
"A storied hotel known for its classic New Orleans character and a famous rotating Carousel Bar, offering guests historic elegance and live-Jazz-era atmosphere that complement evenings spent sampling the city's culinary and music scenes." - Travel + Leisure Editors
"Hotel Monteleone is one of the three New Orleans hotels that have been operating since the 19th-century, and the old-school elegance of Hotel Monteleone's architecturally elaborate entrance leaves no doubt as to the stature of this fine property. The hotel was here before the neighborhood was, and it's seen several incarnations of the French Quarter. The location is ideal—well placed to walk to anywhere downtown and surrounded by the city’s best antiques stores. This is an upscale, mature, and refined crowd, especially by French Quarter standards. Everyone is civil and buttoned up—that is, until after that second martini at the Carousel Bar. And with literary connections to Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote, Hotel Monteleone is a living monument to the Big Easy's sophisticated and storied past." - Paul Oswell
"For a luxurious stay in the heart of the French Quarter, book a suite at Hotel Monteleone."
"This family-run hotel, originally opened in 1886, is steeped in history from its classic furnishings to its esteemed guests. Literary legends William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway have stayed here; Tennessee Williams wrote about the hotel in his play The Rose Tattoo , and Truman Capote was known to prop up the Carousel Bar & Lounge on many a night. The merry-go-round–like bar (which makes a complete revolution every 15 minutes) is probably the hotel’s most famous feature, and a Vieux Carre cocktail there is de rigueur. Guests will also want to visit on-site restaurant Criollo, which offers an updated take on traditional N’awlins fare."
"So here's the story: Antonio Monteleone, a shoe-making nobleman from Sicily who moved to New Orleans in the 1800s and established a cobbler shop, bought this 64-room hotel in 1886. And then he bought another one and merged them together. It's still in the same family today, and it's still a four-star hotel, thanks to multiple renovations over the course of the last century. Incidentally, it's also supposedly haunted, with many reports of ghost sightings and other strange occurrences. Not necessarily a bad thing, since many luminaries have made the hotel their home, including Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Truman Capote. "
