Luxury Hotels In New Orleans

Uptown and the Garden District add tree-lined residential streets and mansion architecture to a visit. Magazine Street brings boutique shopping into the same broader outing. Choose this area when your interest is the city's residential scale and shopping streets, rather than adding another museum visit. Allow the neighborhood itself to be the focus of the walk.

General admission covers the exhibit buildings and the USS Tang Submarine Experience. Beyond All Boundaries and the Priddy Family Foundation Freedom Theater are separate additions with an extra charge. Choose general admission for the museum exhibits; add one of those theater experiences when you want it to be part of the visit, rather than assuming it is included.

Crescent Park in Bywater follows the Mississippi River and offers views toward downtown. Its linear paths give a river-focused outing a different pace from indoor cultural visits. Include it when you want time walking or cycling beside the river; choose the park visit for the outdoor setting rather than treating a hotel's river-view room as the whole Mississippi experience.

Preservation Hall offers an intimate, acoustic traditional-jazz experience in the French Quarter. Choose it when the music performance is the focus of the evening. At The Ritz-Carlton, Davenport Lounge combines live jazz with cocktails and light fare, making it a different choice when you want music within a hotel-lounge evening.

Choose the New Orleans Museum of Art for a collection spanning traditions such as Asian, African and Native American art, alongside painting and decorative arts. Choose the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for visual art and culture of the American South, including painting, photography, sculpture and craft.