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Good Rate :: $189 per night for Jazzfest at Pelham New Orleans

April 24, 2007 at 12:15 PM | 0 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quotes here were captured April 24, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

In the years before Hurricane Katrina ripped up New Orleans, getting a decent price on a hotel room during Jazzfest was like trying to find a bargain in Louisville during the Kentucky Derby. Your gambling odds were better at the track or casino. Some hotels in New Orleans still haven't caught onto the fact that things are different in the Big Easy (see this week's Bad Rate), but for this year there are still good deals out there for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which is the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May.

We're not big fans of staying in the French Quarter of New Orleans during a big party weekend. After you've been drinking since noon, getting a good night's sleep at the end is kind of nice. The hotels on the other side of Canal from Bourbon Street are quieter and a better value, yet are a five-minute walk from the bar-hopping and restaurants. The Pelham Hotel New Orleans gets good reviews from guests for service and there's a nice sense of history instead of it looking like a bland cookie-cutter chain hotel.

Here's a bonus: if you stay through Sunday night for some recovery time, you get the third night for less than $60. Grab that rate from the Pelham Hotel site, then go out and put the bucks you saved back into the New Orleans economy--they could use it.

Related Stories:
· Bad Rate: $642 for a Ramada room during Jazzfest [HotelChatter]
· The Pelham Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]