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Marriott Completes Its Takeover Of The Maison Blanche Building In NOLA

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 910 Iberville Street [map], New Orleans, LA, United States, 70112
October 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Plenty of time has passed since the historic Maison Blanche building first opened on Canal Street as a department store in 1908. Boy, would we have loved to have been a customer at the store in those days, picking through whatever kinds of hats, shoes, furniture and toothpaste folks used to buy in the 1900s.

These days, however, the building lives in hotel form. Two hotels, to be precise: the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, which opened in 2000, and, until recently, the Iberville Suites.

We say until recently, because the second hotel portion of the building just got taken over by Courtyard by Marriott, effectively sealing the deal on Marriott's deft usurpation of this gleaming Beaux Arts building. They must have been plotting all along!

We railed on Courtyard back in April after news broke of the brand's dark side as a serial code injector (the moniker still makes us chuckle), but jokes aside, we have no beef with their hotels, and in a pinch, they offer perfectly comfy, clean rooms in decent locations.

The Courtyard New Orleans just finished up a multi-million dollar renovation transforming it from the previous Iberville Suites to what it is now. The 230 guest rooms have nice splashes of emerald green, awesome sliding doors separating the living and sleeping areas, and nice wide counters in the bathrooms with tall vanity mirrors.

What's more, there's free WiFi around the whole hotel, a Vieux Carre Cafe serving breakfast sandwiches, flat bread pizzas, and craft beers, and best of all: all guests receive access to the adjoining Ritz-Carlton's spa and pool. Major money-saver!

Rates start at just $99/night, which might have been a lot of money to spend on a hotel back in 1908. But for today's standards (in case you've been living under a rock) that's pretty good!

[Photo: Louisiana World Traveler / Flickr]

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