The Royal Sonesta New Orleans

We are world travelers. This is the first hotel where we were charged extra for arriving an hour before and getting in the room an hour earlier. My point is the hotel has that room reserved for its travelers, so how does arriving just an hour ahead one has to pay extra. Also most hotels provide one bottle of water free. At Royal Sonesta a bottle of water costs $8. Hotel wise great location, clean and nice.

We arrived at about midnight, Saturday, October 26, 2024. We had a reservation. My wife had called and confirmed. NO room. Instead, given a marginal room at Marriot though Royal Sonesta paid. Never again though often a nola visitor! Poor experience!!

Hotel is lovely and staff were very nice especially Caleb and Wade. It’s convenient that it’s on Bourbon street but can also annoying bc you can hear base and music all night even if you’re in the back of the hotel as we were. If you’re not one who can sleep through noise, I wouldn’t recommend this place. Had to watch the Tyson fight on my phone bc they didn’t have smart tvs in the room. It was one of the most remedial tvs I have seen in a long time. Trying to charge anything bedside was a challenge. The outlets are very loose. Barely stayed plugged in. Bathroom is decent but there wasn’t hot water during our three day stay in Nov so that was a bummer.

A beautiful hotel on Bourbon Street ! That captures the spirit of this hotel. We were there while they were decorating for the holidays, and that added to its ambiance. Driving to the hotel was a bit of challenge--Bourbon street before a football game, construction street closures, etc.--but we persevered and succeeded. Parking was well managed. We arrived at 1:30pm and was offered a choice of "early checkin" for $70 or wait until 4 pm--neither being very satisfactory. We had a room at the back of the hotel, and it was quiet. No breakfast, but Cafe du Monde is a great backup.

Excellent clean high quality hotel in the heart of Bourbon St. Food and drink served at the Desire Oyster Bar were great as was PJ’s coffee shop for quick morning coffee’s and pastries. We selected an inside garden view which had the pool right outside on our level and it was nice and quiet not facing the street. We would definitely stay again.