The Room of Seven Gables
New Orleans travelog #3
Hotel Lemoyne - Saturday, 22 Apr 2023, 11am
I'm trying a different approach to the problem of getting backlogged on blogging about trips. Oh, I'm still absolutely sure I'll get backlogged, but recognizing that it's pictures that hold up my flow, I'm going to try keeping up with things day-by-day with text and then add color (heh) with pictures as I have time, in separate entries. That's why one of the first things I did in New Orleans, take pictures of our slightly unusual hotel room, didn't appear in yesterday's blog. (Nor did pics from Bourbon Street; those will come later.)
As we rode in from the airport I noticed the architecture around New Orleans. I pretty much always notice the architecture everywhere I go. When I was younger architect was one of the careers I aspired to.
New Orleans is an older city, by US standards, and has long been a trade hub. As we passed downtown I saw a lot of Art Deco buildings... that were abandoned. That's the other part of Nola's history.... It hasn't always done well. A history or endemic corruption and inability to adapt to changing economic forces has left the city a shell of its former self, economically.
Anyway, our hotel! No, it's not a shell of its former self. But it is an older building that's been repurposed and/or retrofitted over time. To get to our room on the second floor, we took the elevator up, then walked to the end of the corridor, then out a door to the outside, then down a few steps to and outdoor walkway.
"Which of these doors is ours?" I wondered.
The answer, strangely enough, is All of them!
The hotel upgraded us to a suite- yay, elite status! But it's an oddly laid out suite. It's 10 feet deep and 50 feet wide. The door enters to a sitting room (above). A short corridor passes the bathroom to the bedroom.
In the bedroom there's a second TV and an armchair (not pictured). And all those windows!
Leaving the room was slightly easier than getting to it the first time. Just around the corner from our balcony/breezeway is a stair. It leads down to the pool area. We can cross the pool deck, enter through doors into the lobby, then out the lobby to Dauphine Street, just 1 block from the famed Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter.
Hotel Lemoyne - Saturday, 22 Apr 2023, 11am
I'm trying a different approach to the problem of getting backlogged on blogging about trips. Oh, I'm still absolutely sure I'll get backlogged, but recognizing that it's pictures that hold up my flow, I'm going to try keeping up with things day-by-day with text and then add color (heh) with pictures as I have time, in separate entries. That's why one of the first things I did in New Orleans, take pictures of our slightly unusual hotel room, didn't appear in yesterday's blog. (Nor did pics from Bourbon Street; those will come later.)
As we rode in from the airport I noticed the architecture around New Orleans. I pretty much always notice the architecture everywhere I go. When I was younger architect was one of the careers I aspired to.
New Orleans is an older city, by US standards, and has long been a trade hub. As we passed downtown I saw a lot of Art Deco buildings... that were abandoned. That's the other part of Nola's history.... It hasn't always done well. A history or endemic corruption and inability to adapt to changing economic forces has left the city a shell of its former self, economically.
Anyway, our hotel! No, it's not a shell of its former self. But it is an older building that's been repurposed and/or retrofitted over time. To get to our room on the second floor, we took the elevator up, then walked to the end of the corridor, then out a door to the outside, then down a few steps to and outdoor walkway.
"Which of these doors is ours?" I wondered.
The answer, strangely enough, is All of them!
The hotel upgraded us to a suite- yay, elite status! But it's an oddly laid out suite. It's 10 feet deep and 50 feet wide. The door enters to a sitting room (above). A short corridor passes the bathroom to the bedroom.
In the bedroom there's a second TV and an armchair (not pictured). And all those windows!
Leaving the room was slightly easier than getting to it the first time. Just around the corner from our balcony/breezeway is a stair. It leads down to the pool area. We can cross the pool deck, enter through doors into the lobby, then out the lobby to Dauphine Street, just 1 block from the famed Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter.