Thread by @BeingNOLA

Some NOLA hotel tips: The Melpomene Suite @ the Pontchartrain Hotel is great for impressing people - it has a piano in it (once played by Stevie Wonder), you can get it for amazingly low rates sometimes. Would cost $1,000's in other cities. Has two bedrooms, so 4 people can stay.

The suites at the Pere Marquette are also astonishingly great value, huge amounts of room, one has a corner bathtub that's pretty great.

Le Pavillon has a bunch of great suites that aren't obvious when you go to the website. You can get some of them for under $300 for two bedrooms (rack rate over $1,200).

I'm a big fan of The Troubadour. Its interior design is fantastic if you like that slightly retro/Mad Men look, and the prices are very reasonable. Great rooftop.

I stayed at the new One11 Hotel just opposite Canal Place recently and thought that was good value. Has that exposed brick/Edison light bulb thing going on, and BOUDIN EGG ROLLS on the menu at the restaurant.

If you can score a good rate at the Audubon Cottages, the pool in their courtyard is the oldest in the French Quarter and really lovely and secluded. Cottages come with private (some shared with one other) courtyards, too.

In terms of hotel restaurants and bars, I like Compere Lapin at The Old 77, and Hot Tin (also at The Pontchartrain) has great city skyline views that you can't see from many places in the city.

Maison de la Luz is on the more expensive end, but if you stay there, hotel guests get their own plush secret bar behind a bookcase and you feel very important sliding into it in front of the people in the regular bar.

Oops quick caveat on this - there are two 'Melpomene' suites and only one has the piano, so check when you book if you want that! They're both very swish though.

Le Pavillon has a nightly (10pm?) free PB&J service that you don't have to be a guest to indulge in (thanks, @AlisonF_NOLA for the reminder).

Final Le Pavillon fact: one suite (which I have not been privy to) has a marble bathtub said to have belonged to Big Napoleon B, one of only three in existence. One in a private collection, one on the Louvre (?!) and one here.

Your buttocks could rest on the same smooth surface as Old Boney. Quite a thought.

If you haven't been inside the Hyatt Regency, it's worth a look around just for the architecture. Take that glass elevator for a novel view of the Superdome.