I booked this hotel on their website with no problems. The location is great, mid-between the French Quarter and the Garden District, both really accessible from the St. Charles street car stop right across the street. It's $1.25 each way for all streetcars, but you can get an all day pass at the desk for $3, or go down to the small market a few blocks down on the same side of the street for a 3 day pass. The hotel staff is nice and will help set up tours, but you can do this either on their computer (free internet) or call from your room. My room was comfy, with a mirror on the ceiling :) They do have balconies, but I wasn't able to get a room with it, instead my view was a blank wall across the alley, but that was ok. The window had a crack in it, housekeeping didn't clean inbetween days in my room, but I saw they did in others. Wasn't a problem though. The shower didn't work for me, but can't say it was broken...may have just been me. Baths were great though. The bed was a king and REALLY comfortable. Staff accomodated a wake up call. They are at the desk until 3am and very helpful with directions and safety measures. GREAT pizza literally 2 steps next door, and great BBQ on corner, 30 seconds away. Would stay here again, definitely. Oh, best part, $59 a night. Can't beat that!

The Avenue Garden Hotel is a nice, small hotel in the Garden District in New Orleans. Located near a bunch of good (and relatively inexpensive) restaurants, it is in a good neighborhood, with easy access to a trolley that takes you to the French Quarter. We had a sizable group (8 people) and the staff bent over backwards to make our stay enjoyable. All of that and price was hard to beat. If you don't expect anything too fancy you will be very satisfied.

Property is renovated old structure. The style of the hotel give lots of old city feel with most modern conveniences. Was there same weekend as a youth group, so they were a bit noisy, but that can happen in any hotel.
trolly stop is right across the street and takes you all the way to canal and st. charles.

I'm really picky about what hotels I book, so after extensive searching I settled on the Avenue Garden Hotel. I usually book through discount travel sites, but it was cheaper in this case to book directly from the hotel's website. We'd booked a Tues-Thurs nights and then changed it to Wed-Fri nights. Since we did this, the hotel called and said the only way they could have us three nights without making us switch rooms was to put us in the honeymoon suite. They upgraded us free of charge, which was exciting!

We had the room with the big round bed. What the other reviews said about this room was true--there was a rip in the comforter and small spots on it, but we never sleep with hotel comforters anyway, so we threw it on the floor and turned the heat up so we wouldn't need it. (It was in the 30's and raining in New Orleans the weekend we stayed!) The fun thing about this bed was the huge mirror on the ceiling!

At first we were frustrated because--like the reviews said--the room was very dim. As I went to lock the door at night, though, I noticed a small bar on the light switch--the room has a dimmer switch! We turned it up and the lights were very bright!! It was romantic to be able to dim the lights, too.

The tub was slow draining. I had to fiddle with it because it had closed. The bathroom was nice, though. There was a rainfall shower head which would have been nicer if there'd been a little more pressure, but it was fine all the same and there was plenty of hot water.


There was extended basic cable and a DVD player. I wish we'd known; I would have brought some movies.

The worst part about the hotel was the noise. We didn't hear as much noise as we thought we would from the pizzeria, but the windows were thin enough to hear the traffic through. I plugged my ears up with tissues and slept fine, and my husband slept fine without them. I can see how this would bother some people, though. It was a nuisance.

Overall, this room wasn't perfect, but for $60 a night it can't be beat. If the management would put just a little work into this room--double-paned windows, a new comforter or simply a good stitching and heavy-duty cleaning of the old one, and a more reliable internet service (we were able to get on every now and then for about ten minutes at a time), then they could charge much more for this room and surely make their investment back.

The location was great: on St. Charles just a short street car ride from the French Quarter. Also, you must try The Slice, VooDoo BBQ, and Sushi Brothers while you're at the AGH. Their proximity to the hotel was a definite bonus for AGH! The garage had plenty of parking, even on Friday night. We never had trouble finding a spot.