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What to expect: European antiques and art create an elegant Parisian-salon ambience in this six-story French Quarter hotel. Sharing space in the historical Maison Blanche building with two other properties—the Ritz-Carlton and Iberville Suites—this hotel maintains its own identity, offering service levels and room amenities aimed at discriminating leisure and business travelers.

Amenity highlights: In addition to 24-hour room service and an impressive collection of art, antiques, and fine French furnishings, the Maison Orleans presents five complimentary food and beverage services a day in the elegantly appointed rooms that comprise the hotel’s Le Salon lounges. Guests enjoy signing privileges and access to amenities at the attached Ritz-Carlton Hotel with its five restaurants, pool, sauna, steam room, spa, and business center.

Insider tip: This hotel is two blocks from the terminus of the historical St Charles Avenue Streetcar Line. The streetcars offer regular service from the downtown core to the elegant mansions and universities of the Garden District.

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What to expect: Mirroring the old-world charm of a Garden District mansion, the Ritz-Carlton never fails to impress. Vacationers are greeted in a covered driveway and then ushered to a third-floor lobby decorated with antiques, Italian marble floors, fresh-cut flowers, and Romanian chandeliers. An enclosed courtyard garden provides a refuge from the hustle and bustle of the neighboring French Quarter.

Amenity highlights: Guests enjoy 24-hour room service as well access to a 20,000-square-foot spa offering specialized treatments, including Napoleon’s Royal Massage, named after a treatment favored by the famous emperor himself. The hotel has four restaurants as well as a cigar-friendly Library Lounge. Other highlights include a health club, indoor “resistance” pool, beauty salon, and business center.

Insider tip: Trumpeter Jeremy Davenport is one of New Orleans’ most popular acts. He appears regularly in the Ritz-Carlton’s French Quarter bistro restaurant, drawing tourists and locals. Dancing is encouraged.

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What to expect: Guests enter another world when they pass through an enclosed courtyard into a lobby decorated with fine arts, sculpture, marble floors, live plants, and plush English manor-house furnishings. Vacationers and business travelers appreciate the hotel’s exquisite service standards as well as its location. It’s near the action of the French Quarter, but far enough away to allow for peaceful sleeps.

Amenity highlights: A city within a city, this upscale hotel offers its guests a wide range of business and leisure amenities, including 24-hour room service, a fine-dining restaurant, an intimate lounge, a casual restaurant, a staffed business center, video library, fitness center, heated pool, spa tub, sauna, and steam room. Spa services are also offered by neighboring suppliers, including in-room massage.

Insider tip: The hotel is located across the street from Harrah’s Casino and just two blocks from Riverwalk Marketplace, a half-mile venue comprising 140 shops and restaurants overlooking the Mississippi River.

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What to expect: This new hotel on the edge of the French Quarter welcomes business and leisure travelers. Its intimate lobby has floor-to-ceiling windows, cushioned bay seats, and an antique-style mural. Bourbon Street is right outside, and Canal Street shops are steps away.

Amenity highlights: The Alexa is connected to the Astor Hotel next door, allowing guests full access to the larger hotel's amenities, including a rooftop pool, spa, and fitness center. The Astor also has a New Orleans-style seafood restaurant and oyster bar, Dickie Brennan's Bourbon House.

Insider tip: Bourbon Street, home to all manner of nightlife, is right outside the hotel door. The Canal Street Plaza, an upscale shopping mall and home to the city's only art cinema, is 5 blocks away.

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What to expect: Opened in 2002, this elegant hotel greets guests in a vast, cream-colored lobby with vaulted ceilings, wrought-iron light fixtures, clustered seating areas, and marble floors. Although it feels like an immaculate vacation resort, it attracts business and convention travelers, too.

Amenity highlights: The third-floor rooftop pool area has a swimming pool and a spa, with a view of rowdy Bourbon Street. Just off the hotel lobby is a bar and restaurant run by one of New Orleans' best-known food families, the Brennans.

Insider tip: The hotel is located at the edge of the French Quarter, with easy access to Bourbon Street nightlife (right outside the door), upscale shopping at the Canal Street Plaza (5 blocks away), and Harrah's Casino (also 5 blocks away).

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What to expect: With its 1913 facade and 10,000 square feet of conference space, the Chateau Sonesta offers conveniences and services for business travelers and a prime French Quarter location for vacationers. The piano bar is just off the lobby, which is decorated in a muted pastel color scheme. Amenity highlights: The hotel is home to one of the city's most popular restaurants, Ralph Brennan's Red Fish Grill. The second floor features a large outdoor patio and a separate outdoor pool area. Insider tip: The Chateau's companion hotel, the Royal Sonesta, 2 blocks away on Bourbon Street, has its own fine restaurant, Beuge's.

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What to expect: Built in the grand New Orleans tradition, this deluxe hotel located in the business district has been a meeting place in the city for 100 years. Gilded columns lit by crystal chandeliers greet guests in a lobby once frequented by singers Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Business and leisure travelers return for the top-notch service and historical ambience one block from the French Quarter.

Amenity highlights: In addition to a business center and 24-hour room service, guests enjoy extensive leisure amenities located on a rooftop deck. These include two tennis courts, an adjacent 40-foot heated pool, and a fitness center offering cardio and strength-training equipment. The hotel has a fine-dining restaurant that serves classic Creole cuisine, and two lounges. Wireless high-speed Internet access (surcharge) is available in the lobby. The hotel also offers a beauty salon and gift shop.

Insider tip: This hotel is located within a two-block radius of famous oyster restaurants, including Acme Oyster House, Felix’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar, and Lenny’s Piccadilly Lounge.

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What to expect: In addition to its enviable location on the banks of the Mississippi River, this grand hotel is conveniently located next to the convention center. It is also across the street from Harrah’s Casino, and attached to Riverwalk Marketplace with its 140 shops and restaurants. Business and leisure travelers appreciate the Hilton’s superior service standards along with the magnificent city and river views.

Amenity highlights: This hotel offers wireless Internet access in public areas (surcharge) as well as extensive business services and equipment rental through its business center. Guests enjoy two pools and a health club (surcharge), basketball and tennis courts, and squash and racquetball courts. Dining options include two restaurants—one with views of the river—and a sports bar, lobby bar, and coffee shop.

Insider tip: This hotel borders on New Orleans’ arts district, home to numerous private and public art galleries, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The neighborhood also offers the National D-Day Museum, Aquarium of the Americas, IMAX, and the Louisiana Children’s Museum.

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What to expect: With its vaulted brick ceiling and unique architectural details, the hotel’s 1928 structure does little to hide its past as a Masonic temple. Behind the Moorish façade is a truly boutique hotel—a lobby that's more living room than meeting spot, a front desk that looks like an oversized, alligator-skin steamer trunk, and, during the early evening happy hour, complimentary chair massages and wine. Amenity highlights: This hotel is home to Cobalt, an award-winning restaurant, featuring regional cuisine. Not only is the hotel pet-friendly, but guests who arrive without pets are provided goldfish upon request. The streetcar stops right outside the door. The 6,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space include such faux historical touches as pyramid bricks and angled doorways, and stained and leaded glass is predominant throughout the hotel.

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What to expect: Opened in 1886, this family-run hotel always has been a magnet for famous visitors, including writers Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. The ornate lobby—filled with antiques, oriental rugs, plush furnishings, and architectural flourishes—makes this hotel a destination all on its own. Leisure and business travelers enjoy the modern rooms and timeless ambience.

Amenity highlights: In addition to its rooftop pool and fitness center, this hotel has a business center with a DSL outlet for laptops as well as two computers equipped with high-speed Internet access (fees charged). The revolving Carousel Bar is famous for its specialty drinks, historical atmosphere, and reputation as a favored haunt for some of America's most renowned writers. The hotel also features a designer fashion store for men.

Insider tip: This hotel serves as a gateway to the French Quarter and is less than one half-mile from Jackson Square, an inner-city green space surrounded by wide pedestrian walkways teeming with street performers, musicians, and tarot readers.

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What to expect: Overlooking the Louisiana Superdome, this towering convention hotel sets a striking pose against the New Orleans skyline. Its atrium lobby, reaching the full height of the building, creates a massive interior space that makes the hotel feel like a city within a city. Business and leisure travelers appreciate its quiet location near—but not in—the French Quarter.

Amenity highlights: Guests enjoy complimentary shuttle service to the French Quarter. Other amenities include a heated pool and spa tub on a large deck, a health club, and spa. The business center offers computer workstations with high-speed Internet access (surcharge). The hotel also has a sports bar and two restaurants, including a revolving fine-dining restaurant on the penthouse level featuring spectacular views of the city and Mississippi River.

Insider tip: This hotel is connected by interior corridors to the Louisiana Superdome, home of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. These same interior corridors allow air-conditioned access to the New Orleans Shopping Center.

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What to expect: With its colonnaded lobby bathed in natural light and decorated with antiques and fine art, Iberville Suites is a deluxe retreat at the edge of the French Quarter. The hotel shares space with the Ritz-Carlton in the historic Maison Blanche building originally constructed in 1908. Vacationers and business travelers return for the spacious all-suite accommodations and top-notch service standards.

Amenity highlights: Guests enjoy 24-hour room service and complimentary Continental breakfast daily as well as signing privileges at the attached Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Ritz-Carlton amenities include a business center, five restaurants and lounges, an indoor resistance pool, steam room, sauna, and spa tub. The Ritz-Carlton also features a 20,000-square-foot spa and several designer boutiques.

Insider tip: This hotel is two blocks from Royal Street, renowned for its many art and antique shops offering both contemporary and historical arts and artifacts.

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What to expect: The large second-floor lobby of this business-friendly hotel feels like that of a modern Manhattan office building. Leather chairs are grouped in conversational clusters, where there's much trading of business cards and chatting on cellphones.

Amenity highlights: The hotel offers four different places to eat, from a traditional pub to a restaurant serving fine regional cuisine. Guests have complimentary use of a mirror-lined health club and a rooftop swimming pool, with changing rooms and showers.

Insider tip: Mother's Restaurant, a favorite of tourists and local politicos for its down-home cooking, is 3 blocks away; the roast beef sandwiches, jambalaya and weekday specials are highly recommended. Lafayette Square, 2 blocks away, is a well-shaded public park facing historic Gallier Hall. The city sometimes hosts free concerts in the park.

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What to expect: Modern furnishings make peace with the original interior ornamentation of this 1906 beaux arts-style building. There's also a subtle voodoo theme, thanks to votive candles and ritual artifacts displayed as artwork. Located just 2 blocks from the French Quarter, the hotel caters to style-conscious travelers who appreciate its artful, Zen-like restfulness. Amenity highlights: Thick padded couches and a bar off the lobby named for the voodoo word for divine spirit (loa) set the tone for a hotel that emphasizes comfort and style, with standard high-speed Internet access, turndown service, designer toiletries, and artwork by local artists. There's also 10,000 feet of banquet/meeting space. The Lemon Grass Restaurant, popular with locals, features fine French-Vietnamese dining.

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What to expect: The Lafayette, one of the first buildings in the city to offer modern plumbing, has stayed true to the region's unique architecture. A small interior balcony with the traditional, cast-iron New Orleans banister overlooks the reception desk. Ground-floor rooms have 10-foot ceilings and elegant crown moldings. Guests include leisure travelers in town to explore, and business travelers looking for a relatively short walk to the convention center.

Amenity highlights: The hotel's restaurant serves contemporary spins on New Orleans cuisine, including greens-stuffed pork chops and plenty of Gulf seafood. The restaurant's bar has a packed humidor.

Insider tip: Some of the city's most celebrated chefs have restaurants within walking distance, including Emeril Lagasse's namesake restaurant (5 blocks away) and Susan Spicer's Herbsaint (1 block). Every Saturday morning, a local farmer's market is set up 2 blocks away.

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What to expect: An architectural landmark that was originally constructed in 1907, Le Pavillon’s lavish yet inviting lobby features Parisian woodwork, Italian marble flooring, and Czech crystal chandeliers. Vacationers and business travelers choose this historic property for its grand opulence, first-class service standards, and convenient location near the French Quarter and the central business district.

Amenity highlights: In addition to its “Old New Orleans” ambience, Le Pavillon offers guests a 30-foot pool and spa tub located on a rooftop deck featuring views of the city and the Mississippi River. The hotel has a fine-dining restaurant, the Crystal Room, plus a lounge with the look and feel of a private club. Complimentary hot chocolate and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are served nightly in the lobby, and there is 24-hour room service.

Insider tip: The hotel is two blocks from St Charles Avenue and its famous streetcar line. Sightseers enjoy its route from the edge of the French Quarter to the opulent mansions of the Garden District.

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What to expect: Le Richelieu caters to families and romantic travelers with its quiet, private rooms. It's in the heart of the French Quarter, but away from the fray. The location, on a residential street 1 block from a historic convent, feels like a step back in time. The hotel's period furnishings make it a distinctly New Orleans experience. Amenity highlights: The complimentary parking is unusual for New Orleans hotels. There are also an outdoor pool and patio, and local calls are free. The rooms are individually decorated, many featuring balconies or views of the courtyard and pool. Modest conference rooms hold up to 12 people. Insider tip:The hotel is perfect for families, because it's away from the bustle of Bourbon Street. There's lots to do within walking distance, including the historic Ursuline Convent, built in 1750, and the old U.S. Mint.