The Bywater Parlor was the perfect spot for our inaugural trip to NOLA. If you stay here and don't leave seduced by her siren song then New Orleans is likely not the city for you. Joshua and Gary have cultivated a bastion of charm and your surroundings will draw you in. And the Bywater is extremely special in its own right. The only downside would be for the lightest of sleepers who may scoff at the sounds of the trail that passes by at irregular hours, but for most a small prize to pay to live like a local in an extraordinary locale.