This was a great place to stay, a basic though spacious and comfy home base for exploring NOLA. Jesse is a wonderful host, friendly and gracious, super-responsive and helpful and yet totally out of your way when you don't need him. Bywater is hip, interesting and "real", with lots of cool restaurants, bars, boutiques, local characters and weirdness, close enough to the action to be convenient yet far enough away that you can relax and not be surrounded 24/7 by fellow tourists.