Our room was exactly as described. It's right off of St. Philip street and the gate code and room code worked perfectly. The air conditioner goes down to 70 degrees without freezing up which was great for sleeping. The bathroom is small/cramped but we knew that from previous reviews and it worked. The toilet flushes fine if you do a quick push followed by a longer push on the flushing handle. The refrigerator and everything was working during our visit.
As for location, it's a 5-6 minute walk to Cafe Du Monde and Jackson Square. It's a 7-8 minute walk to the heart of Bourbon Street. It's very French Quarter and the courtyard is lovely.
They gave us parking pointers in the initial emails BUT here's my best parking suggestion: It's FREE parking at Harrah's right now as long as you have a player's card (free card like a grocery rewards card that you get for free from their Casino Rewards desk). No gambling required right now through Summer 2021 it seems.
Even before this, it was free parking with 30 minutes of gambling per day and was like that for years. That can be as easy as putting your player's card into a penny slot machine with a $5 bill and pressing the minimum bet button once a minute. You can even order a beverage while you're sitting there and it only costs the tip (we do $1-2 each).
Anyway, voila free or $5 parking per day instead of the crazy $30-50 per day numbers we kept seeing advertised! The walk from Harrah's is less than 20 minutes, or there's bike taxis for around $20, or Uber/Lyft, or prearranged with this Airbnb's transportation dude which is apparently discounted. 😁
Free street parking around that area from 7pm-7am so we arrived at night, parked in front, dropped our bags in our room, parked at Harrah's, and enjoyed the evening of walking, eating, and drinking as we headed back to the hotel.
New Orleans is a temperate climate so there are many homeless residents, street performers, artists, drug dealers, addicts, tourists, etc around the French Quarter. Lots of people. Everyone seemed friendly enough to just walk past. We were two women on a vacation so we walked with purpose. We also were carrying our preferred protection devices but never felt hassled. Awesome vacation as always.