My friend and I had the unfortunate experience of visiting New Orleans for the first time during Hurricane Ida! Although the Airbnb was nice and the hosts were super helpful and accommodating, there could have been more communication about how to go about dealing with the natural disaster as we lost power on our third night there and couldn’t fly back out to our city because of New Orleans being almost completely shut down. I have a lot love for this city even though I didn’t get to explore it much, the folk here are like no other, they helped in so many ways by lending food, letting us charge our phones and connecting with us through our personal lives. Despite the natural disaster, there is smell of mildew in the basement as expected but something to consider if you have respiratory issues and if you plan on saving $ from eating out after relief from Ida finally kicks in, there is a mini fridge and a hot plate available - so you will have to adjust to your resources available to you. Affordable to say the least, I’m hoping I can work with Airbnb to maybe even get reimbursed from the natural disaster.