We traveled to this Airbnb for Mardi Gras, to be specific the Saturday prior through Ash Wednesday.
Positives: Fun area, walking distance to the French Market, Frenchmen Street, and Bourbon Street. So many different genres of music within a one block area. We enjoyed going to the bars in the area. You can sit on the front porch to have a drink (or a few) , people watch, listen to music, socialize with passerbys. The host (Megan) is quick to respond to messages.
Negatives: The Wifi connection is pretty bad. I’m not certain why this has not been mentioned before but we have personal phones and work phones (Verizon and AT&T.). The Wifi continuously disconnected on our personal devices. The smart tv in this rental continuously buffered/dropped Wifi connection when watching the Firestick.
The bed is beautiful and spacious but it does have a dip in the mattress.
Lastly, early in the week I contacted the host to inquire about an early check in. The check in was declined which was not an issue, very understandable especially during the Carnival time. However I did ask about dropping off our luggage early. The host gave a 90 minute window prior to our original 3:00 PM check in time to drop off our bags. This was very deceiving since this Airbnb advertises “early luggage drop off” under its amenities. We have no control over the time our flight arrives and in our past Airbnb rental experiences we often use the early luggage drop off as a convenience. This time however we had no option but to either spend hours in the airport waiting to check in or drag our luggage around the French Quarter for several hours. Since we were there for Mardi Gras we unfortunately had to drag around our luggage in the French Quarter. One of the restaurants (Ruby Slippers) we dined at was so kind to allow us to keep our luggage there until we were allowed to drop off at our rental.
We have been customers of Airbnb for several years and and opt to rent an Airbnb over a hotel most of the time depending on our destination. We have been to Mardi Gras a few times. It was deserving of 4 stars and had many positive things going for it however this is the first time we would personally choose not return to an Airbnb that we have rented.