Jay was an excellent host, very kind and welcoming. The apartment ("The Monte Cristo") is nice, and the guest room is comfortable. (There were other guests in different parts of the house and we never knew it except for their cars outside.) Although it's obviously an older building, the whole place was well kept and tidy. The house itself is in a quiet, pretty residential neighborhood a few blocks long, with a secluded feel and streets lined with old live-oak trees. The location is central to many parts of New Orleans, and about a mile from the St Charles streetcar line. The only drawback is that purely pedestrian travel is a bit complicated, especially at night, by the necessity of passing through a slightly rough-seeming neighborhood while en route to those destinations. We had a car and, when using it, felt we were within very easy reach of the Garden District, Magazine St., Uptown, French Quarter, CBD etc. Recommended!