The Golden Nugget is in a prime location for walking to Bourbon Street -- six blocks to LaFitte's -- and is perfect for hitting the Zulu parade on Mardi Gras day.
You can get on Rampart super easy if you are headed elsewhere in town -- we came to golf and work during Mardi Gras and this was a prime location for us to park our car for free and quickly get out.
Short, do-able walk to Canal Street for your shopping needs or just as long of a walk to Frenchmen Street for music.
There is a cute, cozy coffee shop very close by and a corner store for picking up sundries. Very clean, very well maintained and in an extraordinarily safe part of an historic part of my favorite city. Lots of foot traffic across your front door and a great way to meet new people and make friends.
There is a more than functional kitchen so you should be able to create whatever magical dinner you would like but if you are not dining out in the hidden gems off of the beaten path here then you are missing the point of the culinary delights available to you in this part of town.
Very nice stackable washer/dryer off of the kitchen was badly needed when our clothes were drenched in a storm.
There is a small but functional porch off of the back if you need to smoke in private behind a fence but not the type where you are going to have a crawfish boil.
There are much larger houses (this is a shotgun layout, so if your fellow guest sleeps naked on top of the sheets, you'll have to avert your eyes when headed to the kitchen for a midnight snack) closer to the Quarter but from a dollar per utility perspective, this is a good value for two bachelors or two couples looking for a house.
Lastly and most importantly, Lin is a superb host that reached out to us more than once to make sure that we had everything that we needed as well as providing some lagniappe to us on our first day.
Our sincere thanks to Super Host Lin!