The description of the property is misleading. It is located quite far from the historic Marigny neighborhood it mentions, and we felt that was unfortunate false advertising.
The actual neighborhood has a few issues — it’s clearly a low-income area of the city and my family and I (who happen to be white) did not feel safe walking any distance away from the unit, especially at night. We chose to take Ubers everywhere, which worked out well but it would have been nice to
have some amenities within walking distance.
We met the next-door neighbor who was a friendly elderly black man. But a couple times at night we heard what sounded like a domestic disturbance with people loudly arguing. We also witnessed many shady-looking characters walking through the neighborhood at all hours — both day and night.
Inside, the unit was clean and somewhat well-kept; there is plenty of room for a large family… but the mattresses are a little soft and thin, the furniture was aged and uncomfortable. But otherwise we felt that we had an adequate stay for the better part of a week there and we made it work.
Next time we will check Google street view before we book based on the AirBNB description of the neighborhood.