If your goal is, as mine was, to learn about New Orleans and its people within the space of three days, then you should spend some time here in Huckabuck Village with Liberty Rashad and "Pops" in their jazz- and antique-filled Victorian house in the Treme neighborhood. You will be within walking distance of the French Quarter and Louis Armstrong Park. Bear in mind that you will not be staying in the Garden District--a tourist sector I never made it to. You will be in an older neighborhood that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina, where both New Orleans' beauty (the lush flowers and the painted houses) and its decay will compete for your attention. Liberty is a generous, intelligent, resourceful host who tries to ensure that your stay in New Orleans will be memorable. She made my first airbnb experience a great one.