First time I visited the city and of course first time I did Mardi Gras. Need I say that my knowing I shall return to NOLA often and am even considering moving here reflects very well on both the lodging ( a half of the architectural rectangle known as a shotgun house) and on the neighborhood, Algiers Point? About Algiers Point: I was worried about it being a "sketchy" neighborhood but shouldn't have been. It's as interesting as Bywater, has a terrific cafe to get the day started,Tout de Suite cafe, and in a city of bars has a great neighborhood bar of its own, the Old Point. It 'll be your own quiet neighborhood from the bustle. And the use of the FREE 18-hour ferry to get across OldMan river is quite cool.
The house itself is a representative psychological exclamation point of the architectural coolness of the city. For my money there is more lovely old wooden houses to cherish in NOLA than even San Francisco where I presently reside. Living room is followed by a bedroom followed by a bedroom followed by a living room (with TV) followed by the kitchen and ends with bathroom and laundry room in one long bullet-path line. Every time we returned from our adventures we cherished it.

It seems the way of airbnb lodgings nowadays not to see the host much if at all, and this place was no exception. But what we did see of the mgr. Lauren, who did remind us she was but a phone call away and just a block down at any time, was great. A transplant to the city and obviously still energized about living in NOLA, Lauren was generous and well-informed about advice on how to do Mardi Gras right. (When we ran into local celeb Harry Shearer we knew we had to be in the right place.)