We stayed a month at Alice's place. We chose the location because it has easy access to the French Quarter and the Marigny without being so close that we were caught up in the noise and traffic. Indeed the neighborhood is very quiet and we always slept completely undisturbed. We enjoyed being very close to City Park which we visited many times. We like to cycle and we were delighted to find that the Lafitte Greenway bike path took us in to the French Quarter in about 15 -16 minutes. We also enjoyed biking in City Park and to the restaurants along the lake front. Of course since we like to golf we were pleased that there were three golf courses within 20 minutes of our house. There were two major grocery stores within a 10 minute car ride and Whole Foods was only a couple of minutes further away. We also went to the Broad St Cinema on two occasions which was also 10 minutes away.
Alice was an extremely congenial hostess who helped us on various occasions either with suggestions or by doing small things such as volunteering to do our towels (even though we did have a small washer and dryer on the premises). We became friends with her and had many pleasant chats although she always respected our privacy. She owns three small dogs and was careful to ask if they ever disturbed us. They never did.
All in all it was a delightful stay and we would not hesitate to return if we were ever to return to New Orleans.