Ask about the cruiser bikes available for guests, make friends with S's dog "Dude," and bring a little kit of cooking supplies if you like to make food. The room isn't advertised as featuring a kitchen, but there's a fridge, freezer, a hot plate, and in the communal kitchen, pots and pans. I'm a line cook and would have stuffed my knife roll in my bag to whip some things up in hindsight. We didn't have any trouble finding incredible food in New Orleans, though, and neither should you. Best spots in the neighborhood were Hi-Ho, All-ways, R-Bar, Melba's, Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, and a little bit further East, Frady's (where a post night out po boy, Coca-Cola, Coffee, and Stiegl with a tip is less than $20). From there, you're almost on top of Studio B, Euclid Records, and the beautiful iron bridge on Piety and the riverfront, over the rail yards and into crescent park (best view of sunrise or sunset that we found), Dr. Bob's, or Press Street Railyards, where Homer Plessy used non-violent civil disobedience to ignite a Supreme Court battle over civil rights, getting himself arrested on a whites only train car, eighty years before that would be a common tactic. Great city, great room, great hospitality. When we come back, we want to stay here again. Thank you dude and thank you Dude!