The Pontchartrain Hotel
A Garden District hotel with literary ghosts, rooftop views, and enough eccentricity left intact.
Garden District
The Pontchartrain is a 1920s St. Charles Avenue hotel that has lived enough lives to feel less designed than accumulated. Tennessee Williams wrote here; generations of Uptown families have treated the building as a social annex; the streetcar still stops outside.
Rooms have a proper old-hotel scale, and the bars do much of the work: Bayou Bar downstairs for the quieter version, Hot Tin upstairs for the view. The location makes Uptown easy and the Quarter optional.
Stay here when you want history with a functioning elevator and a little theatricality. The hotel is not minimal, thank God.
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