Southern Decadence

[sportsguy]

Can anyone give me any recommendations regarding where to stay

and where to go eat druing Southern Decadence. 2005 will be the first year that I have attended it. I have already bought my plane tickets. For lodging, I am considering the Park Plaza Hotel and Ramada Inn. Both of those hotels are downtown, though.

[eastbayguy]

Honestly: Skip it!

 

Starting two years ago, new laws were passed in New Orleans at the urging of some local nutcase/minister. These laws are aimed at Southern Decadence. The last two events have been totally tame. No street nudity, no street sex etc etc. Even the bars have had to reign in the stuff they used to get away with.

 

Undercover cops are everywhere and both of the last two years have seen tons of arrests. I went two years ago and saw all of this going on first hand. Friends went last summer and said it was a waste.

 

I don't know what your reasons are for going. But, if you are looking for Southern Decadence of old, you're not going to find it.

 

--EBG

[Guest msclonly]

Sounds like a Healthy improvement to me!

 

:+

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Not downtown

 

>Can anyone give me any recommendations regarding where to

>stay and where to go eat druing Southern Decadence. 2005 will be

>the first year that I have attended it.

 

Unfortunately, the guest houses tend to over charge during this time of year, particularly by requiring a minimum stay. It is difficult to get a cab at that time of year, in the French Quarter, and I have always stayed in the French Quarter. I have not gone since the changes described by East Bay Gay, but there is a long thread about them from that year and from last year on this site, and I am sure the Kjun will shortly see your post and offer his own personal perspective. A close friend is living in the French Quarter now and has been for the last year and said the same situation (as far as expense and cabs) exist, so if your heart is set on going, I would strongly recommend a hotel in the Quarter.

 

Good luck.

 

 

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[Guest Mikel]

RE: Not downtown

 

Hotel Monteleone (sp?) is in the quater, only one block up from Bourbon, walking distance to bars, and because it is one block up, it is a little quieter...also, the only high rise in quarter...so, you can escape all the noise quite nicely if that even matters to you. It is recently refurbished and a very nice place.