IF POSSIBLE, ONLY COME IN COOL MONTHS. We have hurricanes, HOT HUMID WEATHER in summer & floods can happen most anytime. Bring or buy light rain poncho & shoes you can wear if water gets ankle high.
October thru May are best months as they’re kinda cool. Summer is also rainy season (floods) & hurricane season (June-Nov 1 but we don’t have them hit us often)
STREET MUSICIANS—If you stop to listen to street musicians, even for a few minutes, watch magicians, (even if you only stay for part of the show)or have your picture taken with someone letting you hold their python for exa,ple, you also tip them—its not mandatory with street musicians, it’s just customary & “I” feel it’s owed to them as this is how they make their living. We in the south are gracious and we help out one another this is one way we do it. Read The Gambit, NOLA.com, & online Event sites will tell you what’s going on the week you‘re here that may not be advertised heavily
STREETCAR, (only $1.25) or UBER or rent a (light blue BiIKE that you can leave anywhere & it will be retrieved by rental company). . Many areas for car parking are $6 an hour or $40+ overnight. *Parking by my house is free! .
ONLY HOUSE RULES I ASK:
1Clean up after yourself, which includes. 2 wash your towels and your bedsheets in the washroom downstairs Before you leave 3 Fold & place back on futons. Or if you sleep on a sleeping bag washed it as well. 4. If you need soap or toilet paper or paper towels upstairs let me know because I never go upstairs. I just trust my couch surfers to keep the loft clean, but if you get here and it’s not please let me know
5 ASK ME ABOUT SAFE AREAS TO GO TO As with all cities there are safe places and unsafe areas. But there’s one big difference here in New Orleans in that because we receive so much money to rebuild after Katrina many of our”hoods” for lack of a better term, Look like wonderful condos and they have meticulously manicured
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I am in process of making this website, so it jumbled. Video links & photos I’ve placed on my new ongoing website have not yet been organized in categories. I add links all the time of tours, events, places and restaurants you may find interesting.
APPS YOU’LL FIND HANDY ARE IN PHOTOS BELOW
Tipping & sales tax here: i’ve had a lot of my international guests be amazed that the prices on menus in restaurants are without tax—so it the menu says $20, add tax & it’s $22. Also you tip your waitresses. This is usually about 20%. So you would tip about $4-$5 for this meal. Your meal at a restaurant is more like $27 than just $20. It’s legal here to not pay minimum wage to waiters, so if you don’t tip them, they won’t earn much money. ——You also tip bartenders, (You dont tip at fast food restaurants).
PLEASE DO TIP STREET PERFORMERS
MUSEUMS ARE CLOSED ON MONDAYS! They also close early, usually four. If you go with an Orleans parish resident (ME!) on cerWednesdays you can get in free at the zoo and the aquarium. I can take you. No need to rent a car, Most residents here don’t even own one. Getting around is super easy. WALK , take BUS or
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When you come in the back gate look to the right go up the brick steps and attach to the chair closest to the door will be a lockbox in which I keep the key to the foyer door. I’ll give you the code to the lock box when you get here. Come on up after you put the key back to top of stairs apt 18.
If you take the street car get off at 8th Street. You can buy a pass that you can show with your phone from RTA app.
https://youtu.be/9Bv1mFl9SI4GREAT video Mardi Gras people/parade/marching band
https://youtu.be/OK-3qmpACDwGay Easter Parade
DESTREHAN PLANTATION. Closest to NOLA, costumed storytellers
https://youtu.be/9Bv1mFl9SI4GREAT video Mardi Gras people/parade/marching band
https://youtu.be/OK-3qmpACDwGay Easter Parade
DESTREHAN PLANTATION. Closest to NOLA, costumed storytellers
Lalaurie House haunted mansion, Fr Qtr true story where slaves were treated horribly
”Tuba Skinny” Typical Bohemian street band
Small Second Lines are fun to JOIN IN even if you don’t know the people—seldom would anyone care- this is NOLA tradition
‘Book one with couchsurfing friends , birthday or bachelorette party , graduation ANY excuse is good enough. Fun! LOVE these impromptu sites around the city
Electric violin famous street musicians
Tonya &Dorise Royal Street-often best street musicians are these during day on weekends
‘Highly watched FOOD TOUR of French Qtr
Uncle Louis-friend of mine. Several pantomimes in Qtr & sometimes youlol find a few at red lights asking for change
I’ve photo of this typical WEDDING SECOND LINE —you can catch these sometimes around St Louis Cathedral on weekends.
Museums of NOLA
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Guy demonstrating New Orleans style piano
Famous Jean LaFittes Pub
& other bars
https://audubonnatureinstitute.org/explore-zoo/sea-lions
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SHARK Discovery. Interact with small shar
Guy demonstrating New Orleans style piano
Famous Jean LaFittes Pub
& other bars
https://audubonnatureinstitute.org/explore-zoo/sea-lions
‘ZOO!
SHARK Discovery. Interact with small sharks
https://youtu.be/8L735pdGGdY.
Personal blog of visitor
Mississippi RAU ANTIUES—my favorite antique shop
St Charles Streetcar. Get off at 8th street to get to my apt
It goes directly to Canal Street & Bourbon. Everybody has to get off there.
*Go “Uptown” which is toward the zoo & as you ride & rest you’ll see some REALLY HUGE beautiful mansions
New Orleans cemeteries
Hurricane Katrina didn’t hit NOLA. The eye of the Hurricane hit Waveland, Mississippi.
The Hurricane pushed the water up the Mississippi River. Lake Ponchetrain couldn’t hold that much water, so the levees broke the next day.
VooDoo in New Orleans
Pat O’Brien’s Piano Bat 2 copper clad pianos. Write song you want & audience aparticipates
GREAT neighborhood SECOND LINE- usually in neighbors on Sundays, few tourists go, but sometimes I’ll take you
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https://youtu.be/KIIxzR0LhJMZYDECO CAJUN MUSIC -hard to fin this authentic music here in the city.https://youtu.be/ZsDUXo5TcZYHOT 8 BRASS BAND. One of BEST My favorite band here. 2nd Lines & also play at Turkey & Wolf one night a week, cover charge https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/07/03/10-great-things-we-ate-during-an-insane-weekend-in-new-orleans/Places to eat fried alligator or sausage or poppersif https://youtu.be/pJgiEOBSY1MGreat! Shows top museums in & around NOLA
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https://youtu.be/GLqjcmcvu0AJazz Funeral & Mardi Gras Indians https://youtu.be/jKKDagy6Rfc St Louis Cathedral in French Qtr
https://youtu.be/yUSyJKElXosVideo of JAZZ IN SLAVERY TIMES HERE IN NEW ORLEANS! (Congo Square-now called Louis Armstrong Park at the back of the French Qtr
A video of walking 4 miles around New Orleans I
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https://youtu.be/GLqjcmcvu0AJazz Funeral & Mardi Gras Indians https://youtu.be/jKKDagy6Rfc St Louis Cathedral in French Qtr https://youtu.be/yUSyJKElXosVideo of JAZZ IN SLAVERY TIMES HERE IN NEW ORLEANS! (Congo Square-now called Louis Armstrong Park at the back of the French Qtr
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https://www.getyourguide.com/-l370/?redirector=422167’THIS SITE INCLUES EVERYTHING—AMUSEMENT TOURS FROM FRENCHMAN STREET, MARDI GRAS WORLD, SWAMP & PLANTATION TOURS, GHOST TOURS ETC…LOOK THRU THIS SITE FOR SUREhttps://youtu.be/z0S0lfuVgl0Lake Ponchetrain but don’t go swimminghttps://youtu.be/gMH8zmQXcrkLOVE THIS HISTORIAN’S TRUE VIDEOS!
https://youtu.be/wipHCG9l8t8Hot 8 Brass Band 2nd line. Typical Sunday afternoon in neighborhoods.
https://youtu.be/nTRdQV-w2csPLANTATION TOURS within 2 hrs or less from NOLA
https://youtu.be/ZGK5l4J-NMMThings to know before you go to NOLA
https://youtu.be/ZGK5l4J-NMMGhost Tour French Qtr
https://youtu.be/gXHat12YuO0Peter playing a glass harmonica
https://gonola.com/things-to-do-in-new-orleans/which-new-orleans-tour-should-you-takeGo NOLA.com. GREAT RESOURCE https://j.be/W3OJDDQM2fgBlue Eyes singing on Royal Street
https://youtu.be/BoLm5FdpWIQBourbon Street or Frenchman Street?
https://youtu.be/JLkPntu5lpoKrewe de Fool Parade April Fools Day
https://youtu.be/CguIq_1llwU local horse drawn hearse with musicians & family
https://youtu.be/A33YR_8eZtoanother local private Zula funeral with second line & https://youtu.be/m8DSpeacacEEaster parade. Throwing carrots
https://youtu.be/KGWOrBHD_JIStreet Flooding. Just a rain shower, but rain water shoots out manholes—it’s how I sat at red light & watched flood waters come & ruin my car’s electrical system. (I’m on my 3rd car in less than 7 y
https://youtu.be/xR_https://youtu.be/2_XhPXrCtq442d_IiBshttps://youtu.be/2_XhPXrCtq4This NOLA police on horseback has a horse he dances sometime in bard https://youtu.be/5vcb47qgqvkcop on horseback chasing subject in French Qtr
https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-new-orleans-la-metro/ CRIME MAP of NOLA. Many of our hoods were built with Katrina money & look like condos because they are well manicured and clean. Please ask me before you walk alone. And as anywhere, violent crime gets
https://www.neworleanscarriages.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwio6XBhCMARIsAC0u9aED-XDwQKkHbV8-atQdUvn8ea89qejtSSMDT7YYc6jhsEalYMl7pm0aApMSEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.dsRoyal carriage rides (Best) Fr Qtr & also ghost tours direction. East bank, riverside, neutral ground Rougarou blue dog canvas book King cake house beside me history prytania oral slave tales YouTube lafitte piratebattle of new orleanszydeco Mu lattes canal st canalsmap of homes near me famous plants ponchetrain beach
https://youtu.be/iQudlUHN7hUConfederacy of Dunces Award winning novel written about New Orleans that is HILARIOUSListen to it as you go to sleep….”I” do!
https://www.louisianatravel.com/things-to-doLOUISIANA TRAVEL GUIDE—GREAT LINK FOR ALL KINDS OF PLACES & ENTERTAINMENThttps://www.timeout.com/new-orleans/restaurants/famous-restaurants-in-new-orleansMost famous RESTAURANTS in NOLAhttps://www.houseofblues.com/neworleans?utm_source=GMBlisting&utm_medium=organicHouse of
.https://freetoursbyfoot.com/new-orleans-tours/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb*FREE TOURS BY FOOT - great videos of every part of the city with history by local New Orleanians
https://www.bigboytravel.com/louisiana/neworleans/gardendistrictwalkingtour/Garden District homes
https://youtu.be/JEAedjLXw7QHurricane Katrina didn’t hit NOLA. The eye of the Hurricane hit Waveland, Mississippi. The Hurricane pushed the water up the Mississippi River. Lake Ponchetrain couldn’t hold that much water, so the levees broke the next day. https://youtu.be/m-TLa2jGMf0VooDoo in New Orleans
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https://www.bigboytravel.com/louisiana/neworleans/gardendistrictwalkingtour/Garden District homes https://www.elmsmansion.com/Elms Mansion close to here with weddings often https://youtu.be/8-b6bE0oEXkVampire Café menu & other Cool Places to see in & around NOLA https://youtu.be/U-yOEPzj3HUEveryday style parade puppets https://youtu.be/kAiLpTt-ydwGarden District Walking Tours
https://youtu.be/pWZlQJmVyx8https://youtu.be/EC8_zcGEZjcGo out of your way to see best performers on Royal Street, DOREEN KETCHENS- one of our most famous street & she also performs with NOLA Philharmonic. MANY STREET MUSICIANS ARE WORLD FAMOUS, BUT CHOOSE TO PLAY IN STREET
:City Park tour https://youtu.be/xIrfHDfJu5g
.https://www.elmsmansion.com/Elms Mansion close to here with weddings often https://youtu.be/8-b6bE0oEXkVampire Café menu & other Cool Places to see in & around NOLA https://youtu.be/U-yOEPzj3HUEveryday style parade puppets https://youtu.be/kAiLpTt-ydwGarden District Walking Tours https://youtu.be/BoLm5FdpWIQBourbon Street or Frenchman Street?
https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k art galleries in the French quarter https://youtu.be/198bPFw7uY0Local shows tv guy around several off the beaten path restaurants, dance place,, calm alligator swamp tour
Great Linkshttps://www.elmsmansion.com/ Elms Mansion close t
https://youtu.be/JLkPntu5lpoKrewe de Fool Parade April Fools Day https://youtu.be/CguIq_1llwU local horse drawn hearse with musicians & family https://youtu.be/A33YR_8eZtoanother local private Zula funeral with second line & https://youtu.be/m8DSpeacacEEaster parade. Throwing carrots https://youtu.be/KGWOrBHD_JIStreet Flooding. Just a rain shower, but rain water shoots out manholes—it’s how I sat at red light & watched flood waters come & ruin my car’s electrical system. (I’m on my 3rd car in less than 7 yrs)
https://youtu.be/198bPFw7uY0Local shows tv guy around several off the beaten path restaurants, dance place,, calm alligator swamp tour
…… city park
https://www.elmsmansion.com/Elms Mansion close to here with weddings often https://youtu.be/8-b6bE0oEXkVampire Café menu & other Cool Places to see in & around NOLA https://youtu.be/U-yOEPzj3HUEveryday style parade puppets https://youtu.be/kAiLpTt-
https://youtu.be/BtOxqtCdnhcFRENCHMAN STREET near Qtr—when you get tired of “touristy“ Bourbon Streeta “locals” area
https://youtu.be/m-TLa2jGMf0professor explains VooDoo religion https://youtu.be/k7Uq0kMZaHEVampire Tours are very popular https://youtu.be/9A6KX2w-dssCemetery tour https://youtu.be/Yu_gmLT_TDkMuseum of Death https://youtu.be/-5SWTLhxfEoVOO Doo Museum
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https://youtu.be/0DtJcoW6W5sJUDE ACER in Guiness book of world recordsHe’ll play on YOUR level for $5 Friend of mine. ‘He plays near gold statue of Joan of Arc near back of Qtr couple blocks from River
https://youtu.be/RovrenWAh7k10 Museums in NOLA
Blueshttps://youtu.be/zmbhTqiPWFAThe AXE MAN serial killer of New Orleans in 1918 I believeHe loved Jazz and wrote the newspaper on a certain day that everybody needed to be playing jazz inside their homes because he would attack at home where no music was playing
https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k video of things to do in New Orleans is an aquarium of the Americas https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k art galleries in the French quarter
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service.Great website by solitary traveler where to go in NOLAhttps://youtu.be/chtj4qRwTqcGOOD TIMES on Bourbon Street https://youtu.be/x8Pbp6CBlbcSome of my Couchsurfers https://youtu.be/w0WouWH4TZ4Cleopatra float 8 seconds https://youtu.be/-dLsd_b2gTwBubbles out of my window
https://youtu.be/f3nsKgYZmggUptown on St Charles -going toward zoo from my apt passing colleges & BIGGEST MANSIONS , past Audubon Zoo TAKE STREETCAR this direction, not just toward French Qtr, tho streetcar takes you there as well https://youtu.be/grS2vJCQj0UGarden District tour (not shown, but in this area) Many famous people live/have lived here-Nicholas Cage, Sandra Bullock, Beyoncé owns a home 3 doors down from my apt but she doesn’t live there, John Goodman, Ann Rice’s homes… https://youtu.be/oAUatksOXgACBD (Centra Business Districy includes Art Galleries!) https://youtu.be/6_a_6SsrK_oVoo Doo priestess Marie LaVeaux
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Read The Gambit, NOLA.com, & online Event sites will tell you what’s going on the week you‘re here that may not be advertised heavily https://gonola.com/things-to-do-in-new-orleans/which-new-orleans-tour-should-you-takeGo NOLA.com. GREAT RESOURCE https://j.be/W3OJDDQM2fgBlue Eyes singing on Royal Street https://freetoursbyfoot.com/new-orleans-tours/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb*FREE TOURS BY FOOT - great videos of every part of the city with history by local New Orleanians hGreat Linkshttps://www.elmsmansion.com/ Elms Mansion close t
https://youtu.be/gXHat12YuO0Peter playing a glass harmonica https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k video of things to do in New Orleans is an aquarium of the Americas https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k art galleries in the French quarter https://youtu.be/198bPFw7uY0Local shows tv guy around several off the beaten path restaurants, dance place,, calm alligator swamp tour
to loyal ones.
Read The Gambit, NOLA.com, & online Event sites will tell you what’s going on the week you‘re here that may not be advertised heavily https://gonola.com/things-to-do-in-new-orleans/which-new-orleans-tour-should-you-takeGo NOLA.com. GREAT RESOURCE https://j.be/W3OJDDQM2fgBlue Eyes singing on Royal Street https://freetoursbyfoot.com/new-orleans-tours/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb*FREE TOURS BY FOOT - great videos of every part of the city with history by local New Orleanians
MS RAU BECOME PART of a SECOND LINE! The Gumbo ShopNOMA-our museum of artCARRIAGE RIDES with tour guides
https://youtu.be/cX502QdgJ94Neighborhoods: Esplanade Ridge area & Bayou St John
https://youtu.be/1a4Q58lQH8Uhttps://youtu.be/wjUMKOsjxBshttps://youtu.be/RoxKQx1lF2w3 videos Hurricane Katrina areas, flooding. 9thWard, Superdome
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https://youtu.be/0y9bhyz0KnoMore Great Museumshttps://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60864-New_Orleans_Louisiana-Vacations.htmlRestaurant guidehttps://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60864-New_Orleans_Louisiana.htmlThings to do https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60864-Activities-New_Orleans_Louisiana.htmlhttps://youtu.be/nPQ3cjwMi2UShip Island, Gulfport, Mississippi https://youtu.be/BcZoMRQ3iCYHerman-Grimma House in French Qtrhttps://www.solitarywanderer.com/things-to-do-new-orleans-solo-travelers/
https://youtu.be/-n0lKyrSJB4Ultimate Foods in French Qtr
https://youtu.be/bU9Zo1DZMp8Fun Young Tourist trip Thru NOLA
https://youtu.be/GY-YVSVasXESculpture Garden at City Park
https://youtu.be/f9U4Okth6zQNOLA Cemeteries. Tours are recommended They close at 4
https://youtu.be/Jd2KCWaRBUoMusic during the week if you’re not here on a weekend
https://youtu.be/AXo03TdCplgTOURIST TRAP advice
https://youtu.be/pRYhD5ac3SMCAROUSEL BAR actually rotates in Monteleon Hotel French Qtr (hard to find your seat coming back from bathroom because IT’S MOVED!
https://www.elmsmansion.com/Elms Mansion close to here with weddings often https://youtu.be/8-b6bE0oEXkVampire Café menu & other Cool Places to see in & around NOLA https://youtu.be/U-yOEPzj3HUEveryday style parade puppets https://youtu.be/kAiLpTt-ydwGarden District Walking Tours https://youtu.be/BoLm5FdpWIQBourbon Street or Frenchman Street? https://youtu.be/gXHat12YuO0Peter playing a glass harmonica https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k video of things to do in New Orleans is an aquarium of the Americas https://youtu.be/KtumtqJAz6k art galleries in the French quarter https://youtu.be/198bPFw7uY0Local shows tv guy around several off the beaten path restaurants, dance place,, calm alligator swamp tour
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