Lamothe House

“Excellent stay”

This is our first stay at Lamothe House however we have stayed at all three of their other three properties and never had a bad experience. We arrived to the hotel around 12:30 pm. We didn't assume that our room would be ready by then yet but wanted to at least drop our luggage off and walk a... more

This is our first stay at Lamothe House however we have stayed at all three of their other three properties and never had a bad experience. We arrived to the hotel around 12:30 pm. We didn't assume that our room would be ready by then yet but wanted to at least drop our luggage off and walk around Frenchman Street while we waited for our room. It did take a minute for someone to come to the door but after a few minutes we were let in. The hotel desk person on duty looked us up and she said that our room wasn't ready but there was a room that was ready if we wanted it - she would show it to us but warned that other people thought it smelled like mold. So we walked into the room and although it did not smell of mold, it smelled of very strong disinfectant and there were no windows and a queen bed (I had thought we booked a king). We told her that we would take it but thought we'd booked a king - after showing the front desk person our reservation on my phone, she said, "Hold on - " and I'm not sure what exactly happened but apparently someone had revised our reservation to a queen room so she called the manager and after a few minutes told us we would get a King room and she would take us to look at it. We were taken through their courtyard past the pool and down a sort of narrow exterior corridor to a building across Kerelec Street to our room. The room was still being cleaned but it was way nicer than the room we had booked (see pics - I would consider this a small suite) so we thanked her and left our bags in our room to go back and complete the check-in process. We had a very positive experience, if you were to ask me but I can say that had we arrived later in the evening, had we not had someone open the locked front door, and had to walk through that unfamiliar dark alleyway we would've had a different experience. The AC worked great (almost too cold!) and we never had an issue with hot water or water pressure. There was a fridge which seems rare nowadays at this price point. I found the room to be very clean. As far as i know, this is the only one of the 4 properties which has a pool - the pool was great! Enjoyed it two of the days we stayed. The location is fantastic.... seconds from Frenchman and minutes from Bourbon situated on the edge of the French Quarter. Daily housekeeping is not occurring but that isn't really an issue to me. We had to ask for towels every day. Our stay was four nights, Wed through Sat checking out Sunday morning. Average price including taxes, fees etc. was $155/ night. Booked through a third party.

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