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Hotel Monteleone vs Columns

Hotel Monteleone and Columns Hotel are both highly recommended by expert reviewers. Overall, Hotel Monteleone scores significantly better than Columns Hotel. Hotel Monteleone ranks #2 in New Orleans with positive reviews from 17 publications like Travel + Leisure, Rough Guide and Afar Magazine.

Hotel Monteleone
Hotel Monteleone
9 / 10
214 Royal Street, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA 70130-2201
From $149 /night
  • Pet Friendly
  • Bar/Lounge
  • Free Internet
  • Room Service
  • Shuttle Bus
  • Laundry Service
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Fodor's Fodor's
"One of the grand old hotels of New Orleans, the Monteleone... oozes sophistication, romance, and history." Full review
Oyster Oyster
Upscale
"The 600-room French Quarter hotel has made literary history and cocktail history, but it's no museum piece." Full review
DK Eyewitness DK Eyewitness
"The Monteleone has been a French Quarter landmark since 1886. This family-owned hotel has undergone a major renovation, revamping its rooms with new fabrics, furniture, and amenities."
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Try booking one of the “literary rooms,” named for writer guests such as Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway.
Rough Guide Rough Guide
"This handsome French Quarter landmark is the oldest hotel in the city, owned by the same family since 1886, and hosting a fine array of writers and luminaries since then."
Star Service Star Service
"The Monteleone is a big family-owned independent in one of the best locations in the French Quarter: right in the midst of the city's finest antiques shops." Full review
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Columns
Columns
8 / 10
3811 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70115
From $175 /night
  • Pet Friendly
  • Bar/Lounge
  • Free Internet
  • Room Service
  • Laundry Service
  • Concierge
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Frommer's Frommer's
"The Columns is worth a stay if you can get a low rate; otherwise, come by for a drink." Full review
Fodor's Fodor's
"This white-columned 1883 Victorian hotel drips with local charm and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"That a landmark so rife with atmosphere could also function as a workaday tavern is one of the Columns’s singular charms." Full review
DK Eyewitness DK Eyewitness
"This small hotel is famous as the set for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby and has plenty of fans for its laid-back ambience."
Rough Guide Rough Guide
"Deliciously atmospheric uptown hotel in a stately 1883 mansion on the streetcar line."
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