The Pool at Hotel Monteleone

"Not the ornate lobby, not the hallowed literary tradition (Faulkner, Hemingway, Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty slept, drank, and/or wrote here, among others), not the happy hour scene or stellar view at the rooftop pool"

"At sixteen storeys, it’s something of a gentle giant on genteel Royal St, with an elegant Baroque facade, marble lobby, comfy rooms, a splendid revolving bar and a rooftop pool"

"Of note is the terrific rooftop pool"

""Feel like a part of Louisiana history" at this "decadent", "lovely old hotel", a "classic" from its "beautiful" lobby and rooftop pool to the recently renovated rooms, made "comfortable" with amenities like Keurig coffeemakers, flat-screens and marble baths; the staff is "helpful" and the "wonderful" location is "mere footsteps from the French Quarter" (but with "breathing room from the crowds"), plus the "revolving" Carousel Bar is "quintessential" NOLA -- "where else can you go round and round while you drink them down?" Zagat reviews are compiled from individual user reviews"

"Though with fabulous amenities like the rooftop pool, Spa Aria, Criollo Restaurant and the Carousel Bar, you don’t even have to leave to find a New Orleans state of mind"