Hey, it's NOLA, they know how to partay!!!
diverse is an understatement, hehe
............was able to take my wife on a work trip in 08 after some areas were cleaned up, many still not re-built, we stayed a couple of nights in the French Quarter, just off Bourbon.......... Place d' Armes, and Hotel St. Marie...................best I remember because I stopped at the Visitor Center at the State line, and they were so desperate that summer for business there was a special deal for a room during the week for 29 bucks a night!!!!
Place d' Armes is a really cool historic building, although the funny story we have, as well as a picture, LOL they told us the room had a "view".................BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I need to dig up that pic, you haD TO step up on a platform and stoop down to peek out a small window to see some electric wires, I think, I've gotta dig up those pics, good memories!!
As for the gangs and such during Mardi Gras, that seems to have always been an element in that area, and a few others where tourists can be taken advantage of, that's why my wife has a carry permit, hehe.
may have been a little worse that year, not sure, nephew was there that year maybe
we were lucky enough to be there during Essence Festival. HA
