THE QUISBY

Excellent rooms at a great price. Extremely rude staff who may steal your items.

I stayed at the Quisby after New Years.

Let's start off with the good first: This place is super clean and an excellent value for a night. The breakfast is good too --considering it's included in the room price.

The bad:
This is not a nice or safe area. Homeless camps everywhere and people using the sidewalk as a toilet. I just came from walking around Los Angeles and Tijuana late at night and this area of NOLA (especially around the highway) is the most unsafe I felt in my entire trip.

The front desk staff are also generally rude and unhelpful. During breakfast, I overhead the front desk lady rudely yelling at a guest who did not speak English well about picking up breakfast.

Finally, I realized I had left a bag behind as soon as I boarded the train out of New Orleans. I immediately called and emailed the front desk to let them know that a bag (with my name and sealed) was there and asked for them to hold it until I could send a shipping label to return it. My subsequent emails were ignored after I sent the prepaid shipping label.

After 13 days of phone calls and emails, the manager, Miciah, finally reached out to tell me that the package was in the mail. When it arrived, I found that the bag had been opened and items were MISSING. Items from a bag that was tied closed and labeled with my name tag. The same bag that I contacted the front desk about locating 30 minutes after check out. Food had been eaten and several gifts I had taken home from my trip were stolen.

This bag was in custody of the front desk for nearly 2 weeks before placing it in the mail for return. It seems that the manager, Miciah, is frequently sick or "not in" whenever the front desk answers; my emails have gone ignored aside from telling me that USPS finally has my item after 2 weeks.

I have received no reply or explanation for the stolen items, so I am leaving this cautionary tale. If you can afford it, stay in a different hostel in this city!

Quisby being my favorite place to stay when I visited New Orleans. The place was near to french quarter and accessible street car in front of the building. The staff was friendly, perfect facilities, the room was good which is clean also comfy. Even for muslem like me, this place really have a good ambiance and friendly for travelers like their motto. Good maintenance, good food, great facilities, great hospitality, and great to be here. Im from Indonesia who stayed in NY when I visited, i stamp my country money as a souvenir at your bar. Gonna be back here and recommend this place to stay. Thank you Anne and friend for the hospitality when i stayed here. Love you quisby!

I've never stayed at a hostel before so I might not be the best judge but everyone was very friendly and the staff was super helpful. The room was a little smaller than what I expected, however it was very clean and the bathroom was amazing.

Great location, right by a streetcar stop. Free breakfast with breads, salami, grits, and coffee. Great front desk staff. My boyfriend and I shared a private queen room, it had everything a crash pad needed except for a mini fridge and microwave. However, there is a communal fridge downstairs in the lobby. The rooms are not sound proof but the guests were quiet and considerate for the most part. At the lobby you can find towels, blankets, earbuds, and in house laundry.

I enjoyed my stay here. I was a solo female traveler from the UK. Nice vibe in the bar while I was there. I stayed in a private room with an ensuite bathroom. The bed was very comfy and the room was clean .I stayed for 2 nights, then stayed elsewhere for 3 nights, then checked back in for 3 nights. My only criticisms would be that the music in the bar was quite loud on a few mornings. Like at 7am I could hear really loud music - it woke me up. I can't see the point in playing music so loud, so early in the morning. Also, when I check in for my other stay, I waited in the bar for a few hours until check in time. When I got up to my room I discovered that they hadn't yet finished cleaning. I was tired and just wanted to sleep for a bit so I told the cleaners that it was ok. And as a result I dealt with a dirty bathroom. All in all I would definitely stay here again. It's about a 20 minute walk to the french quarter, and the street car stops pretty much right outside.

Also, they give you a free welcome drink.