DAUPHINE ORLEANS HOTEL

Pros:
It's close to the action. You can pretty much walk to everything. 2 blocks from Bourbon Street.

Cons: Had a King bed with a cute balcony overlooking the garage.. couldn't sleep ALL night. So, so loud!!!
Moved to another room. Two Queens this time.. air conditioning doesn't work, shower is nasty.. beds were comfortable though.You can hear some type of industrial elevator from 9pm to 9am.. it's loud.

Both rooms the fire alarm blinks a crazy light all night long.

When it rains.. it rains INSIDE the elevator. What!?
Sometimes the elevator doesn't work.. it's an adventure.

Location, location, location is the best thing about staying here.

The dauphine Orleans is a hotel in the French quarter. It is a block away from bourbon street and a 5 minute walk from Jackson square thus is centrally located. We stayed in superior king room in the main house. It is a large room with a sitting area.

I booked this hotel for 3 nights after Mardi Gras, after initially staying elsewhere with friends but wanting to extend my stay solo. I wanted something still conveniently located in the French Quarter, with easy walking to restaurants and bars but not as expensive. While the Dauphine Orleans fit the bill for location and price (only low $200s per night instead of $300+), it was a massive letdown in all other respects. The pictures on the website look like a completely different hotel from the one I saw. The hallway carpets were dingy and water damaged. Random emergency lights were on in my hallway. The ice machine was turned off and tilted backward and to the right at an odd angle. From all I saw of the property, everywhere (except the lobby) seemed to have a dingy, grimy feel to it, like a good deep cleaning (and fresh paint and new carpet) is years overdue; this wasn't just a situation where they had a busy Mardi Gras weekend and a couple things fell through the cracks but rather seems like years of neglect. (Oh, and I should add that, for some unknown reason, members of the staff think that 2 or 3 A.M. is a good time to roll large, empty dumpsters across the interior parking area courtyard, directly below many guest rooms. Take a guess what THAT sounds like and how it affects sleep quality.)

My first room was missing its safe key (no digital-lock safes here!) and someone had damaged the bathtub spigot. So they switched me to a second room (the next day, after I had to circle back to talk to the same person who checked me in and took my initial complaints, because the morning shift staff never bothered to get back to me after I talked to them, too). The second room seemed a bit cleaner, but had no phone and a damaged shower head that now had only one setting: pour out directly downward. The only saving grace to the whole experience was the patient and kind young woman who helped me at check in and then with the room switch.

Overall, I simply can't recommend this hotel. Yes, the location is great and (some of) the staff are terrific, but the property itself is in desperate need of a refresh or makeover and a lot more routine TLC.

L'hôtel est très bien situé dans le vieux Carré, et il a un parking, ce sont les seuls avantages. Nous avions une chambre double minuscule, três minuscule. Acceuil antipathique, on a voulu nous faire payer deux fois les deux nuits que nous avions prépayées sur hotels.com, et il afallu parlementer pour éviter cela, jusqu’à ce qu'on retrouve notre réservation. Nous n'y retournerons pas.