Pontchartrain Hotel St. Charles Avenue

Travelers to the Big Easy may not find accommodations more quintessentially representative of New Orleans’s Garden District than those of the storied Pontchartrain Hotel. Overlooking St. Charles Avenue’s postcard-perfect boulevard and streetcars, this ’20s-era architectural treasure offers rooms which lavish guests in sumptuous, stately décor, a look recalling the Crescent City’s French and Spanish origins, dressed in hues of mint green and black lacquer. The Pontchartain’s own Parlor makes for a glamorous event venue, and features catering by the hotel’s own award-winning Jack Rose Restaurant. Named for a play by Tennessee Williams, who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire while a resident of the Pontchartrain, the famed dining room offers a melange of Creole, French and Italian influences with a wine list that “skews toward bubbles.”