New Orleans Days Inn
 

Has anyone stayed at the Days Inn at New Orleans on Canal St.? I found at rate of $70 for late-January, which is excellent compared to Holiday Inn's rate of $149. So I was wondering if the Days Inn is in a bad neighborhood, or within walking distance to the French Quarter. Thanks!

I hate to say it, but you get what you pay for. The Days Inn is a poorly-located motel next to Interstate 10 in a rough part of New Orleans. Only the Ramada on Canal would be worse, and that's only because IT is on the other side of the freeway! <BR> <BR>Don't stay there. If you do, budget $10-20 a day for cabs. Please.

Liz, <BR> <BR>John is correct. Days Inn is in a very rough area of New Orleans. You will definately not want to walk. Please check other options.

Uh oh.... I have reservations at this hotel (my sister and I) in early April. How dangerous is N.O. compared to someplace like NYC? We are planning on walking around at night. are we nuts? do we need to switch hotels?

To the previous poster: Switch hotels!! <BR>You definitely would not be safe walking around at night. There are lots of safe places in and around the French Quarter.

I too have reservations at this hotel, how far is it from the french quarter?

I think it's about 9 or 10 blocks from Rampart which is the lakesdie boundary of the Quarter. It's not a good area to be walking at night, and I really don't think I'd be very comfortable walking it during the day - and I'm familiar with the area. It's right on the interstate if I'm thinking of the right property, and there are bad neighborhoods nearby as well as some of the spookier city cemetaries. Stay elsewhere - it's worth your money.

I was only able to get reservations at Days Inn Read Boulevard for the weekend of 5/19/00. How awful is it really? Enough to not go!?! <BR>Thanks.

I stayed at this hotel a couple weeks ago in spite of the warnings I heard on this forum. DO NOT STAY THERE! The hotel is dirty, the maids hostile, the stairwells smell of urine, the service non-existant. The neighborhood is dangerous. We luckily had a car and one thing about the Days Inn is they do have secure parking, we were lucky. You CANNOT walk around there safely at night. <BR> <BR>My sister and I are NOT WIMPS we've stayed in NYC right near some tough neighborhoods and felt less safe on Canal Street. Stay closer to the FQ, its MUCH SAFER!

Jennifer - if you are willing to stay on Read which is about 15 or 20 minutes out of the Quarter by car, I'd recommend you try to get some reservations in Metairie or Kenner which aren't much farther than Read Boulevard and would be much safer. Even some of the airport properties would be preferable - IMHO. I wouldn't recommend anyone staying in New Orleans East (where Read is) or at the Days Inn or Ramada on Canal. Run a search on this forum for previous posters who had done so and regretted it. I live in the French Quarter and wouldn't stay at either of those places and certainly wouldn't walk to the Quarter from them. I feel much safer walking in New York than on Canal or on Read.

Yes,I lived in NO for 5 years, and you do not, I say NOT! want to walk about in that area of town, not even in the day time, if you can help it. Altho I understand N.O. is much safer than when we lived there, there is not much of a police presence, outside the Quarter, where the tourists. Spend a little extra and get closer to the French quarter, where you are, I believe, pretty safe--anywhere where there are lots of people.