The front desk staff was wonderful, the hotel has a rooftop bar, and a cool coffee/pastry truck with seating outside. Unless you like being half underground, I do not recommend rooms on the first floor, which is actually down one level from the entrance. The view from room 109 was eye level with the ground. One window looked on a generator or ac unit and stray tanks and tools, the other window looked onto the sidewalk and road. The area outside my room looked like a cement storage closet with spare chairs and cleaning carts. Other advice is avoid the 4th floor as it is right under the rooftop bar.
I stayed here because it is walking distance to the Peabody Auditorium. Even though I walked (<.5 miles) at 7 pm on a Friday night, I felt safer in New Orleans than I did walking to the venue and even took a Lyft back since the front desk advised me not to walk back after 10 p.m. There are some nice elements to the hotel but my room was below average and because of my overall experience, I would not stay here again.