{"id":32,"date":"2019-02-06T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.toursandwine.com\/spann\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:12:41","slug":"hotel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_31599607\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-174683073\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-171122354\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-left\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h3><span style=\"color: #c4a15e;\">HOTEL MONTELEONE<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Built in 1886 in the Beaux-Arts architectural style with an eclectic flair, the Monteleone is one of the last great family-owned hotels in New Orleans. The hotel is an historic landmark and member of Historic Hotels of America \u2014 the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Monteleone has 570 guest rooms, including 50 suites, the Criollo Restaurant, Carousel Piano Bar &amp; Lounge, gift shop, a heated rooftop swimming pool, Spa Aria, an exercise facility, a business center, and valet parking. The hotel also offers 25 meeting and reception rooms. Since 1886, five generations of the Monteleone family have dedicated themselves to maintaining their hotel as the most prestigious hostelry in the French Quarter. The Hotel Monteleone is a smoke-free property.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-171122354 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -10px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-398991538\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-left\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-680434958\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-680434958 {\n  padding-top: 50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/toursandwine.com\/rr-bigeasy-temp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2020\/09\/LOGO-Hotel-Monteleone-NOLA.png\" alt=\"Hotel Monteleone\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-398991538 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -10px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1617997104\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1430304880\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-left\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h3>Literary Landmark<\/h3>\n<p>Hotel Monteleone was a favorite of many Southern authors. References to the hotel and its Carousel Bar are included in Tennessee Williams&#8217; &#8220;<em>The Rose Tattoo&#8221;<\/em> and &#8220;<em>Orpheus Descending&#8221;<\/em>, Rebecca Wells&#8217; &#8220;<em>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood&#8221;<\/em> and &#8220;<em>Little Altars Everywhere&#8221;<\/em>, Stephen Ambrose&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Band of Brothers&#8221;<\/em>, Richard Ford&#8217;s &#8220;<em>A Piece of My Heart&#8221;<\/em>, Eudora Welty&#8217;s <em>A Curtain of Green<\/em>, Erle Stanley Gardner&#8217;s <em>Owls Don&#8217;t Blink<\/em>, Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Night Before Battle&#8221;<\/em>, Harry Stephen Keeler&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Voice of the Seven Sparrows&#8221;<\/em> and John Grisham&#8217;s <em>&#8220;The Reckoning.&#8221; <\/em>Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner made a point of staying at the Hotel Monteleone while visiting New Orleans. During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Truman Capote once boasted falsely that he was born in the Hotel Monteleone. Anne Rice, Stephen Ambrose, and John Grisham have also stayed at the hotel. In June 1999, the hotel was designated an official literary landmark by the Friends of the Library Association. The Plaza and Algonquin Hotels in New York City are the only other hotels in the U.S. that share this honor.<\/p>\n<h3>Carousel Bar<\/h3>\n<p>Hotel Monteleone&#8217;s Carousel Piano Bar &amp; Lounge is the only revolving bar in New Orleans. The 25-seat carousel bar turns on 2,000 large steel rollers, pulled by a chain powered by a one-quarter horsepower motor at a rate of one revolution every 15 minutes. The Carousel Bar celebrated its 60th anniversary in July 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1430304880 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px -50px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_31599607 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-domestic-site.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/1700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursandwine.com\/ck27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}