This is an OK hotel, but with some significant dra...

This is an OK hotel, but with some significant drawbacks.

PROs
The location is good. It's pretty close to the French Quarter in one direction and about a 7-block walk to the Convention Center in the other. Also, if your room is high enough and facing the right direction, you'll have a pretty good view (of the Mississippi and surround areas). I was on the 13th floor, which was adequate; lower wouldn't have been good. The room I was in (a supposed "deluxe" with a king) was perhaps slightly smaller than the average room, but reasonable-sized. I didn't eat at any of the restaurants, so I can't comment on them. But there were a number of places to eat. Though I've seen mixed reviews here, the staff I interacted with were pleasant and helpful.

Check-in was fairly efficient. And check-out--which I did on my TV--went smoothly. The elevators arrived promptly.

CONs
The layout of the hotel is very confusing, especially if you're there for a meeting. You enter on the first floor, but the lobby and main level is on the second. There are also meeting rooms on both the second and third floor. Then there's a passageway over to the adjoining structure on the river, with its entirely different layout of rooms. Bottom line: You need to know which floor you're on, and which building you're in, and be prepared for some unusual layouts.

Some rooms border the railroad tracks. Mine was one, though being up 13 floors provided a buffer. Still, it can be pretty loud when a freight train rumbles past.

The housekeeping quality was terrible. A small piece of a candy wrapper (about the size of your little finger) remained undisturbed on a table for 3 days. A Q-tip under a chair (I don't know how it got there) also remained undisturbed for 3 days. The first night I was there, I got some ice for ice water. The next day, the melted ice hadn't been thrown out and the dirty glass remained on the dresser.