Haunted Hotels in New Orleans, LA

Hard to believe we’ve been doing all these haunted house stories and haven’t yet traveled to New Orleans. This multicultural mélange of architectures, lifestyles, beliefs and generations is maybe the most active destination in the country. It’s an ideal place to find top-quality haunted attractions and, if you like, perhaps something much more real.

Haunted hotels in New Orleans are particularly common, with more than twelve in the city limits widely accepted to be haunted. We don’t have time for them all today, but in honor of the season, here are five of our favorite Haunted Hotels in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hotel Monteleone
A regular on even national lists, Hotel Monteleone is a New Orleans French Quarter landmark, with a history dating back to the 1880s. Its incredible edifice and elegant halls have attracted eras of celebrities, authors, politicians, filmmakers and, yes, even ghosts. Stories run the gamut, from the fading apparition of an ancient clockmaker to a door that opens and shuts despite all efforts to lock it. Few stories speak of hauntings in the rooms, however, so sleep soundly and enjoy a marvelous building.

Dauphine Orleans Hotel
From the burnt orange façade to the wrought iron balconies to the French flag cresting meekly in the wind, this place just looks haunted. It’s everything you want it to be. Like most haunted buildings, Dauphine Orleans Hotel’s history goes back, as far back as 1775, in fact, when records explain the construction of the properties oldest sections. The former bordello still manages to keep guests up at night, only now it’s the ghostly moan of an unoccupied room that fills the halls. Make sure you keep your essentials on hand, as doors tend to inexplicably lock themselves.

Hotel Provincial
This charming French Quarter hotel used to be a hospital. And not just any hospital – a wartime hospital. During the American Civil War, confederate soldiers arrived, suffered and in many cases died in rooms all throughout the older portions of the property.

At this point, anyone who steps foot at Hotel Provincial is asking for it, and that’s a good thing! Reams of stories paint the Provincials history in gorgeous detail. Tales range from Confederate soldiers roaming the halls and grabbing at guests to appearing and disappearing blood stains.

Lafitte Guest House
For me, the smaller, the creepier. Lafitte Guest House is a 14-room Civil War-era mansion gives each guest the experience of owning a private villa in the heart of the French Quarter. Just don’t be surprised when the ghosts don’t obey that privacy. Young “Marie”, who allegedly died of yellow fever in Room 21 the mid-1800s, is popularly thought to roam the halls, flipping light switches as she goes. Meanwhile, her distraught mother can still be heard crying from time to time.

Le Pavilion Hotel
From remarkably ornate statues and flourishes to the rare marble washtub in the Palace Suite (a one-time gift from Napoleon himself), Le Pavilion Hotel blends history with sheer magnificence. After all, any hotel that serves free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and hot cocoa every night is a hotel dedicated truly to the promise of comfort and hospitality.

It’s so nice, in fact, that even the dead won’t leave. Unexplained noises, apparitions of an older gray-haired lady and stories of bed sheets tugged off the bed are only a few of the experiences reported by guests over the years.

There you have it: five exceptional haunted hotels in New Orleans.

Of course, we understand that you may also want to stay in New Orleans more affordably and without the nagging sensation that you’re being watched every time you walk down the hall. For that, we have two great suggestions: 

• Chateau LeMoyne
• Holiday Inn French Quarter Hotel 

Both hotels are located in the French Quarter (in walking distance to most of the others, actually) and offer low-end rates. The unique Chateau LeMoyne even offers the boutique feel of New Orleans luxury properties at a reasonable cost.

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