Sweets Inn

This motel is highly recommendable if you are travelling with a rental car. Parking lot is located immediately next to the building with the sleeping rooms. At night, it may be challenging to find the right gate where to enter the passcode transmitted via e-mail, but entering 3610 Tulane Ave really at the Tulane side should help. While the surroundings are rather minimalistic, the room itself contains basic perks like airco, fridge, TV, ironing board, water boiler and toilet articles. Please be prepared that there is no room service during your stay. Low budget price also comes with longer distance to central city (ca. 25min by bus or tram), but in the nearby there is a supermarket at a gas station for snacks & beverages.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse... I was so excited to visit New Orleans. I booked the Ben Louie because the photos looked great and the location was near the downtown district. The first impression was approaching a locked gate. You can't pull up to the speaker box without fear of being rear-ended on the street. You can't press the button without getting out of your car. MISTAKE - I got out of my car. Then I saw it, a group of young men approached my car as I'm trying to talk to the person in the speaker box. The group or gang began running toward me and were yelling. I heard a bottle hit my car, then another. I jumped into my car and backed out into busy traffic and almost got in an accident. About 20 minutes later I returned and the person I'm speaking to in the box was so nasty and rude, I asked to speak with the manager. The guy on the other end of the box said he is the manager and the owner. At this point its getting dark and I still can't get past the gate. It was too late to cancel my reservation and I had to get in for the night because I drove all day to get to New Orleans. Once I got in the room, the bed wasn't made and the bathroom was a mess. I asked for a different room and the owner told me he's not going to give me another room. He informed me I have to wait for the maid service which left for the day but he will call them and they should be back in 30 minutes. An hour and a half later, the maid showed up and when she was done, the place was still a dump. Dirty toilet with a turd, shaving cream in the sink and the floor was sticky. Again I reached out to the owner and he was even worse the second time around. I asked for a new room or a discount and he told me if I didn't like it I could leave but there would be no refund. I stayed. The next morning I woke to the sound of a mouse scampering across the filthy comforter. BEWARE, of this filthy, nasty dump.