Our family stayed in this beautiful Garden District home over Christmas week. It couldn't have been more perfect. The house is beautiful and comfortable. There were seven of us and we enjoyed the sun porch, side porch, front porch and living room. The kitchen, while dated served us well as we actually brought everything to cook a traditional Christmas dinner and serving it in the grand dining room was so special. There is enough plates, silverware and glasses and wine glasses for a large family. They even had silver serving platters.
The house was nicely decorated for Christmas with a tree and garland. Christian was an excellent and responsive host even though he, himself, was out of town for the holidays. We were disappointed not to get to meet him personally as other guests had mentioned, because he seems to have a lot of knowledge and history about the city and the house. I got a brief description of the history of the house over the phone but was a little distracted getting in and directing the other guests to room, etc. that I admit I didn't absorb it all and was amiss at relaying it to the other family members.
This property has everything you need, comfortable beds, nice towels, robes in every room, house slippers at the front door for each guest to roam the house in so as not to scratch the old wood floors.
Some reviews have complained about this and some of his other house rules about not banging suitcases up the marble front stairs, etc. but we live in an old 1898 house ourselves and we can appreciate not wanting it destroyed by guests who are there on a daily basis. Plus these little touches gave a feeling of elegance as if you are staying in a high-end hotel. Even the amenities in the bathrooms are very nice.
The location of this property is excellent. Most of our group had never been to New Orleans and it was just a block from the St. Charles street car stop but also is still very walkable to the restaurants and shops on Magazine Street. We also walked to Commanders Palace for dinner and to The Columns on Christmas Eve for dinner.
There is a little corner quick stop store very close by that sells milk, eggs, etc. as well as wine and liquor and also sells Brother's fried chicken if you need a quick meal or snack and is open 24/7 even on Christmas Day!
Our family agreed that if we were to meet in the city again, we would definitely stay here and will definitely recommend it to others.