Soniat House
Style Colonial-Creole townhouse
Setting Vivacious Vieux Carré
A French Quarter favourite, Soniat House is a peek into bygone days situated on a chilled-out section of Chartres Street; it’s an antique-laden base camp from which to explore the buzzy Big Easy.
Need to know
- Rooms 30, including 12 suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $265.00, excluding tax at 13 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of $1.00 per room per night on check-out.
The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency ($265) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast (US$12.50).
- Facilities Courtyard, antiques shop, sitting room with a computer for guests, free use of facilities at the New Orleans Athletic Club. In rooms: free WiFi throughout, flatscreen TVs, Frette linens and Molton Brown bath products.
- Check-out Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Late check-outs after 2pm are charged half the nightly rate. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Children Children ages 10 and up are welcome, although there are no facilities geared towards them at the hotel.
- Also In-room massages can be booked and a DVD player is available on request.
Food and drink at Soniat House
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Hotel restaurant
There’s no restaurant at Soniat House, but a down-home Southern Continental breakfast is served either in your room or in the coutryard each morning. Tuck into fresh-baked buttermilk biscuits with home-made strawberry preserves and a café au lait in the leafy courtyard or back in your boudoir.
- Dress code Lightweight linen slacks and a button-down shirt for Mr Smith and a knee-skimming, full-skirted eyelet dress for southern belle Mrs Smith.
- Top table Have a pre-dinner cocktail or nightcap on the wraparound balcony, while you ponder which jazz club to scoot off to.
- Last orders The courtyard is available for guests 24 hours a day, breakfast is served here starting at 8am.
- Room service Breakfast can be served in-room starting at 7.15am. A selection of salads, po’ boys and seafood is available from 9am to 9pm.
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Hotel bar
An honour bar is set up in the drawing room with premium liquors lining the top of the three-tiered rack. Whip up a tipple and relax in the casual antique-lined drawing room, or have a cocktail delivered to your room.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Soniat House 1133 Chartres Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116-2593
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Smith extra at Soniat House
A copy of La Bouche Creole cookbook by Leon Soniat
In the know
Our favourite rooms
A walk up the chandelier-lit staircase lands you in Room 28, the only Grand Suite in the main house. Check out peaceful Chartres Street from one of the rocking chairs on the private balcony. The suite is kitted out with a lacquered turquoise four-poster bed with a pleated white canopy and a decorative fireplace. Go for the rooms in the main house if you can; they get more natural light. The back-house bedrooms are a bit darker and lower-ceilinged; they used to be the slaves’ quarters.
Packing tips
Bring an old-school fan to wave while you sit in one of the rockers, like the good ole days. Pack a polaroid camera to capture Nola’s mix of architecture. Start with a photo of Soniat House, it’s a typical Creole townhouse.
Also
Browse pieces procured on owners Frances and Rodney’s trips to the Toulouse, Paris and Leon in the shop on the grounds. Add gilded sconces, crystal-covered chandeliers, buffets and other 18th-century artefacts to your collection.
From the Guestbook…
The Soniat Hotel was a historic gem in an otherwise rainy New Orleans We stayed in Room 28 which was a spacious suite with a balcony overlooking a quiet block on Chartres Street Th...
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