Staybridge Suites New Orleans

Welcome to Staybridge Suites New Orleans A bustling location that gives you Lagniappe—more than you expect. Located in the business district of downtown, the Staybridge Suites® New Orleans French Quarter / Downtown hotel's property is in the most exciting part of the city. Found just a few blocks from the French Quarter, the hotel's location provides plenty of entertainment but is still an ideal setting for business travelers. Stop by for a night or a week—our doors are always open.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Military Appreciation Night, US Coast Guard 8th District and VooDoo Arena Football

VooDoo Arena Football Military Appreciation Night was May 25th
at the Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park.

We wanted to thank the stadium for acknowledging the Staybridge Suites New Orleans
and our donation of $200 in football game tickets to our client the U.S. Coast Guard 8th District.

“Staybridge Suites New Orleans located one block from Harrah’s Casino

is offering a Casino Package including $20 in casino tokens from $129.99

including breakfast buffet daily, suite accommodation with full kitchen!

As a sponsor for VooDoo Arena Football

we want to again express our thanks to the military and their services,

dedication and devotion to Americans and this great country we live in.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Jazz Fest New Orleans April 26 - May 5, 2013

The Staybridge Suites New Orleans is your base camp to The Jazz and Heritage Festival

We are 10 minutes from the festival grounds - a great location and easy access

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Newly Renovated Guest Rooms

Festival Site and Information

10 DAYS OF MUSIC - CRAFTS - FOOD AND FUN

Some of the music groups

Billy Joel

Fleetwood Mac

Dave Matthews Band - Maroon 5 - The Black Keys - John Mayer - Widespread Panic - Daryl Hall and John Oates - B.B. King - Frank Ocean - Earth, Wind & Fire - Willie Nelson & Family - Little Big Town

History on The Festival

From the very beginning, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was envisioned as an important event that would have great cultural significance and popular appeal. The Festival was the culmination of years of discussions and efforts by city leaders who wanted to create an event worthy of the city’s legacy as the birthplace of jazz. A couple of other festivals were held in the years leading up to the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but those events, different in format, did not take hold as the Jazz & Heritage Festival would.

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Located 10 minutes from our front door, easy in and out access and our hotel gives you the rest you will need to dance, eat and enjoy the Jazz Festival

Join us at The Staybridge Suites New Orleans

501 Tchoupitoulas Street
French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

Hotel Front Desk: 504-571-1818
Hotel Fax: 504-571-1811

For a Downtown New Orleans hotel and French Quarter convenient location, stay at Staybridge Suites^®. Whether extended stay or overnight, you'll be in the ideal setting for business or leisure activities on Canal Street, Bourbon Street, or the New Orleans Riverfront. This New Orleans Hotel is located in the business district of downtown, two blocks close to New Orleans Convention Center and only one block from Harrah's Casino. Staybridge New Orleans is walking distance to the Mercedes Benz Superdome and New Orleans Arena. Let Staybridge Suites^® New Orleans French Quarter / Downtown be your choice for a hotel property in the most exciting part of the city. Found just a few blocks from Bourbon Street, the hotel's location provides plenty of entertainment and is an ideal setting for business travelers. Relax and unwind at our Social Reception and enjoy great Louisiana cuisine, like Jambalaya, beverages and conversation. Weather permitting, we move outdoors on Wednesday evenings and cook up Southern BBQ on the gas grills. While in New Orleans, enjoy the local culture of live Jazz, art, crafts, galleries, street entertainment, historic architecture, and the Heritage Jazz Festival.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Mardi Gras Parades begin January 19th!

Mardi Gras Parades begin January 19th - February 12th 2013

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Mardi Gras in New Orleans is something everyone should experience in their lifetime.

Join the Staybridge Suites in celebrating with special deals and promotions. We are located close to the parades and can provide easy transportation information for any destination you choose.

Hope to see you at Mardi Gras!

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What To Expect?

Mardi Gras History and Traditions

Mardi Gras is music, parades, picnics, floats, excitement...and one big holiday in New Orleans! Everyone is wearing purple, green, and gold, and adorned with long beads caught from the beautiful floats. They sit on the ground throwing balls, playing music, having a picnic, and watching the crowds walk by between parades.

During Mardi Gras, all of the businesses and roads are practically shut down--people walk everywhere and meeting new friends. People are dressed in crazy costumes, kids are everywhere, and they love it! How did it all begin, and have the traditions changed?

Mardi Gras History

The origins of Mardi Gras can be traced to medieval Europe, passing through Rome and Venice in the 17th and 18th centuries to the French House of the Bourbons. From here, the traditional revelry of "Boeuf Gras," or fatted calf, followed France to her colonies.

On March 2, 1699, French-Canadian explorer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville arrived at a plot of ground 60 miles directly south of New Orleans, naming it "Pointe du Mardi Gras" when his men realized it was the eve of that festive holiday. Bienville also established "Fort Louis de la Louisiane" (which is now Mobile) in 1702. In 1703, the tiny settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated America's very first Mardi Gras.

In 1704, Mobile established a secret society (Masque de la Mobile), similar to those that form our current Mardi Gras krewes. It lasted until 1709. In 1710, the "Boeuf Gras Society" was formed and paraded from 1711 through 1861. The procession was held with a huge bull's head pushed alone on wheels by 16 men--later, Rex would parade with an actual bull, draped in white and signaling the coming Lenten meat fast. This occurred on Fat Tuesday.

New Orleans was established in 1718 by Bienville. By the 1730s, Mardi Gras was celebrated openly in New Orleans, but not with the parades we know today. In the early 1740s, Louisiana's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, established elegant society balls--the model for the New Orleans Mardi Gras balls of today.

The earliest reference to Mardi Gras "Carnival" appears in a 1781 report to the Spanish colonial governing body. That year, the Perseverance Benevolent & Mutual Aid Association was the first of hundreds of clubs and carnival organizations formed in New Orleans. Mardi G

By the late 1830s, New Orleans held street processions of maskers with carriages and horseback riders to celebrate Mardi Gras. Dazzling gaslight torches, or "flambeaux," lit the way for the krewe's members, and lent each event an exciting air of romance and festivity. In 1856, six young Mobile natives formed the Mistick Krewe of Comus, invoking John Milton's hero Comus to represent their organization. Comus brought magic and mystery to New Orleans, with dazzling floats (known as tableaux cars) and masked balls. Krewe members remained anonymous, and to this day, Comus still rides!

In 1870, Mardi Gras' second "Krewe," the Twelfth Night Revelers, was formed, with the first account of Mardi Gras "throws".

Newspapers began to announce Mardi Gras events in advance, and even printed "Carnival Edition" lithographs of parades' fantastic float designs (after they rolled, of course--themes and floats were always carefully guarded before the procession).

At first, these reproductions were small and detail could not be clearly seen; but beginning in 1886 with Proteus' parade "Visions of Other Worlds," these chromolithographs could be produced in full, saturated color, doing justice to the float and costume designs of Carlotta Bonnecase, Charles Briton and B.A. Wikstrom. Each of these designers' work was brought to life by talented Parisian paper-mache' artist Georges Soulie', who for forty years was responsible for creating all of Carnival's floats and processional outfits.

1872 was the year that a group of businessmen invented a King of Carnival--Rex--to preside over the first daytime parade. Honoring visiting Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff, they introduced his family colors of purple, green and gold as Carnival's official colors. Purple stands for justice; gold for power; and green for faith. This was also the Mardi Gras season that Carnival's improbable anthem, "If Ever I Cease to Love," was cemented, due in part to the Duke's fondness for the tune.

In 1873, floats began to be constructed entirely in New Orleans instead of France, culminating with Comus' magnificent "The Missing Links to Darwin's Origin of Species," in which exotic paper-mache' animal costumes served as the basis for Comus to mock both Darwin's theory and local officials, including Governor Henry Warmoth. In 1875, Governor Warmoth signed the "Mardi Gras Act," making Fat Tuesday a legal holiday in Louisiana, which it still is.

Like Comus and the Twelfth Night Revelers, most Mardi Gras krewes today developed from private social clubs with restrictive membership policies. Since all of these parade organizations are completely funded by their members, New Orleanians call it the "Greatest Free Show on Earth"!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Super Bowl XLVII New Orleans February 3, 2013

Staybridge Suites New Orleans Your Headquarters for

Super Bowl XLVII

February 3, 2013

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OR CALL DIRECT AT

Hotel Front Desk: 504-571-1818

Super Bowl XLVII Experience

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The National Football League will produce the 21st NFL Experience at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans opening January 30, 2013. The NFL Experience driven by GMC is the most exciting continuous event surrounding Super Bowl XLVII - pro football's interactive theme park offering participatory games, displays, entertainment attractions, kids' football clinics, free autograph sessions and the largest football memorabilia show ever.

The ticket includes all games and attractions. $25 for adults and $20 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available by calling (866) TIX-4NFL (849-4635), visiting Ticketmaster.com, or visiting the NFL Experience driven by GMC box office at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Tickets will go on sale one hour before opening daily.

For a list of player appearances, please call 1-888-NFL-CARD (635-2273) beginning January 28. Due to potential scheduling changes, player appearances will be announced the night before they are scheduled to appear.

Media Day Fueled by Gatorade

For only the second time in Super Bowl history, the NFL will offer a limited number of spectators a unique opportunity to attend Media Day Fueled by Gatorade on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Starting today fans are able to purchase tickets at Ticketmaster.com.
Super Bowl XLVII will be played February 3, 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
During Media Day, fans will sit in the stands at the stadium and watch thousands of media from around the world interview members of the participating Super Bowl teams on the field. Fans who attend Media Day also will get a rare chance to see the preparations of the stadium for Super Bowl XLVII.

Fans will receive a Media Day gift bag that will include a radio to tune into the dayâ€™s coverage on NFL Network and listen to some of the individual player interviews from the podium microphones audio. In addition, there will be player and cheerleader appearances. Fans also will have access to the stadium club and concession and merchandise stands will be open for those in attendance.
Tickets are available for purchase through Ticketmaster.com. Tickets to attend Super Bowl XLVII Media Day cost $25.00 each.

Doors will open at 8:30 am (CT) to all ticket holders. Media Day will begin at 10am (CT). All seating for the event will be reserved.

Beyonce to perform

The Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show is the most-watched musical event of the year. More than 112.5 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year's show. The Super Bowl and halftime show will be broadcast worldwide.
Beyonce joins an esteemed list of recent halftime acts that includes Madonna, The Black Eyed Peas, The Who, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and U2.
PepsiCo continues to leverage its diverse multi-brand portfolio - including Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker and Tropicana - with the NFL to connect with fans and enhance their NFL experience. This year, Pepsi returns as the title sponsor of the Super Bowl Halftime Show bringing the brand's Live for Now mind-set and one-of-a-kind consumer engagement platforms to provide fans a halftime experience worthy of pop-culture's biggest stage.
The Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show is an NFL Network production and will be executive produced by Rickey Kirshner and directed by Hamish Hamilton.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

SUGAR BOWL 2013

Allstate Sugar Bowl - New Orleans, LA

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Package Includes

Sugar Bowl Package

Welcome Florida Gators and Louisville Cardinals fans!

Located within walking distance to the Superdome, Harrah's Casino and French Quarter. Package includes a suite accommodation, breakfast buffet daily, social evening reception Tues-Thurs, light dinner with wine, beer, free wireless internet, limited parking $33.60 daily, free local calls, and more!

Full prepayment due 14 days prior to arrival, non- cancelable.
First night's deposit at time of booking.
Based upon availability

Rates from $199.00 USD
Minimum night's stay apply:
December 31, January 1, 2.

Cardinals(10 - 2) @ Gators(11 - 1)

Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013, 8:30 PM EST

Allstate Sugar Bowl - Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA

Staybridge Suites New Orleans Your Basecamp for the Sugar Bowl Game - Click Here

Celebration in the Oaks

Stay With Us and Enjoy The Celebration of The Oaks

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Celebration in the Oaks

Now Through – January 1, 2013

Location: New Orleans Botanical Garden
Address: Victory Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124
Times: Friday and Saturday 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm; Sunday - Thursday 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Admission: $7 per person, children under 3 and Friends of City Park enter free
Phone: 504-483-9415
Venue:New Orleans Botanical Garden
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Celebration in the Oaks in New Orleans City Park remains one of the most beautiful holiday light exhibits in the country, attracting over 122,000 people in 2010. Park and experience one of the nation's most unique month-long festival of lights!

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Holidays on the Point - December 8th New Orleans