Hotel Peter and Paul

"Of all the boutique hotels that have landed in New Orleans over the past few years, none gets into the bones of the city like this one. Beyond the heavy mint-green doors, the foyer smells of gardenias. It’s bright, airy, colorful, with a canary-yellow check-in counter and equally bright welcome. Star design team Ash NYC has revived the former 19th-century Catholic church, schoolhouse, convent, and rectory in the boho Marigny neighborhood, just northeast of the French Quarter and a walk from the sax-trumpet-clarinet licks of jazz epicenter Frenchmen Street. As with other Ash NYC hotels—The Dean, in a 1912 clergy house in Providence; the Siren, filling a Renaissance Revival building in Detroit—this place is meant to double as a destination, with sophisticated communal spaces that beg to be sat in with a chicory coffee or a Sazerac. In a city of sensory overload, Hotel Peter & Paul is the anti–Bourbon Street, where the bed linen is crisp—and a little austere, like a convent holdover—and the crowd at its Elysian Bar, brought to you by homegrown wine bar Bacchanal, is European-house-party cool." - Paul Oswell

"The hotel’s check-in and concierge is tucked to the side of a grand staircase that takes guests to compact but thoughtfully designed guest rooms where hues like pale blue, deep green, or rich burgundy reflect the city’s standing in the American South and its French history." - Khalid El Khatib

"The Hotel Peter & Paul leans into a cozy, European monastic style, which makes sense given the property is a reimagined 19th-century Catholic church, rectory, school house, and sanctuary." - Jenny Adams

"For an off-the-beaten-path Mardi Gras experience, consider staying at the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul in the laid-back Faubourg Marigny (commonly called “the Marigny”) east of the French Quarter. Formerly a 19th-century church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent, Hotel Peter and Paul is also home to the Elysian Bar, run by the same team as beloved local wine bar Bacchanal." - Lyndsey Matthews

"For Nathalie Jordi, co-owner of Hotel Peter & Paul, the perfect weekend in New Orleans involves various activities including walking around the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods, a tour with Know NOLA, vintage shopping on Magazine Street, dancing behind a second-line, sitting under live oak trees at City Park, catching a jazz set at Snug Harbor, and enjoying drinks and music in the garden at Bacchanal." - Travel + Leisure Editors