What do you do when your flight there arrives very late at night?

>>1216242
Typically, I call it a night, but when you arrive that late you need to tell them the actual arrival time so they don't give your room away. Also, I might sleep in that first morning, and enjoy that hotel's pool to remove jet lag, laze about. But, the thing I would not want to do arriving that late is not get showered and well rested for my trip.

Err, I guess you could stay at a generic close-to-airport hotel the first night, I suppose. The airport is in Kenner, which is pretty far outside of the historic district, So, this might be a little savings, some express hotel versus something nicer in the French Quarter or other districts, or maybe you get a nicer quiet hotel where you know you'll swim in the AM.

The only dilemma I have is when you do a redeye flight, and you get in at 7am-9am, and hotels won't let you check in til noon. That is where it doesn't seem worth the money for that partial day that is a full day rate. Almost always in those cases, they'll let you park your bags in the manager or concierge office behind the desk..some might even suggest using the spa, pool, restaurant, and will signal you when a room is ready at noon (though they always get you into one by 10:30 to be nice..they simply won't promise it. Sometimes I park the bags and go walk around and find somewhere to eat, because I'm too groggy to do anything meaningful.

hotels are pretty fucked with this for check in times

air bnb can be good, some hosts allow a check in at 10 am, good chance they'd be out during the day too

if you were renting a car to keep your bags could try to do an all nighter at some 24 hour places, but don't know if it's a good idea for someone not familiar with NO to be driving around at 3 am

also if you have a car, casinos tend to have huge monitored parking lots, if you say you're passing through many will allow you to park on site for 6-8 hours

>>1216251
I'll just pay for that extra night. I'm planning to be very tired by that hour so I just want a place to lay down in.

The airline hotel thing is an idea.. it'd be convenient but it's just that much more expensive than the cheapo airbnb room I'm planning to book.

That's a great response, thanks