Advantages: Still the most beautiful city in the US Disadvantages: Hurricane Katrina
Reading the other site reviews, it seems like all of them were probably written before Hurricane Katrina did its job on NewOrleans. I've been back there several times since the storm, and have a few thoughts.
I myself am an expatriate New Orleanian. Born and raised there, I've lived away for several decades, but still have ties and visit occasionally. As it happened, one of those visits was on the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit. I've been back three times since then, and have seen the city slowly put itself back together.
There's no sugar coating it: Katrina did a number on the city. The house I grew up in was lucky: it was on the edge of the flood zone (which covered nearly the entire city, except for the older parts of town hugging the Mississippi River), and so only (only!) had four feet (1.3 meters) of flooding ...
alexlint 04.01.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of New Orleans
Advantages: Friendly people, relaxed atmosphere. Be prepared to party, and party hard! Disadvantages: Keep away from the tacky and overpriced tourist area.
My visit to NewOrleans was pretty atypical, myself and a friend hired an aircraft and flew ourselves there from Georgia. For any pilots reading this, the trip was a good one, flying IFR and using Houston Centre for Flight Following and a Radar Service. being typically American aviation, the service was excellent and efficient, and despite being two semi-lost Brits in a single engined aircraft we never had the feeling that they were giving us anything but their friendly, polite best.
NewOrleans Lake Front Airfield is a controlled airfield about eight miles out from the city centre and has two parallel runways that extend into the Mississippi, undershoot and you're swimming. The facilities were good, offering cheap Avgas and a courtesey car, (Which had been commandeered by the time we go there!), tie down cost 20 dollars, but that was ...
Smokey64 02.12.2000
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of New Orleans
During my recent visit to NewOrleans, I found it to be a small but very interesting city, very beautiful and well worth the visit. I would recommend staying outside of the centre though, because it can be very expensive. Most hotels run a free bus service to the French Quarter, which also means you don't have to pay for parking or have the inconvenience of this. If you are intending to stay in the French Quarter it is advisable to pre-book, since the hotels are often fully-booked. While there, I took a Grayline city tour, which turned out to be the best thing I could have done for learning about the city in an entertaining way. It took approximately two hours and was interesting throughout. There is no way I could otherwise have learned about the city, or visited these places in one day. Finally, visit the markets, you can get ...
fred123 04.08.2000
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