The Higgins Hotel New Orleans, Curio Collection by Hilton

Fourteen stories rise above Magazine Street at the edge of the Warehouse District, where The Higgins Hotel occupies a purpose-built address adjacent to the National WWII Museum's Louisiana Memorial Pavilion. Rooms on higher floors face either the Mississippi River bend or the museum campus itself.

The ground-floor Broadmoor bar recalls a train-car canteen; The American Sector restaurant keeps a Higgins boat rivet display near its entrance. A four-block walk reaches the Ogden Museum and St. Charles streetcar line.

Business travelers headed to the Convention Center find it under a mile north, closer than most French Quarter properties.