New Orleans Hilton

Cross Country 2010 Brian and Christina leave Wall Street, NYC, to hit the road and go cross country. Join us as we unravel what lies ahead.

... 'll take it slow for awhile. We're taking 10 days to drive to Florida, stopping in many cities, including San Antonio and New Orleans. Then, we'll witness history in Biloxi, Mississippi as we look out into the Gulf of Mexico from our oceanview room (and ...

Our trip south to San Antonio, Texas and east to Orlando, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, and Tybee and Hilton Head Island Lighthouses.

This is just a breif account with pictures (where available) of all the places within the USA that I've gone.

... to drag myself to the rooftop pool... swan into the free internet room and of course eat. Speaking of eating.. I managed in another New Orleans 'must do' by eating the beignets at Cafe du Monde this morning.. whats one more day with a donut for ...

... out the port for the next days sailing. We introduced ourselves and had a wonderful chat about the days travel to get to New Orleans. We thought our 8 hour drive was no fun, but they had come down from southern Ohio and had encountered a huge torrential ...

... so nice to have someone in the car, specially when she took over and drove for a bit. We reached our final destination (Hilton Hotel) in New Orleans. It was of course incredibly grand, but I was so tired that even if at that point they had put me in ...

... thing is though I was hoping that InterContinental is not going to be like other hotels of the same class such as Hyatt, Hilton, or Marriott. I just don't get this whole thing about having to pay for internet. Common, that should be included. Anyway, ...

... way from Melbourne Australia, lived only 25 mins from my appartment in South Yarra, Melbourne. Then Look around Harrahs Casino and the New Hilton Hotel which I gave mum a call, then went for a bit of shopping and finished the day of site seeing before I ...

... up at 7pm and headed off for a meal.  After dinner we went to the Old French Market coffee shop to sample some traditional New Orleans Beignets (fried doughnuts to the rest of us).  Very nice they were too, despite me nearly choking on the icing ...

... on a bench for a bit, where there was someone listening to radio.  They announced (at 11:30am) that the temperature in New Orleans had hit 104 degrees, with a 91% humidity rate (I'm never entirely sure what this percentage actually means, but it was ...

... to New Orleans left on time again - another small plane, about 50 seats, so I expected another bumpy ride, particularly as New Orleans was experiencing thunderstorms.  I was not wrong, we had about 250 miles worth of turbulence.  Fortunately my ...

... one on other friends.  There was a lot of talking in the hallway and a lot of laughing.  I am certain that the New Orleans Police Department has nice people working in it but I don't think they would spend 1/2 hour in a hotel hallway having a ...

... up for any other tours and decided we would do the Plantation tour to go see a couple of plantations.  Remember that we have visited New Orleans probably 7 or 8 times in the past so we don't have to do a lot of the "first time visitor" things as we ...

... . etc.  It was an interesting tour.          It is nice to see that parts of New Orleans haven't seemed to change at all.  The French Quarter is still loud and raucous and dirty and noisy and charming.  ...

... much energy that man puts out.         Sometime during the night it started raining.  Lovely.  New Orleans in the summer, in the heat, in the rain.  Won't today be a wonderful day to run around and do ...

... there, then went his own way to get coffee, read the paper and do some walking.  It was starting to get pretty cold in New Orleans and we really had not properly packed.  At least I had a coat (though a light one) and hubby had a ...

... didn't leave until around 5 so we had this morning to do a last bit of touring.  We have spent many days in New Orleans at various times in our lives but we never really did any tours before so we did different things this time and different ...