🎭 October 24, 2026 • 6:30 PM • The French Quarter
If you think Halloween means buying a plastic pumpkin, handing out candy and watching a scary movie on the couch…
Bless your heart.
You have clearly never done Halloween in New Orleans. 😈🎃
Because on Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM, the monsters come out, the costumes get outrageous and Krewe of BOO!, New Orleans’ official Halloween parade, takes over the city. 🎭👻
And honey…
You do NOT want to miss this.
The Krewe of BOO! is a Halloween-sized New Orleans tradition featuring monstrous floats, costumed marchers, marching bands, dance troupes and enough spooky spectacle to make your average Halloween party look like a kindergarten craft project. 😂🧟♂️
The parade is FREE and open to the public, and costumes are encouraged. It rolls through the historic French Quarter and toward the Warehouse District, turning the streets into one giant Halloween party.
😈 BRING YOUR MOST OUTRAGEOUS COSTUME
This is not the weekend to play it safe.
Be a vampire. 🧛
Be a witch. 🧙♀️
Be a zombie. 🧟
Be something nobody can identify before midnight. 😂
Just remember: New Orleans has standards.
They’re just… different standards. 😈🍹
And Krewe of BOO! isn’t the only reason to make a Halloween weekend out of it.
New Orleans gives you haunted tours, ghost stories, spooky French Quarter legends, Halloween parties, costume contests, live music, scary attractions and enough bars to make your costume choice seem completely reasonable by 1 a.m. 👻🍸
There’s even a Zombie Run Saturday morning, and after the parade, the Monster Mash post-parade costume party kicks off at Generations Hall.
In other words…
One night is not enough.
🏨 MAKE IT A HALLOWEEN LONG WEEKEND
This is exactly why you should make Historic Mardi Gras Inn your Halloween home base.
We’re just 1½ blocks from the French Quarter. 🎭
That’s close enough to walk straight into the action without needing to find a parking spot, summon a cab or explain to a rideshare driver why you’re dressed like a sexy whatever-it-is-you’re-dressed-as. 😂
And the streetcar is just a 2-minute walk from our front door, making it easy to explore more of New Orleans when you’re ready to venture beyond the Quarter. 🚋
So come in Thursday.
Get settled.
Put on the costume.
Go find the ghosts. 👻
Drink something suspiciously delicious. 🍹
Eat something wonderful. 🍤
Dance.
Watch the Krewe of BOO! parade Saturday night.
Then keep the party going.
That’s how you do Halloween in NOLA.
🎃 WHY SPEND HALLOWEEN ANYWHERE ELSE?
Seriously.
Nobody does Halloween like New Orleans.
Where else can you combine a historic French Quarter, a Mardi Gras-style Halloween parade, haunted streets, elaborate costumes, live music, creepy cocktails and a city that has been perfecting the art of partying for centuries?
Exactly.
Nowhere.
So don’t make the mistake of treating this like a one-night event.
🚨 BOOK THE HALLOWEEN LONG WEEKEND. 🚨
Thursday, October 22 – Monday, October 26
—or make it a shorter Friday-to-Monday escape.
Just BOOK THE ROOM. 🎃🏨
Stay close to the French Quarter.
Stay close to the Krewe of BOO! action.
Stay close to the music, nightlife, restaurants, haunted history and all the deliciously questionable decisions New Orleans has waiting for you.
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👻 HISTORIC MARDI GRAS INN
Your Home Base for Halloween in New Orleans.
Bring your outrageous costume. 🎃
Bring your friends. 👯
Bring your appetite. 🍤
Bring your dancing shoes. 💃
Bring your sense of adventure.
And maybe…
don’t tell your mother everything that happens after dark. 😈🍹👻
KREWE OF BOO! • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2026 • 6:30 PM
🎭 Come for the parade.
👻 Stay for the ghosts.
🍹 Stay for the nightlife.
🏨 Stay at Historic Mardi Gras Inn.
New Orleans is waiting.
And this Halloween?
The dead are partying. You should too. 🎃💀🍹🔥