COMING SOON!!!
Greetings, creatures of style and spooky delight 🕸️— I’m Karen Brem, Marketing Director at the Historic Mardi Gras Inn, and yes, I’m here to personally haunt your calendars. Because if you love Halloween, costumes, queer energy, and a New Orleans that leans fierce and freaky, then Halloween New Orleans (HNO) 2025 is your kind of sabbatical — and our newly glow-upped, LGBTQ+ owned and operated inn is exactly where you’ll want to be rested, glammed, and ready to rise (or creep) with the rest of us. 🦇✨
🕷️🎃 Why New Orleans + HNO = the Spookiest, Fiercest Weekend of Your Afterlife 🎃🕷️
New Orleans has long been named one of the Top 13 Places in the World to Visit for Halloween by Travel + Leisure 📰 — a city of voodoo, vampires, ghosts, and theatrical mischief. Add in cobblestone streets, candlelit bars, and costumed chaos… and you’ve got the perfect playground for adults who like their fun a little wicked. 😈
HNO is the crown jewel of queer Halloween, a weekend where imagination runs wild and the only dress code is legendary. Whether you’re serving “Greek god in stilettos,” “fallen angel chic,” or “undead disco diva,” this is your stage, darling. 💋🔥
🕯️🗓️ HNO 2025 EVENT LINEUP (AND OTHER SPOOKY SIDE SHOWS) 🗓️🕯️
Mark your haunted calendars for Friday, October 24 through Sunday, October 26, 2025 👻 — because this year’s theme is “Myths & Legends.” Expect divine costumes, demonic parties, and more glitter than a drag queen’s afterlife.
🖤 Friday, October 24 — The Parthenon Ball 🖤
📍 Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Avenue
🕖 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Black tie optional, but high drama mandatory. Sip, sparkle, and strut through this celestial soiree with live entertainment, silent auctions, and mythic décor fit for Zeus himself. ⚡👑
🩸 Saturday, October 25 — Main Costume Party & Citywide Mayhem 🩸
💃 The Main Costume Party explodes across the city — DJs, drag royalty, and mythological madness in every direction.
🎭 Krewe of BOO! Parade rolls at 6:30 p.m., glowing its way through the French Quarter — monstrous floats, zombie dancers, and candy-throwing demons galore. 🧟♀️🧛♂️
🕺 Follow it up with the Monster Mash After-Party at Generations Hall — where mortals become legends until sunrise. 🌒
☠️ Early riser? The New Orleans Zombie Run kicks off at 9:00 a.m. from Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar. Run for your life through the Warehouse District while the undead chase you down for brunch. 🩸🏃♀️
🦇 Sunday, October 26 — Brunch, Beats & Bewitching Goodbyes 🦇
Wrap up your weekend with the HNO Sunday Brunch + Second Line Parade — a glittering, brass-band send-off through the French Quarter that celebrates life, love, and resurrection… queer style. 🎺👠
🕸️💋 Other Queer & Creepy Goings-On Around Town 💋🕸️
- Haunted Kiss: LGBTQIA+ Halloween Bash 💄🧛 at Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge (Sat, Oct 25, 10:00 p.m.) — drag, DJs, and devilish couture.
- Witches’ Brunches & Boozy Lunches 🥂🕷️ all Halloween week at Gris-Gris, Muriel’s, and The Bower — because even witches need carbs.
- The Mortuary Haunted House & Cemetery Tours ⚰️ — get your scream therapy before sundown.
- Bourbon & St. Ann Street Madness 🧙♀️ — drag queens, demons, and divine debauchery take over the Quarter nightly.
🏚️🌈 Why the Historic Mardi Gras Inn Is Your Haunted Home Base 🌈🏚️
Listen, sugarplum of the underworld 💀— you could stay anywhere, but why would you? Our Historic Mardi Gras Inn just had a site-wide glow-up, shimmering like a freshly risen ghost. 👻✨
We’re LGBTQ+ owned and operated, proudly queer, and perfectly located one block off the French Quarter — close enough to feel the magic, far enough to sleep off the hangover. 🚶♂️💫 Plus, the streetcar stop is just a 2-minute walk from our front door, in case your broom’s out of gas. 🧹
We don’t promise the moon, but we do promise clean, affordable rooms and a warm, welcoming staff ready to make your stay absolutely spellbinding. 💞
🎃🔥 Final (Cheeky) Call to Action: Book It Before the Spirits Do! 🔥🎃
Listen, my glamorous little ghoul 👠— rooms in New Orleans disappear faster than an exorcist on Bourbon Street. 🧛♀️ If you’re planning to haunt the city for HNO 2025, this is your sign from beyond the grave: book your stay now before someone snatches your room (and your halo).
Don’t kid yourself — this is not the weekend to “wait and see.” By October, the only thing left open will be your jaw as you watch everyone else parade past your browser with their confirmed reservations. 💅
At the Historic Mardi Gras Inn, we’ll welcome you like the fabulous fiend you are — with open arms, wicked grins, and maybe a champagne toast to your questionable decisions. 🥂💀 Whether you’re rolling in from the Krewe of Boo, strutting through HNO in six-inch heels, or crawling home from a drag-filled bar crawl, we’ll be your cozy crypt of comfort one block from the Quarter. 🕸️
So grab your fangs, fluff your feathers, and click book now before your bestie beats you to it. 🦇
Because let’s be honest — you can’t call yourself a real Halloween queen (or king, or creature of the night) until you’ve done Halloween New Orleans the right way: in style, in costume, and just slightly hungover. 💋
🖤 Until then, stay spooky, stay sassy, and I’ll see you under the French Quarter moonlight, darling. 🌕✨
FOR ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION CALL US DIRECTLY AT 504.949.5815 OR 1. 800.209.9408. YOU MAY ALSO VISIT US AT historicmardigrasinn.com.
Karen Brem
Marketing Director, The Historic Mardi Gras Inn 🩸