🚋✨ Twinkling Streetcars & Holiday Nights: December in New Orleans After Dark 🍸🎷

COMING THIS WEEK !!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn If you’re picturing December as quiet nights, early dinners, and being tucked in by 9… New Orleans did not get that memo 💅. Around here, December is when the city turns on the lights ✨, pours another cocktail 🍸, and reminds everyone […]
🎄🎸 Trans-Siberian Orchestra Lights Up New Orleans — Make It a Holiday Getaway in the French Quarter ✨🍸

COMING THIS WEEK !!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn December in New Orleans is not a “stay in and sip cocoa” kind of vibe — it’s a music-filled, cocktail-shaking, streetcar-riding holiday playground 🎷🍹. If you’re planning a December trip, one event anchors the week perfectly: Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “The Ghosts of Christmas […]
🌙🍸 Costumes, Cocktails, and Quarter-Style Chaos

COMING THIS DECEMBER!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn New Orleans doesn’t save dress-up for Halloween — December is prime costume season. 🎄✨People show up to ghost tours wearing: And after the tour?That’s when the adult fun kicks in.🔥 The French Quarter comes alive with: This is the kind of grown-up Christmas […]
🎄🍸✨ COCKTAILS, CAROLS & CHAOS: THE HOLIDAY PUB CRAWLS OF NEW ORLEANS ✨🍸🎄

COMING THIS DECEMBER!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn Honey… if you think Santa only comes once a year, you haven’t been to New Orleans in December. The moment Thanksgiving leftovers hit the fridge, this city flips a switch and becomes one giant glitter-splashed, cocktail-soaked sleigh ride 🎅✨ — and at the […]
🎄🔥 A Very New Orleans After-Dark Christmas: Where Grown-Ups Go to Be Merry

COMING THIS DECEMBER!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn If you think Christmas in New Orleans is all twinkling lights, choir bells, and hot cocoa… oh honey, that’s just the warm-up. 🌶️✨Once the sun sets and the city switches from peppermint to pure temptation, New Orleans becomes one of the best adult […]
🎄✨ Naughty & Nice: Your Official New Orleans Holiday Mischief Guide ✨🎄

COMING THIS DECEMBER!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn Let’s be honest: New Orleans didn’t come here to behave. Sure, we’ll wrap the lampposts in garland 🎀, belt out a few classic carols 🎶, and smile sweetly for the tourists — but under the mistletoe and twinkling lights, this city carries a […]
🍽️🎄 Feast Mode Activated! Réveillon Dinners Are Calling, Cher — Come Eat, Drink & Be Extra in New Orleans! 🍷✨

COMING THIS DECEMBER!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn If December had a love language, in New Orleans it would be gourmet multi-course meals, strong cocktails, twinkling lights, and the occasional moment where you whisper, “Oh Lord, I should not have eaten that last bite… but wow was it worth it.” 😅🍰💋 […]
🎄✨ Get Your Holiday Cheer On at the Manning Family Children’s Parade — Then Come Play Like a Grown-Up With Us! 💃🍸

COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn It’s that magical time of year again in New Orleans when twinkling lights line the streets, the smell of pralines floats through the Quarter, and even the street performers start wearing Santa hats. 🎅✨ And kicking off the season with some serious sparkle is […]
✨🌲 Celebration in the Oaks: Where Grown-Ups Go to Feel Magical (and Maybe a Little Naughty)

COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn If you think the holidays are just for kids, sugar, then you clearly haven’t seen Celebration in the Oaks — New Orleans’ annual light extravaganza in the heart of our gorgeous, sprawling City Park. Starting November 28 through January 1, the park transforms into […]
🦃✨ Why Thanksgiving in New Orleans Is the Best Kept Secret for Adults (Who Know How to Live)

COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn Let me tell you something that most of America still hasn’t figured out: Thanksgiving in New Orleans is the undercover holiday jackpot for grown-ups who want to escape the casserole chaos and do the holiday their way. Every year, while everyone else is pretending […]