Extended Stay America - New Orleans - Metairie

About Extended Stay America - New Orleans - Metairie

Extended Stay Hotels now offers FREE Wi-Fi All Day Every Day at all Extended Stay Hotels - Welcome to Extended StayAmerica New Orleans - Metairie. Our hotel is designed especially for longer stays with studios featuring fully-equipped kitchens and plenty of work space? amenities you won't find in a typical hotel room. ? Kitchen with refrigerator, microwave, and stovetop ? Convenient workspace ? Free local phone calls ? Personalized voice mail ? Iron and full size ironing board ? On-site guest laundry ? Dining and cooking utensils provided ? Pet Friendly Rooms

Known worldwide as ?The Big Easy,? New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the most exciting United States destinations imaginable. Considered by some to be the most unique city in America, New Orleans is famous for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, its cuisine, and as the birthplace of jazz. The citys annual Mardi Gras celebration remains a major attraction, drawing an estimated 800,000 people in 2008. New Orleans has the fifth-largest port in the United States by volume, and the region accounts for a large portion of the nation's refinery and petroleum production. New Orleans is home to two Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) storage facilities. The regions industrial infrastructure includes 17 petroleum refineries. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is capable of receiving ultra large oil tankers and pipelines for crude oil, distilled product and liquefied petroleum gas. With so much to offer visitors, even those traveling on business should be sure to set aside plenty of sight-seeing time while in New Orleans. In addition to the famous ?French Quarter?, renowned for gourmet food and jazz, New Orleans is a great place to take in nature. Found at several places around town are the wonderful attractions of the Audubon Nature Institute. Two attractions well worth the time are the Aquarium of the Americas and the Audubon Zoo. Several companies operate boat tours through the famed Louisiana swampland; float your way along meandering waters and just take in the sights or cast a fishing line into the bayou and hook your supper. Visitors can also take a personal narrated tour in Honey Island Swamp, one of the least altered river swamps in the country, boasting nearly 70,000 acres of permanently protected swampland. Those in the mood for more unique adventures should try out Musi??e Conti Historical Wax Museum, complete with a haunted dungeon and over 150 life-size wax statues, afterwards, venture over to the renowned Cities of the Dead.