Mardi Gras Monday: Sleeping and Parking

photo credit: mil8

This is part of an ongoing series of Mardi Gras-related posts. You can follow the rest of the posts here.

If you’re visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras, you’re going to face two challenges, finding a place to stay and finding a place to park.

It may not be the most pleasant things to think about when visiting New Orleans, but if you don’t put some planning into them your time here is going to be ruined and they are two very easy things to mess up.

The problem is pretty simple. Though New Orleans is a tourist town, Mardi Gras is the absolute peak of its season. Though the entire time between Halloween and Fat Tuesday is active in general, in the last weeks, the city gets slammed. Hotels fill up quickly and parking, already scarce in the city as it is an older one (much of it laid out before automobiles), becomes prized.

So how do you overcome these obstacles? There are a lot of ways, but here are some of my tips. Read more