Marina Inn & Suites Chalmette-New Orleans

When we first got to the hotel. It was not as nice as the photos on TripAdvisor. There is no hot tub at all. There was one but it is now filled in with concrete. The toilet in our room leaks and there is some standing water in the tub. This room was definitely not worth $136.00.

I would like to begin with my experience with the staff, upon arriving at the hotel I was in a situation where I didn't plan to stay at a hotel so the lady at the front desk was so helpful and she went above and beyond to accommodate my needs because they were not normal circumstances. The staff here is wonderful everyone has worked with me and they make it so pleasurable. The hotel is very clean it's very quiet and the swimming pool is amazing. I would suggest anyone who would like to stay in a hotel in this area please check this hotel out in the funny thing is that I am a diamond member with Best Western which happens to be just down the street from this hotel and for the price you can't be staying here it's just as nice and a lot cheaper and again I just can't say that I've had anything less than a wonderful experience. They also have an amazing restaurant in the hotel called Cajun kitchen and I can tell you that the food is amazingly fresh and the atmosphere is wonderful. I was very surprised because a lot of hotel restaurants just aren't up to par but this one was amazing so please check it out and the owners were very welcoming.

Best bargain hotel in New Orleans. Very inexpensive compared to the city. Clean, cold AC room with a very comfortable mattress. Nice pool area with BBQ grills. Its in another county than New Orleans proper, although only 7 miles from the French Quarter. This apparently makes a huge difference in the crime rate and car break-ins. Set next to a bayou in the marsh, there is a nice little neighborhood next to the hotel.

This is a cheap motel… I get it. But even by cheap motel standards this was not good. 1) No Bedspread. Just a sheet and an old thin blanket that looked like it was bought at an estate sale, had several cigarette burns in it as well, both of them. 2) The tub had what looked like Vomit or poop let on the side, but on further investigation, it was an old plastic tub with more cigarette burns. 3) Not clean. The carpet looked like it has not been changed in decades, wife literally wore shoes to walk on it no matter the time of night. Wouldn’t put her bare feet on the carpet. 4) Breakfast advertised was coffee and a store bought muffin. OK, that’s not unusual, but what it was advertising “breakfast” 6:30-9 and at 7am they were out of everything. Several other things People outside the door loud but that’s not as much the fault of the motel. The door lock was about to come off the door and made it hard to actually get in the room. At the coups de gras… You get this gem for the cheap motel bargain basement rate of $150 per night!!! I didn’t do my research and booked a hotel that was $150 a night with a vision of at least a La Quinta or Holiday Inn style accommodation. This was an old, outdated, worn out, mismanaged, underachieving in every way seedy motel charging $150 a night! Wow! I have stayed in a Drury with amazing pool and hot tub with kickback in the evening and a full breakfast in the morning for less than $100 a night. Oh… speaking of hot tub. It is in the photos, but don’t believe it. The hot tub is just a concreted in hole with a table over it and the pool is about the size of a large hot tub. Not exaggerating. It’s like an I. Ground version of the bladder pools at Wal Mart. About 5 could fit in the pool at once. * Now for some positives. The bed was actually comfortable The water flow was old school. Not the low flow you usually get. The staff was very nice