Elysian Guest House

I booked this entire house for 10 adult professionals on Feb 11 for the weekend of June ¹⁹⁄₂₀ and received an email to confirm. I reached out via email several days ago requesting an additional day. I called and was told that they did not have record of my confirmation and basically they were able to honor my reservation due to another guest in the house. This was a little over one week until our arrival!
Now, during a phone conversation, the Manager blamed this oversight on the previous owner. Not only did she blame him but also his age. Hinting that his age had something to do with it. Exercising my displeasure with the reservation screw up and my offense to the age comment, she obviously became unraveled, started raising her voice to me and said, «I don’t have to even rent you this house».
I calmly asked her to figure something out and reach back out to me. She did and her with the solution of fitting 10 of us in three rooms! The offer of this monumental screw up was one free room. This was such a petty offer for such a disaster my party and I endured which left me scrambling to secure another house. I did and it was seamless.
Until this new ownership straightens out and trains their staff properly on how to deal with situations and guest services, I would advise to stay away. You could arrive with a large party only to find out your reservation was lost and have it be blamed on a poor older man due to his age.

The Elysian Guest House looks cute from the photos on the web site, but what you can’t tell is that it is situated on a busy street in a neighborhood that doesn’t feel the safest.
The rooms are neat and clean, and very spacious, but the décor is simple and a bit dated. Also, because of the proximity to the street, the rooms in the front of the house are pretty noisy throughout the night as police cars frequently pass by because of a nearby police station.
The price is very affordable though, which is what attracted us to to stay here when we were in town with a group of girls for a weekend trip. The location is also walking distance to the popular Frenchman Street with its restaurants and nightlife. It is about a 20 minute walk to the heart of Bourbon street.
If we had to do it again, we probably would spend a little more to stay somewhere nicer and in a safer feeling neighborhood. But all in all, our stay was fine.