New Orleans Hotel Specials for the French Quarter Festival 2003

Nearly 300,000 visitors and locals are expected to fill the French Quarter for the 20th annual French Quarter Festival, April 10-13, 2003. Festival-goers will revel in the spirit of New Orleans while enjoying a cultural showcase of the Crescent City's finest food, music and fun as the streets of the historic Vieux Carré (French Quarter) are transformed for three days into the largest FREE music festival in Louisiana. Fifteen stages, operating from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and until 9 p.m. on Sunday, will showcase the best in New Orleans music, representing every genre from traditional and contemporary jazz to rhythm & blues and funk, Cajun & zydeco to classical and international.

French Quarter Festival begins with a T.G.I.F. (Thank Goodness It's Festival) "Funraising" Party on Thursday, April 10, 7:00-10:00 p.m., at the new Bourbon House, 144 Bourbon Street at Iberville. There will also be a special Prelude Party held the same evening from 6-7 p.m. at the Valentino-Conti House, a beautifully restored 1830s townhouse at 840 Conti Street.