La DAUPHINE
Residence des Artistes

To see how close La Dauphine is to the French Quarter, see the map further down this page...

From $85 per night.

There are NO shared baths at La Dauphine.

There is a 3 night minimum (or more) year round.

Phone and address are near the end of the website.

We prefer email and online booking.

Please check out our YouTube video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnlUPDmcrU&sns=em

To view the Nice, France, Condo.Click here

Click here to view a short video of the Nice apartment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETynkF7bvq8&sns=em

Click on the link below for the artist Susan Miller's sketches of her stay in Nice at 45 rue Bonaparte.
Once you are there, click "Next" at bottom right for the complete portfolio.
http://www.susankmiller.net/sklogs/nice/index.html

Please inquire about our Fort Lauderdale 2BR-2BA Condo on Lake Emerald, for longer stays of a few months-- just blocks from Wilton Manors...

Click web link here for more photos: http://fortlauderdale.weebly.com/

Check out the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFV6Ubj1o4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Did You Know?:…

Trip Advisor named New Orleans the #1 spot in the World for Nightlife. (May 2010)

New Orleans was named the #3 spot for Great Food and Wine by Trip Advisory (May 2010)

Travel and Leisure named New Orleans #1 for: Antique and Vintage Shopping, Wild Weekends,

Boutique Hotels, Cocktail Hours, Singles Bar Scene, Live Music, Cafes and Coffee Bars,

Neighborhood Joints, People Watching and Spring Break Travel-- along with many other accolades.

Yahoo! Travel named New Orleans #1 Music Travel Destination

Fox Sports called New Orleans the #2 City for NFL Fans (Summer 2009)

So what are you waiting for? Come out and play in New Orleans!

May 29, 2010

Dear Ray and Kim,

What a timely expansion of the soul and the senses that last week was!
Exactly what was needed by two routine-bound, fog-chilled San Franciscans to open up and savor the world anew!

To hear the very best music flowing out in the streets day and night, not cordoned-off in a concert hall, but part of the intimate fabric of a city's character and a climate and a whole 24/7 way of life
-- that just felt organic and right.

Music mixed with the smells and tastes of N'Awlins cooking, the relaxed conversation with strangers, the ever present sense of water surrounding, endangering and yet enabling everything.

Thank you for your hospitality and generosity in sharing all these treasures and more with us. It was as perfect a six days as I can remember.

Our very best from Noe Valley, the Fillmore, Pacific Heights, and Browser Books!

The San Franciscans

You might have heard people say that New Orleans is like San Francisco, Savannah, Charleston, Paris, or Marseilles. It's not

The biggest difference is that the streets are exploding with live music all year round.
You've never seen such "street theater." Our most cherished visitors come for our food, music, architecture, history, artists, and writers.
The ambiance is very much like the French Caribbean.

We live in the old French area, much like my Creole ancestors did, coming from France and Spain in 1715 and 1793, respectively.
My mother and father grew up speaking French just a few houses away from us.

Our district, Faubourg Marigny, is a quieter version of the adjacent French Quarter--the main difference being that you can actually sleep at night here.
It's the safe, artist/gay residential area with about 70 bed and breakfasts.

Within a couple minutes walk of our front door, you have access to restaurants such as Marigny Brasserie,
Feelings, Santa Fe, Marisol, La Peniche, Mona's, Wasabi, Adolfo's, and bars such as the Spotted Cat,
Cafe Brasil, d.b.a., Checkpoint Charlie's, Phoenix--not to mention an over abundance of galleries and antique shops.
Jackson Square is a mere 20-minute stroll through the adjacent French Quarter.

In the opinion of many, Faubourg Marigny, our neighborhood, has become the more bohemian extension of the French Quarter,
increasingly becoming the neighborhood of choice for writers, painters, musicians, street entertainers and artists of all sorts.

Throughout the old, French district, you will see artists painting on the streets, musicians "jamming"-- French doors of bars and restaurants flung open, beckoning you to enter.
This is the real New Orleans. Our nearby Country Club offers a large pool (clothing optional), full bar, and lunch most of the year at a daily rate.

We love to host nice, relaxed people-- people who enjoy new surroundings and experiences-- people who can "go with the flow."
We try to steer clear of the formal, pretentious crowd-- no "putting on airs" here.

No children or pets, and there is a 3-night minimum and a limit of two persons to a room.

We met in Copenhagen, got engaged in Helsinki, got married in Canada, and now run our B&B in New Orleans :-)

Please come stay with us if you think we're your kind of place.
And remember that our place is "funky", with a "decrepit New Orleans vibe"-- kind of shabby chic-- and chock full of interesting stuff all around.

Ray & Kim

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  The neighborhood was featured in the April issue of "Travel & Leisure" as one of the trendiest in the nation.

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Languages spoken are: English, (yes - really), French, German and Danish. Ray has lived in Paris and in Bavaria, while Kim has lived and worked in Israel and his native Denmark.

Rates are higher for events such as Mardi Gras, Halloween and Southern Decadence (Labor Day), etc. Each room has it's own private bath.
There is a guest refrigerator in the common area. A three night minimum is required.

You will be well cared for!

Directions from airport:

Take I-10 East into New Orleans.  Follow I-10 into city staying in right lane and take what looks like an exit with Slidell posted above (it's still I-10).
Take the Esplanade Avenue Exit (the next one after the Vieux Carre Exit) and turn right.
Go one and a half blocks to Esplanade Avenue and turn right at the traffic light.
Proceed less than a mile to our street, Dauphine, and turn left. Go 5-6 blocks to 2316 Dauphine to La Dauphine (on the right).

(Unbelievably, half the taxi drivers at the airport do not know the streets of the French Quarter-- even with a million tourists a month heading there. So be prepared to direct them.)

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