La DAUPHINE
Residence des Artistes

To see how close LaDauphine is to the French Quarter, see the map further down this page... There are NO shared baths at La Dauphine - all are private.

Two baths are inside the rooms and the Alec Baldwin room has its own bath outside the room. Phone and address are near the end of the website.

Highly Recommended: For a quick video tour of La Dauphine made by a guest, click on the hyperlink below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9jzaxvYV_U

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=jt28n8uG-C8&feature=email

COMING SOON-- Fort Lauderdale 2BR-2BA Condo on Lake Emerald, for longer stays-- just blocks from Wilton Manors...

You may have heard about the Gulf oil spill and might be wondering if it's affecting your visit to New Orleans.

Here is one guest's thank you post card from a recent visit after the oil spill, used with his permission.

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.
Please come stay with us if you think we're your kind of place.
No children or pets, and there is a 3-night minimum and a limit of two persons to a room.

Ray and Kim

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

For an Insider's Guide about Frenchmen Street, click here! 

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The Alec Baldwin Suite

The Matisse Suite

The Gothic Suite

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 down the hall, or in the room.
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.)

Your host is Ray Ruiz, a travel writer and artist (use this link for a look at Ray's art)-- former AT&T manager, who lived in San Francisco for 22 years, and is a native New Orleanian. He is happy to clue you in to the local scene, especially regarding Cajun & Creole food and restaurants, art, antiques, architecture and music Click here for email to Ray

Come join us!

Your co-host is Dr. Kim Pedersen; a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. Kim is a research biologist, formerly with Novo Nordisk, currently doing old age and diabetes research at LSU Medical Center.

 If you'd like to know more about New Orleans, - The Big Easy - click here.

Here's what guests are saying about their stay at LaDauphine.