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La DAUPHINE B&B
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Here’s the kind of vibe you’re likely to find yourself bathed in, both in our neighborhood and at our B&B:
Bohemian:
having informal and unconventional social habits.
Overall: | 4.5 |
Service: | 4.7 |
Value: | 4.7 |
The rooms: | 4.2 |
Cleaning: | 4.2 |
To see how close La Dauphine is to the French Quarter
of New Orleans, see the map further down this page.
From $129 per night plus tax.
(Our rates are less than booking 2 persons in a quad room at a local hostel—in other words, excellent value.)
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.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
In 2012, Travel and Leisure readers named New Orleans America’s Favorite City!
#1 for: Restaurants, Cafés, Nightlife, Offbeat People,
Antique/Vintage Stores,
Street Performers, Wild Weekends, Flea Markets,
Cocktail Hours, Singles Bar Scene, Music Scene,
Neighborhood Joints, People Watching, City Pride, &
Spring Break Travel;
#2 for Gay-Friendly, Charming Accent;
And #3–5 for Cool Architecture, Boutiques, Coffee Houses,
Romantic Weekends,
Friendly Locals, Hotel Options.
And many other accolades rated #5–10.
So what are you waiting for? Come out and play, dine, and experience New Orleans!
May 29, 2010
Dear Ray and Kim,
What an expansion of the soul and senses last week was!
Exactly what was needed by two fog-chilled San Franciscans to savor the world
anew!
To hear the very best music flowing out in the streets day and night—part of
the intimate fabric of a city’s character, climate and a whole 24/7 way of life.
Music, N’Awlins cooking, the relaxed conversation with strangers, the ever-present sense of water surrounding.
It was as perfect a six days as I can remember.
Thanks, and our very best from Noe Valley, the Fillmore, Pacific Heights, and Browser
Books!
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. They came from France and Spain in 1718 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, Horn’s, Mona’s, Wasabi, Adolfo’s, and bars such as the Spotted Cat, d.b.a., Checkpoint Charlie’s, Phoenix—not to mention an overabundance of galleries and antique shops. You can read more about this in our Frenchmen Street Guide.
Jackson Square is a mere 15-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, full bar, and lunch and dinner 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 quirky and “funky”, with a “decrepit New Orleans vibe”—kind of “run-down,” authentic, old New Orleans charm—and chock-full of interesting stuff all around.
Ray & Kim
Jackson Square, French Quarter, New Orleans
Our Marigny 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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To see a slide show of a suite, click on a photo or link.
Languages spoken are: English, (yes—really), French, German and Danish. Ray has lived in Paris and 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).
Each room has its own private bath.
There is a guest refrigerator in the common area.
62 rooftop solar panels help to power the 3,000-sq.-ft. house.
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 Carré 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.)
![]() La Dauphine host Ray Ruiz & co-host Tanuki, a Shiba Inu.
Your host is Ray Ruiz, a travel writer and artist
(click here to 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. |
Come join us!![]() We met in Copenhagen, got engaged in Helsinki, got married in Canada, and now run our B&B in New Orleans.
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Your co-host is Dr. Kim Pedersen, a native of
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Please come stay with us if you think we’re your kind of place.
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Things to do in New Orleans?How about a concert at the House of Blues? You can see really big stars in an intimate setting like this clip with French rock star Johnny Hallyday shows. |
Concert with French rock star Johnny Hallyday at the House of Blues, New Orleans, May 13, 2014. |
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If you’d like to know more about New Orleans—The Big Easy—click here. |
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Click here to see what travelers from around the world have said about staying at La Dauphine. |
Four blocks to French Quarter.
Two blocks to Frenchmen Street.
In the bohemian, artsy, gay Faubourg Marigny area.
Wi-Fi throughout, ceiling fans.
Cybercafé: a 24" core 2 duo iMac and a printer, scanner and copier are yours to use.
Private courtyard, TV, DVD.
Central Air & Heat.
Mellow clientele, Quiet oasis.
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Hosts: Ray Ruiz & Dr. Kim Pedersen.
Contact:
Tel. 1-504 948 2217, Fax 1-504 948 3420.
Mailing Address:
Price range: Special events, high season & weekend rates are higher. Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest rates are the highest.
Single Room = One person, one queen-size bed. |
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There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. The city is one very long poem. Gardens full of pansies, pink petunias, opiates. Flower-bedecked shrines, white myrtles, bougainvillea and purple oleander stimulate your senses, make you feel cool and clear inside. Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades—30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful—double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn’t move. All that and a town square where public executions took place. In New Orleans you could almost see other dimensions. There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. Chronic melancholia hanging from the trees. You never get tired of it. After a while you start to feel like a ghost from one of the tombs, like you’re in a wax museum below crimson clouds. Spirit empire. Wealthy empire. One of Napoleon’s generals, Lallemaud, was said to have come here to check it out, looking for a place for his commander to seek refuge after Waterloo. He scouted around and left, said that here the devil is damned, just like everybody else, only worse. The devil comes here and sighs. New Orleans. Exquisite, old-fashioned. A great place to live vicariously. Nothing makes any difference and you never feel hurt, a great place to really hit on things. Somebody puts something in front of you here and you might as well drink it. Great place to be intimate or do nothing. A place to come and hope you’ll get smart—to feed pigeons looking for handouts.
© Copyright Ray Ruiz 2013, 2018. All rights reserved.
Website editing and maintenance by
Thomas T. Frost, freelance provider of translations between English, French and Danish.
Photo credits:
Fleur de lys: By Français: Gouvernement du Québec [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Collage elements:
Upper left: By Infrogmation of New Orleans (Photo by Infrogmation) [GFDL 1.2 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Corner building upper middle: Falkue at the German language Wikipedia.
Trombone player upper right: By robbiesaurus (Flickr: TBC Brass Band) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Photos presenting La Dauphine: garden, cybercafé, view of garden, video library,
after shave, Triptych by Melissa L. Drewry.
Ray Ruiz’s Google+ profile