Monteleone Hotel
Anita Rao KashiAnita Rao Kashi|Guest Contributor|HOTELS, NEW ORLEANS Updated : Dec 28, 2016, 11.29 AM IST
Anita Rao Kashi
Anita Rao Kashi is a freelance travel and food writer based in Bangalore. After nearly 12 years with The Times of India in Bangalore,she went freelance in Jan 2006 to write about travel and food. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Lonely Planet Magazine India, National Geographic Magazine India, Economic Times, Jetwings, Femina, Tiger Tales, Silkwinds, Bangalore Mirror, The Star of Malaysia etc. Apart from writing for various national and international magazines, newspapers and websites, as well blogging on travel and food, she has worked on travel and food guides.
The French Quarter’s Royal Street is where many lovely buildings are located. One of them is Hotel Monteleone. The facade is like the rest of the French Quarter and is strikingly charming with lovely interiors. The hotel also blends in well with New Orleans’s reputation of black magic and voodoo as it is considered to be haunted. It might sound fascinating, but the hotel’s reputation as the stomping grounds of literary figures is much stronger. Tennessee Williams, Faulker, Hemingway and even John Grisham are associated with it, who were frequent visitors and had even penned their stories here. The hotel celebrates this aspect by establishing a display of all the tomes that were supposedly written here.
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