It’s that time again! No, it’s not time to butter the cats, it’s time to talk about travel. In past years we’ve made some amazing trips: Napa Valley, Pacific Northwest, Montreal, and Alaska. For 2012, we’re planning an awesome extended weekend and we would like to invite our friends to join us. We’re going to NEW ORLEANS!
Plans are still being worked out, but the idea right now is that the trip would be from March 1, 2012 through March 6, 2012. We would fly into New Orleans on the evening of Thursday, March 1, and fly out the afternoon/evening of Tuesday, March 6. We will be staying in a hotel in downtown New Orleans. We’re going to try to incorporate some of the things that everyone loved about cruising into this trip. This means that while we’re all staying in the same place, meals and activities will be on an a la carte basis – if you want to join the group, great! If you want to go off an do your own thing, that’s great too.
Plans for the trip are still rather vague right now, but will be nailed down as time goes on. You can be certain that we’re going to be eating a lot of really good food and enjoying some tasty booze. We will probably have a couple of native guides (including Genet’s brother, an officer with New Orleans Police Department), and will have the opportunity to see parts of the city and its surroundings that your average tourist doesn’t get to see.
The nice thing about the a la carte approach is that you can RSVP as long as airfare and hotel rooms are available – we’re keeping things flexible! We will need to know who’s going with us, though, so we can possibly negotiate for group discounts and such.
So now it’s your turn: Are you interested in joining us? Leave a comment here or contact us by other means and we’ll add you to the list of interested folks!
Sounds like fun! Add me to the “interested” list
I’m interested. And that’s right before my birthday! Please keep me in the loop on the details.
Something to consider. The Amtrak’s legendary “City of New Orleans” does a 19 hour trip from Chicago to NOLa everyday. It’s a interesting overnight trip, dinner, breakfast and lunch on board. Done the trip twice. They used to have a “Train Down/Fly Home” package.
Also keep in mind the Rene and Carol Gobeyn lived in NOLa fir several years and are loaded with insider info.
So wish we could join you on the trip. So love that city.
Yep, a couple people have already talked about taking the train, either City of New Orleans or The Crescent, for the east-coasters. Given the amount of time available to us, we’ll have to fly, unfortunately.
And we already have spoke with Rene and Carol – there’s an outside chance that they might be joining us 🙂 Depends on time, money, and vacation availability, of course.
Yes, I’m replying to a really old post… 😉
Are you familiar with http://www.homeaway.com ? Someone posted a link to it on the Rock Boat site, because they’ve got a lot of places in New Orleans, and there are a few places that are capable of housing a LARGE group, although I’m not sure what the cost would be. There’s one that’s on Prytania (I think it was just to the CBD side of Touro Hospital) that has 7 bedrooms, 5 baths (plus 2 half-baths), and sleeps 17 in actual beds. Of course, there are no rates listed for that one. 😉 ( http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p263520 )
Anyway… I thought I’d share the site, since I thought you might have a use for it. 🙂