Clarion Inn
Charion Inn is located on Mississippi's West Bank, 3 miles from downtown New Orleans. The 309 guest rooms have free wireless high-speed Internet access, cable/satellite televisions, coffee makers, refrigerators, pillow-top mattresses, work desks, and telephones with voice mail. Select rooms have microwave oven, flat-screen plasma televisions, and accommodations for the physically impaired.
Hotel amenities include a free hot breakfast and free coffee, an outdoor pool, an exercise room, parking spaces for RVs and buses, Laundromats, a business center and multilingual staff. Eat at Hidden Garden Cajun restaurant or get a drink at Rumors lounge. The hotel is 8 miles from the City Park, which has three 18-hole courses, 74 driving range stalls and tow hitting greens.
Clarion Inn
100 West Bank Expressway
Gretna, LA 70053
(504) 366-2361
clarionhotel.com
City Park
1051 Filmore Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70124
(800) 504-0677
http://www.cityparkgolf.com/
Holiday Inn New Orleans West Bank Tower
Gretna's Holiday Inn is off U.S. 90, conveniently located near New Orleans attractions, providing a view of the skyline from many of its rooms. The hotel's 180 guest rooms offer wireless connections, cable/satellite television with in-room movies, work desk, coffee makers, mini refrigerators, multifunctional phones, and irons and ironing boards.
Hotel amenities consist of a 24-hour fitness center, an unstaffed business center, an outdoor pool, laundry facilities, same-day dry cleaning services, an on-site gift shop, a 24-hour lounge, safety deposit boxes at the front desk, and two meeting rooms with multimedia capabilities. Audubon Park is 5 1/2 miles from the hotel. The 18-hole, par-62 course has four lagoons filled with geese and ducks and fairways that weave through 100-year-old oak trees.
Holiday Inn
New Orleans West Bank Tower
275 Whitney Ave.
Gretna, LA 70053
(504) 366-8535
ichotelsgroup.com
Audubon Park
P.O. Box 4327
New Orleans, LA 70178
(504) 212-5290
http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/golf
La Quinta
The West Bank La Quinta is across the river from downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter. The 154 guest rooms have free wireless high-speed Internet access, cable television, coffee makers, telephones with voice mail, and irons and ironing boards. Select rooms have microwave ovens.
Hotel amenities include free Bright Side Breakfast where you can make your own waffle, an outdoor swimming pool and an on-site restaurant. They don't have an on-site meeting room, but the hotel staff provides information about meeting space, accommodations, catering and multimedia equipment. Brechtel Memorial Park Municipal Golf Course is an 18-hole, par-70 golf course designed for beginner and intermediate golfers.
La Quinta Inn
New Orleans West Bank
50 Terry Pkwy.
Gretna, LA 70056
(504) 368-5600
lq.com
Brechtel Memorial Park Municipal Golf Course
3700 Behrman Plce
New Orleans, La 70114
(504) 362-4761
http://www.neworleansgolf.com/courses/brechtel-memorial/
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Based in Tucson, Ariz., Cicely A. Richard has been writing since 1996. Her articles have been published in the “Arizona Daily Star” newspaper and “ForeWord Magazine.” Richard earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and journalism from Louisiana State University.
