Hotel

You may lay your weary head down with the rising sun at the Hotel Monteleone, the oldest and best hotel in New Orleans, which was also the official hotel of Convergence 12. Those who attended C12 do not need to be reminded of its coffin-shaped rooftop pool or its carousel bar. The Monteleone, locally owned and in the same location since 1886, is also only four short blocks' walk from One Eyed Jack's.

• Ernest Hemingway not only drank here but wrote about it in "The Night Before Battle."
• Entrance to the Hotel Monteleone
• This is a "preferred king room. No word yet on whether you can request black sheets and curtains.
• It's coffin-shaped. What more do you want?