Hotel Monteleone

The Hotel Monteleone is a long-running family-owned landmark on Royal Street in the French Quarter, known for its revolving Carousel Bar. The hotel says generations of guests and staff have experienced events that would make a skeptic pause. Louisiana's state tourism site describes Maurice, a young boy said to have died of a fever on the fourteenth floor while his parents were at the opera, and tells of guests who report children playing in the halls and the ghosts of former employees still going about their duties. The accounts are told by the hotel and its guests rather than documented, and no records tie the boy to a particular family.