Ask the team · Bywater, New Orleans
Occasions · The last fling
A New Orleans bachelorette party needs three things: a pool that belongs only to your crew, a real bed for everybody, and a short ride to the night out. Every villa has all three, ten minutes from the French Quarter.
Why CastleDay
Seventeen beds behind twelve doors, mapped room by room on the Bed Map on every villa page, so rooms are settled before anyone packs. Want extra beds? Ask ahead and free queen air mattresses will be waiting (the inflating is on you).
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee, plus occupancy taxes. No per-guest fees, so the per-person share usually drops as the list grows. Pick your dates and the calculator shows the real price, split per person, before you've told us your name.
A licensed hotel that feels like a house: inspected, legal, city permit 24-XSTR-24029, with staffed reception and fenced grounds. Anything this page doesn't answer, ask the team and a human answers fast.
How it goes
Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning: how groups actually run it.
Flights land all afternoon and nobody waits at the airport for anybody; it's twenty-five minutes to the front door, bags down, rooms already settled off the Bed Map. Check-in is 4pm; when the calendar allows, 1pm is free, just ask us the week of.
The backyard wine garden with live jazz every night and no reservation to miss. The early crew wanders over at five; whoever lands late Ubers straight from the airport and finds the table under the string lights.
The pool lights come on from the panel by the back door. Somebody starts the hot tub, and the group chat finally goes quiet. Keep it gentle; Saturday collects on big Thursdays.
Floats out, playlist on, the outdoor kitchen going and lunch on the covered patio. Nobody moves the car. If the crew wants one mission, the French Quarter cocktail classes book out about two weeks ahead, and the tarot readers around Jackson Square take walk-ups.
N7 hides behind an unmarked fence in the Bywater: a candlelit courtyard, French plates with a Japanese accent, natural wine (book it early; the secret is long out). Then Frenchmen Street for the music: The Maison's free drag show upstairs at eight on weekend nights, The Spotted Cat and d.b.a. steps apart. Bring small bills; on Frenchmen the tip jar is the cover charge.
The Country Club's drag brunch keeps Saturday in the Bywater, a five-minute ride across the neighborhood, and it's the toughest table of the weekend: put the deposit down the day you book the villa, and bring cash to tip the queens.
The bartender sets up the daiquiri station, hibachi lands in the courtyard, and the brass band books straight through us.
Mirrors in every room and natural light for getting ready; the veil over The Herald's stairwell is the photo everyone posts.
The big dinner first, off our big-table restaurant list: rooms that seat a whole crew without a fight. Then Bourbon's one good night: Fritzel's for the real jazz, the dueling pianos at Pat O'Brien's, one Hand Grenade apiece, karaoke at Cat's Meow, and a candlelit last round at Lafitte's. The hot tub waits up.
Beignets on the patio, sunglasses on, the pool doing the talking. Late checkout at 1pm is free when the calendar allows.
Preservation Hall runs afternoon sets on Sundays: forty-five minutes of the real thing, and tickets open about two weeks ahead. Flights after noon leave room for it (and for one more hour at the pool).
Prefer to stay on foot? The Bywater keeps Bacchanal, Vaughan's and BJ's in walking distance.
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"[The Herald] was perfect, clearly designed for events with lots of guests… The guests really enjoyed the pool and hot tub, and we loved that there were spaces large enough to accommodate everyone."
A bachelorette crew of 23
Before the ring
The classic weekends (Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Halloween) book out closer to a year ahead; summer is pool season at the friendliest rates of the year. Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
Check the datesEvery weekend of the year, rated →More on bachelorette weekends →Occasions · The send-off
A New Orleans bachelor party runs on three things: a pool nobody else is using, food coming off a grill, and a short ride to the night out. Every villa has all three, ten minutes from Bourbon Street.
Why CastleDay
Seventeen beds behind twelve doors, mapped room by room on the Bed Map on every villa page, so the room draft is settled before the flights land. Want extra beds? Ask ahead and free queen air mattresses will be waiting (the inflating is on you).
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee, plus occupancy taxes. No per-guest fees, so the per-person share usually drops as the list grows. Pick your dates and the calculator shows the real price, split per person, before you've told us your name.
Mostly, yes. Fenced grounds, staffed reception, and a licensed hotel that feels like a house: inspected, legal, city permit 24-XSTR-24029. One honest note: the block is residential, so outdoor quiet hours run 10pm to 8am; the living rooms and media lounge stay up as late as you do.
How it goes
Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning: how crews actually run it.
Flights land all afternoon and nobody waits at the airport for anybody: twenty-five minutes to the front door, bags down, rooms already claimed off the Bed Map. Check-in is 4pm; when the calendar allows, 1pm is free, just ask us the week of.
Burgers off the grill, plates on the covered patio, the game on the outdoor TV, the pool lights on from the panel by the back door. Nobody has dressed up yet and nobody misses it.
Somebody starts the hot tub and the group chat finally goes quiet. Keep it gentle; Saturday keeps score.
Laps and hoops in the morning, the grill going by noon, a cornhole bracket on the turf through the afternoon. XL TVs inside and out keep game day ten feet from the pool. Nobody moves the car.
The big dinner first, off our big-table restaurant list: rooms that seat the whole crew without a fight. Then Frenchmen Street for the music, The Spotted Cat and d.b.a. steps apart. Bring small bills; the tip jar is the cover charge.
Coffee on the deck, a slow swim, the banana grove holding the shade. The ambitious ones book a morning swamp tour and are back before the boil.
The boil crew arrives with the burner and papers go straight down the table; it books through us. The bartender and the hibachi you book come straight to you.
Fritzel's for the real jazz, the dueling pianos at Pat O'Brien's, one Hand Grenade apiece, and a candlelit last round at Lafitte's. The hot tub waits up.
Beignets on the patio, one last float, the leftovers off the grill. Late checkout at 1pm is free when the calendar allows.
Rather walk? The Bywater keeps Bacchanal, Vaughan's and BJ's in walking distance.
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"If you have a large group and want to stay somewhere comfortable and luxurious, this is the spot! We would book here again in a heartbeat."
A joint bachelor and bachelorette crew of 23Before the wedding
The classic weekends (Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Halloween) book out closer to a year ahead; summer is pool season at the friendliest rates of the year. Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
Check the datesEvery weekend of the year, rated →More on bachelor party weekends →Occasions · The wedding weekend
The welcome party, the getting-ready house, the whole crew at the pool before the ceremony: everyone you love on one block.
Why CastleDay
Bridal party in one villa, families in the next. Take all three and the block holds the whole guest list.
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee per villa, plus occupancy taxes. Adding people to the same villa never adds a line item — check your real dates and see the whole number up front.
Two couples wrote up exactly how they ran it, vendors and costs included: one took all three villas, one made a single villa the family home base.
How it goes
Twenty-five minutes from the airport, bags down by mid-afternoon, the welcome party by the pool that night.
A slow pool morning, a swamp tour for the out-of-towners, the rehearsal dinner out in the city. The hot tub waits up.
Everyone at the pool through the afternoon, getting-ready rooms with real mirrors and real light, then off to the venue.
One last swim, beignets on the patio, and the goodbyes that run long before the flights home.
Pick rooms off the Bed Map before anyone lands; every villa page shows every bed, room by room.
From the guest book
Both couples wrote up how they ran the weekend, vendors and costs included. Read them before you plan; steal what works.
All three villas · September 2025
Sam and Gigi took all three villas and gave each side of the family its own. Sixty-five guests slept on the block, the families hosted a 45-person dinner at The Cocodrie the night before, and the day after the ceremony The Florentine held a 150-person pool party with a brass band.
"If there's a single argument for renting all three villas at once, this is probably it."
Read their playbookOne villa · April 2026
Karen and Danny put one side of the family, fourteen of them, in The Florentine. The family cooked a 34-person dinner the first night, the whole crew got ready there on the wedding day, and 150 guests came back Sunday for a poolside farewell brunch. No caterer, no rented furniture, no portapotties.
"150 people for brunch and I was still shocked by how much space we had."
Read her playbookOne villa or three? One holds a side of the family; three hold the whole guest list. Ask the team which fits yours.
We'll help coordinate
"Had a group of 19, couples and singles all had their own bedrooms. It really was the perfect house for our group."
Tod, wedding partyOne block, one love
Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
Check the datesMore on wedding weekends →Occasions · The reunion
Cousins in the shared rooms, grandparents in the ground-floor queen, everyone at one table. Nobody drives between houses.
Why CastleDay
Seventeen beds behind twelve doors, mapped room by room on the Bed Map on every villa page, so the cousins are sorted before anyone packs. Pack-and-plays, high chairs and free queen air mattresses, just ask ahead.
The Florentine is our Accessible Villa: a step-free ground-floor queen suite with an accessible tub, and the kitchen, dining and pool on the same level. Tell us what she needs and we'll make sure it works.
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee, plus occupancy taxes. No per-guest fees, so adding cousins never adds line items. Pick your dates and the calculator shows the real price, split per person.
How it goes
Thursday's advance team to Sunday's last table.
Whoever's running the show gets in first: early check-in when the calendar allows, the grocery run before the crowd, rooms checked against the Bed Map.
Twenty-five minutes from the airport, hugs in the courtyard, kids in the pool before the bags are up the stairs.
The dining table seats eighteen and the pergola seats the rest. No kids' table in another house.
Coffee on the shaded deck while the early risers claim loungers.
Cornhole, basketball, the pool hoop. It gets competitive.
The boil crew arrives with the burner and papers go straight down the table. It books through us.
The old stories get taller; the kids finally sit still to hear them.
Beignets, the family photo everyone actually shows up for, and goodbyes that run long. Late checkout at 1pm is free when the calendar allows.
Hosting the whole extended clan for the reunion barbecue? The villa hosts it; bigger gatherings just need advance written approval from the team.
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"There's so many nooks you can escape to and unwind. The breeze by the pool on hot days was incredible."
Jessica, family of 26Get everyone home
Summer is pool season at the friendliest rates of the year; the classic weekends (Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Halloween) book out closer to a year ahead. Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
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Sessions at a table that seats eighteen, breakouts under the pergola, the pool at five o'clock. One property, one invoice, ten minutes from the French Quarter.
Why CastleDay
Each villa holds a team of up to 30 in real beds across 12 bedrooms and 17 beds; the Bed Map on every villa page settles rooms before anyone flies. Two villas take 60; all three run a 90-person all-hands.
One property, one invoice, W-9 and certificate of insurance on request. A licensed hotel that feels like a house: inspected, legal, city permit 24-XSTR-24029. No per-guest fees, so a head count that moves doesn't reopen the contract.
The price is public: pick your dates and the calculator shows the real number at live rates, split per person. Midweek and shoulder-season dates often beat a comparable downtown room block.
How it goes
How teams actually run it, landing to wrap.
Teams rarely land on the same flight: check-in flexes for scattered arrivals, and reception is staffed around the clock. Bags down, Wi-Fi on, agenda taped to the fridge.
One table, eighteen seats, the pergola for the overflow. The hot tub handles the jet lag.
Coffee urns on, laptops under the pergola, the agenda moving before the heat.
The chef's kitchen takes catering trays (double refrigerators, sized for exactly this). Eighteen at the table, the rest under the pergola.
Living rooms break into working corners with fast Wi-Fi. Then basketball, cornhole, the pool hoop: an hour off the agenda.
Dinner, then the real conversations under the string lights. A crawfish boil or a brass band books straight through us.
One last session at the table, airport runs in waves. Late checkout at 1pm is free when the calendar allows.
One invoice, one agreement, W-9 on request.
From the guest book
July 2025: rapper E.T. Deaux launched Adult Swimming III with an invite-only listening party at The Cocodrie: a full album showing in the living room, golf theming end to end, friend vendors on the food and bar, and a recovery day built in.
"A living room big enough to show a full album is a better venue than most traditional event spaces."
Read how he ran itBooked through us
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"The perfect house for our group, everyone had their own bedroom, and the outdoor space made the whole trip."
Operations lead, team of 24Out of office
Midweek and shoulder-season dates often beat a comparable downtown room block per person. Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
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Thirty, forty, fifty: bring everyone. A brass band by the pool, one long table, and beds for the whole crew.
Why CastleDay
Seventeen beds behind twelve doors, so the whole crew stays and nobody books a hotel. The Bed Map on every villa page shows each bed room by room; free queen air mattresses if you ask ahead.
The nightly rate plus one cleaning fee, plus occupancy taxes. No per-guest fees, so the guest list can grow with the toast list. Pick your dates and the calculator shows the real price, split per person.
New Orleans makes house calls. The brass band and the crawfish boil book straight through us; the DJ, bartender and decorators you book come straight to you. Fenced grounds and staffed reception keep the party home.
How it goes
Friday night to Sunday morning: how the big one runs.
Bags down, playlist on, the first cannonball before dinner lands. Check-in is 4pm; when the calendar allows, 1pm is free, just ask us the week of.
Floats out, the grill going, the daiquiri station open. The banana grove holds the shade.
The long table seats eighteen, the pergola seats the rest. The toast, the cake, the photos.
The brass band turns the courtyard into a second line around the pool. The hot tub waits up.
Beignets, one last float, everyone agreeing to do it again at the next zero. Late checkout at 1pm is free when the calendar allows.
Bigger blowout? A second villa is next door, and all three together hold up to 90.
From the guest book
April 2025: Liz, Karen, and Jesse hit milestone birthdays in the same stretch, so twenty friends took The Herald for the weekend. Every meal home-cooked, afternoons in the pool, and a party bus to the monster truck rally.
"When you've got 20 friends in one house, the house itself does most of the work."
Read their weekendBooked through us
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"Probably the best three day stretch of our lives. Thank you for the greatest vibes we could ask for."
Brandon, 40th birthdayThis year's number
The classic weekends (Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Halloween) book out closer to a year ahead; summer is pool season at the friendliest rates of the year. Each villa sleeps up to 30 across 12 bedrooms, 17 beds, and 8 baths. Book one, two, or all three; up to 90 in all.
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