Hotels Near the Superdome, Walked From 26 Lobbies: The Hyatt Regency Is 8 Minutes Away
By Matt Spaulding · November 8, 2026
Photo: Glimmergloss, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hyatt Regency New Orleans is 606 meters from Caesars Superdome, an 8-minute walk to the east side. Le Pavillon is next at 13 minutes, 965 meters, then NOPSI Hotel New Orleans at 14 minutes, 1,037 meters. The farthest of the 26 hotels in this guide, the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, is 29 minutes and 2,190 meters out.
Only seven of the 26 are under 20 minutes on foot. The Hyatt sits beside the Superdome and the Smoothie King Center, but nothing we read says it connects to either building indoors.
We timed 41 hotels and kept the 26 within 30 minutes. The other 15 are 32 to 69 minutes out: seven in the Garden District and Uptown, from 32 minutes (St. Charles Coach House and The Pontchartrain Hotel) to 63 (The Chloe), and eight in the Marigny and Bywater, from 38 (Melrose Mansion) to 69 (The Bywater Hotel). We didn't time Hyatt House, at 1250 Poydras, or the Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome. Both are on the Bayou Classic hotel page, along with several others we haven't timed.
Each walk is a foot route over OpenStreetMap from the hotel's mapped location to the nearest of four points on the Dome's outline (its northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost), measured 8 November 2026. OpenStreetMap maps only two unnamed entrance nodes on the Dome, so each walk ends at the building's edge, not a gate. Routed to one of those nodes, the Hyatt is 511 meters instead of 606. We didn't measure the other hotels that way. The routes assume a normal day and don't allow for event-day closures.
This page doesn't check availability for any night, and it quotes no room rates. Fee and parking figures come from each hotel's own page on this site, and we say plus tax wherever that page does. When we say a hotel doesn't publish a fee or a rate, its own site says nothing about it. The fees from Marriott's and Hilton's booking screens carry no read date on those pages, so they may have moved since. New Year's Eve has a guide of its own: New Orleans New Year's Eve hotels.
Parking at the Dome and at the hotels
The Dome's parking page lists seven garages and two surface lots, and it recommends booking through JustPark EventPass. It says the rate depends on the event. Lot locations and opening times vary too. Garages take credit or debit cards only, and the Bayou Classic and Sugar Bowl event pages call the Dome cashless, parking included.
For the Bayou Classic on 28 November, EventPass listed passes for the Champions Garage, Garage 2A, Garage 5 GA and Garage 6 at $50.16 each when we read it on 8 November. It's the only Dome parking price we could read. We couldn't get a Saints game-day price out of EventPass.
On Saints game days the team's parking page sells Garage 1A, Lot 3, Lot 3A and the Champions Garage first come, first served. A limited number of spots in Garages 1, 2, 5 and 6 and the Champions Garage go to season ticket holders only. At every home game, cars parked in some parts of the Dome's garages now get a security screening.
The Dome's rideshare area is on Poydras Street, between Clara Street and Loyola Avenue.
Nineteen of these hotels publish a valet rate, 11 of them plus tax. The lowest is $49 a night plus tax, at the Astor Crowne Plaza. The Ritz-Carlton's $62 a night doesn't say whether tax is added. Le Pavillon's valet is $55 a night plus 13% tax, about $62.15. The New Orleans Marriott gives $55 a night plus tax, but its overview page lists $62.28 a day.
The Higgins Hotel has no valet at all. Parking there is self-park only, in the WWII Museum garage, at $45 a day plus tax. The Garden District Hotel has no lot and no valet, and we don't know how full the street outside gets on an event day. We couldn't read the Hyatt's parking rate, so ask the hotel before you drive in. NOPSI, International House Hotel, the Royal Sonesta and the Omni Royal Orleans publish no valet rate, though the Royal Sonesta says its valet runs 24 hours with in-and-out privileges.
Three hotels list a self-park rate. At the Embassy Suites by Hilton New Orleans Convention Center, self-park and valet are both $50 a day. The Hilton New Orleans Riverside charges $50 a night for covered self-parking with in-and-out, against $58 a night for valet. The Higgins is the third. The Royal Sonesta says it has a self-parking facility and gives no rate for it.
The Roosevelt New Orleans lists non-guest parking at $35 for up to 8 hours, the only short-stay rate labeled for people without a room. At the JW Marriott New Orleans, short-stay valet with in-and-out is $29 for up to 8 hours, against $55 a night. The Ritz-Carlton labels its $30 rate for up to 6 hours an event rate without saying which events, and it lists $15 for up to 4 hours at the Davenport Lounge. Day parking at the Bourbon Orleans is $25 plus tax for up to 6 hours, then the overnight rate. None of these hotels says whether its short-stay rate holds on a Dome game day.
CBD and Warehouse District: 14 hotels, 8 to 25 minutes
The three closest hotels are all in our CBD and Warehouse District hub, which holds 14 of the 26. At the Hyatt Regency, Hyatt's booking screen showed a $30 a day destination fee when we read it on 28 October.
Le Pavillon charges a historic preservation fee and doesn't publish the amount. NOPSI's $35 a night Destination Charge covers Wi-Fi, drink vouchers, the gym and the rooftop pool.
Valet at the Roosevelt, 17 minutes and 1,252 meters from the Dome, is $57 a night plus tax, at the Roosevelt Way entrance.
The Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel, at 700 Tchoupitoulas Street, showed a $20 a night destination fee on Marriott's booking screen, though the hotel's own page doesn't state the amount. From there the Dome's south side is a 19-minute walk, 1,453 meters. Valet is $53 a day.
International House, 20 minutes and 1,506 meters out, adds a $15 plus tax per night amenity fee. It covers Wi-Fi, morning coffee, bottled water, bike rentals, the gym and the concierge.
Four CBD hotels sit at 21 minutes, 1,548 to 1,605 meters, and each charges a destination fee. The Eliza Jane's destination amenity fee is $35 a day plus tax, and its valet is $60 a night plus tax. Marriott's booking screen showed a $30 destination fee at both the JW Marriott and the Sheraton, and $25 a night at Le Méridien, inside the rate. Valet is $52 a day at Le Méridien and $55 plus tax at the Sheraton, which comes to $62.15 a day.
The Windsor Court, 23 minutes and 1,692 meters out, is valet only: $56 a night plus tax with unlimited in-and-out. We measured the Embassy Suites (22 minutes, 1,623 meters) and the Higgins (23 minutes, 1,721 meters) to the Dome's south side.
The Hilton Riverside is the farthest CBD hotel at 25 minutes and 1,868 meters, and Hilton's booking flow showed a mandatory resort fee of $30 a night plus tax. No resort fee appears on the hotels' own sites for the Roosevelt, the Embassy Suites, the Windsor Court or the Higgins.
French Quarter: 11 hotels, 18 to 29 minutes
Our French Quarter hub holds 11 of the 26. Canal Street splits between the two hubs. The JW Marriott (614 Canal) and the Sheraton (500) are filed under the CBD, while the New Orleans Marriott (555), the Astor Crowne Plaza (739), the Ritz-Carlton (921) and The Saint (931) are filed here.
The Saint is the nearest Quarter hotel, 18 minutes and 1,365 meters out. It lists no resort fee, only a $1 a room a night New Orleans Convention and Tourism Fee, and valet is $52 a night plus tax.
The Ritz-Carlton, 19 minutes and 1,419 meters from the Dome, has the highest fee of the 26: $40 a night, on Marriott's booking screen.
Chateau LeMoyne, 22 minutes and 1,686 meters out, charges a $25 a night destination fee, and IHG's rate details showed 17.5% tax on the fee itself when we read them on 28 October. Parking is valet only, $50 a night plus tax, with in-and-out privileges and 50 on-site spaces.
IHG's hotel detail page lists no resort fee for the Astor Crowne Plaza (21 minutes, 1,560 meters), and Hotel Monteleone (23 minutes, 1,711 meters) charges none. Valet at the Monteleone is $50 a night plus tax for all vehicles.
The Dauphine Orleans Hotel, 24 minutes and 1,825 meters from the Dome, doesn't publish a resort fee. Its valet is $50 per car per night, 24 hours on site.
Marriott's booking screen showed a $30 a night destination fee at the New Orleans Marriott, 23 minutes and 1,745 meters out. The Royal Sonesta's destination fee is $25 a day, plus tax, and includes a $15 daily food and drink credit, Wi-Fi, pool access and a 24-hour gym. It's 24 minutes, 1,817 meters, to the Dome.
Hotel de la Poste (26 minutes, 1,932 meters) charges a $30 a day destination fee that includes daily city tours and a food-and-drink credit, listed as both $15 and $30. The only parking is valet, at $55 a day.
At the Omni Royal Orleans, 28 minutes and 2,062 meters out, Omni's booking screen showed a $30 a night destination charge on 28 October. The Bourbon Orleans charges a $25 per room per night destination fee, plus tax, covering Wi-Fi and a one-time $20 Bourbon O Bar credit. Valet there is $50 a day plus tax, and the hotel's amenities page says valet parking only.
Garden District and Uptown: one hotel inside 30 minutes
The Garden District Hotel, 1525 Prytania Street, is 28 minutes, 2,068 meters, from the Dome's south side. Of the eight Garden District and Uptown hotels we timed, it's the only one inside 30 minutes, and the next is 32. It charges no resort fee, and parking is free on the street outside.
Events at the Dome, as of 8 November 2026
These come from the Dome's events page and the Saints' schedule, both read 8 November 2026. We read the events page only as far as February 2027.
After 8 November, the Saints' home games are the Panthers on Sunday 15 November, the Packers on Sunday 6 December and the Cardinals on Sunday 27 December, all at noon, then the Buccaneers in Week 18 with no date yet. For Saints games, the Dome's NFL bag policy allows a clear plastic, vinyl or PVC bag no bigger than 12 by 6 by 12 inches, or a small clutch no larger than 4.5 by 6.5 inches.
13 November, 6 p.m.: Ochsner Moonlight and Miracles. 20 and 21 November: The R&B Tour, Usher and Chris Brown, with no start time listed. 27 November, 7 p.m.: Battle of the Bands & Greek Show. 28 November, 1 p.m.: the 53rd Annual Bayou Classic, Southern vs. Grambling, on a Saturday.
15 January 2027, 6:30 p.m.: the Allstate Sugar Bowl, a College Football Playoff semifinal, on a Friday. The Dome lists ticket sales as TBA. 27 February 2027, 7 p.m.: Monster Jam. EventPass also lists the Endymion Extravaganza on 6 February 2027.
The Smoothie King Center's events page lists Pelicans games against the Nets on 11 November, the Grizzlies on 13, the Nuggets on 14, the Warriors on 16, the Pistons on 18 and the Suns on 23. It prints no times, and we read only the first page of the list. Of the arena dates we read, the 13th is the only one where both buildings list an event. For all 26 hotels the walk to the arena is the same as the walk to the Dome or 1 to 3 minutes longer. The Hyatt is 10 minutes, 770 meters, from the arena's north side.
Bayou Classic: which of these hotels are on the list
The Bayou Classic site has a hotel page titled "Hotels 2025 - 2026 Bayou Classic". It says "The following hotels have developed special pricing for the Bayou Classic family this year." It shows no rates or booking codes, and we didn't open its links.
On 8 November the page listed blocks as open at four of ours, the JW Marriott, the New Orleans Marriott, the Ritz-Carlton and the Sheraton, though its title names 2025-2026 and its address ends in /test-hotels/, so it may be last season's list. Those four are 19 to 23 minutes (1,419 to 1,745 meters) from the Dome. In all, the page put eight hotels under open blocks and 15 under closed. Two of ours were listed as closed, the Dauphine Orleans and the Roosevelt, and so was an Embassy Suites. The page doesn't say which one, so we can't say it's our Convention Center hotel.
The page names the Hilton Riverside the official host hotel of Grambling Alumni. The Hyatt Regency, the closest hotel in this guide, is the official host hotel of Southern University, and Hyatt House at 1250 Poydras is listed as an additional Southern host hotel.
