Who haunts the Lafitte Hotel and Bar
Reported as stories, with where each one comes from. Most reported: Marie.
Marie
Guests and staff say a little girl is seen in the mirror outside Room 21 and talks with visiting children; crying and coughing are reported in the room.
The grieving mother
The legend says she later died in Room 21; guests report sobbing, a heavy sadness and lights switching on and off.
The girl on the stairs
A girl with long blonde hair in a white nightgown is reported walking up the staircase and along the second-floor hall, and moving guests' belongings.
"When will you be booking Room 31? Will the haunting of an angry man and a weeping woman disrupt your precious sleep?"The Lineup (Open Road Media), 2018
The building
Before you book
| Room to request | Room 21 (Most haunted and most requested room, linked to Marie and her mother), Room 31 (Writer's 2018 first-person account of a man's voice and a weeping woman) |
|---|---|
| Does the hotel tell the stories? | ✓ Yes The hotel's marketing director told Ghost City Tours that Room 21 is the most haunted and most requested room (the hotel's own website is currently offline) |
| Built | 1849, as private townhouse for the Paul Joseph Gleises family |
| Historic listing | None found |
| Historic Hotels of America | No |
| Google rating | 4.4 from 304 reviews |
| Address | 1003 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70116 |
| Jackson Square | 0.3 mi (0.4 km), 6 min walk |
Sources
6 independent sources, quotes checked
- Ghost City ToursGhost tour
- Haunted Rooms, 2026Blog
- The Lineup (Open Road Media), 2018Magazine
- The Syncopated TimesMagazine
- 97.3 The Dawg (Townsquare Media radio)News
- Out All Day NOLABlog
Photo: St. Louis Cathedral at night, OrleansPhotoArt, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. This is the area, not the hotel.
Around the Lafitte Hotel and Bar
Straight-line distances from the front door; walking times allow for streets. Places from OpenStreetMap.
Eat and drink
- Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop1 min walk
- NOLA Poboys1 min walk
- CC's Community Coffee House2 min walk
- Quarter Master Deli2 min walk
- Clover Grill2 min walk
- Cafe Lafitte in Exile2 min walk
See nearby
- New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum2 min walk
- Madame John's Legacy3 min walk
- Lalaurie Mansion4 min walk
- Deurty Boys Gallery4 min walk
- BK Historic House and Gardens4 min walk
- French Quarter4 min walk
Other haunted hotels
- The Cornstalk Hotel2 min walk
- Andrew Jackson Hotel2 min walk
- The Haunted Hotel3 min walk
- Hotel Villa Convento3 min walk
Cemeteries
- Saint Louis Cemetery Number One12 min walk
- Saint Louis Cemetery Number 20.7 mi (1.1 km)
- Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Questions
Is the Lafitte Hotel and Bar haunted?
It has one of the steadiest ghost reputations in the French Quarter. Ghost City Tours, Haunted Rooms and others report a girl called Marie seen in the mirror outside Room 21 and a grieving mother heard sobbing. No record of the deaths has been published.
Which room is haunted at the Lafitte?
Room 21 is the room tied to Marie and her mother, and staff told Ghost City Tours it is the most requested. Room 31 is the subject of a 2018 first-person account in The Lineup.
Is it the same as Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop?
No. The hotel is at 1003 Bourbon Street; Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a separate bar on the same stretch of Bourbon with its own ghost stories.