Royal Street runs past Hotel Monteleone, a family-owned French Quarter landmark welcoming guests since 1886. Rooms and literary suites retain a classic decorative character, with striped walls, traditional furnishings and details that echo the building’s Beaux-Arts heritage. The rotating Carousel Bar has been a social institution since 1949, while Criollo restaurant draws on Louisiana and Gulf Coast cooking. A rooftop pool sits above the dense Quarter streets, and Spa Aria occupies a quieter part of the hotel behind the brass entrance, marble floors and ornate public rooms.