Bourbon Street, New Orleans

Long known for its bawdy, often raw, nightlife, Bourbon Street is chock full of music, jazz clubs, restaurants, shops and that great New Orleans architecture.

We took a short stroll down Bourbon Street while some friendly people we met held our place in the line waiting for the Preservation Hall performance. (Now that's friendliness for you!) For adults, this is an eye-opener, but it's not advisable for the little ones.

The Embers " Original" Bourbon House Restaurant is one famous resident of Bourbon Street significant for its architecture, great food and its many famous guests, including Tennessee Williams who dined there often.

During Mardi Gras you can bet this place will be packed and probably gets down right rowdy or even worse. The evening we were there, the street was very crowded and all the jazz clubs seemed to be hopping!

OK, I grant you, the place looks pretty calm in the photo I've attached, but if you go through here at night, it can be quite a madhouse! One might think that the throwing of beads and the flashing are limited to Mardi Gras...one would be wrong. The crowds pack the street during Mardi Gras, is the only difference.

On Bourbon Street you will find bars, tourist shops, music halls (you can see Maison Bourbon in the photo), and strip clubs.

Bourbon street is the partying hub of new orleans.
It is packed year round with tourists and locals mixing it up and having an absolute blast, it tends to be an area were people leave behind there inhibitions and cut loose.
Anything can be found on bourbon street from hotels/accomodation to strip clubs and barooms and places to dine and shop.
DONT MISS IT !!

Well one day for sure i will live here
New Orleans was founded by 2 french canadien young men barely out of puberty
Long live the french
long live freedom of sexuality-expression and
pretty much anything else that comes to mind
!!!!!!!!!!!

When in New Orleans if you do not spend some time on Bourbon street, there is something seriously wrong with you. Even if you arent the boob flashing, drink until you can barely make it back to your hotel type of person, you absolutely have to check out the part of the city. If you enjoy people watching, this is the place to be - you dont even need to get involved in anything thats going on, but you will probably have a hard time holding back in a place like this. There is just so much fun in the air - its impossible not to have a great time.

Of course this is a must see, the first thing you hear about even before you reach New Orleans is Bourbon Street - the heart of Mardi Gras.

I will recommend for you to visit Bourbon STreet for the experience but personally I found it a bit tacky and liked other more "quiet" parts of New Orleans nightlife better.

You have to come to Bourbon St. at least once, and you'll probably want to come back again once you do. It is a collection of to-go drink shops, upscale restaurants, strip clubs, bars, tourist shops, and hotels but the best thing about it are the characters you'll find. Get some drinks to go and take a stroll up and down the street a few times.

They're EVERYWHERE! After a hurricane drink or two, you conservative folk let yourself go. I KNOW you've always wondered what you'd look like in a 'fro or in a neon orange cowboy hat or a pimp suit with a zebra collar! GO FOR IT! As they say, when in Rome...