“It would have been the weekend that helped them catch up from everything they lost during Covid,” Mr. Even with that staffing, he was certain they’d go home flush with tips. Not only was his hotel fully booked, but he had more large party restaurant reservations than he’d had since late July, when Delta took hold.Ĭome Friday night the French Quarter would be brimming with tens of thousands of visitors who’d come for Southern Decadence, or “gay Mardi Gras,” as many refer to it.īeaux Church, the manager of three gay bars in the French Quarter, put twice as many bartenders on the schedule as he normally would. “Everyone loves Labor Day in New Orleans,” said Robert LeBlanc, the owner of the Chloe, another boutique hotel in the Garden District. But hotels still had Labor Day to look forward to. When the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival canceled the October event a few weeks ago, citing concerns about an increase in coronavirus cases, it wiped many reservations off the books. Many other hotels were fully booked at the higher room rates only holiday weekends allow.
But for the first time in weeks, guests were slated to fill nearly every room. “This Delta variant kind of erased our August,” said Suzanne Becker, the general manager of the Henry Howard Hotel, a boutique hotel in the Lower Garden District. 29, Labor Day weekend seemed poised to offer New Orleans the tourist bonanza that many businesses had been craving.
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