Hotel With Parking Vs. Hotel And Parking

[Fa310tx]

Leaving on Carnival cruise August 10th.

Was planning on Quality Inn for $135 that includes parking and shuttle service.

Found Fulton parking from airportparkingreservations.com for ~$50 and realized that I could probably stay outside the city (even a hour away) for a good price.

I'm driving from Missouri.

Are there any advantages/disadvantages that would be worth noting?

We'll probably be pulling into New Orleans close to midnight.

Of course, from a cost standpoint, we could just sleep in the car along the way and just pay for parking.

JJ

[Joanna-N-KY]

Ramada Metairie! We just stayed last weekend and left our truck all week. Very clean, friendly staff, nice breakfast; very reasonably priced. Free parking during cruise. They take you to the port and you will have no problem getting taxi back to hotel afterward. Highly recommend!

[CRP2012TX]

How much was the taxi back to hotel? Did they offer shuttle service on Saturday night to French quarter?

[Joanna-N-KY]

I don't know about the shuttle from FQ but it was $40 (5 people) for taxi back to hotel after cruise .

[Fa310tx]

FYI...

We ended up pricelining Crowne Plaza in Kenner for $50 (3 or 3 1/2 star, I forget).

It was a very nice room, although the hallways and elevators are very convoluted.

Given that it was a 3 star +, there was no free wifi or breakfast.

We stayed at Fulton and actually ended up getting charged for a day less than previously expected.

Apparently, a "day" is determined by check-in and check-out times.

I think we checked in at 1:00 PM and checked out at 11:00 AM (something like that).

When I first looked at it, the times I put in made it an extra day.

It ended up being about $50 less than a stay-and-park deal.

JJ

[CRP2012TX]

We stayed at quality inn in greta. They offered a shuttle to and from cruise port and had 7 days of free parking for 150. It wasn't a fancy hotel or anything but it did the job for the right price!