Get your third night free at landmark Roosevelt New Orleans

The landmark Roosevelt New Orleans, home to the historic Sazerac Bar and the fabled Blue Room where Louis Armstrong,  Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz greats performed, recently opened its doors for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded its basement and shut it down in 2005.

Even better, the ornate 1893 structure, after undergoing a $145-million restoration, is making rooms available for as little as $119 per night, plus tax, under its Summer Escape Package. Formerly a Fairmont, it is now a Waldorf Astoria with 504 guest rooms. It is located in downtown New Orleans near the French Quarter.

Deal: Stay two consecutive nights and get your third night for free; two complimentary breakfasts for up to two children age 10 or under; and a discount at the hotel’s gift shop. Subject to availability, the deal is good for stays through Sept. 30. You get the third night’s cost removed from your bill when you check out.

Tested: I had trouble booking this deal on the hotel’s website. When I entered weekend dates, Sept. 18 to 20,  for a stay by two adults and two children, I couldn’t find a “Summer Escape” package rate. But when I called the hotel and mentioned the promotional code “PRES1N,” as the website recommended, the reservations agent knew exactly what I meant.

The package, she explained, was based on the “best available rate,” which was $179 per night plus tax for a deluxe room with two queen beds for the dates I wanted. So instead of paying $537 plus tax for three nights, I would pay $358. Effectively, my room rate would be $119.33 per night. With taxes included, I’d pay $404.54 for the stay instead of $612.81.

There was at least one lower per-night rate, $159, dubbed the “Grand Opening Value.” But unlike the Summer Escape rate, it was nonrefundable.  And for a three-night stay, you’d save more with the Summer Escape package anyway. I was able to find the package on several other dates I checked.

Contact: Roosevelt New Orleans, (800) 925-3673 (WALDORF)

— Jane Engle, assistant Los Angeles Times Travel editor

Photo: The ornate lobby of the Roosevelt New Orleans, which recently reopened after a major renovation. Credit: The Roosevelt New Orleans

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