I stayed during the Voodoo Fest and the hotel was the best part of the visit! Great staff, lovely room, fun bar. Amy, the GM, was super. I look forward to staying again!!

I have stayed here many times, it is a very nice hotel. However, the last time I stayed here, they charged me $60/night for parking. I was told that they double (or more) the parking fee for SUVs and they would not change their policy. It was quite a disappointment. So, please be careful of their 'low' rates because they will really stick it to you on the parking.

The good:
Very tastefully decorated rooms with extremely comfortable beds
Nicely remodeled bathrooms with 6' tubs
Extremely well located --5-10 minute walk to French Quarter
On a quiet side street (see note below re:construction nearby)
Very pleasant upscale bar in the lobby.
Excellent attitude and helpfulness of staff
Very high quality first class hotel.

The bad:
Rooms are quite small
Generator noise in some rooms from construction next door

I just spent a week at the International House and enjoyed it immensely. The room was very nice, very well appointed, though small. Small bathroom with huge tub and all the usual upscale amenities you expect. Best of all, the staff is very friendly, welcoming and willing to do whatever it takes to make your stay pleasant. As I mentioned, there is generator noise from building remodeling next door. I thought it was just louder than normal room air conditioning, so it didn't bother me, but my son and his fiance in another part of the hotel objected. The hotel moved them to a huge penthouse suite at no extra charge. BTW I picked up a last minute deal on this hotel on hotels.com $69 a night, which was an incredible bargain considering my son reserved on their website and was paying $250 a night. The hotel is a few steps from canal street and about a 5 or 10 minute walk to the French Quarter. To help you locate it on a map, it is just down Camp Street, about half a block from the Sheraton. Loved the International House!

My husband and I were stunned to be put in a small room with no windows and a creepy door in the ceiling above the bed. We had booked a deluxe king room. Luckily there was a room with two full-size beds available that we were able to move to. We would have preferred a king, of course, since that is what we booked. But had the hotel been fully booked, we would have spent our weekend in what felt like a jail cell with a door above the bed!
If you book a room here, you need to call the hotel directly and be sure that you are not the unlucky people stuck in these rooms, which, in my opinion should not be used as guest rooms at all. Apparently there are 5 of them. There is nothing on the International House website or the third party websites that indicate that these rooms exist... plus there is no price difference.
On a positive note, the staff was nice, the hotel was well located, and the lobby was beautiful.