This hotel is around 10 years old now, and is getting to the point where it's showing wear and tear. It's owned by a nice Indian family that is very helpful with any special needs, if there is an unhelpful clerk ask to speak to the manager (a member of the owner's family) and he'll get things straightened out for you. The morning continental breakfast has fresh waffles (!) as well as the normal muffins and cold cereal you'd expect, and the coffee is decent if not up to South Louisiana standards (which call for a more potent coffee that you can use a fork to consume, if it doesn't consume the fork first). There is no restaurant but it is next door to Chef Roy's, which has the best food in the area (albeit quite expensive!).

The rooms are large and reasonably well appointed. There is a refrigerator and a microwave as well as a hair dryer and alarm clock. My only real issue with my room was that it was very hot and I had to turn on the air conditioning -- this in mid-winter with 40F weather outside! Apparently the proprietors try to keep the interior of the hotel as hot as their native country, and even though the heat was off when I entered my room, the surrounding rooms and hallway were so warm that the heat radiating from the walls and from the ceiling above got my room way too warm for comfort.

This is a very quiet and safe property. There is only a front and back entrance, secured after dark, with all rooms opening onto the central hallways, so no worries about strangers wandering around your doorway. It is set back far enough from the Interstate that you don't hear traffic noise but not so far back as to make it hard to get to from the freeway exit, and on the opposite side of the freeway from the housing project -- I've never seen any of the denizens of said housing project on this side of the freeway. If you have to stay in this area for any reason, this is probably the best place to stay -- it's cheaper than the Best Western, quieter, and the rooms are larger and nicer than either the Best Western or the Super 8 at the next exit.