Hotel was clean and loved having a small fridge and safe in the room. Room was small however very quiet and good value considering we were downtown. Walking distance to everything.

I stayed at the Best Western St. Christopher in January 2012 for 2 nights. I got a bargain AAA rate of $98/night and was quite pleased with it overall. It's an old, historic building with exposed brick in the room and it has been nicely updated. I stayed in a room with a queen size bed on the 8th floor and had no issues. The free breakfast isn't anything to write home about but there was juice, coffee, pastries, fresh waffles, hard boiled eggs and cereal.
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The main thing this hotel has going for it is the location. A few steps off of Canal St. and the Quarter is only a few blocks away. Well within comfortable safe walking distance. I would stay here again - especially for this rate.

Thirty minutes prior to checking in the hotel called to say that they were overbooked, but had a room for us on the New Orleans Westbank. I told the manager that this was not acceptable and she would have to find us another room. She called back in about 20 minutes and said to come on down to the hotel that they had found us a room.
The hotel is very conveniently located one block from Canal St. in an old restored building. While our experience would have been rated "2" I gave it a "3". The staff turned out to be very accomodating and the location is excellent. The city could do a better job of maintaining the sidewalk between the hotel and Canal St.

I will preface this with the fact that I was violently ill with a stomach virus during my stay, so that could color my view, but some things are objectively true. First, the furniture was too large for the room, and I had to move chairs to make it functional. That's cool, though. I can handle "quaint"- but what I couldn't handle was the poor service and the harassment. Housekeeping insists on banging on your door and not leaving, demanding a signature on something even when you are naked and covered in germs. The Do Not Disturb sign DOES NOT WORK. They will knock and try to enter anyway. Even when I grabbed a blanket to cover myself and pulled off the Do Not Disturb sign and said to them, "What does this mean?" they still said I had to sign their stupid log. And- my credit card is still maxed out because they take your deposit off the card each day and supposedly refund it at the end of the stay. This has yet to happen. OH, PLUS, don't forget that the staff reminds you that although you are paying 4-star prices, you are in a motel 6 and you have to get your own bags. No bell service. Continental breakfast was also rather bleh. The whole stay, including being directed to a vending machine for toiletries, it was unpleasant at best. Stay elsewhere. The Astor across the street was a dream during my previous trip. Stay there.