The weekend of August 2-5 honors New Orleans’ native son, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, with entertainment, Sizzlin’ Satchmo dinners, and educational programs in the French Quarter. Stay at the Windsor Court Hotel, the city’s finest hotel, and luxuriate in the tranquility of the Garden District after partaking in the weekend’s excitement. For chilled cocktails and cool music, head to the hotel’s Polo Club Lounge, its overstuffed chairs and tobacco color scheme evoking the aura of an 18th century “gentlemen’s withdrawing room.” Take tea at Le Salon. And dine at the innovative, award-winning New Orleans Grill Room, where the new Executive Chef Greg Sonnier, James Beard Award nominee for Best Chef of the South, concocts delightful Louisiana dishes in the city’s best restaurant.

With Windsor Court’s Museum Package, get incredible savings (suites from $179 and Club Suites from $279 until September 30, 2007!) in the most luxurious hotel in the city, along with two complimentary tickets for one of the following museums: The National World War II Museum (formerly the National D-Day Museum), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, home to the most comprehensive collection of Southern art in the world, or the New Orleans Museum of Art, located in New Orleans’ acclaimed City Park. The Museum features 40,000 objects valued in excess of $200 million. The hotel itself features its own dazzling $8 million art collection, with masterpieces by Reynolds and Van Dyck.

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