For all you NO haters:

I don't think anybody hates NO. It's a great place. But it's more expensive and hot and even bars that are paragons of history are still bars and if you don't enjoy bars they aren't exactly the biggest draw on the earth nor being trashed the best way to survive the heat. And it was a close vote.

Count me among thinking a run-off vote makes sense to see what the most Buffistas would prefer.

JZ and I loved lunch at Bacco's where we had the lobster ravioli in butter/champagne sauce with caviar, and 10 cent martinis.

The Mardi Gras Museum right on Jefferson Square was excellent. You'd love it Betsy - they have tons of vintage gowns, crowns, accessories, the full feather Indian suits, old programs. Great stuff for any history buff.

They have some excellent night time tours of the Quarter as well. I'd recommend that over a daytime historical tour.

Count me among thinking a run-off vote makes sense to see what the most Buffistas would prefer.

Trudy, why didn't you raise this issue before the vote?

I wonder if they do cemetary tours at night?

I'm really hoping for a chance for a cemetry tour, I've wanted to go to NOLA and see the cemetries for ever!

Trudy, why didn't you raise this issue before the vote?

Because it's only on seeing the numbers that I'm thinking this. It's a pretty close margin and a bunch of voters would have preferred elsewhere entirely.

At night there are also, IIRC, ghost tours, and vampire tours, and voodoo tours, and famous murder tours.

Also, seconding Hec's comment on NOLA vs. DC. NOLA was bad in patches (and there was never more than two shortish blocks to go before finding an air-conditioned restaurant or bookstore or clothing store or coffeehouse or parasol shop to duck into) interrupted by nice cleansing cloudbursts; DC was big brutal concrete blocks of heat sitting on your chest, with blocks and blocks of wide-open streets with no shade or shelter.

No offense to the DC-istas -- it's a beautiful city, but you who live there are a hardy lot.

I agree. We agreed on process in thread, so I'd suggest we move forward. I think, ND, that you might be taking some post-vote grumping to heart. I don't think anyone has suggested we need a do-over.

ETA: whoops, way x-posty. Apologies.

So when we start compiling stuff to do we should divide tours/historical, shopping, what else?

I may be adding Second Breakfast and Elevenses to take advantage of the location.

sits next to Matt and picks up a menu

Um, what NO haters? That I like to fall over at midnight and that I don't think sitting a bar is anything but a huge waste of time makes me a NO hater? Where did I - or anyone else - say NO sucks? Heather, if the fact that I don't like booze and that it being offered as an inducement has the general effect of sending me screaming in the opposite direction, how is that saying your city sucks? Besides, already made it pretty damned clear that I don't think it sucks; I'd love the place for the restaurants alone. (edit: I'd make a beeline for Galatoire's)

1. Accept that NO is the city, it was chosen.

Yes, it was. No argument there. And hell yes, I'm with you - you ran the vote right.

I just can't see what that has to do with my weighing the cost, comfort and group attractions being touted against making my own schedule, in a very ideosyncratic city, which is how I usually do it, makes the trip something I'd be likely to do.