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Granby House, in one paragraph.
Granby House is a 22-bed hostel in a restored 1907 shotgun house in New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny, two blocks from the Frenchmen Street music corridor. Opened in 2021 by two former backpackers, it offers mixed and women-only dorms alongside private rooms, and runs on one idea: a hostel should introduce you to a city, not insulate you from it.
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Opened: April 2021, after a two-year restoration.
The building: a 1907 single shotgun with a camelback, heart-pine floors, plaster medallions, and a framed Katrina waterline in the hallway.
Capacity: 22 beds. One six-bed dorm, two four-bed dorms (one women-only), two private rooms.
Rates: bunks from $38, privates from $95, before tax. Festival weeks are priced separately.
Location: 2814 Dauphine St, Faubourg Marigny. Four minutes on foot to Frenchmen, fifteen to the French Quarter.
House nights: Monday red beans, Wednesday porch vinyl, Thursday Frenchmen walks.
Kind words we did not pay for.
Gulf Coast Traveler · 2025
“The rare hostel that feels like the neighborhood built it for itself, and lets you borrow it.”
The Itinerant · 2026
“Twenty-two beds, one porch, and a Monday night dinner that out-charms restaurants with month-long waits.”
Downbeat Dispatch · 2026
“If Frenchmen Street is the city’s living room, Granby House is the house next door where the afterparty stays civilized.”
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