#776Global
The Carousel Bar
New Orleans, USA · Historic revolving hotel cocktail bar · North America
The Carousel Bar & Lounge is Hotel Monteleone’s historic French Quarter cocktail bar, rotating once every 15 minutes and presenting live music seven nights a week.
Description source · Checked 2026-09-20
Plan Your Visit
214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
- Style
- Historic revolving hotel cocktail barChecked 2026-09-20 · Source
- Hours
- Daily 11am–midnight; guests must be 21 or older after 6pm.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source
- Booking
- Regular public service is walk-in only and does not accept standard reservations. The separate daily 10am–11am Carousel Bar Experience is limited to 24 hotel guests, costs $100 per person and requires advance booking through the link in the guest’s hotel-confirmation email.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source
- Menu
- The owner page publishes current craft-cocktail, bar-bites, non-alcoholic, wine, beer, cognac and spirits menus.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source
Hours and menus can change. Check the venue’s latest details before visiting.
The score & its evidence
Seven signals. One score.
26.8 / 100
The composite combines the seven weighted signals and the published adjustments. The chart shows each signal before weighting.
Read the full calculation- Guest ratings
- 78.2
- World's 50 Best
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Top 500 Bars
- 49.6
- Spirited Awards
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Regional Recognition
- —None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
- Serious press
- 3.3
- Social Vibes
- 57.4
Weights: Guest ratings 23% · World's 50 Best 12% · Top 500 Bars 10% · Spirited 12% · Regional Recognition 18% · Press 10% · Social Vibes 15%
Missing evidence, confirmed none and evidence outside a scoring window each contribute zero. We do not redistribute their fixed weight to other signals.
Social Vibes
Score read updated:
Sentiment score
82/ 100
Score context
Hotel Monteleone's 25-stool revolving carousel, birthplace of the Vieux Carré. Eater and Tripadvisor treat it as a Quarter must; seats are scarce, the room is loud, and some guests call the novelty a one-and-done tourist trap.
Guest score details
What guests like
- revolving carousel stools
- Vieux Carré birthplace
- live jazz next door
- classic hotel pours
What to know
- hard to get a spinning seat
- extremely busy and loud
- tourist-trap one-and-done feel
Source excerpt
“This merry-go-round bar in the Hotel Monteleone is one of the swankiest attractions in the Quarter, and it's still spinning after more than 75 years.”
Source: nola.eater.com (linked below)
Review & discussion links
Other cited sources
Crowd signal
Google 4.5★ across 5,097 reviews.
View on Google · Checked . Ratings and review counts can change.
Awards
Results from the three global systems scored separately in our formula.
Top 500 Bars
Regional Recognition
Regional and national lists, local awards and bartender peer picks considered for this room's Regional Recognition score. The strongest result from each program and year scores; assessed guides use the latest accepted dated status once.
No recorded regional recognition in the scored window.