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Opened as the Claiborne ferrari car rentals in germany Towers in 1951, the 1,000-unit building on the upper end of downtown s Canal Street cycled through a bevy of unsuccessful identities: apartments, office space, housing for senior citizens, a hotel again. Then it grew into sort of a greenhouse for fungus. In 2003, former Palace guests and employees sued the owners for alleged exposure to hazardous ferrari car rentals in germany mold.
The next year, according to the authoritative Blake Pontchartrain at the Gambit , Expedia.com and Hotels.com removed the hotel from their websites... after many visitors complained about rusty water coming from the faucets, dirty carpets and rodents. Want to read some of those icked-out reviews? Yahoo! Travel still has plenty up:
Yahoo! Contributor: If anyone has ever seen the beginning of Terminator where the cyborgs have demolished Earth - this is what the New Orleans Grand Palace looks like. It s filthy and smells musty.... Elevators don t work so you get a discount price to walk up the stairs to your room. Let me tell you...that was great - walking in the stairwell ferrari car rentals in germany of the Bates Motel. There are no phones in the rooms. Some of the locks on the room doors were broken - room doors wide open. People (vagrants) roaming the halls.
NIUgirl: There s an episode of The Simpsons where Bart stumbles upon a real estate auction and ends up buying a building for $1. This is that building!! Yes, there is so much to do in New Orleans that you won t be in your room a lot, however, if you are like me, when you ARE in your room you want to be comfortable. Well you will not be comfortable here. I didn t even go into the room all the way when I turned around and told my husband that I could not stay there. We were refunded our money and immediately left the premises. Yuk!
(Another) Yahoo! Contributor: The first room we were in had black stuff spewing up from the bathroom floor drain, paint chips all over floor, windows very dirty, looked like a dried blood stain on sheet, furniture not dusted, ferrari car rentals in germany and hard driedup wad of gum was stuck to the wall.... A man was stuck in one of the elevators for at least 10 minutes.
Adam: Water didnt work....at all. We didnt even get dirty water or black goo like the other lucky guests -Air conditioning didnt work...at all. -No towels...not like we needed them. -TV didt work. -Windows ferrari car rentals in germany wouldnt close, so it sounded like we were sleeping under the highway.(remember this for later) -Lights in hallway flickered. I seriously didnt think i would survive through the night, ferrari car rentals in germany so I didnt even sleep.
(Yet another) Yahoo! Contributor: Unless you want to pretend you are in the Shining, do not stay here. It may seem cheap but the 10 dollar difference between this hotel and its neighbours nearer the river is not worth it. honestly, no water no electricity, not cleaned ferrari car rentals in germany for months, no sheets their was mouldy food in the fridge and the place had an infestation.
Another: Our room is filthy, rat holes, the red carpet has a lot of stains, the water is brown, the sheets are stained ferrari car rentals in germany with holes in them, the comforter has pubic hairs all in them also with stains, the furniture is barley standing, our head board has been ripped from the wall, the bathroom ferrari car rentals in germany is NASTY, pipes are stuffed up, toilet paper was used, they had soap from Days Inn LOL, the fire detector was HANGING from the wall! The coffee maker cord was chewed up by some kind of animal, the refrigerator ferrari car rentals in germany was also nasty with stuff growing in it, the air didn't work… it was being used to house our rat. The gym is a joke, everything in the hotel is nasty, dirty, and is life threatening.
And another: One major event that happened to me was a drunken man enter my room while I was undressed walking to the restroom. When I called front desk they were unconcerned about my welfare and more worried about making ferrari car rentals in germany sure the man came downstairs to get other room.
Although this crapulent, ferrari car rentals in germany filth-encrusted hellhole seemed to be indestructible, it finally met its match in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina. The building was shut down for good and salvage ferrari car rentals in germany workers gradually stripped it down to its frame. That didn t stop the Palace from continuing to serve as a destination spot for graffiti artists and squeaking rat mobs, however. Oh, and fire: Lots and lots of fire .
If you wanted to experience a night at this abandoned New Orleans treasure, you re out of luck. On Sunday, demolition teams strapped about 400 pounds of explosives to the hotel and took it down in one fell swoop. The implosion was necessary to make way for green space and a University Medical Center, scheduled to open in 2015 as part of the city s burgeoning biomedical corridor .
Anybody who s spent a sleepless night at the Palace fending off rodentia and boozy intruders will no doubt love watching the smoky footage from this weekend. Here are a couple of the better videos out there:
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