Le Pavillon is a working hotel, and guest floors, guest rooms and staff areas are not open to the public. Do not enter without permission from the hotel.
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5 published accounts, each credited to its source
Le Pavillon Hotel is a downtown New Orleans hotel that opened in 1907, about a 15-minute walk from Bourbon Street, and is listed by ghost tour companies among the city's most haunted lodgings 1, 2. The hotel told Your AAA Network that guests frequently report shower heads turning on in the night and sheets pulled to the foot of the bed, and that staff have described a figure they call Anna in the lobby 2. Matador Network and Explore collected accounts of a girl associated with Room 930 and of a couple in 1920s dress seen elsewhere on the property 1, 3. Visitors commonly describe drawers and belongings disturbed in their rooms, a weight settling on the edge of the bed, and brief sightings of figures in the lobby and upper hallways.
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Matador Network, citing NolaGhosts.com, collected accounts of a girl said to have been killed on the road in front of the hotel site and reported chiefly in Room 930, along with sightings of a couple in 1920s dress elsewhere on the property.
Explore, citing Secret New Orleans, reported claims of roughly 100 spirits in the building, including a girl named Ava associated with Room 930 and a couple said to walk the hotel and disappear through walls.
Your AAA Network recounted a guest's account of waking to a weight settling on the edge of his bed, then seeing a female figure move toward him, run a hand through his hair and whisper to him. The account says he left the hotel that night.
Apparition · Disembodied voice · Heaviness or pressure · Touched
Guest room
Your AAA Network reported that the hotel says guests frequently describe shower heads turning on in the middle of the night and bed sheets pulled down to the foot of the bed. Staff told the publication they have seen a lifelike female figure in the lobby, whom they call Anna.
Apparition · Electrical disturbance · Objects moved
Guest rooms and lobby
Ghost City Tours told Your AAA Network that the hotel's director of sales, Beth Lytle, woke in a room she had booked to find every dresser drawer pulled open and her belongings on the floor. She attributed the activity to a presence she nicknamed George.
Objects moved
Guest room
The history · New Orleans, Louisiana
Downtown New Orleans hotel whose guests report dozens of ghosts
VBy Vigil TeamUpdated · 1 min read · 3 sources
Le Pavillon Hotel is a downtown New Orleans hotel that opened in 1907, about a 15-minute walk from Bourbon Street, and is listed by ghost tour companies among the city's most haunted lodgings 1, 2. The hotel told Your AAA Network that guests frequently report shower heads turning on in the night and sheets pulled to the foot of the bed, and that staff have described a figure they call Anna in the lobby 2. Matador Network and Explore collected accounts of a girl associated with Room 930 and of a couple in 1920s dress seen elsewhere on the property 1, 3. Visitors commonly describe drawers and belongings disturbed in their rooms, a weight settling on the edge of the bed, and brief sightings of figures in the lobby and upper hallways.
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The Poydras Street entrance of Le Pavillon Hotel, formerly the DeSoto, photographed in October 2007.