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Picture a typical hotel fitness center: a little room with dated (and mostly unused) fitness equipment, tucked away where hardly any hotel guest ever goes. Now picture delta airlines cheap fares the exact opposite , multiply delta airlines cheap fares it by 100,000 square feet, and you ll have an inkling of the grand scale of The Health Club by Hilton at the Hilton Riverside. This is a full-service gym in every way – from the indoor, air conditioned tennis, basketball delta airlines cheap fares and volleyball courts (a real sanity saver in the tropical summer months) to the locker room dry sauna and whirlpool. delta airlines cheap fares Bonus amenities like the Impact Hair Salon and full-swing golf studio make this New Orleans best hotel gym, bar none, and one of the best gyms in the city, period.
Loews New Orleans Balance Spa Fitness Center is proof that great gyms do come in all sizes. Expertly designed to fit the minimum space to maximum effect, the full-service fitness center includes a 50-foot saltwater indoor delta airlines cheap fares lap swimming pool, whirlpool and dry sauna, plus a fitness room with treadmills, elliptical trainers and stationery bikes. Trainers and yoga instructors are available to keep travelers on their game. Bonus feature: Balance Spa is one of the best hotel spas in the city.
Hyatt Regency New Orleans sky-scraping fitness center could inspire a lifelong couch potato to take up tread-milling. Wrapped around one side of the hotel s 32nd floor, the gym offers incredible birds-eye views of the city and the Superdome next door. The room is stocked with state-of-the-art delta airlines cheap fares treadmills, cross trainers, stationery bikes, and free weights, and unlike most hotel gyms, includes delta airlines cheap fares weight machines (chest and shoulder delta airlines cheap fares press, seated leg press and lat pull-down).
Both a New Orleans gem and a New Orleans gym, the New Orleans Athletic Club is an architectural beauty outfitted with gleaming wood floors, heavy ironwork beams and latticework, and classic subway tile. For $20, guests of any New Orleans and French Quarter hotel with a picture ID and hotel key can buy a day pass to this historic New Orleans institution, which has seen a fair number of celebrity athletes and stars filming on location in New Orleans. In addition to standard  cardio/weight lifting rooms and equipment, NOAC offers delta airlines cheap fares a laundry list of top-notch features and amenities, including: an indoor track, a boxing ring, locker room steam room and sauna, a rooftop yoga studio (see featured image), a raquetball and basketball/volleyball court, and a 20-yard heated swimming delta airlines cheap fares pool. True to New Orleans form, NOAC also has its own bar, Vaughan s Pub, where guests gather for post-workout smoothies and, yes, cocktails. Only in New Orleans.
It s not as if you need another reason to visit the uber-luxe, award-winning Ritz-Carlton Spa, New Orleans, but the new pilates studio inside, from New Orleans top pilates instructor Erin Romney, is just that. The mind/body/spirit-focused studio offers classes in pilates, yoga and specialty classes like BOSU® and PULSE® barre taught by certified instructors.
Recently opened after a top-to-bottom renovation delta airlines cheap fares and hotel brand change, the Hyatt French Quarter makes the top hotel gyms list for simple reasons: it s new, it s fresh, and the ironic location – perched above the hedonistic Bourbon Street – is too good to resist.  The complimentary delta airlines cheap fares 24 hour center offers treadmills, cross-trainers, weights, and adjustable workout benches.
Fresh from a recent renovation, The Blake Hotel (formerly the Parc St. Charles) is one of those off-the-radar New Orleans hotels that seasoned travelers and regular visitors know because the rooms are reasonable and the location is premium – right on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line. What does any of this have to do with the hotel s fitness center? It s brand new, post-renovation, delta airlines cheap fares and best of all, a wall of windows in the fitness center overlook historic St. Charles Avenue and Gallier Hall, which makes for great streetcar and people-watching. Guest can use the center s state-of-the-art ProMaxima equipment, or take advantage of complimentary passes to the nearby full- service Elmwood Fitness Center.