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America’s most patriotic new hotel celebrates history’s Greatest Generation
Michael Patrick Shiels
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Visitors to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Memorial Day and D-Day will find that America’s most patriotic new hotel there salutes the “Greatest Generation.” The 230-room, upscale Higgins Hotel and Conference Center celebrates victory with vibrant Second World War period theming, colorful luxury, and thoughtful, visual tributes every day of the year.
It’s adjacent to the expansive, interactive museum billed as the top-rated attraction in the Big Easy. Arriving in the hotel’s bold, soaring, deco-design lobby is like stepping back in time to sense, through sights, sounds, and even tastes, the American experience at home and abroad during the war.