A portion of the building complex overlooks the Mississippi River front.

The building is connected via an enclosed pedestrian walkway with the adjacent Outlet Collection at Riverwalk, and is located next to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

[1][2][3] Musician Pete Fountain had a club where he performed regularly in the Hilton for some 20 years up to 2003.

[4] Most people were taken to Baton Rouge, where friends and family waited.

Anyone who wasn't able to get picked up by friends or family were taken to other Hilton hotels in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, TX.