A partnership led by Darryl Berger, Jr., and the Berger Company, Inc., purchased the Royal Orleans in 2008. The hotel has been rated four diamonds by AAA. The exterior was designed by architect Samuel Wilson Jr., while the interior was designed by Arthur Davis. Earlier the site had been The City Exchange, a slave auction site until the 1830s. Louis Hotel, which was completely destroyed in the 1915 New Orleans hurricane.
It was constructed in 1960 as The Royal Orleans Hotel, on the site of the old St. Louis and Royal Streets near Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Omni Royal Orleans is a 345-room hotel on the corner of St.
