LaborDo MSY 2004 lives. It is alive.
Consider this now a "Gastro Warmup" to AlanW's BCN DO Halloween 2004.
(you are spending Halloween weekend in Barcelona, aren't you?)

AA1664 SEA-DFW 9/3/2004 6:00-11:52
AA474 DFW-MSY 9/3/2004 13:01-14:29

3 days of ___________________________ fill in the blank(s)

AA1837 MSY-DFW 9/6/2004 15:12-16:46
AA2211 DFW-SEA 9/6/2004 18:20-20:28

I am booked at the Wyndham at Canal Place Friday 9/3 thru Monday 9/6. $96 a night on the Wyndham webrates site, prepaid. There is also a rooftop pool and their restaurant, River127, overlooks the Mississippi River from (you guessed it) 127 feet up. There's another casual restaurant as well as "The Green Bar" onsite. King bed rooms are 450 square feet; at 100 Rue Iberville.

As others have noted, the Sheraton, Marriott and several other hotels are available on either Canal St. or by the convention center at around $100 a night. I think the DT was at about $116 the last time I checked.

Can you say

party!!!