Hotel Acadiana Becomes Crowne Plaza

POSTED 2/11/09

UPDATE 4-13-09 Signs are up on Pinhook and on the hotel sporting the Crowne Plaza brand. The hotel is also booking rooms according to Crowne Plaza's national website.

It looks like the official re-branding of the Hotel Acadiana as a Crowne Plaza could be just days away. After months of construction - the Crowne Plaza logo is up on the building, but the new CP sign out on Pinhook is still draped in tarp. Managers told me that basically every aspect of the hotel was being renovated, from guest rooms to meeting rooms. Most recently, Hotel Acadiana was a Best Western. I believe the property opened as a Sheraton back in the oil boom years.

Crowne Plaza used to be known as Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza. The hotels are mostly geared towards business travelers. The CP will have new competition, a Staybridge Suites will open soon just behind the property on Kaliste Saloom. Also - a new Best Western is slated for a piece of land just behind Outback Steakhouse and the Fairfield Inn across Pinhook. The area really is Lafayette's hotel district, most likely because the Oil Center, hospitals and major oil offices are nearby.

I'm not sure if the Crowne Plaza reno will have any effect on the hotel's restaurant, which is now branded as Mustang Sally's. We'll see.