Hotels & Ballrooms

AV rental & production atLoews New Orleans Hotel

Warehouse District meetings and receptions with full audio, lighting and video, staged around a busy downtown property calendar.

New Orleans, LA
Programs up to 800 guests

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What we know about this room

Production planning built around Loews New Orleans Hotel

Warehouse District meetings
Reception and banquet lighting
Flexible dock scheduling

Services we bring here

audio lighting video staging drapery scenic

One production manager, one crew and one invoice — from the site walk through strike.

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Planning an event at Loews New Orleans Hotel

Abstract Productions supplies audio visual equipment rental and full event production for board meetings, awards dinners, fundraising galas, weddings, receptions and multi-day conferences at Loews New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, LA. Every quote starts the same way: what the room has to do, how many people are in it, and what the run of show asks of the stage. From there we spec sound, lighting, video, staging and drape as one package instead of six separate rentals that have to be reconciled on site.

For a room of roughly 800 guests we typically spec powered mains with subs, a digital console with scene recall, a modest stage or riser, and a screen or LED panel sized to the sightlines rather than the biggest one on the truck. Uplighting and stage wash do most of the visual work in mid-size ballroom scale rooms, and pipe and drape cleans up whatever the room does not.

Load-in, power and access in New Orleans

Hotel work has to fit around the property. At Loews New Orleans Hotel that means agreeing the load-in path and elevator or dock access in advance, working around banquet sets and room turns, and keeping carts, cases and cable runs out of guest sightlines. We tape and mat every run that crosses a walkway, and where a set has to change between a daytime meeting and an evening reception, we plan the flip as part of the labor rather than as an afterthought.

Gear ships from our warehouse at 16101 Lamonte Drive, Hammond, LA 70403, so a truck reaches most New Orleans venues in well under a couple of hours, and a second run for a forgotten cable or a late addition is a phone call rather than a crisis.

What a package for Loews New Orleans Hotel usually includes

A typical build here covers a sound system sized to the room with wireless microphones for the podium and any panel, stage wash and podium key lighting plus uplighting in your colors, projection or an LED wall for content, a stage or riser with skirting and safe access, and pipe and drape to mask whatever the room should not show. You can also rent individual pieces — a PA system, a projector and screen, a set of uplights, a run of drape — if you only need to fill a gap.

Delivery, setup, line check and strike are part of every rental, and technicians are quoted as their own line so you can see exactly what labor costs. The tech who preps the rack in the shop is the one who runs your show, which is the main reason problems get caught in rehearsal instead of during the program.

Booking, lead times and quotes

Two to three weeks is a comfortable lead time for a standard package at Loews New Orleans Hotel; conference weeks, festival season, Mardi Gras and graduation weekends move faster, and larger builds with rigging or custom scenic want longer. We can usually turn around a written, itemized quote the same day once we have your date, headcount and run of show.

Call 504-837-1527 or 877-597-2595, or email sales@abstractproductions.net, and tell us the room and the date. If it helps, download the one-pager above and pass it to your venue contact or planning committee.

Typical production packages