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Full Day Oak Alley Plantation and Swamp Boat Tour from New Orleans
Soak up the atmosphere of the bayou on this 8-hour cultural tour from New Orleans. Visit the Oak Alley Plantation House, dating from 1837, and view the stately row of 28 evenly spaced mature oaks that line the driveway. Follow your guide, dressed in period costume, through the mansion, the blacksmith shop and the onsite restaurant. Then, learn about life in the bayou's waterways aboard a swamp and wetlands boat tour. See the amazing variety of flora and fauna native to the area and hear about life in the Barataria Swamps from your native guides. Round-trip transportation from New Orleans is included.
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$115.00
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$115.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas

New Orleans City Tour with Swamp Tour Options
Travel through the bayou on this three-hour New Orleans city tour with optional swap adventure. Journey with your professional guide in a comfortable air-conditioned minibus as you learn about the history, culture and highlights of southern Creoles. You'll see major city highlights, plus areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and have the opportunity to add an optional swamp tour to this already comprehensive trip.
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$98.00
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$98.00
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitized between use

Destrehan Plantation and Swamp Tour Combo from New Orleans
Explore Louisiana’s unique history and ecology on this combo day tour from New Orleans. Travel along the oak-lined River Road to Destrehan Plantation, where you can tour the 1787 sugar plantation home, grounds and slave quarters while learning about life in the antebellum South and the site’s changing role during the Civil War. Then, venture into the bayou on a narrated swamp cruise through wild wetlands that are home to turtles, otters, snakes and famous Louisiana gators.
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$105.00
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$105.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas

Experience Cajun Country: Swamp Boat Adventure and Plantations Full-Day Tour from New Orleans
Go beyond the French Quarter and discover the unique Cajun and Creole cultures of New Orleans during this full-day swamp and plantation tour. Venture deep into the bayous, with a small group limited to 8, to see Cajun living and spot wildlife like alligators and pelicans. Then, admire the beautiful architecture and learn about the history of Houmas House and Laura plantations. Upgrade your ticket to include a high-speed airboat ride through the bayous.
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$194.00
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$194.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
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Full Day New Orleans City Tour and Swamp Boat Tour
Maximize time in New Orleans with a combination bus tour and swamp boat tour. Learn about the history and architecture of the city during an air-conditioned minibus tour. Travel to the swamps for a boat ride and see alligators in their natural environment. Hotel pick-up is included.
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$99.00
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$99.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley Plantation and Large Airboat Swamp Tour from New Orleans
Visit a former plantation and ride through the swamp during this two-in-one tour. Start with a visit to Oak Alley Plantation for a tour of the antebellum mansion. Follow the oak-shaded paths to the blacksmith shop during your free time. Lunch is available to purchase at the restaurant on-site.
Next, head to the dock for your swamp tour. Search for alligators and other wildlife and stop for photo ops while aboard an airboat.
Round-trip hotel transport provided from New Orleans.
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$135.00
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$135.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Small-Group Louisiana Plantations Tour with Lunch from New Orleans
Experience the elegance of New Orleans’ antebellum south on this full-day historical plantation tour. In a small‐group, visit San Francisco Plantation and Houmas House Plantation, where you’ll view stunning architecture, oak‐lined esplanades, and former slave quarters while hearing fascinating – and often somber – pre‐Civil war histories from expert guides. You'll also enjoy a private luncheon, served exclusively for your group at Houmas House.
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$169.00
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$169.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travelers

Small-Group Airboat Swamp Adventure and Plantation Tour from New Orleans
Take a wild ride through the bayous of Cajun Country on this airboat adventure from New Orleans. In a small group, wind through tree‐lined swampland and spot abundant local wildlife, including nutria, alligators, and giant catfish, and stop at Destrehan Plantation to get a taste of the elegant antebellum south.
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$165.00
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$165.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travelers

Whitney Plantation Tour
Travel back in time to the era of the antebellum South on an afternoon tour from New Orleans to the Whitney Plantation, a former indigo and sugar plantation on the River Road now dedicated to promoting an understanding of slavery in Louisiana. Learn about the realities of plantation life through museum exhibits and recorded narratives as you explore the restored structures and historical slave cabins. Download the Whitney Plantation app for the self-guided tour of Whitney Plantation Museum.
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$69.00
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$69.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Small-Group Tour of Laura and St. Joseph Plantations from New Orleans
Experience the grandeur of New Orleans’ rich and conflicted past on a small‐group plantation tour. Take a journey through Laura Plantation and St. Joseph Plantation, spying other historic plantations as you travel the Great River Road. View stunning architecture and enduring sugar cane fields while learning about the plantations’ fascinating—and somber—histories from expert guides.
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$128.00
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$128.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travelers

Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans
Catch a glimpse of the Mississippi Valley's rich and conflicted past on a historic tour of Laura Plantation from New Orleans. Take a 5.5-hour journey through this renowned site, a Creole plantation notable for colorful manor house and considered by some to be the best historic plantation in the region. View unique Creole architecture, vibrant gardens, and enduring sugar cane fields while learning about the plantation’s fascinating — and often somber — history from your expert guide.
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$65.00
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$65.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Whitney Plantation, Museum of Slavery and St. Joseph Plantation Tour
Delve into the history of slavery and the plantations of Louisiana on this small-group tour from New Orleans. Drive past Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River to the Whitney Plantation’s Louisiana Museum of Slavery. Learn about the lives of the enslaved people who worked there and on plantations throughout the South during a tour of the museum and restored buildings. Next, head to the Creole-style St Joseph Plantation for a tour of the working sugar plantation where the movie ’12 Years A Slave’ was filmed.
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$128.00
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$128.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley Plantation and Small Airboat Tour from New Orleans
Explore Louisiana wildlife and culture outside of the Big Easy on this full-day trip from New Orleans to the country town of Vacherie. Zoom across a swamp on a 6 or 9-passenger open-air speedboat with ample opportunities for viewing wild animals in their natural habitat, and then tour an antebellum plantation home with a classic alley of oaks when you return to shore.
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$155.00
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$155.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley and Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans
Steep yourself in American history on this half-day tour of Oak Alley and Laura plantations that comes with convenient transport from downtown New Orleans. Both 19th-century plantations offer fantastic views of the Mississippi River. Snap shots of the famous canopied path of southern oaks that give Oak Alley its name, and gain insight into the women-run Laura plantation, where slave cabins still stand.
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$100.89
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$100.89
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Combo Oak Alley Plantation and New Orleans City Tour
Discover New Orleans’ top attractions and the grandeur of antebellum history on this combined city and plantation sightseeing tour. Start with a bus tour, including the French Quarter, the Garden District, the Ninth Ward, and City Park. Absorb the sights and sounds of the city as you learn about its fascinating history from your friendly local guide. Then head to Oak Alley Plantation to view stunning architecture, oak-lined esplanades, and enduring sugar cane fields.
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$99.00
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$99.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Destrehan Plantation and Small Airboat Combo Tour from New Orleans
Travel into the bayou on this combination swamp and plantation tour by 6 or 9 passenger Airboat. See the oldest documented plantation in the Mississippi Valley and visit the slave revolt museum located on the grounds. After the tour explore the grounds on your won and enjoy lunch (own expense) if time permits.
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$145.00
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$145.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Destrehan Plantation and Large Airboat Tour Combo from New Orleans
Travel into the bayou on this combination swamp and plantation tour by 16 passenger Airboat. See the oldest documented plantation in the Mississippi Valley and visit the slave revolt museum located on the grounds. After the tour explore the grounds on your won and enjoy lunch (own expense) if time permits.
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$125.00
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$125.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation
Explore the famous Oak Alley plantation and its surroundings on this half-day tour. Learn about life on the plantation during the 1800s as guides in era-appropriate clothing show you around the Big House, the slave cabins, and the grounds. Discover the films and TV shows that the plantation was featured on and then spend some time exploring the exhibits before heading back to the city.
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$68.52
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$68.52
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Whitney Plantation Tour with Transportation
Discover more of Louisiana on a small-group half-day tour to the Whitney Plantation from New Orleans. Ride by minivan past the marshes of Lake Pontchartrain and along River Road, passing filming locations for the popular TV series ‘Queen Sugar’ and other productions. Then, join a guided tour of the Whitney Plantation and learn about the history of the enslaved and free people who once lived on the plantation.
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$78.00
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$78.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff

Combo Oak Alley or Laura Plantation and Swamp Boat Tour
After a New Orleans hotel pickup, relax on board an enclosed, air-conditioned bus to the Plantation of your choice. You will be given a guided tour through the main house and some time to walk the grounds .
You will then take a short ride and your at the swamps. Your invited to join us for an educational journey back to the early days of Louisiana bayou and swamp explorations.
Swamp creatures, seeing our boats daily, recognize them as part of their normal environment. Unafraid and responsive to their boat captain's call, they peak out from underbrush and between moss-draped trees and shrubs, frequently coming directly to the boat. In the safety and comfort of the boat, you can actually come within a few feet of jumping alligators.
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$99.00
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$99.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley Plantation Tour from New Orleans
Tour the Oak Alley Plantation, named for the alley of centuries-old oaks leading up to the antebellum Big House. Follow the oak-shaded paths to the blacksmith shop and a souvenir shop during your free time. Alcoholic drinks and lunch are available to purchase at the restaurant on-site, with round-trip hotel transport provided from New Orleans.
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$65.00
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$65.00
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation
This is not just another drive out to the river road to visit plantations. Your driver/guide will enlighten and educate you along the way on such things as the Louisiana swamp, Lake Pontchartrain and an over view of what the Corp of Engineers have done to prevent the next hurricane Katrina catastrophe. And host of other surprises along the way.
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$78.00
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$78.00
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff

Coastal Saltwater Fishing Charter from New Orleans
We are a very fun and positive fishing charter! We are a fleet of Louisiana native guides that really know the waters and will put you on some serious fish catching action! Easy day trips out of New Orleans. Inshore, offshore, marsh, oil rigs, islands you name it we will go there! Redfish, speckled trout, snapper, cobia, sharks, mackerel, flounder, sheepshead, and many other species are caught depending on season. Captain Markham Dickson also speaks German if your group needs that service he can run it personally. Big groups or small (1-60 people) we will make sure y'all have a good time! 1-6 people per boat and 10 boats at the ready!
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$417.44
Price varies by group size
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$417.44
Price varies by group size

Private Louisiana Plantations Tour with Lunch from New Orleans
Visiting Louisiana’s historic plantations provides insight into life in the Antebellum South and one of the most significant periods in US history, and this tour visits two in one day. Experience 19th-century life at the San Francisco Plantation and tour the National Landmark with a guide in period dress. Afterwards, head to Houmas House for a delicious lunch, a tour of the sugar cane plantation, and magnificent views along the Mississippi River.
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$640.00
per group
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$640.00
per group
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Face masks provided for travelers
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
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