All New Orleans Tours &amp; Excursions in 2026

New Orleans Swamp and Bayou Boat Tour with Transportation

5 hoursFree Cancellation

Immerse yourself in the rich culture and natural splendor of New Orleans’ mystifying swamps and wetlands on a New Orleans swamp tour and wetlands adventure. Relax in the luxurious interior of a New Orleans swamp tour boat as you cruise past cultural highlights like a Cajun cemetery, an Indian burial mound and a traditional fishing village. Scour the scenery for fascinating flora and fauna like snakes, turtles and alligators while listening to interesting commentary from your professional guide.

New Orleans Swamp Tour Boat Adventure

1 hour 40 minutesFree Cancellation

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Discover a different side of New Orleans—and admire a new perspective from the water's edge—on this steamboat tour down the Mississippi River. Board the historic riverboat—either the Steamboat Natchez or her sister vessel—for a morning or afternoon tour. Stroll the deck, admire the iconic paddlewheel, enjoy live music, and snap photos of the picturesque shoreline. This family‐friendly excursion offers an optional lunch (additional expense).

New Orleans Steamboat Natchez Jazz Cruise

2 hoursFree Cancellation

Enjoy an only-in-New-Orleans experience when you embark on a paddle-wheel boat tour of the mighty Mississippi River. In the evening, hop aboard the Steamboat Natchez or her sister vessel, the Riverboat City of New Orleans, and admire views of the city from the water's edge. This cost-saving package additionally includes a Creole‐inspired dinner (if option selected), plus live jazz music to set the mood.

New Orleans Steamboat Natchez Jazz Cruise with Dinner Option

One of New Orleans' most popular tourist attractions, St. Louis Cemetery No.1 is only able to be visited as part of a guided tour, with limited visitors allowed into the City of the Dead each day. This pre-bookable experience ensures you don’t miss out on the chance to visit the impressive cemetery—or the opportunity to learn more about the final resting place of some of the city’s best-known residents.

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Official Walking Tour

55 minutesFree Cancellation

New Orleans City Tour: French Quarter, Garden District & Cemetery

New Orleans City Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour

1 dayFree Cancellation

Explore the rich culinary heritage of New Orleans' French Quarter on this half-day food tour. Sample traditional NOLA dishes such as gumbo, po-boys, jambalaya, and pralines while learning about the area's history. Your expert guide will lead you through local hotspots, offering cultural insights and tips on where to eat next. Upgrade to a small-group tour for a more intimate setting. Food offerings are subject to availability.

New Orleans Food Walking Tour of the French Quarter with Small-Group Option

Explore New Orleans’ surrounding ecosystem with an escape from the city to the Louisiana swamp. You’ll be picked up from your hotel and taken to a swamp on private land, with all logistics taken care of. Board a state-of-the-art air boat for a memorable nature experience. Your guide takes you through the swampy waterways and shares information about the plants, wildlife, and history of the area.

1 hour 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Airboat Swamp Tour

If you're looking for no-holds-barred frights in New Orleans, explore the city’s dark history on this adults-only tour. Set off after nightfall to discover a new perspective on the city, and steel yourself for gruesome tales and fearsome encounters: Your guide saves the most grisly true-crime stories, voodoo legends, and paranormal frights for this tour, and takes you past the French Quarter's most supposedly haunted locations.

Adults-Only New Orleans Ghost, Crime, Voodoo, and Vampire Tour

1 hour 45 minutesFree Cancellation

Whitney Plantation Tour from New Orleans with Pickup

5 hoursFree Cancellation

Exploring New Orleans in the evening can seem like an intimidating quest on your own, but this ghost, voodoo, and vampire walking tour takes you to the city’s eeriest sights at night in the safety of a group led by a guide. Stop by top attractions such as the LaLaurie Mansion and New Orleans Pharmacy Museum while listening to your guide’s detailed stories of the paranormal and beyond.

New Orleans Premier Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Walking Tour

1 hour 45 minutesFree Cancellation

The National WWII Museum Admission Ticket New Orleans

2 to 3 hoursFree Cancellation

Experience New Orleans’ wild bayou country first-hand on an exciting, family‐friendly airboat ride. This boat tour winds through the mossy cypress swamp near Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, named for the 19th-century pirate and smuggler. While onboard, enjoy lively commentary from a local guide as you admire lush, forested shoreline and spot local wildlife. Gators appear most commonly in the summer months, so keep your eyes peeled.

2 to 4 hoursFree Cancellation

New Orleans Airboat Ride

Paddlewheeler Creole Queen Jazz Dinner Cruise in New Orleans

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Ensure a smooth arrival or departure from New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport (MSY) with a private transfer. Choose from a one-way arrival or departure transfer or a round-trip transfer for a hassle-free trip. Meet your chauffeur at baggage claim and get help with your luggage to your vehicle—a sedan, SUV, or Sprinter van. Sit back and relax as you are transferred to your hotel, private residence, cruise terminal, or corporate venue.

Private Transfer to/from Louis Armstrong Intl Airport and NOLA

30 minutesFree Cancellation

Price varies by group size

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New Orleans Sightseeing City Tour

2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Lose yourself in the atmospheric depths of the New Orleans swamps and wetlands on an exhilarating 2-hour boat tour, led by a professional guide. Cruise past ancient wonders and listen to legends surrounding a 2000-year-old Indian burial mound and an atmospheric Cajun cemetery. Scour the Barataria Swamps for sightings of fascinating wildlife such as snakes, turtles and ferocious alligators, and learn about the area’s history and geology from your knowledgeable guide. Enjoy the convenience of round-trip transportation by luxury vehicle fro your New Orleans hotel.

New Orleans Swamp Tour Boat Adventure with Transportation

4 hoursFree Cancellation

Visit the Whitney Plantation Museum—a former indigo and sugar plantation that is now dedicated to promoting an understanding of enslavement in Louisiana—on this hassle-free trip from New Orleans. Round-trip transit and admission tickets are included for your convenience. Upon arrival, learn about the brutal realities of plantation life through museum exhibits and an audio guide (6 languages available) as you explore the site independently. You can also choose to upgrade your experience to include a 90-minute swamp tour.

Whitney Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans

5 hours 25 minutesFree Cancellation

Enhance your New Orleans experience with a hands-on, half-day cooking class that includes meals. Join a small group of up to 10 people and learn to craft authentic Louisiana dishes with guidance from a professional chef. After the lesson, enjoy your freshly made meal with complimentary wine or local beer. You'll also take home a souvenir apron and a recipe collection to recreate the flavors back home.

New Orleans Hands-On Cooking Class with Meal

New Orleans is known for its haunted reputation—and on this insider tour, led by a local “horror-storian,” discover spooky sights and stories you’d miss if wandering on your own. Choose between several start times, and explore the atmospheric French Quarter, including landmark sights such as the St. Louis Cathedral and Supreme Court of Louisiana. Along the way, hear about infamous murders, unsolved crimes, and gruesome happenings.

New Orleans Adults-Only True Crime and Ghost Walking Tour

1 hour 45 minutesFree Cancellation

New Orleans Hop-On Hop-Off Unlimited Sightseeing Package

3 daysFree Cancellation

New Orleans Food and History Walking Tour

Get the full Louisiana dining experience during a fun and educational New Orleans cooking demonstration class. Take a seat amongst other foodies in a converted 19th-century molasses warehouse and get ready to learn and eat. Meet a lively local chef and learn the fundamentals of preparing classic Creole dishes such as gumbo, jambalaya, and pralines. Then dig into delicious samples complemented by local beer or a sweet ice tea.

New Orleans Demonstration Cooking Class with Meal

2 hoursFree Cancellation

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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Official Walking Tour

JohnScott_B, Oct 2026

Fantastic informative tour! Ask for Jimmy!

I hope you get Jimmy as a guide. He was very articulate, engaging, funny and passionate about his work!! I learned a lot about New Orleans and the history and people of this gorgeous historic city in that short, awesome tour. There is a lot of history entombed in that little chunk of real estate. I highly recommend this tour. It was fantastic!

New Orleans Airboat Ride

JohnScott_B, Oct 2026

Perfect mix of rollercoaster thrills to slow nature meandering

I booked the tour with hotel pick up in the French Quarter. I paid for the smaller, 6 person tour and it was well worth the extra money!! For the life of me I can’t quite remember our Captain’s name, Titi? Something like that, he was awesome, it was a perfect mix of high speed thrills like a rollercoaster with slow leisure meandering deep in the Bayou. We saw a majestic Eagle and other water birds and of course, Alligators! What a beautiful area of planet earth! I loved all the mossy trees and the earthy smell of the swamp. Our guide also pointed out a huge Eagle’s nest high at the top of a tree. I even enjoyed the 30 minute ride to the starting point, listening to slow jams on the radio as we headed out of the city… it was very organized. This was a highlight on my first visit to NOLA . I absolutely recommend it! It was fantastic!!

After Dark Haunted New Orleans City and Cemetery Bus Tour

Beth_Z, Oct 2026

Jeff already had an...

Jeff already had an interesting background with the dead and paranormal…perfect for ghost tour guide. He did a great job of combining facts and lore. We had the opportunity to use EMF detectors in a cemetery that’s not open to the public. Great experience!

New Orleans Food Walking Tour of the French Quarter with Small-Group Option

Diana_D, Oct 2026

Delicious food and rich history

We learned so much about New Orleans while sampling the most yummy foods! Our tour guide Jack was wonderful, he was so knowledgeable, funny and you could tell he really loves what he does. The portions are very generous, we left feeling quite full! When I forgot the name of a shop I wanted to visit again, I reached out and the tour operator promptly got back to me with the store name. All around amazing experience!

New Orleans Swamp Tour Boat Adventure

Natalia_B, Oct 2026

Balanced science, history and humor

Ernie did a great job sharing the history, science and culture of the bayou. Learned more about alligators; dispelled a lot of stereotypes about these creature. Ernie had a true love of nature and protecting the bayou. His sense of humor kept us entertained. A must do activity!

New Orleans Swamp and Bayou Boat Tour with Transportation

Rob_Z, Oct 2026

Interesting afternoon with the gators!

Cajun Encounters is definitely a well established, well run tour company. They have excellent staff, drivers and tour guides. The swamp is such an interesting area to see and our tour guide, Aaron, was very knowledgeable. Bottom line, if you’ve never visited the swamps of Louisiana, you should take this tour. Note: it’s about a 1 hour bus ride to the swamp.

New Orleans Premier Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Walking Tour

Lennon_G, Oct 2026

Peer-Reviewed

Logan was awesome. He was funny, his pacing was excellent, and the tour was genuinely spooky! What I liked most was the historical specificity Logan used to ground the tour in the history of New Orleans. As a ghost tour guide in another city, I was impressed with the level of showmanship and story craft. I learned a lot, and I would definitely go again! Highly recommend this tour and this guide!

Adults-Only New Orleans Ghost, Crime, Voodoo, and Vampire Tour

Cecilia_C, Sept 2026

Professional, spooky, entertaining

The title really says it all. Our guide John was spectacular! Loved his style of story telling, I loved all of the fun facts we learned on our tour, I actually felt I walked away with a lot of history of New Orleans as well so that was an unexpected treat! If my friends come to NOLA they’ll know exactly which tour guide to ask for.