All New Orleans Tours &amp; Excursions in 2026

Whitney Plantation (Guided Tour) with Bus Ride To & From N. O.

5 to 6 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

Gain a deeper understanding of Louisiana—and combine two experiences in one—on this tour of the Whitney Plantation and a ride in the Manchac Swamp from New Orleans. Visit the plantation museum, view exhibits with an audio guide, and uncover the legacy of enslaved people as you explore. Afterward, ride a pontoon boat through a cypress swamp, look out for wildlife, and learn about Cajun culture from local guides.

Swamp Boat Ride and Whitney Plantation Tour from New Orleans

7 hours 45 minutesFree Cancellation

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After Dark Haunted New Orleans City and Cemetery Bus Tour

Discover the history, traditions, and iconic landmarks of New Orleans with this guided group tour. You can save hours walking between dispersed landmarks and enjoy the perk of having transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle included. Highlights showcased on the route include Congo Square, Treme, the Musicians’ Village, the Civil Rights Trail, and Lower Ninth Ward to learn about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Soul of New Orleans City Tour: Enslavement to Modern Day Culture

2 hours 45 minutesFree Cancellation

Paddlewheeler Creole Queen Historic Mississippi River Cruise

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Experience New Orleans with ease on a minibus tour and avoid the hassle of navigating the city on your own. Ride in air-conditioned comfort as a local guide offers insight into the city’s rich history, diverse architecture, and vibrant culture. Travel through neighborhoods including the French Quarter and Garden District, and get a comprehensive introduction that’s ideal for first-time visitors.

City Tour of New Orleans with Pickup

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Get a taste of 18th-century New Orleans while exploring its most notorious haunts aboard a mule-drawn carriage. Join a small group of no more than eight people for an intimate evening tour through the French Quarter, where rollicking nightlife conceals a past filled with dark deeds, natural disasters, and supernatural sightings. Hear the city's most salacious history from a guide as you clip-clop your way past iron-laced balconies, darkened alleys, and southern mansions steeped in legend.

New Orleans Small-Group Haunted History Carriage Tour

1 hourFree Cancellation

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New Orleans Sightseeing City Tour

2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Get hands-on with Voodoo traditions and learn about spiritual history and culture in a more immersive way at this two-hour Voodoo doll-making class in New Orleans. Discover the significance of these objects, uncover their customs, and leave with a unique souvenir. Enjoy included snacks and sip your own alcoholic drinks while crafting. Classes run multiple daytime (all welcome) and evening (adults only) sessions weekly.

Voodoo Doll Class in New Orleans

A trip to New Orleans isn't complete without experiencing Louisiana's local wildlife. This group boat ride takes you to the swamps and bayous, where you learn about alligators, snakes, turtles, local birds, and more—while looking out for them. Your guide knows the best areas for spotting wildlife, improving your chances of seeing various species up close. Also learn about local Cajun culture through your guide’s stories.

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New Orleans Swamp and Bayou Alligator Tour

1 hour 15 minutes to 4 hoursFree Cancellation

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. You'll also 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.

Oak Alley Plantation and Swamp Boat Tour from New Orleans

8 hoursFree Cancellation

The National WWII Museum Admission Ticket New Orleans

2 to 3 hoursFree Cancellation

New Orleans Food and History Walking Tour

3 hoursFree Cancellation

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

French Quarter Food Tour: 5 Classic Bites and NOLA Stories

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Price varies by group size

New Orleans is one of the world's great food cities—and this French Quarter tasting tour offers the perfect introduction to its culinary traditions and highlights. Meet your guide right outside the Louisiana Supreme Court Building, and come hungry: you'll visit several local restaurants to taste local specialties. As you go, learn the differences between Creole and Cajun cooking, and soak up the one-of-a-kind atmosphere.

French Quarter Food Walking Tour with Tastings

French Quarter Food Walking Tour with Tastings

Escape the ordinary on this chilling night ghost and cemetery bus tour through some of New Orleans’ most haunted spots outside the French Quarter. Ride in a comfortable, air-conditioned bus with a licensed guide as you hear eerie tales along Esplanade Avenue. Visit real cemeteries after dark and explore sites teeming with paranormal energy. Expect ghostly encounters—apparitions, whispers, even photo-bombing spirits. Bring your camera and an open mind.

New Orleans Dead of Night Ghosts and Cemetery Bus Tour

Small-Group Airboat Swamp Tour with Downtown New Orleans Pickup

4 hours 15 minutesFree Cancellation

Put New Orleans in context without the self-drive hassles on this enriching full-day tour. First, immerse in the city’s dark history on a self-guided tour of the Whitney Plantation, with time to explore the museum independently. Next, pass by the Evergreen Plantation, where Django Unchained was filmed, and board an airboat for a high-speed swamp adventure. Your package includes small-group transfers from most New Orleans hotels.

Whitney Plantation and Airboat Tour from New Orleans

8 hoursFree Cancellation

Uncover the mysteries of the swamps surrounding New Orleans on an exhilarating airboat tour of the area, led by a professional guide. Cruise along the picturesque waterways in search of ferocious alligators and other rare wildlife while listening to illuminating commentary from your guide. Feel your adrenaline levels surge as your driver accelerates to high speeds, and capture fantastic photographs during regular stops. Enjoy the convenience of round-trip transportation by comfortable, air-conditioned coach.

Large Airboat Swamp Tour with Transportation from New Orleans

4 hours 15 minutesFree Cancellation

Take a peek beneath the surface with a visit to the state-of-the-art Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium. Marvel at more than 3,600 animals from over 250 species in an AZA-accredited aquarium voted one of the top five aquariums in the USA Today 10 Best reader poll. Explore a vast underwater world spanning the Caribbean and the Amazon Rainforest to the waters that give New Orleans its lifeblood: the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Touch sharks and stingrays in the Shark Discovery Touch Pool, and enter a 30-foot-long tunnel to admire aquatic creatures as they swim through the Great Maya Reef habitat. In the Amazon Rainforest gallery, discover lush plant life, free-flying birds, stunning aquatic species. Feel amazed by the array of aquatic life in the aquarium’s largest exhibit, the 450,000-gallon Gulf of Mexico habitat. Please note these are GA tickets and our facilities are self guided, we welcome guests to enjoy the facilities for as long as they wish.

Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium Ticket

2 to 3 hoursFree Cancellation

Enjoying a thrilling and high-octane way to immerse yourself in Louisiana’s wild swamp ecosystems—and try out a range of courses and options—with this zipline experience. Pick from one of many available start times, make your own way to the Maurepas Swamp near Lake Ponchartrain and get suited up in your gear. From the cypress treetops, try out five different ziplines, a suspension bridge, and more.

New Orleans Zipline Swamp Tour

1 hour 15 minutesFree Cancellation

New Orleans’ French Quarter is known for its amazing food, and this Cajun and Creole cooking class centered in the French Quarter provides you with the tips you need to be able to make three dishes in your own kitchen. This intimate, small-group experience means you get quality time with your group as you make gumbo, etouffee, and bananas foster all from scratch. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated.

Hands-on Cajun Roux Cooking Class in New Orleans

3 hoursFree Cancellation

Price varies by group size

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What are people saying about New Orleans

After Dark Haunted New Orleans City and Cemetery Bus Tour

Diego_M, Oct 2026

Unexpected surprise

I’m not into ghosts but my wife is, regardless it was very fun and educational. I learned a lot about burials, laws, etc, Guide was fun and entertaining. I would recommend it. Nice and leisure for those that want a calm experience. Wife was in a wheelchair and had to walk but it wasn’t bad.

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

Katie_S, Oct 2026

Would recom.

Susan was great. Friendly and very knowledgeable. We had 4 different stops but also cookies and a little treat. I’ve done food tours before. This one is elevated- you are sitting down at the restaurant, being served, a full size/large~ serving. For example, oyster stop, 3 large oysters.

New Orleans Swamp Tour Boat Adventure with Transportation

Teresa_O, Oct 2026

Fascinating Swamp Tour

Captain Ernie was a wonderful guide. He is very knowledgeable about the swamp ecosystem and I learned so much about the gators, birds, indigenous vs planted trees, Spanish moss, and the local culture. He also told many interesting and entertaining stories. I highly recommend any tours with Captain Ernie!

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!!

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 Swamp Tour Boat Adventure

Alyssa_O, Oct 2026

We love Ernie!

Great experience with Ernie as our guide! So knowledgeable and has such a passion and love for the nature, animals, and people he shows you. A genuinely beautiful landscape to get to explore from the comfort of the covered boat. Also the lady in the gift shop was an absolute gem and so kind! Definition of southern hospitality!

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.