New Orleans Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery Tour in New Orleans booking from $25.00

New Orleans Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery Tour

Overview

The City of New Orleans has temporarily closed Lafayette Cemetery for repairs but we still do the cemetery tour from the gates. Explore one of the world's most dazzling residential neighborhoods with knowledgeable and entertaining guides. Highlights include the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar; the homes of Anne Rice, Trent Reznor, Archie and Peyton Manning; Nicolas Cage, John Goodman and Sandra Bullock; the cornstalk fence; and death site of Jefferson Davis; and film site of Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Explore the famed aboveground tombs of Lafayette Cemetery #1, including the Interview with the Vampire, Double Jeopardy, and Deja Vu film sites. Learn about New Orleans’ peculiar burial practices and funerary customs. For the moment the City has closed the cemetery but we still do the tour from the gates where you can see everything we cover.

City: New Orleans

Tue 25 Feb

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What's Included

Local guide

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The City of New Orleans has temporarily closed Lafayette Cemetery for repairs but we still do the cemetery tour from the gates
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
The City of New Orleans has temporarily closed Lafayette Cemetery for repairs but we still do the cemetery tour from the gates.

What To Expect

Lafayette Cemetery No.1

Explore the famed aboveground tombs of Lafayette Cemetery #1, including the Interview with the Vampire, Double Jeopardy, and Deja Vu film sites. Learn about New Orleans’ peculiar burial practices and funerary customs. Jefferson Fire Company No. 22 society tomb, situated across from the fictitious Mayfair family tomb featured in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour.The Garden District/Cemetery tour emphasizes history, architectural style, personal anecdotes, and tropical plant life. *Note: The City of New Orleans has temporarily closed Lafayette Cemetery for repairs but we still do the cemetery tour from the gates*

Garden District Book Shop

Take a walk through New Orleans’ history and culture with a 2-hour walking tour of the Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery #1 with an experienced guide. Visit streets lined with gracious, antebellum homes, and learn how the city’s Creole and American residents competed. Discover the elaborate crypts and monuments in one of New Orleans’ oldest and most beautiful cemeteries, hear stories about Lafayette’s most famous ‘residents,’ and trace Louisiana history through the names on the gravestones. Enjoy personalized attention from your guide on this small-group tour.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (225)

620garethd

Oct 2022

The Tour guide Dave was fantastic. Good sense of humour, great story teller and very knowledgeable and engaging. The tour was fine to be honest. It was interesting and informative but I think you could easily get the street car to the garden district and have a wander around without doing an organised tour. The let down for me was the cemetery part of the tour involved standing at locked gates and peering through railings to the cemetery. The guide did explain that some ordnance from the New Orleans city officials had temporarily limited access to the cemetery for tours etc and this was to be rectified soon but I think it’s someone disingenuous to call it a cemetery tour when in fact this is not the case. The tour guide was great don’t get me wrong but I probably wouldn’t do it again. The street car was immense fun and a wander around the garden district would have given you a similar sense of the area considering access to the cemetery was forbidden.

Zubia_V

Oct 2022

We had a great time exploring the Garden District. David was our tour guide and he was knowledgeable about the history of the area. He pointed out unique features of the homes. I definitely recommend this tour!

rappleb613

Oct 2022

Muriel was very knowledgeable and led a fun and interesting tour discussing the history of New Orleans and describing the architecture in the garden district. Would highly recommend this tour.

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New Orleans Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery Tour

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