New Orleans Plantation Tour with Transportation in New Orleans booking from $250.00

New Orleans Plantation Tour with Transportation

Overview

The picturesque beauty and architecture of the Louisiana plantations are a “must” for any visitor to New Orleans. Many of these breathtaking homes are within an hour’s drive from the city. Your tour will begin with a comfortable ride out of New Orleans where your guide will share with you the origin of the Louisiana plantations, along with the effect they had on the city of New Orleans, and its residents. Along with discovering beautiful buildings, luscious gardens and historic artifacts, these homes also represent some of the darker chapters of Louisiana history. Many of the plantations will provide a focus on the lives of the slaves that brought these homes to life, and share some of the realities of the rural south during this time in our nation’s history. Upon arrival, each plantation home has its own guide to bring you through the main house, and share its specific story. Following your home tour, we will escort you around the grounds and answer any questions that may arise.

City: New Orleans

Sun 23 Feb

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What's Included

Bottled water

Additional Info

Specialized infant seats are available
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Oak Alley Plantation

"The Grand Dame of River Road" Perhaps the most photographed plantation in Louisiana, this home was built in 1839 and was originally named Bon Séjour (pleasant sojourn). Because of the quarter-mile avenue of 28 giant, live oaks leading up to the house, steamboat passengers dubbed it “Oak Alley.”

Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

Laura: A Creole Plantation offers a 70-minute tour that is based on 5,000 pages of documents from the French National Archives related to the free and enslaved families who lived here. Guides will share the compelling, real-life accounts of 7 generations of Laura Plantation’s Creole inhabitants. With 11 structures listed on the National Register, Laura Plantation offers guests the chance to explore its newly restored Manor House, the formal and kitchen gardens, Banana-Land grove, and its authentic Creole cottages and slave cabins. Laura Plantation is best known for the West-African stories the home’s former slaves related to folklorist Alcée Fortier. Recorded at the slave cabins here in the 1870s, they were later popularized in English and became the “Tales of Br’er Rabbit.”

Evergreen Plantation

"The South's Most Intact Plantation Complex" Evergreen Plantation has an astonishing 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins in their original, double row configuration.

St. Joseph Plantation

According to the Live Oak Society of Louisiana, the company has 16 registered live oak trees on its property, some named after family members, with the largest boasting a girth of 23 feet. Officials estimate the trees are about 300 years old. Four of the huge live oaks shade the St. Joseph home’s backyard well, and iron syrup kettle 10 feet in width, several week-framed slave quarters, a detached kitchen and the remnants of a narrow gauge railroad that carried sugar cane from the fields. Double-wide French doors provide cross-ventilation for the home’s 16 rooms and cypress plank floorboards shine from decades of waxing.

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Cancellation Policy

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

Reviews (3)

sueirvine

May 2022

We had a wonderful tour and transportation to Oak Alley Plantation. We were picked up in front of our hotel. We had a lovely driver, John, and Ben was our tour guide. He shared his passion for New Orleans with us on the hour drive to the plantation. He also prepared us for our visit to the plantation and showed us some other plantations along the way. Ben has a great personality and we enjoyed our tour very much. We would use him again in our next visit.

Rebecca_T

May 2021

This was such a lovely tour and time spent with Benjamin was like a day with a friend who knows everything about the history of Nola.

A1682TLnancym

Mar 2021

Our guide Jim was so knowledgeable about New Orleans history. He made the rest of our trip enjoyable because we knew so much

New Orleans Plantation Tour with Transportation

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