Itinerary
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Pass By: Great River Road, Louisiana
The Oak Alley Plantation is located 70 miles or about 1 hour 10 min from the French Quarter. Travel along Great River Road and marvel at the antebellum mansions.
Stop At: Oak Alley Plantation, 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, LA 70090-7079
You will spend approximately 2 hours at the plantation. The house tour will be about 35 minutes in length. The Oak Alley plantation house tour is provided by Plantation tour guides. The remainder of your time will be spent with self-exploration of the grounds. If you use your time wisely, you can grab a sandwich at the gift shop for lunch and still have time to walk the grounds. You'll then be brought to the swamp tour dock for your next adventure.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Barataria Preserve, Marrero, LA
On this tour, you will experience the best of both: an informative swamp tour and high speed thrill airboat ride. You will travel at high speeds in the airboat then slow down and stop for pictures. Your Captain will give you a tour of a life time explaining the culture, animals, and the swamps. You may even experience a close encounter with some of the local swamp life. Please note: the order of the combination tours may change based upon availability and weather.
Duration: 2 hours
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Traveler pickup is offered
Pickup from any major downtown New Orleans hotel. For pickups, there will be a 30 minute window. Pickup will be between 8:15 AM and about 8:45 AM for the 8:15 AM option. Pickup will be between 10:45 AM and about 11:15 AM for the 10:45 AM option. Please be on the lookout for a bus that says Alert Transportation.
8 hours(approx.)
Confirmation received at time of booking
Children Must be at least 48 inches
Not wheelchair accessible
Air-boats are not recommended for people with back or neck problems and pregnant women.
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
The order of the activities depends on the tour time chosen at checkout. If the 10:45am departure is chosen, the swamp our portion will be first.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : nicogibson92
The whole trip was sensational, however I thought the swamp tour was next level. We opted for the airboat tour which I highly recommend and our swamp tour operator was a guy called Dewey. He was extremely knowledgeable about the swamp lands and knew all the spots, can’t thank him enough.
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Posted On : 2024-04-29
Posted By : Nancy_H
The guides and bus drivers were wonderful. Seeing the alligators was a lot of fun and holding the baby alligator was awesome.
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Posted On : 2024-04-28
Posted By : 175kathrynf
This was a wonderful time, full of history and quite the eye opener. Beautiful grounds at Oak Valley- the swamp tour was fantastic, our captain went above and beyond
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Posted On : 2024-04-26
Posted By : Nadim_T
Fun fun day! The airboat was so cool in the bayou, it was such a cool experience and Captain Dewey was awesome sharing the beautiful culture of Louisiana. The plantation was very nice, impressive as well as learning the history of slavery by visiting the plantation, which was mind opening. Thank you for making this tour.
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Posted On : 2024-04-24
Posted By : Lynn_S
We enjoyed both tours, though my favorite part was holding a baby gator! All of the swamp tour was amazing. Personally, I enjoyed the outside part of Oak Alley than the house tour. You hear about the atrocities that the slaves had to endure, but seeing everything is a different matter.
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Posted On : 2024-04-20
Posted By : riccitelliv
Plantation and Airboat was fantastic! The transportation company was a different story. The first driver pulls up and was rushing my mom to get on and wasn't friendly in any way. Gary The second driver to the event was fantastic! He was funny, informative and overall very friendly with excellent customer service. Now....the trip back...hot mess....no communication, drivers if they were not taking you were rude or dismissive and I especially felt bad for guests who didn't speak English. The driver did not take us back to our hotel like we paid, he made it convenient for him and dropped us off blocks before our hotel. Its an 8 hour event, some folks are older. It would be in their best interest to fulfill what we paid for... $150 each is alot...
Overall great but the company transporting needs some help.
Thanks
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Posted On : 2024-04-20
Posted By : pinkypopo
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour day! We were picked up and dropped off at our hotel which was very convenient. There is lots of distance driving for this tour. Thankfully, our driver Donna was a peach making g the trek pleasant. The bus was large and d well air conditioned, Although not an official guide, she was a wealth of information. She described the layout of NOLA, pointed out landmarks, explained the ecology and its challenges, and provided insight into the lifestyle of the people of the area. She was helpful and pleasant. The Oak Alley Plantation tour was interesting in that it had replicas of the slave houses and provided an insight into what slave day to day life was like. The landscape was gorgeous with its massive oak trees. The tour of the plantation mansion was informative and the guide was very knowledgeable. It did seem to lack somehow. Maybe that there really wasn’t that much to see that was authentic. The slave houses were replicas. The detached kitchen was no longer there. The juvenile house was no longer there. There were only two or three rooms in the mansion to see and most were not original furnishings, etc. I guess I thought there would be more. Still worth the visit though.
The swamp tour was surprisingly the highlight of our day. Our guide (can’t remember his name) was awesome. He grew up in the swamps. He was extremely informative and interesting, He is fearless. He is like the Dr Doolittle of Alligators. I thought we might see one alligator. I think we saw at least 10. They came right up to our boat. We got to hold a baby alligator. This is mother my type of thing to do but thought my husband would like it, but I was pleasantly surprised. The whole experience was very cool!!’ Highly recommend!
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Posted On : 2024-04-19
Posted By : Beth_F
Oak Alley was beautiful. You do need to keep moving though to see the house tour and grounds. Loved the airboat. Outstanding guide. Saw lots of gators
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Posted On : 2024-04-19
Posted By : Stacy_G
Great experience! Oak Alley is beautiful and the tour gave you just enough information. Airboat ride was awesome-our guide new the bayou so well and was able to show us different nests as well as his relationship with the gators!
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Posted On : 2024-04-18
Posted By : lauriebelltravel
We had such a wonderful and memorable experience. So informative of the area and the wildlife. We held a baby alligator and seen a lot of alligators in the water. I was concerned about bugs, but didn’t see any, thankfully!!
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Posted On : 2024-04-10
