Airboat and Plantations Tour with Gourmet Lunch from New Orleans | 9 hours

1214 Reviews | New Orleans
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Airboat + Plantations
2 Adults x $255.00
$510.00
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$510.00
Airboat + Plantation Tour: Grand Tour of Cajun Country plus thrilling, 2-hour small airboat adventure through Louisiana bayous
Pickup included

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • Transport by 14-passenger air-conditioned van with live narration
  • Hotel pickup with exact pickup time provided
  • Fast and fun airboat tour
  • Tour of Houmas House and Laura Plantation
  • Gourmet, unlimited buffet lunch at Houmas House
  • Gratuities

Overview

A grand mélange presentation of Cajun and Creole cultures including a high-speed airboat tour of the cypress swamps. Visit Laura Plantation, built in 1804, and learn about Laura's personal family saga. Enjoy a gourmet, unlimited buffet lunch in the elegant dining room of Houmas House Plantation, followed by a guided tour of this grand mansion. The small-group atmosphere ensures a more personal experience.

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Itinerary

  • Luling (Pass By)

    You'll start your day driving out to Cajun Country, where you'll go through wild cypress swamps, over the Mississippi River on an impressive suspended bridge, and along vast sugarcane fields, as the guide tells a unique story of the odyssey of the Cajun people. Next take a thrilling high-speed airboat ride as you comfortably glide over marshes and into deep, secluded bayous. Your Cajun guide, also an alligator hunter and fur trapper, will share his knowledge of the swamp including reptile habits, healing plants, and exotic birds. After your ride, explore his picturesque swamp zoo on Bayou Boeuf.

  • Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

    Discover Laura, an 1804 Creole Plantation and learn about Laura's personal family saga. See how the West-African enslaved's work influenced all segments of the Creole culture, best seen today in cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. At Laura's Slavery Museum Exhibit, hear personal stories of individual men, women and children who lived there, illustrating how the lives of the enslaved, both Créole and American, were intertwined with those of their owners.

    1 hour 30 minutes

  • Houmas House and Gardens

    After a short drive from Laura Plantation, you'll settle into a seated lunch in Houmas House' elegant dining room. After lunch, walk through the 250 year history of this estate and how a succession of owners and the Mississippi River grew this modest manor house into the estate it is today. A collection of art, furniture, and antique artifacts help tell the story of plantation life. 38 acres of gardens surround the mansion.

    3 hours

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Additional Info

  • Service animals allowed
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Service animals are permitted. Please advise at time of booking to arrange accommodations
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking in the special requirements field
  • Tour operates in all weather conditions. Umbrellas and rain ponchos are available for use if guests forget their own. If a tour cannot operate due to inclement weather you will be notified
  • Due to the nature of the airboat, children under the age of 5, pregnant women, people with back or neck issues or recent surgeries are not allowed to participate in the airboat portion of the tour.

Free Cancellation

June 18100% refund
June 19No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
Reviews

4.7

1214 reviews

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Highly recommend this tour

Published on Jan, 2025

Our tour guide Rene is a wonderful host to visitors of New Orleans. He brings the city he loves to life with personal stories and historical facts. It was a great day and highly recommended. Isabelle was very helpful booking our tour. She and Rene made our first trip to NOLA special!

LOVE this tour!

Published on Dec, 2024

A great way to experience NOLA in a short amount of time! The two plantation tours were so interesting and the lunch was great. The airboat ride was fun and our airboat captain was fantastic. It was nice and relaxing to have the activities and lunch taken care of and our tour van driver, Ellen, was very knowledgeable. Highly recommend and would 100% use Tours by Isabelle again.

Perfect tour for an animal loving history buff.

Published on Dec, 2024

Perfect day!! We were picked up in front of our hotel by Rene from Tours by Issabelle. Rene was an excellent tour guide. Rene gave us a great history of the area and information about the sites we were going to visit. The first stop was the airboat swamp tour. We all loved it so much. The swamp was beautiful with tons of birds, and we saw an alligator even though the temperature was cool. The second stop was Houmas House. We started with a delicious buffet lunch and then a tour of the estate home. Ruby our guide, was fun and very informative. After the house tour, there was time to check out the beautiful grounds of the estate. The third stop was of the Laura Plantation. It is a totally different experience. The Plantation house is very different from Houmas House. Our tour guide was Lee. He gave us a very informative tour as well. We toured the Laura House and one of the slaves homes. They have a very nice gift shop to visit after the tour. We drove back to New Orleans after an active and full day.

Alligators, Airboats and Beautiful Houses

Published on Nov, 2024

Really enjoyed this trip . We were picked up promptly by our driver and guide , John and went straight to the Airboats . Great ride and a very informative Captain .Saw lots of wildlife including alligators, turtles and lots of different Birds . Then on to 2 very different houses ,one a creole sugar plantation and the second one a grand southern plantation which once was the largest one in the south . We had a delicious Southern style buffet lunch . Both plantations had great guides who bought history alive..I highly recommended this trip .

A must do for visitors to New Orleans

Published on Nov, 2024

We had a FANTASTIC time! We got picked up at our hotel by Rene and he gave us an excellent commentary about New Orleans and all that it has to offer as we drove to our destinations. He even recommended music venues and restaurants. We would recommend this tour 100%, it's a must do for anyone visiting New Orleans.

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