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Oak Alley Plantation and Small Airboat Tour from New Orleans

Louisiana Tour company
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Michele_P
144 days ago
The plantation is so beautiful. The guide was very knowledgeable as well as our driver who told us a lot about the area.

Oak Alley Plantation features picturesque Oak Trees, beautiful landscaping, an elegant 1837 Greek Revival style plantation house, a blacksmith shop, a restaurant, and antique farm equipment. Guests will get a tour of the Oak Alley’s house and time to explore. After your plantation tour, you will experience the best of both: an educational swamp tour and a high speed airboat ride. You will travel at high speeds on the airboat, but also slow down and stop for pictures. Along the way, you will get a personal tour by your local Captain.

Duration8 hoursLanguages Available

  • Human tour guide - English

Points of Interest

Stop At: Barataria PreserveYour swamp tour is only 35 minutes from New Orleans, yet a world apart. This New Orleans air-boat tour is a high speed adventure that is part tour, part thrill ride. You will travel at high speeds in the 6 or 9 passenger boat, then slow down and stop for photo opportunities. Along the way, you will get a personal tour by your local Captain. Our air-boats have stadium seating, so that the person in front of you does not obstruct your view, and every seat is great for experiencing the tour and viewing the wildlife. Yes, gators will get close, very close. So close, that you will be able to look into those reptilian eyes. Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutesStop At: Oak Alley Plantation3645 Highway 18, Great River Road, Vacherie, LouisianaIn combination with the airboat tour, you'll also visit the Oak Alley Plantation, which was built in 1837, with a 1/4 mile path, from River Road to the plantation house, lined with twenty-eight evenly spaced Oaks. There are additional attractions on the grounds which includes a restaurant, cafe and gift shop. The choice is yours how you would like to use your free hour.Duration: 2 hours

Additional Information

  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • - Service animals are permitted but not recommended due to the volume of noise on the boat and threats of surrounding wildlife.
  • - Emotional support animals are not permitted.
  • - Participants with back problems are not permitted on an airboat
  • - Participants with heart complications or other serious medical conditions are not permitted on an airboat.
  • - Pregnant women are not permitted on an airboat.
  • - Minimum height requirement for airboats is 48 inches.
  • - Folding wheelchairs are allowed on the bus, but the driver is not allowed to pick up a person to help them gain entrance. The customer must get into the minibus by themselves or with assistance from family or friends.
  • - Please note you are not guaranteed to see a gator. They hibernate in winter months but are easily spotted in spring, summer, and fall.
  • - When traveling with multiple passengers, you must make one booking with all passengers to insure that you are on the same boat. If you did not book together, you are not guaranteed to be together.
  • - Airboats are not handicapped accessible. There are no lifts or ramps available for use. Guests must be able to get on or off of the boat themselves or with the help of someone in their party.
Inclusions
  • Oak Alley Plantation
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Driver/guide
  • Airboat ride
Exclusions
  • Food and drinks
  • Lunch
Redemption Instructions- Folding wheelchairs are allowed on the bus, but the driver is not allowed to pick up a person to help them gain entrance. The customer must get into the minibus by themselves or with assistance from family or friends.- Please note you are not guaranteed to see a gator. They hibernate in winter months but are easily spotted in spring, summer, and fall.- When traveling with multiple passengers, you must make one booking with all passengers to insure that you are on the same boat. If you did not book together, you are not guaranteed to be together.- Service animals are permitted but not recommended due to the volume of noise on the boat and threats of surrounding wildlife.- Emotional support animals are not permitted.- Airboats are not handicapped accessible. There are no lifts or ramps available for use. Guests must be able to get on or off of the boat themselves or with the help of someone in their party.- Participants with back problems are not permitted on an airboat- Participants with heart complications or other serious medical conditions are not permitted on an airboat.- Pregnant women are not permitted on an airboat.- Minimum height requirement for airboats is 48 inches.Traveler Pickup Information**You must be out front of your location at the beginning of the pickup window or the bus will be forced to leave.**For pickups, there will be a 30 minute window. Please be on the lookout for a bus that says Alert Transportation.8:15 AM pickup will be sometime between 8:15 AM and about 8:45 AM.10:45 AM pickup will be sometime between 10:45 AM and about 11:15 AM.Voucher InfoMobile or paper ticket accepted

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Customer Reviews

4.6
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Denise_G
Other travellers we met had a MUCH better experience on this tour than we did! First of all our driver, Donna was lovely. But then, for us the issues were : Our guide at the plantation had such a strong AAVE accent that we REALLY struggled to understand any of what he was telling us (and the only paper guides available were in French or German since we had an 'English speaking' guide!!!). We could hear other guides doing a much better job for their groups. And even more disappointing was our airboat ride - which was a HUGE disappointment. Throughout the entire ride we only saw about 8-10 gators (all chomping on marshmallows thrown out by our 'captain). We didn't stay when we did spot one for long enough to get a decent picture before racing off again. There was very little narration and when we stopped (for 15+ minutes) we were treated to watching 2 moorhens - exactly the same birds we see at home - wandering about and pecking at another of his marshmallows, while listening to him chunter on with our 2 fellow passengers about their home state! To be honest our 'captain' seemed to be not much more than a bored 'minute pincher' and again we met others afterwards who'd been out and had seen lots of alligators of all different sizes up close, as well as snakes and other wildlife.
Michele_P
The plantation is so beautiful. The guide was very knowledgeable as well as our driver who told us a lot about the area.
R6708TVmichelles
The small airboat is well worth it! Our guide was very knowledgeable about the swamp and gators. The Oak Ally plantation was absolutely beautiful. It was enlightening and very moving to visit a place where people were bought, sold, enslaved and treated as property.
theresa_b
The staff on both tours were awesome, very friendly and extremely knowledgeable. I would highly recommend both tours.
Melanie_d
We booked this Tour because this particular plantation is well known in the area. We booked our tour with the bus transportation service, which was a great decision considering it took almost an hour to get there and the bus driver would point out facts about the area, which was a bonus. Once we arrived at the Plantation, we just were amazed at how beautiful it looked like, not counting the wonderful scents of the trees and flowers surrounding us. We just couldn't wait for the house tour to begin with our guide. We got to see but just a few rooms, everything else was blocked off. I have visited many other plantations in different areas so I was surprised at how little of the house we got to visit. But what we were the most disappointed in was the narration of the tour itself. The guide was very vague in explaining the specifics of the history of Oak Alley. To add insult to injury, within 30 minutes or so she prompted us to leave the premises as another tour was waiting. Thank God there was a Mint Julep station outside! So for the beauty of the plantation itself it's worth going but read on it before so you can actually get a better sense of the premises and history. To us, it was kind of a big deal that the narrated tour was mediocre at best.

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