Break away from the tourist crowds and receive a warm New Orleans welcome from a passionate guide on this private orientation tour. It’s the next best thing to having a local friend show you around, as the guide offers customized recommendations about where to eat, shop, party, and explore to make the most of your time. So skip the tourist traps and learn to love New Orleans the way that locals do.
- Avoid aimless wandering and get oriented to the layout of New Orleans
- Guide offers personalized tips on where to go and what to do
- Discover family-owned restaurants, local shops, and authentic venues
- Private, carbon-neutral tour is stress free and low impact
What To Expect
Jackson Square
We start of our tour at Jackson Square where we will see several monuments with each and one of them having a special and intruiging story attachted to them
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Galerie Rue Royale
This was originally an open walkway to cut from “Place D’Armes (Jackson Square) ” to the “Rue de Royale(Royal Street.)
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Saint Peter
Get some views of the most photographed building in the quarter as well as an introduction to Royal Street
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Bourbon Street
Bourbon St can be a fun place to spend an evening, but there are things to look out for. Along with street performers, there are a lot of tricks, and ‘tourist traps’. Your host will tell you all of them.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Dauphine Street
We have reached the end of the French Quarter and the beginning of the Treme neighborhood. This is widely recognized as the Birthplace of Jazz.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Bourbon Street
Lafitte’s Blacksmith shop is one of the oldest buildings in the French Quarter. The story goes, this shop survived the fires of 1788 and 179_ because it was, in fact, a blacksmith shop, and so structurally it was built to withstand large amounts of heat.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Royal Street
Back on Royal Street we are going to sightsee a very special building. If you’ve seen American Horror Story you are probably familiar with Madame Delphine Lalaurie
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
French Market
Spanning 6 blocks, The French Market began where Cafe Du Monde stands currently – which is the direction we will be heading. Here you can find a variety of local foods, from beignets, to crawfish, local produce, alligator bites – you name it.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Lalaurie Mansion
The LaLaurie Mansion is widely considered one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Highlight
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Not wheelchair accessible
Private tour: only you & your local guide
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Max group – 8
