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Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans
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Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans

By Gray Line
Visit Oak Alley Plantation, one of the South’s most famous and photographed plantations, on a tour down the River Road. And, do it without renting a car. Pass under a canopy of giant oak trees to tour the antebellum mansion and gardens with a costumed guide. Explore the plantation’s elegant yet somber history as you learn about the lives of former inhabitants, including slaves.
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₱4,554.97
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Ages 0-99, max of 25 per group
Duration: 5h 30m
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Highlights
  • Tour Oak Alley, one of America’s most famous and well-preserved plantations
  • Learn about southern plantation life before the Civil War
  • Tour the elegant ‘Big House’ with a costumed guide
  • Pickup and drop-off from a convenient French Quarter location is included
  • Guided tour of plantation home
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Local guide
  • Local taxes
  • Entry/Admission - Oak Alley Plantation
What's not included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch
Depart New Orleans from a convenient French Quarter pickup point and ride in a comfortable air-conditioned coach around Lake Pontchartrain and along the Mississippi down River Road. As the bustle of city life fades away, experience the peace and quiet of Louisiana swamp country. Reach the plantation by driving through the "Oak Alley" of giant trees that are more than 250 years old. Tour the perfectly restored rooms of the 1839 Greek Revival mansion, which you may recognize from movies like Interview with a Vampire and Primary Colors. A costumed guide shares Oak Alley’s fascinating history, including stories of Creole plantation life before the Civil War. Spend some free time exploring the grounds, including an exhibit about the slaves who built the plantation and lived there.
Departure details
  • Gray Line New Orleans, Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office, 400 Toulouse St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA Departs from the Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office at Toulouse St. and the Mississippi River, just one block from Jackson Square in the French Quarter. Please arrive 15 minutes before boarding.
Return details
  • Returns to original departure point
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 3780OAK
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • In order to help preserve the French Quarter from vehicular traffic, it is requested that you please walk, if possible, to the convenient tour departure point - just a short stroll from most downtown hotels.
  • Wheelchair Access: If the guest needs a wheelchair lift equipped bus, then special arrangements need to be made with the supplier. This must be arranged 48 hours prior to tour date. Contact details will be on your voucher.
  • Alternate Routes: Due to uneven and narrow paths, alternate routes may be necessary for guests traveling in wheelchairs.
  • Guests using a wheelchair at Oak Alley Plantation will have access to the gift shop, restrooms, and museum via a ramp. The plantation grounds are accessible; however, there are narrow and uneven dirt paths. The main house tour is not accessible to guest traveling in wheelchairs and is not required to be modified as it is a historic home; however, the basement is accessible. Guests would be able to view the slave quarters, but would not have access to enter.
  • Infant rates apply provided they do not occupy a seat.
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
What you can expect during your visit
  • Regular temperature checks for staff
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
  • Gear/equipment sanitized between use
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What is the Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans cancellation policy?
Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans on Tripadvisor
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On average, this experience will take approximately 5h 30m. Discover and book Oak Alley Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans on Tripadvisor
If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 3780OAK
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Itinerary
  • You'll start at
    Gray Line New Orleans
    Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office, 400 Toulouse St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
    Departs from the Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office at Toulouse St. and the Mississippi River, just one block from Jackson Square in the French Quarter. Please arrive 15 minutes before boarding.
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    Oak Alley Plantation
    Stop: 3 hours - Admission included
    Experience a bygone era in one of the South's most beautiful settings - Oak Alley Plantation, built in 1839. Marvel at the unbelievable quarter-mile long alley of 28 magnificent Oak trees, each over 250 years old. Perhaps the most photographed plantation ever, Oak Alley has been the setting for such motion pictures as "Interview with a Vampire", "Primary Colors" and the wedding of Bo and Hope from the daytime soap opera, "Days of our Lives". Your guided Oak Valley Plantation tour will reveal the stories of the home and its history. View the Majestic Cypress Trees in Louisiana's swamps bordering the Mississippi River. You can purchase a snack, salad or sandwich in the Cafe and Ice Cream Parlor to enjoy at the picnic tables or aboard the coach (not included in price).
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    Pass by
    Lake Pontchartrain
    I-10 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge
    St. Joseph Plantation
    Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
  • You'll return to the starting point
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By: Gray Line
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Annette H
Annette H
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Well organised
Dionne was our guide and did a very professional comprehensive presentation of the history of the area we visited. …
383lany
383lany
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Plantation and swamp tour
Wonderful trip. Elizabeth, the tour guide is charming, entertaining, and very knowledgeable. Swamp tour very fun!
lisasA4861NL
lisasA4861NL
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Oak Alley and SwMp boat tour
swamp boat captain very entertaining. Robi our tour guide very knowledgeable. tour as described . bus clean and co…
jkcjansen
jkcjansen
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Good tour, but mixed feelings
Carl was an excellent driver and Robi was a very knowledgeable guide. He told stories all the way there and back, b…
393samanthav
393samanthav
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This is a Must
The plantation was wonderfully done and filled with the right history! It was all about the slaves and there journe…
rolam233
rolam233
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Love it
Love the tour and Robi was great ! Super knowledgeable and we learned a lot about Louisiana's history
Holly Z
Holly Z
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So much fun!
What an amazing day. Our tour guide Elizabeth was super nice knowledgeable about New Orleans history. She took good…
KamCherry
KamCherry
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Learning History Through First Person Narratives
Learning history through first person narratives of enslaved children provides a unique perspective and is powerful…
Cindy L
Cindy L
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Please stop politicizing the tour
We had great expectations for this guided tour to get the perspective from the slaves pony of view. The inside exhi…
G5140APlisap
G5140APlisap
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New Orleans Tour
Our tour guide Robi, was very informative and entertaining. Learned so much about New Orleans, so glad we took this…
Discover07946363247
Discover07946363247
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Lovely cruise, terrible food and service
Lovely experience of sailing down the river. Food was terrible and service non existent. Waited over an hour for ou…
bdgrfn68
bdgrfn68
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Fascinating Tour
Neat tour. Our guide was born and raised in New Orleans and had some great stories to tell. You really get a good…
bdgrfn68
bdgrfn68
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History and drinking do make for a good time!
Fun tour, with some great cocktails and interesting history about cocktails. We went to a couple of bars off Bourb…
kristinhQ3486MW
kristinhQ3486MW
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Must see experience!
Oak Alley was a beautiful plantation, and we really enjoyed the tour. There is a nice little lunch spot that had v…
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Highly recommend for everyone!
Capt Tom was excellent! He knows everything about the swamps and gators and was so entertaining! He was very authen…
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415 contributions
Oak Alley Plantation is worth to visit
One bus took 2 tours in one trip. They dropped one tour in one plantation, and then take us to the destination, Oak Alley Plantation. We spent about 2 hours there. We follow the tour guide of the Big House to visit the house. And then, walking around, or we could seat down to know some stores about the slaves who worked and lived here before. Actually, the general admission to the oak alley plantation was about $27 (12/2021) including the Big House tour.
Written 11 October 2022
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AdrienneGLNOSC
The Plantation and its famous Oaks are amazing. The bus transportation allows you to sit back and relax on your return to the city.
Written 2 November 2022
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CMWanderLust1969
15 contributions
Our guide made the trip!
Our guide Kindrell made our tour very enjoyable. Kin gave us so much background and history on the way to the plantation. He was humorous and knowledgeable and he narrates while handling the bus expertly and safely. The plantation at Oak Alley was beautiful but we felt the tour of the house was overcrowded and we didn’t get to see enough. The talk at the slave quarters was good. Skip the Mint Julep- cheap bourbon and no mint. I’d give the plantation 3.75 or 4 stars but our guide Kindrell 5 plus!
Written 3 October 2022
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AdrienneGLNOSC
Kindrell will be so pleased to see this outstanding review.
Written 2 November 2022
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Susan
Blyth, UK5 contributions
Oak Alley Plantation Tour - excellent day out !
Our driver and guide Kindrell was absolutely fantastic - he made the entire drive to the plantation so good. His humour and knowledge were second to none.
The Plantation tour itself was very interesting and very well organised - even the cafe was reasonably priced.
All in all a great day out and 100% recommend.
Written 20 March 2023
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AdrienneGLNOSC
A 100% recommendation can't be beat.
Written 19 April 2023
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JenniLTL
Waco, TX197 contributions
Pretty Good Tour
Apr 2023
The actual tour was pretty good. The guide, Shannon, was very informative about the history of the house and the family who owned it. However, the tour of the house was very crowded and I felt like there was more information about the house and family that I wanted to know. I would’ve liked to have quiet time in each room we toured to just absorb the feel of the history. The slave cabins were very authentic, but felt very sterile. I was very unhappy that all the facilities were not open, and the restaurant was very small and not open when we visited. The bar was also closed that day. Grayline was the tour company we booked with and I do not feel the price was worth it. They are short staffed and we had to make a drop off an another plantation before we got to Oak Alley. Our group was too big to enjoy the atmosphere at Oak Alley.
Written 25 April 2023
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Julie B
Sebring, FL53 contributions
Beautiful piece of a dark history
Oct 2022
The property is beautiful and very well-maintained. It's definitely worth visiting. The actual house tour was less than we expected for the price we paid. Admission to the property with the tour is only $28 per person, but this tour is considerably more. We love visiting historic sites and have been on numerous tours, but this tour guide was a little dry and sounded too scripted. The bus portion of the trip was the most uncomfortable part. The temperature in the bus was like a refrigerator. All of the passengers had their vents closed and it was still freezing. The driver played videos which we enjoyed, rather than having to listen to him try to fill an hour of travel time. He did provide information about plantations along the river road. When we arrived, we expected to be given our tickets and sent on our way, but instead received an unnecessary overview while standing in front of the map of the plantation where we were all encouraged to take copies of the same map. This was time we could have used to wander around the site. We couldn't leave before he finished, because he didn't give out the tour tickets until he said his piece.
Written 16 October 2022
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Alexander G
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Wonderful Grounds, Underwhelming Home
Sep 2022 • Couples
The grounds were great and served as a nice memorial to the slaves that built and ran the property. However the house tour was a bit underwhelming. I've seen some incredible homes in Louisiana refurbished to their former astetic. I was excited to see this one as it was the largest home I've seen. You don't get a tour of the whole house (the third floor is completely blocked off) and you have serious restrictions on which rooms you can enter. The refurbishing effort by the current owners could be improved. The old spiral staircase was removed and replaced with a straight one by a former owner, why don't they rebuild the spiral staircase? I'm sure it would add so much the experience.

I'd really like to come back if further work is done on the house and more of the rooms are opened up. Some aspects were great, such as the beautiful views on the second floor balcony.

If you're looking for a great home to tour I highly recommend the Gallier home in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Written 26 September 2022
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AdrienneGLNOSC
While we do not run the house or any of the attraction, we can share this with the non-profit that attend to it. You might want to reach out to them with your suggestions.
Written 26 September 2022
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Heather D
New Albany, IN6 contributions
Hot Tin Can on Wheels
First let me say Oak Alley Plantation was wonderful. Learned when we got there the admission to the plantation was only $25! So that means the bus ride is $44 per person. Before taking off on the bus ride one person in our party of 6 went to the driver to let him know the A/C wasn’t working. His exact words were “it is what it is, it will get better when we start moving”. It was 78 outside and the meeting time was noon. The full bus was getting very hot quickly. The 70 minutes there were bad but not nearly as bad as coming back. It was miserable with just a slight “sorry it’s hot, we didn’t check the A/C on the bus before we left today”. The 2nd line of the inclusions on this tour is a vehicle with A/C. So we as a group paid $264 to ride 2 hours sweating miserably. It did not make for a good trip, kinda ruined it. Then let’s talk about the 2 hours allotted there... it was not busy but the time we had to wait in line to tour the Big House left us with only 15 mins to walk the remainder of the plantation. Suggestion- check for A/C if that is a selling point for your tour and give people enough time to actually get their money’s worth touring the plantation. Oh and if you can’t provide A/C offer a partial refund and maybe check into the A/C if someone brings it up before you embark on a 2 hour trip.
Written 27 February 2021
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Pirarre M
Janesville, WI22 contributions
Would go again!
Great Experience and learned a lot of history about plantations from the staff at Oak Alley Plantation. The tour guide there was very knowledgeable and answered questions quickly. Visited the gift shop and grabbed a sandwich and drink. All priced very affordable. Seating is very limited inside the gift shop for eating. So we had to eat outside. I would suggest to post signs reminding customers that indoor seating is limited. So to please eat so others can eat inside if so choose to do so.
Written 7 July 2022
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Savita B
1 contribution
Worth it
Apr 2023 • Couples
Great trip. Our bus driver/ guide ken/kin (not sure of the spelling) was amazing. He was funny and knowledgeable. The oak alley tour was both self-guided (outside) and guided (in the main house) which was perfect. The only downside is you can't take photos inside. The views are AMAZING. The weather in April is also perfect, not hot or cold. We would go back again!
Written 18 April 2023
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AdrienneGLNOSC
We hope you enjoy the next tour with us too.!
Written 8 May 2023
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Kristin B
3 contributions
Have had more informative plantation tours
Oct 2022 • Couples
The plantation was beautiful. The oaks are majestic and are the highlight of the tour! The big house tour left a lot to be desired. Perhaps our tour guide (Oak Alley) was new, but didn’t thoroughly answer questions and could have pointed out so many more “traditions” and furniture designs than she did. I’ve learned more from other tours. The self guided grounds tour was just okay. I think the re-created enslaved quarters are much nicer than the original living conditions. There was no “tour guide” on the bus (apparently due to low employment / help wanted signs everywhere) so the driver did his best with pointing out in town sites and then played a film that taught about plantation preservation and building techniques. I’m glad I went on this tour, but would not repeat or recommend since there are so many other things to do in New Orleans
Written 3 October 2022
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AdrienneGLNOSC
We appreciate the input. We will share it with Oak Alley.
Written 2 November 2022
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