Oak Alley Plantation and Small Airboat Tour from New Orleans
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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.
Airboat ride
Driver/guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Oak Alley Plantation
Food and drinks
Gratuities
Lunch
- ADULT: : 10 - 99
- Gear/equipment sanitised between use
- Must be 48 inches tall to ride airboats
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
- Confirmation received at time of booking
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- 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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- 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.
What To Expect
Barataria Preserve
Your 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.
Alligators do hibernate in the colder months, but our experienced captains know where to look for them. On average, during the winter, you'll have better than a 50/50 chance of seeing a "gator". In the warmer months, you will see a gator. Every New Orleans air-boat tour is unique and we never know what will be around the next corner. The area toured is a combination of swamp, marsh and lake. So, you may see anything from a Bald Eagle to a pelican to Osprey to an owl. It really is that diverse.
The air-boats are driven by a 454 Chevy Engine that will produce speeds of up to 35 miles an hour. They are propelled by a huge fan that will blow air from the back of the boat in excess of 200 miles an hour. These tours are truly a blast! They ride in inches of water and go where traditional boats cannot go. These boats were designed to take you to inaccessible areas of the swamp, places that you cannot reach by foot or car. It is truly a unique experience.
Alligators do hibernate in the colder months, but our experienced captains know where to look for them. On average, during the winter, you'll have better than a 50/50 chance of seeing a "gator". In the warmer months, you will see a gator. Every New Orleans air-boat tour is unique and we never know what will be around the next corner. The area toured is a combination of swamp, marsh and lake. So, you may see anything from a Bald Eagle to a pelican to Osprey to an owl. It really is that diverse.
The air-boats are driven by a 454 Chevy Engine that will produce speeds of up to 35 miles an hour. They are propelled by a huge fan that will blow air from the back of the boat in excess of 200 miles an hour. These tours are truly a blast! They ride in inches of water and go where traditional boats cannot go. These boats were designed to take you to inaccessible areas of the swamp, places that you cannot reach by foot or car. It is truly a unique experience.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Oak Alley Plantation
In 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.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Recenzije
AMAZING DAY
Flymebabe, 03-01-2023
SWAMP TRIP WAS FANTASTIC, our swamp guide was David and he was such fun and gave us lots of info, finding some alligators was a added bonus!
Swamp tour a must do, plantation okay to see
Izziebear01, 30-12-2022
Highly recommend the small boat swamp tour. We did this specific tour & the plantation was fine but the swamp tour was the highlight. The airboat was so unbelievably cool. We had an amazing guide (feel terrible cannot remember his name to recommend) - passionate about conservation & very knowledge about the area. Explained complicated concepts like dredging, drilling, & land erosion in a simple & easy to understand way. It was very cool to see all the different kinds of geography & learned a lot. Also, being blasted all around the area with some spray in your face & seeing bunch gators ain’t that rough a day! Must do in New Orleans. Plantation could give or take - pretty for pictures. If you’re already out and don’t mind spending the time, go for the plantation too.
A lovely Plantation house to visit in a beautiful setting.
Tony_L, 21-12-2022
The home and surroundings are well worth a visit. The tour guide of the home, Jackson, provided us with a link to the past, the family that owned it and more about the people who worked on the land. Don't forget to walk down Oak Alley when the tour of the home is over!
love the swamp
Richard_N, 05-12-2022
Plantation very pretty. Boat ride awesome. If you can only do one take the airboat. Gorgeous scenery, and see the driver play with a gator.
Great plantation tour, average swamp tour
jms467, 31-12-2022
I booked the plantation and swamp tour as a combo just to make my life easier. Pick-up and drop-off and all the transition between buses were great. Got picked up and dropped off at the hotel. The plantation tour was great ( no tour guide from the touring company) the tour guide was from the plantation. It’s really breathtaking and if you have a car, drive there yourself. I chose the smaller boat for the swamp tour. It was slightly disappointing. We saw both the swamp and the marsh. I totally understand it was winter and there was not a lot of animal activities to see. The tour guide didn’t bother touring us around much. Instead it was more like from destination A to B and C, and back to the deck. We spent much of the time sitting in a still boat listening to him talking about himself. I’d rather be listening to a YouTube video talking about the swamps than listening to him.
