Beautiful - Tour guide Ruby was great Lunch at carriage house fabulous Server Rsndom perfect Flowers and a nice walk not really busy

Worth The Trip From Texas - The gardens are gorgeous! Between the foliage and the sculptures, you'll be enthralled around every turn. Easily walkable on level paved surfaces. The gift shop staff were pleasant and informative and our tour guide, Ruby was wonderful! The museum, while very informative and well done, costs extra and requires at least 3 hours ( lots of reading).

Peek into a beautiful Plantation with an Ugly Past - Houmas House is a beautiful plantation with a historic home and garden on site. Visiting plantations can evoke mixed emotions for me, as many of my ancestors worked the land in inhuman conditions. Thoughts of reparations and the fact that so much wealth was built off the backs of slaves are sad realities. However, I am grateful to be able to walk these grounds as a free woman, appreciating the beauty without the pain—a privilege I don't take lightly. Houmas House offers 38 acres of stunning Louisiana native landscape. The guided tour of the mansion, once owned by Great Sugar Barons on one of the largest sugarcane plantations, is fascinating. There are three restaurants on the property, 21 cottages, the Great River Road Museum, Turtle Bar, a gift shop, and Sweet Spot Landing, where riverboat cruises dock. You can also enjoy a southern lunch in one of the meeting spaces. Houmas House is truly a place where history and beauty converge.

A mother's day to remember when I didn't feel worth remembering... - Going through depression due to losing my youngest son and Mother's Day just wasn't the same this year BUT going to Houmas House brought something out of me that needed to happen. TEARS! The enormous dedication to the breath taking grounds and the attention to detail brought me to tears. It's a very magical place and you must see it. Every corner you turn, mother nature just hugs you and shows you that there is beauty all around you. This place brought me so much joy on a day that I had none. Thank you Houmas House and staff for an Incredible unforgettable day! I will definitely return again some day.

Awesome place to experience. - We did the mothersday lunch buffet, and it was really good. For an outdoor buffet, the food was really good. I've been to the carriage house for lunch, and although a little pricey, the food has always been good here. Some of the best gumbo hands down. We took the mansion tour, which I've also taken before, and I prefer this one over Oak Alley as there is a lot more property original stuff here vs oak alley which is a lot of period correct stuff. Ruby was a fantastic guide. The gardens are beautiful. This place overall is one of the best experiences.

Perfect daytrip! - The house and the grounds are absolutely stunning. Ruby was an amazing tour guide and was extremely knowledgeable and personable. Dinner at the Carriage House was fantastic. Weekday afternoon, so it was not crowded or rushed at all. Would definitely visit again.

Lovely Excursion - An hour's drive from bustling French Quarter. Beautiful gardens surround an interesting house full of history, old and more recent. Our guide, Ruby, was the personification of southern hospitality, wit and charm. She brought to life the varied transitions of the house and cultures. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour and grounds.

Loved it - This house is amazing. So much history. The owner lives there. There is an interesting museum o the property. The grounds are so nice.

Sami did a wonderful job... - Sami did a wonderful job of guiding what was almost a personal tour of the Houmas Plantation (4 of us). Having read recently some of the history of the house, I knew that she knew what she was talking about. Nice young lady who did a professional job while being appropriately friendly and open with her clients. Her interest in history played well here.

Mixed experience - It's undeniable that the house & gardens are beautiful, and offer some wonderful photographic opportunities, particularly the majestic Burnside oak. I was taken aback, however, when our tour guide introduced himself and, almost in the same breath, said that slavery would not be the focus of the tour, or even discussed. It just doesn't sit right with me that this establishment, which once held more than 800 slaves in the 1850s & 1860s -- making it "the center of the largest slave holding in Louisiana," per the National Park Service -- does not want to even broach this aspect of its history. The Houmas House's website does not make this clear in its "Mansion" tour description. (In fact, if you're looking for mention of slavery on the website, you'll have to go digging for it under the About section, where you'll find one reference to the number of slaves held (150) that grossly differs from that reported by the NPS.) Our guide, though obviously very knowledgeable about the particulars of the mansion's decor and previous owners, came across as robotic and indifferent to our enjoyment of the interior spaces we were being shown. He rushed from one room to another without soliciting questions. When we paused in any of the rooms to take a few photos after he'd finished speaking, he would move on to the next room and continue his talking points even though we weren't physically present in the room with him. It was almost comical. Beyond all that, the check-in staff & gift shop cashier weren't very welcoming, despite being two of only a few visitors that Monday afternoon.