Oak Alley Plantation Tour: Explore Historic Grounds

Immerse yourself in history with a tour of Oak Alley Plantation. Explore the grounds, slave cabins, exhibits, and enjoy a delicious meal at the café. Book your tour now!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Great River Road - Travel down Great River Road to reach your destination and marvel at Louisiana’s antebellum mansions and plantation homes.
  • Oak Alley Plantation - Oak Alley plantation gets its name from the spectacular quarter mile tunnel of 28 oak trees that frame the driveway as you approach. Built in 1839 and facing the Mississippi…
What's Included
  • Pickup and drop-off at Homewood Suites French Quarter
  • All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
  • Fuel surcharges included
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Savor your visit to Oak Alley with a comprehensive tour, where you will delve into the Big House, its grounds, the servant quarters, displays, and a coffeehouse. The journey commences from Doubletree Hotel located in the French Quarter. Allocate around 30 minutes for the pickup. The trip, including the drive, lasts for about 8 hours. We initiate daily…

Location
Homewood Suites by Hilton New Orleans French Quarter
North Rampart Street
Please be outside of the Homewood Suites French Quarter at 317 N. Rampart St. at the beginning of the pickup window. Your shuttle departs promptly. Pickup begins at 9:30AM.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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I7358bnmatth
Oct 25, 2024
Oak Alley Plantation - We picked the Oak Alley Plantation because they have a live tour in the big house, and because of the beautiful oak trees lining the front walk are just stunning. Also, we thought about taking Uber out here from New Orleans but this tour was actually more cost effective, and there aren’t really Uber drivers out here to take you back. If you don’t have a vehicle this is the best option for travel and tour all together for cost. It was a lovely tour, and it wasn’t too busy this day. There was a school group there as well but they were very well behaved and it was a great experience for all. Love to see and hear the stories and information that isn’t always told in such detail in our history classes and books. This is a very important part of the complexities of American history and needs to be talked about and discussed. So grateful for this experience. There is a restaurant and bookshop as well as a bar that are a nice respite after walking around. Perfect way to end the visit. Would definitely recommend to anyone debating going!
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Davidtt306ox
Oct 12, 2024
The best capitan capt jacob - Really, it was very good of our captain, it was very good and explained, and we saw the crocodiles thank you
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G3120jokimberlya
Sep 16, 2024
Dream come true - Karen was our diver today and was very pleasant and safe driver. We went to oak alley plantation and it was everything I hoped and more. Thank you Karen and Cajun encounters for making dreams come true
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Loanea242
May 28, 2023
Oak Plantation tour - Great trip - Rene our driver was fantastic as well as Stephen our speaker/guide on the tour - well done both!
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Passport61462770765
Apr 5, 2023
Amazing tour and tour guide - I had an amazing experience learning about the history and family tree and the creels. Learning about how the slaves lived was also very exiting. This couldn’t have happend with our amazing tour guide Derek that was funny and honest. He gave us advise about our trip and made it more fun and made the bus ride exiting.
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Bernadette_c
Mar 26, 2023
Grandpa's roots. - Wanted to visit a sugar cane plantation because my grandfather was born and raised on one in the late 1870's. The tour was very informative and interesting.
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Itzel_r
Oct 24, 2022
Nature, history and beauty - We love to go places where we can experience nice, beautiful gardens and outdoor walking. Visiting Oak Alley Plantation was one of our best choices because we learned about history and got to enjoyed a majestic place.
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Hixiec2018
Jul 11, 2022
Historical Need - This tour definitely gives you a rich and in depth historical tour. Our drive Emicka did a great job.
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Joanamsiqueira
Aug 1, 2024
Do not recommend Cajun Encounters Tour but the OAK Alley is beautiful and worth a visit. - I was not warned earlier that the tour would also stop in another "Plantation" - if I wanted another would have sought for it - on the way the driver wanted to induce those who did not contract the two tours to do them (with additional cost) - I did not want - and yet we had to go take those who hired and wait for them - prolonging the program unnecessarily. As I wasn't informed before, I found it bad. I ended up hiring a shuttle to pick up at OAK Alley before. I did not like the lack of information - the OAK is beautiful and worth it but NOT through this provider (Cajun Encounters Tour). In addition, he was with a child and the driver made inconvenient comments about drinking and marijuana.
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Amanda_m
May 30, 2022
Awful, horrible, terrible - This trip was truly terrible. Please note this trip is run by Cajun Encounters, not Viator. I selected this trip because I had read reviews of other people missing the pick up window and I didn’t want to have that worry on my vacation. As per my picture, we arrived at the pick up location at 9:36am for 10am departure. When we arrived there wasn’t a bus so I called the company. They said they had just tried calling me (my phone didn’t ring) and the bus had waited 15 minutes for us and then left. The customer service agent continued to argue with me for several minutes until I asked her what could be done. She told me there was another pick up at 10am and maybe we could make that stop. It probably would have been best to start with this information as my husband and I called an Uber and were able to make it to the final stop at 9:59. Oak Alley was beautiful, we had a wonderful relaxing time. They told us to be back at the bus by 3pm. Naturally, we were on the bus by 2:45pm and the tour bus driver counted the number of passengers twice and then pulled away at 3:03pm. However about half way thru our trip back to New Orleans the bus seemed to turn around. We drove all the way back to Oak Alley because we had left 2 passengers there. We didn’t get back to New Orleans until 5:45pm. Please find another tour company to take you to Oak Alley if you choose to visit.
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