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Oak Alley Plantation: Historic Tour with Airboat Adventure
Experience the magnificence of Oak Alley Plantation, with its iconic oak trees and historic Greek Revival home. Then, embark on a thrilling airboat adventure through the New Orleans swamp, with up-close wildlife encounters.
Experience the magnificence of Oak Alley Plantation, with its iconic oak trees and historic Greek Revival home. Then, embark on a thrilling airboat adventure through the New Orleans swamp, with up-close wildlife encounters.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Great River Road - The Oak Alley Plantation is located 70 miles or about 1 hour 10 min from the French Quarter. Travel along Great River Road and marvel at the antebellum mansions.
- Oak Alley Plantation - You will spend approximately 2 hours at the plantation. The house tour will be about 35 minutes in length. The Oak Alley plantation house…
- Great River Road - The Oak Alley Plantation is located 70 miles or about 1 hour 10 min from the French Quarter. Travel along Great River Road and marvel at the antebellum mansions.
- Oak Alley Plantation - You will spend approximately 2 hours at the plantation. The house tour will be about 35 minutes in length. The Oak Alley plantation house tour is provided by Plantation tour guides. The remainder of your time will be spent with self-exploration of the grounds. If you use your time wisely, you can grab a sandwich at the gift shop for lunch and still have time to walk the grounds. You’ll then be brought to the swamp tour dock for your next adventure.
- Barataria Preserve - On this tour, you will experience the best of both: an informative swamp tour and high speed thrill airboat ride. You will travel at high speeds in the airboat then slow down and stop for pictures. Your Captain will give you a tour of a life time explaining the culture, animals, and the swamps. You may even experience a close encounter with some of the local swamp life. Please note: the order of the combination tours may change based upon availability and weather.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off at your New Orleans location
- Guidance from a professional tour guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off at your New Orleans location
- Guidance from a professional tour guide
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Lunch
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Lunch
- Gratuities
Additional Information
The tour of Oak Alley plantation, positioned close to New Orleans, stands out for its stunning array of 28 giant Oak Trees, equally spaced from the river road to the Plantation House. The Plantation House itself is an example of Greek Revival architecture and was constructed in 1837. The compound also hosts a restaurant, a blacksmith shop, a souvenir…
The tour of Oak Alley plantation, positioned close to New Orleans, stands out for its stunning array of 28 giant Oak Trees, equally spaced from the river road to the Plantation House. The Plantation House itself is an example of Greek Revival architecture and was constructed in 1837. The compound also hosts a restaurant, a blacksmith shop, a souvenir store, and displays of vintage farming implements. Next, prepared to be thrilled with our New Orleans Airboat Swamp Tour! It’s not just a tour, it’s also a thrill ride. Along this high-speed journey, your local Captain will offer a personalized insight into the surroundings. Our airboats are designed with stadium seating to ensure unimpeded views for everyone. Every seat is perfect for fully appreciating the tour and observing the local fauna.
- Confirmation received at time of booking
- Children Must be at least 48 inches
- Air-boats are not recommended for people with back or neck problems and pregnant women.
- 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.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Y9043avmatthewh
Aug 15, 2025
A New Orleans must do. - Oak alley plantation is well worth a visit for anyone visiting the area. The airboat ride was the best experience so far on our holiday. Bobby the airboat guide was excellent & extremely knowledgeable. We would highly recommend this trip to anyone & an absolute must for anyone visiting for the first time.
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Darlenehe7660bd
Aug 14, 2025
What a great experience - Super fun and the tour guides were great. The plantation was beautiful and the grounds were amazing. The Airboat ride was a blast.
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Terrysm7060yg
Jul 22, 2025
Great tour of Oak Alley and Large Air Boat Swamp Tour - Amazing views and knowledgeable hosts. The plantation house was really neat to see. The air boat swamp tour was great. Captain Bebop is very knowledgeable and knows how to speak to a group of people. Captain Bebop is very good operating the air boat and knows the gators!
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Nancy_g
Jul 18, 2025
Wonderful experience - Loved that we were picked up at our hotel so we could just enjoy the ride. Beautiful Plantation ! A must see.
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Debab2023
Jul 11, 2025
Oak Alley is Fantastic - wish we could have seen more. Loved the Swamp! - We enjoyed our tour of Oak Alley (which also included a swamp tour). Our only complaint would be that we had to wait on the bus for quite some time while the tour company fixed a glitch in another guest's reservation. This meant that we had only 15 minutes to use the restroom and get to our scheduled time for the Oak Alley "Big House" tour and we had such a short time afterward that we were unable to finish the self-guided tour through the slave cabins. I wish we could have spent more time at Oak Alley, but were impressed with what we saw and learned there!
Our swamp tour was a LOT of fun! The airboat was a exhilarating. Our guide was very informative and fun. He had a tiny gator (10 months old) on board that he let us all hold and got quite a few alligators to come up to the boat with his marshmellow stash. It was all we could have hoped for and more!
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D9426oklaurac
Jul 4, 2025
Great time with family - We had a great time! Highly recommend. The plantation tour was great. The airboat ride was really fun and our guide was so good! This is totally worth doing.
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Amyb340
Aug 13, 2025
Good day out to see the past and the airboat tour was great! - Bus pick up was prompt. Although the first driver was abrupt. We did have to change buses numerous times throughout the day. Plantation tour was good - although wish we had more time with the gentleman who was giving talks by the slave houses. He was informative and really interesting to listen to.
The swamp tour was fun - we did the airboat. Lots of wildlife seen.
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780connorg
Aug 8, 2025
Maybe only worth $127.89 in reality - This was DOPE! My boy and I opted for the hotel pickup which was this SICK tricked out bus. It was so cool that we were able to switch to five different versions throughout our experience every hour. When we rolled up to the plantation we had an hour to pursue on our own and then started the tour with super Stephen. He was knowledgeable and had a friendly smile, but gave a somewhat questionable answer about the existence of grass prior to the year 2000s (was the whole yard gravel?). House was okay, had expected a little more but HOLY BED that thing was tall. Buzzed over to the swamp on bus #3 then switched to bus #4. Went CRUSIN through that water and saw a TON of gators my boy was a little freaked because of his spine injury but saw the sights and some birds and them gators they talk about. Apparently they hunt frogs 200 at a time down there each night which makes me hypothesize the population must be a couple million to keep up with the ecosystem. No one fell off which was nice. Overall cool experience would recommend.
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Karen_r
Aug 1, 2025
Great experience - The tour guide at the plantation (Jackie?)Was excellent. The airboat ride was fun and Trey was great. Would do it again!
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Tiffany_m
Jul 11, 2025
Swamp tour 100% yes!! - The oak ally plantation was beautiful. There is so much history on the property . The only reason I didn’t give this a five star is because our tour guide was not great. I would like to go back again with a different tour guide. I wish I could remember his name. He did not give us any information. He just kind of walked us through the house. And when we would ask a question, he would answer us like if we were stupid. But I will say the swamp was 100% worth it and made up for such a bad experience. Our guides name is Bobby. He was so fun! We learned so much about the alligators and the swamp lands surrounding. I would suggest anybody who does the tour to request Bobby 10/10
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