Tours/New Orleans/Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation
Viator · group up to 48 pax

Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation

4.6(19)New Orleans1 hour
VIATOR4.6(12)TRIPADVISOR4.7(7)

Description

WEST-AFRICAN Captured for their agricultural and construction skills, their work created the Louisiana colony and influenced all segments of the newly-forming Creole culture, best seen today in language, cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. This sugarcane plantation started in 1805 with 7 enslaved people (six west-Africans and one Amerindian). As the plantation grew, so did the number of enslaved workers. Four original slave cabins built in the 1840s remain standing today on the plantation. By the onset of the Civil War, 186 workers were enslaved on this farm. Following the emancipation of slaves in Louisiana (1866), the great majority of these former slaves continued to live in the Laura Plantation quarters. Descendants of these men & women were displaced in 1895 when cypress lumber companies had their own workers inhabit the Laura slave quarters. The cabins were lived in until 1977. Descendants of slaves live near the Laura Plantation to this day.

Tour Options

8:30 AM
  • Pickup included
10:30 AM
  • Pickup included

Itinerary

Admission included2 min

Once arriving at tour site all travelers will spend approximately two hours. Laura Plantation is a one hour and ten minute guided tour of the mansion. Travelers will also have a self guided tour of the grounds a viewing slave cabins. Also you can explore the gift shop and grab a quick snack before departure

Highlights

All Fees and Taxes
Air-conditioned vehicle

What's included

Included
All Fees and Taxes
Air-conditioned vehicle

Pickup Locations & Times

We pick up from most hotels in the downtown area if your hotel is not listed pick the location nearest to you. We pick up from most hotels in the downtown area if your hotel is not listed pick the location nearest to you. All guest will have a pick up window up between 8 AM and 8:30 AM. We always suggest everyone be ready for 8 AM sharp. Your driver has to make a series of stops at different locations..

Traveller Ratings

4.6
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Important Information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Please observe silence during the transfer or travel time as a respect to your co travelers.

Reviews(19)

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Explore594233
March 4, 2026
Highly recommend

This was a meaningful and enlightening tour. It went deeper than talking about slavery and focused on the interactions of the people who lived there: plantation owners and the people of color. Also interesting because it was a plantation run by women. Very educational.

Operator response

Thanks for coming guys. We enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. 😊😊

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Clair_B
February 5, 2026
Plantation tour

Our driver was wonderful. He was safe and friendly and knowledgeable about the area and about the plantations. We enjoyed the drive and the conversation with him. We wen to Laura Plantation

Operator response

Thanks for coming Claire. We enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. ☺️

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ednamV2149CT
October 13, 2025
Fun and most importantly educational!

Our guide was very knowledgeable and open to answer questions. The tour was very organized and flowed nicely. Our transportation driver with Crescent City Tours was amazing too! He kept us engaged on the drive to plantation and pointed out several landmarks along the way!

Operator response

Thanks for coming. We enjoyed having until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. 😊😊

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Margaret_W
April 14, 2025
Great day out

A great outing. The small coach was clean and comfortable. Our driver Larry aka bamba was excellent, informative, funny and very courteous. The guided tour around the plantation was with s small group, again informative and knowledgeable, answering all questions posed to him. The experience wasn't rushed in any way. Would recommend

Operator response

Thanks for coming guys. We enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. ☺️ And thank you for taking time to leave a review. We think that’s pretty special

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Centauress
December 22, 2024
Enlightening experience

This was our first plantation of the 2-plantation tour we took. I liked this one better because it wasn't just, "Look at the beautiful home", it was, "This family is like a soap opera"! Yes, it was beautiful & I prefer the Creole style of this plantation to the American style of the Oak Plantation, but, more importantly, remember that this was built by slaves. Lindie was an excellent tour guide who ended the tour with a personal touch about her own family in relation to how the slaves were freed & ended up being stuck with no where else to go because they, sadly, didn't know any better. Her grandmother is Creole & she basically highlighted how slavery still affects non-whites to this very day.

Operator response

Thank you so much for choosing Crescent city Tours. We enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling 😊😊

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Kristin_W
April 21, 2024
Laura plantation tour

Our tour guide gave a very nuanced, historically accurate description of life on the plantation, from the plantation owners to the enslaved people. Learned more here than I ever did in school

Operator response

Thank you so much for coming. We really enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. ☺️😊

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Mark_N
March 9, 2024
Well worth the trip, except lack of helpful information - and arrived late for our guide at Laura Plantation

Very informative tour - All guides were great. Except arrived late for our tour at Laura Plantation to meet our guide there. And no information that you could get food and drink at Oak Alley Plantation at the stop for 45 minutes. That was in our opinion essential information, as no food at Laura Plantation. Otherwise thanks to all involved, in giving us this trip.

Operator response

Thanks for coming we enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. 😊😊

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Angelica_S
October 30, 2023
Thank You (Again) Brian with Crescent City Tours!

Always the best and my goto Plantation tour company! Beloved Crescent City Tours thank you again! Checkout google review for more details!

Operator response

As always, thank you so much for choosing Crescent City Tours. We enjoyed having you! Until next time, stay safe and keep smiling! 😊😊

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Nicole_W
June 16, 2023
Awesome experience

We enjoyed our tour of the Laura Plantation. Pam is a WONDERFUL tour guide. She knows her history and tells it in such a beautiful way. A well crafted story that loves you wanting more.

Operator response

Thank you so much for coming guys enjoy heaving you. until next time stay safe and keep smiling 😊😊

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Ian J
December 4, 2022
Decent tour transportation

We did the Laura Plantation tour with transportation from Crescent City tours. The Laura Plantation tour itself was just ok, but Crescent City Tours doesn't actually do that tour for you, they just take you do the plantation and the plantation has their own tour guides. The transportation from Crescent City tours was ok. They picked us up at our hotel via a medium sized bus. After picking a few other people up at different hotels, it was about an hour drive to the plantation. The driver was nice and 'somewhat' funny; it was nice that he gave us informative information on the city and places we were passing along the way, so the ride wasn't boring. We were dropped off at our plantation and then picked up about 2 hours later. After all the people were back on board, we stopped at the Oak Alley planation for a 20 min break to get food or bathroom etc. Then we stopped other people off at a swamp tour and then back to the hotel. Overall, we were picked up around 8:20am and got dropped back off around 2:30pm.

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Operator response

Thanks for coming guys. We enjoyed having you until next time. Stay safe and keep smiling. I wish five stars could have been the end result but unfortunately, we just have to keep putting forth the effort in swinging for the fences. Thank you so much for coming.😉😉

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