Oak Alley Plantation and Small Airboat Tour from New Orleans
Description
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.
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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.
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.
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Pickup Locations & Times
**You must be out front of your location at the beginning of the pickup window or the bus will be forced to leave.** For pickups, there will be a 30 minute window. Please be on the lookout for a bus that says Alert Transportation. 8:15 AM pickup will be sometime between 8:15 AM and about 8:45 AM. 10:45 AM pickup will be sometime between 10:45 AM and about 11:15 AM.
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Important Information
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- - Service animals are permitted but not recommended due to the volume of noise on the boat and threats of surrounding wildlife.
- - Emotional support animals are not permitted.
- - Participants with back problems are not permitted on an airboat
- - Participants with heart complications or other serious medical conditions are not permitted on an airboat.
- - Pregnant women are not permitted on an airboat.
- - Minimum height requirement for airboats is 48 inches.
- - Folding wheelchairs are allowed on the bus, but the driver is not allowed to pick up a person to help them gain entrance. The customer must get into the minibus by themselves or with assistance from family or friends.
- - Please note you are not guaranteed to see a gator. They hibernate in winter months but are easily spotted in spring, summer, and fall.
- - When traveling with multiple passengers, you must make one booking with all passengers to insure that you are on the same boat. If you did not book together, you are not guaranteed to be together.
- - Airboats are not handicapped accessible. There are no lifts or ramps available for use. Guests must be able to get on or off of the boat themselves or with the help of someone in their party.
Reviews(189)
Very awesome trip, this is a must
Plantation was beautiful and fantastic to see. Lots of driving involved, but drop offs and pickups were well organized. Air boat ride was very fun. We saw many gators that came right to edge of the boat. Guide was fun, friendly, and very knowledgeable about alligators. We got a chance to hold a baby gator, and that was very cool.
This was a fantastic trip, picked up on time and the tour guides at the plantation and airboat captain were knowledgeable.
Thank you for the five-star review, Hiten!
The experience in the small airboat has been one of the best we have done. Our guide Captain B Bob was beyond wonderful. Very happy boxer of the area, the bay, his customs... you can see that he knows it like the back of his hand and made us a pleasant tour, full of data and we saw very closely more than 20 aligators, we had one baby in our hands, Bubbles approached, one of the largest we could see. It was totally FANTASTIC. The Oakl plantation experience is good but I think it’s a long way from getting the most out of it. It's a long drive from New Orleans and it falls pretty short on history
Plantation tour was a bit disappointing. The grounds were beautiful and the oak tree canopy cover drive was majestic. Tour information was not very detailed about the actual workings and history of the plantation itself. Felt the information provided was a bit generic and also lacking any real substance, mostly fluff about unimportant details. The Swamp tour was fun, interesting extremely informative, our boat tour guide was Amazing and the gators did not disappoint. We also spotted a bald eagle. It was very enjoyable!
This has to be one of the best trips you will do . We were on a small airboat which was brilliant . Beebop our guide was bery good and made our trip so incredibly interesting introducing Willy the gator , and Frank .
A lot of time is spent in transit, but the coaches are very comfortable. Oak Alley was OK but a little limited. The airboat tour of the swamp was amazing with Captain Ernie.
Oak Alley Plantation is beautiful. The grounds are lovely. It seems funny to mention this but the public restrooms are the cleanest I've been in. The Best part of the tour was the Airboat ride. Rocky, our guide, was amazing. He got us up close to gators and let us touch a baby one. It was awesome. I would definitely recommend.
Loved loved loved the airboat tour. We had Bebop as a guide and he is one of the best we've experienced.
Absolutely loved everything - especially the airboat tour on the smaller airboat (well worth the extra money to be in a small group). Our guide, Bobby, knew so much about the area and wildlife and made it so much fun. It was easily the best thing we did in New Orleans. The bus drivers were on time, informative, and the bus was comfortable.
