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Airboat Tour: Closest to Plantation, Private Swamp
4.6
24 Ratings
Vacherie
Our airboat tour location is the nearest to the plantation, minimizing your travel time in vehicles. We operate exclusively on private swamps where no other boats are permitted, and there are no idle zones or noise restrictions. Our small boats accommodate 6 to 9 passengers.
Our airboat tour location is the nearest to the plantation, minimizing your travel time in vehicles. We operate exclusively on private swamps where no other boats are permitted, and there are no idle zones or noise restrictions. Our small boats accommodate 6 to 9 passengers.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Oak Alley Plantation - The Oak Alley plantation tour is one of the most magnificent plantation tours near New Orleans because of the 28 evenly spaced, huge Oak Trees that go from River Road to the Plantation House. It looks like the movie “Gone with the Wind”. The Greek Revival style home dates back to 1837.
- Ragin Cajun Airboat Tours - Small…
- Oak Alley Plantation - The Oak Alley plantation tour is one of the most magnificent plantation tours near New Orleans because of the 28 evenly spaced, huge Oak Trees that go from River Road to the Plantation House. It looks like the movie “Gone with the Wind”. The Greek Revival style home dates back to 1837.
- Ragin Cajun Airboat Tours - Small airboats go faster and a little more intimate with a smaller group. 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. You will return to you hotel around 4;45 pm
What's Included
- Free parking included
- Free parking included
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Lunch
Location
Oak Alley Plantation
3645 Highway 18,
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
4.6
(24 Ratings)
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Lawanda_l
Mar 26, 2026
Truest Swap Experience - This was by far an amazing experience and more than I expected. They were knowledgeable and fun! They genuinely care for the gators and know them by name. Don't waste your time or money going with another group. This is THE tour. I highly recommend.
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Lorenandtara
Nov 1, 2025
Double your fun in Louisiana!!! - We started our first of two tours at Oak Alley Plantation. The main house tour provides a picture in time. Every space was explained in detail throughout the house.
Our second adventure was with Ragin Cajun swamp tours. We went on the small airboat. We stopped often to see alligators fed big marshmallows from the boat. Amazing bird life throughout. We did one faster run for excitement. Great fun.
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Tj_s
Sep 10, 2025
Plantation tour and swamp tour September - We had a wonderful day at both the plantation house tour and swamp boat! Our driver Brian, was absolutely fantastic. Humorous and informative. The whole experience was exceeded our expectations.
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Alimacauthor
Jun 11, 2025
Great mix of seeing how life was years ago with the fun of an airboat tour to complete the day - Fantastic day out & about. The plantation was fascinating with some sad history of slavery. Learnt a lot. The airboat ride was great. A lot of fun and a lot of gators to see. Larry, handle -BamBam, kept us informed throughout the trip telling us a lot about the area. Recommended
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Joseph_s
Apr 18, 2025
Awesome tour company. - Great tour start to finish. Our driver was friendly and knowledgeable as he shuffles us between locations. Always one-time and polite.
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Suzanne_s
Feb 2, 2025
Very informative tour of... - Very informative tour of Oak Alley, restaurant has great food, airboat tour was very fun and guide was great!
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Diane_l
Nov 8, 2025
Fun day - Airboat trip was awesome, Mike was a great guide, saw lots of gators. Our all day driver Brandon was awesome too very informative and very friendly.
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Susan_w
Sep 23, 2025
Oak Alley tour was very... - Oak Alley tour was very limited and not really very informative or entertaining. took the same tour 10-15 yrs ago and much longer, with many stories about life on the plantation - visiting guests, slaves, kitchens, bed rolling. this was bare bones and pretty bad. Oak Alley grounds are pretty. Mint Julep was good. food was acceptable and not too touristy expensive.
the airboat ride was fun. since warm out many alligators. less fun on the airboat than other trips we have taken - during the cold months where there were very few alligators, but they made more fun running the airboat about in curly ques. guess summer they fill with animals, winter with boat tricks.
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Isis_b
Nov 26, 2025
Airboat was great, Oak alley not so much - Grounds were beautiful. Unfortunately, the Tour left much to be desired. It was a vague overview of the first family that lived there and some self-guided portion. It did not give an in-depth understanding of plantation Life, how plantation works. slave era or anything else of interest. I was disappointed. I would however recommend the boat tour offered by ragin Cajun tours. It was great! Try the Whitney plantation. I heard it gave a more informative and historical tour.
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Baloo666
Mar 23, 2025
Do something else! - Long drive. Lots of down time. Plantation is not worth the drive or the time allotted. Swamp tour was simply a large mud flat. Not very scenic. It was good to see alligators on a sunny day, but that is it. Not worth the steep price.
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