Laura Plantation Tour: Enlightening Louisiana Exploration
4.5
13 Ratings
Vacherie
Discover the captivating history of Laura Plantation, a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana that was built and influenced by West-African enslaved people. Explore the preserved slave cabins and learn about the lasting impact on Creole culture.
Duration:
6 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Laura Plantation: Louisiana’s Creole Heritage Site - Upon arrival at the tour location, visitors will allocate roughly two hours for their visit. The Laura Plantation experience includes a seventy-minute guided tour of the estate. Additionally, guests have the opportunity for a self-led exploration of the plantation grounds and the historical slave quarters. Visitors may also browse the gift shop and enjoy a brief refreshment break prior to leaving.
What's Included
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All fees and taxes included
Additional Information
This is not simply another trip to the river road to see plantations. Your driver/guide will inform and impart knowledge on subjects such as the Louisiana swamp and Lake Pontchartrain. In addition, they will provide insight into the work of the Corp of Engineers to prevent another disaster like Hurricane Katrina. There will also be other unexpected points of interest on the journey.
For significant discounts, we also suggest a variety of combo tours that encompass both the swamp and plantation.
We appreciate you for choosing
Crescent City Tours
& Transportation
- Please observe silence during the transfer or travel time as a respect to your co travelers.
Location
Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
2247 Highway 18,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(13 Ratings)
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Kristin_w
Apr 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
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Angelica_s
Oct 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!
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Nicole_w
Jun 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.
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Hopedream78
Nov 17, 2022
Must Do - Brian was actually the star of this tour for me. Especially with the heavy nature of the tour for me personally. Overall, the plantation tour itself was just okay, but the ride to and from was a great delight!
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Nicole_o
Oct 30, 2022
Amazing Experience, Great Tour Operators - The owner and guides of Crescent City Tours and Transportation provided excellent service and were a lot of fun!
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Daytrip68421726100
Sep 27, 2021
Look No Further! - Crescent City Tours is amazing! We had so much fun with Brian on the way to and from the Laura Plantation. He took time to show us sites along the way and was a perfect southern gentleman. We will definitely book with them the next time we visit the city.
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Budda11
Jul 3, 2021
Interesting - This was absolutely my favorite tour in New Orleans. Walking through the house is like walking back in time.
The grounds are beautiful and so much history! The tour guide was very good and very informative!
Walking into the slave cabins was a sobering experience. I would recommend this without a doubt!!
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Mark_n
Mar 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.
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Ian
Dec 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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Gerry_b
Aug 22, 2019
Disappointed - Due to a rain storm and a lady falling our tour was very short for the price. The tour guide attended to the lady that fell. Group was left to entertain theirselves in the museum which one could tour on their own. No refund or discount was offered.
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