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Oak Alley Plantation: Scenic Airboat Tour Experience
Experience the beauty of Oak Alley Plantation and the thrill of a high-speed airboat ride. Explore the historic house, take a swamp tour, and enjoy a personal tour by a local Captain.
Experience the beauty of Oak Alley Plantation and the thrill of a high-speed airboat ride. Explore the historic house, take a swamp tour, and enjoy a personal tour by a local Captain.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Barataria Preserve - Just 35 minutes from New Orleans, this swamp tour offers a unique escape. The New Orleans airboat tour combines high-speed excitement with a guided exploration. Travel swiftly in a 6 or 9 passenger boat, then pause for photo opportunities. A local Captain will provide a personalized tour. The airboats feature stadium seating,…
- Barataria Preserve - Just 35 minutes from New Orleans, this swamp tour offers a unique escape. The New Orleans airboat tour combines high-speed excitement with a guided exploration. Travel swiftly in a 6 or 9 passenger boat, then pause for photo opportunities. A local Captain will provide a personalized tour. The airboats feature stadium seating, ensuring unobstructed views and excellent wildlife observation from every seat. Expect close encounters with alligators, allowing you to gaze into their eyes.
- Oak Alley Plantation - Alongside the airboat tour, visit the Oak Alley Plantation, established in 1837. A quarter-mile path lined with twenty-eight evenly spaced oaks leads from River Road to the plantation house. The grounds offer additional attractions, including a restaurant, cafe, and gift shop. Enjoy a free hour to explore as you wish.
What's Included
- Experience the majestic Oak Alley Plantation
- Convenience of hotel pickup and drop-off
- Informative driver/guide included
- Thrilling airboat ride
- Experience the majestic Oak Alley Plantation
- Convenience of hotel pickup and drop-off
- Informative driver/guide included
- Thrilling airboat ride
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Lunch
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Lunch
Additional Information
Oak Alley Plantation boasts scenic Oak Trees, splendid gardens, a sophisticated 1837 Greek Revival style mansion, a forge, an eatery, and vintage agricultural tools. Visitors are offered a guided tour of Oak Alley’s manor and leisure time to wander around. Following your plantation visit, you will get to partake in a dual experience: an informative…
Oak Alley Plantation boasts scenic Oak Trees, splendid gardens, a sophisticated 1837 Greek Revival style mansion, a forge, an eatery, and vintage agricultural tools. Visitors are offered a guided tour of Oak Alley’s manor and leisure time to wander around. Following your plantation visit, you will get to partake in a dual experience: an informative marshland tour and a thrilling airboat ride. You’ll navigate at brisk speeds on the airboat, pausing occasionally for photo ops. In the course of your journey, you will be guided personally by a local Captain.
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- Service animals are permitted but not recommended due to the volume of noise on the boat and threats of surrounding wildlife.
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- Emotional support animals are not permitted.
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- Participants with back problems are not permitted on an airboat
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- Participants with heart complications or other serious medical conditions are not permitted on an airboat.
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- Pregnant women are not permitted on an airboat.
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- Minimum height requirement for airboats is 48 inches.
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- 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.
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- Please note you are not guaranteed to see a gator. They hibernate in winter months but are easily spotted in spring, summer, and fall.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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
(185 Ratings)
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Claudia_v
Apr 6, 2026
Swamp Tour did not disappoint - 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!
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Suzyabcdef61
Apr 5, 2026
Brilliant - 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 .
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Laura_m
Mar 25, 2026
Oak Alley Plantation is... - 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.
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Brenda_p
Mar 8, 2026
Amazing time on the airboat tour! - Loved loved loved the airboat tour. We had Bebop as a guide and he is one of the best we've experienced.
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O3845maandreag
Mar 7, 2026
Great tour - 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.
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Jeanclaude_b
Feb 9, 2026
Expensive but really... - Expensive but really worth it. No regrets.
Staff highly professional and pleasant.
Both the plantation and the Bayou boat trip beautiful and enlightening experiences.
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Joannego7314xi
Dec 8, 2025
Great gator experience - We loved our guide - Hughie. He made the tour very interesting and fun. He clearly is very passionate about the alligators and sharing information about local history. We saw plenty of wildlife not just gators. Highly recommend this tour
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Douglas_b
Apr 1, 2026
A lot of time is spent in... - 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.
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Michaelcn4464ul
Mar 6, 2026
Destinations were great; tour company no so much - The tours at the Oak Alley Plantation and on the airboat were exceptional! Both guides were very knowledgeable.
The guide at the plantation was very knowledge, very spoke very deliberately and clearly, and kept our larger-sized group together. She answered questions as they were asked, although she had to limit questions during the tour since there was another group directly behind us, but offered to answer any questions at the end of the tour.
The guide on the airboat was also very knowledgeable, personable, and expanded the gator focus of the tour to point out an eagle its nest and a horned owl that he had spotted.
The bus driver spent way too much time at the beginning of the trip figuring out payments for people who still owed money. We - who had already paid in full - had to sit in the bus for maybe a half hour while the driver repeatedly got on and off the bus - to work through other people payment issues. This cut short the time we had to spend at the Plantation. The online description said there would be an hour to explore or eat after the tour ended - that did not happen. For whatever reason that caused this, it needs to be fixed by the tour company.
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Isabel_f
Mar 4, 2026
Great tours, but driver Reginald was rude and ignored our paid hotel drop-off. Very unprofessional! - Overall, this tour had some fantastic elements but one part of the experience left us a really bad impression. Read about driver Reginald at the end!
Oak Alley Plantation:
Oak Alley itself is beautiful and absolutely worth visiting. Unfortunately, the schedule felt rushed. We were only given 45 minutes to see all of the exhibits before the house tour, which simply isn’t enough time to experience everything. We had to rush through several exhibits just to make sure we didn’t miss our house tour slot. Other people in our group were also frustrated because they had to choose between seeing the exhibits or grabbing food.
Airboat Tour:
The airboat portion was AMAZING and easily the highlight of the day. Our guide was knowledgeable, energetic, and clearly passionate about what he does. He made the ride exciting and shared tons of interesting information about the swamp. Huge credit to him for making the swamp tour memorable.
The Driver (Reginald):
Unfortunately, the biggest negative of the entire experience was our driver, Reginald. When we purchased our tickets, they clearly stated hotel pickup and drop-off. However, at the end of the tour we were dropped off 20min walk away from our hotel. When my boyfriend politely explained that this wasn’t what we paid for, Reginald responded with a rude “oh well, it’s too late.”
That response was incredibly unprofessional and unnecessary. After a long day of touring, the last thing you expect is to be dismissed with attitude when pointing out that the service didn’t match what was advertised. It left a very sour ending to what had otherwise been a good day.
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