Kid Friendly Tours

If you have teenagers, the surprise highlight of your NOLA trip will be a New Orleans Architecture Tour with energetic, knowledgeable guides who make learning history and the difference between a Doric and an Ionic column fun. Options include walking tours of the Garden District, the French Quarter, the Marigny and the Bayou St. John neighborhood. BTW, this company is Top-Rated on TripAdvisor and has been recommended by Southern Living Magazine. They keep the tours small to ensure an intimate, one-of-a-kind experience. Coupon Available!

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Looking for a fun, informative way to see New Orleans? Ride around the city and visit popular destinations in City Sightseeing New Orleans’s exciting open-top, double-decker bus. With City Sightseeing New Orleans, the busses come every 30 minutes, and you can hop on and hop off wherever you and your family would like.

Sightseeing New Orleans can take your family to the best art galleries, historic sights, museums and shopping stops throughout the city. Coupon Available!

This fun and informative morning tour takes visitors from the river to the lake. As the tour winds through the many neighborhoods of New Orleans tourists are regaled with stories of yesteryear. The tour stops at an above-ground cemetery, City Park, the Lighthouse and more. Coupon Available!

A historian guide will take you on a two-hour walking tour of the opulent Garden District, where the wealthy Americans settled (they weren’t exactly made welcome in the French Quarter). You’ll marvel at mansion after mansion, surrounded by breathtaking gardens. Afterward, you’ll visit Lafayette Cemetery #1, setting for some of your favorite movies based on Anne Rice books, including the vampire Lestat’s tomb.

You can explore the French Quarter by yourself – and should – but get your bearings first on this two-hour walking tour, led by a historian with fascinating tales to tell. It includes a tour of St. Louis Cemetery #1 which you cannot enter without a guide. This City of Dead dates back to 1789 and is the final resting place of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, Homer Plessy of Homer vs. Plessy fame, and many others.

Learn the mystery and history of voodoo in New Orleans as you stroll the French Quarter. Discover the origins of jazz and uncover the brutal realities of America’s largest slave rebellion on this 2-hour tour.

Does your family love scary stories? If so, then they will love Gray Line's newest tour! New Orleans is an old city, and the kids will be delighted as a guide tells the tales surrounding many of the houses in the French Quarter. The kids will learn about infamous French Quarter denizens, who are often thought to still be around today, but in ghost form. In the second part of the tour, the family will get to visit one of our famous above ground cemetaries, or as we call them, the Cities of the Dead. The kids will see the variety of tombs and learn about the people who inhabit them. They'll even receive a little "lagniappe" on each tour. Coupon Available!

One of the oldest homes in Louisiana, a tour of Destrehan Plantation is an adventure for kids and adults alike. Tour both the Big House and an authentic slave cabin. Discover what life was like on a Creole indigo and cotton plantation. Listen to tales of the pirate Jean Lafitte who was said to have hidden treasure in the house. View a 1,400-pound marble bathtub, a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte. And hear about the largest slave rebellion in American history. 

Are you ready to be taken back to the glory of the Old South? Gray Line offers tours of Laura: A Creole Plantation and Oak Alley Plantation. No matter which one you choose your family will be taken back in time to a bygone era for a fun-filled afternoon. Coupon Available!

Spend a day along the River Road with Cajun Encounters as they travel back in time to Laura: A Creole Plantation AND Oak Alley Plantation. That's right: visit both historic landmarks on this tour of epic proportions.

Kids of all ages will enjoy this tour that effortlessly combines history and adventure. All you have to do is choose the plantation and Cajun Pride Swamp Tours will take care of the rest. Combine your Plantation Tour with a Swamp Tour for an unforgettable family vacation. Coupon Available!

Explore the beautiful swamps of Barataria by airboat! Guided by captains who have a long history in the area and steeped in the traditions of cajun culture you will be surprised by what you see and what you learn. Come start your adventure today! Coupon Available

Take a thrilling ride through the wetlands surrounding the town of Jean Lafitte. This narrated journey takes families through bayous and open waterways. This tour is so fast and exciting pregnant women and children under 5 are prohibited making it a great option for families with tweens and teens. Coupon Available!

Run by three generations of bayou fisherman, their tour guides are born, bred and still make a living in the same swamps you'll be touring. See alligators, blue herons, glorious old oaks and more as you glide through the beautiful bayou waterways. Their knowledgeable staff will answer all of your questions and help you make amazing memories. Coupon Available!