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Book Now: Lunch with a Local

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Lunch With A Local

Visitors to New Orleans often know of the more famous restaurants such as Antoine's, Galatoire's, Tujague's, and Arnaud's. These restaurants were established in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since Hurricane Katrina, the number of restaurants in New Orleans has doubled. Restaurant August, R'evolution, Brigtsen's, and Muriel's are some of the more recently established world famous restaurants.

Enjoy lunch while learning about New Orleans history in a neighborhood restaurant. Enjoy po-boys, red beans and rice, gumbo, fresh gulf seafood, and New Orleans Italian dishes — the local variety is endless.

Reservations are required. Contact us for more details and to specify your lunch and neighborhood preferences.


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Book Now: Coffee in Marigny

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Overview

This tour lasts 1 1/2 hours.

Departure Point
Who Dat Coffee Cafe, 2401 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
End Point
St. Roch Market New Orleans, 2381 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
Highlights
  • Get a local perspective on the Faubourg Marigny
  • See evidence of the neighborhood’s multicultural heritage
  • Leave with hand-picked tips on where to dine and shop
  • Great way to escape the tourist crowds of the French Quarter

We welcome volunteer and/or student groups with generous discounts. We also offer a discount for any group of six or more traveling together.

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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We have 3 signature tours for you to choose from:

 

  1. French Quarter Tours
    A visit to New Orleans is never complete without a French Quarter Tour. Revel in the beautiful balconies with intricate designs and patterns; enjoy the details of the beautiful windows and wrought iron, and experience the charming European influences on the area’s buildings and structures.

     

    You can also enjoy the following things to do and see in the French Quarter Walking Tour, which include:

    • a visit to the Old Square
    • discovering street art, music, and history
    • and experiencing the residential, commercial, and tourist attractions of the area
     

    This tour lasts for 2 hours. Please Call for Price.

     

  2. Cemetery Tours
    Did you know that New Orleans has over 30 cemeteries? Yes, that’s right. And almost all of them have eccentric tomb designs, unique artwork, and are truly spooky. A trip down to New Orleans is also never complete without visiting a cemetery or two. The Lafayette Cemetery Tour is definitely #1 on the list, while the Historic Cemetery District is another must-visit.

     

    This tour lasts for 1 1/2 hours. Please Call for Price.

     

  3. Custom Group Tours
    We offer discounts for large groups of people, whether you are a corporate group, a church group, students, volunteers, or a group of friends.

    Please Call for Price.

     

    We also offer Step-On guides wherein our guide will hop on your bus or van and give you a guided tour of the city or the places you wish to visit. Step-On rates are on an hourly basis and price depends on where you want to go and what you want to do.

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Lunch With A Local

From $120.00

Enjoy lunch while learning about New Orleans history in a neighborhood restaurant.

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DETAILS

Lunch With A Local

Visitors to New Orleans often know of the more famous restaurants such as Antoine's, Galatoire's, Tujague's, and Arnaud's. These restaurants were established in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since Hurricane Katrina, the number of restaurants in New Orleans has doubled. Restaurant August, R'evolution, Brigtsen's, and Muriel's are some of the more recently established world famous restaurants.

Enjoy lunch while learning about New Orleans history in a neighborhood restaurant. Enjoy po-boys, red beans and rice, gumbo, fresh gulf seafood, and New Orleans Italian dishes — the local variety is endless.

Reservations are required. Contact us for more details and to specify your lunch and neighborhood preferences.


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Coffee in Marigny with a Local

From $40.00

Explore one of the most charming yet overlooked neighborhoods in New Orleans — Faubourg Marigny.

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Overview

This tour lasts 1 1/2 hours.

Departure Point
Who Dat Coffee Cafe, 2401 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
 
End Point
St. Roch Market New Orleans, 2381 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
Highlights
  • Get a local perspective on the Faubourg Marigny
  • See evidence of the neighborhood’s multicultural heritage
  • Leave with hand-picked tips on where to dine and shop
  • Great way to escape the tourist crowds of the French Quarter

We welcome volunteer and/or student groups with generous discounts. We also offer a discount for any group of six or more traveling together.

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
and the Garden District

From $35.00

Lafayette Cemetery holds the remains of citizens from twenty-six different countries.

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Overview

This tour lasts an 1 1/2 hours.

$30 per person for discounts on groups of 3 or more

  • Wall Vaults
  • Family Tombs
  • Open tomb for educational purposes
  • The Vampire Lestat Tomb,
    an Anne Rice Creation
  • Filming locations of
    the Originals and True Blood
  • Commanders Place
  • Cornstalks Fence
  • Toby's Corner
  • Sandra Bullock's Home
  • The house where The Curious Case of Benjamin button was filmed

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 and the Garden District

Lafayette Cemetery #1 was established in 1833 on the site of the former Livaudais Sugar Plantation.

Lafayette Cemetery holds the remains of citizens from twenty-six different countries. The cemetery was never segregated by race, ethnicity, or religious denomination. Click here to see the Hatfields' inventory and index to tombs in Lafayette #1 Cemetery.

Getting there

If you'd like you get away from downtown, take a leisurely ride on our city's famous St. Charles streetcar line to this iconic cemetery. Meet your scheduled tour guide at the Main Gate near 1400 Washington Ave.

We welcome volunteer and/or student groups with generous discounts. We also offer a discount for any group of six or more traveling together.

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery

From $35.00

Visit the resting place some of New Orleans most notable characters to understand the unique character of New Orleans.

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Overview

  • 1.5 Hours
  • Local Guide
  • Oldest Cemetery in New Orleans
  • Myths Dispelled

St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery

A tour to Saint Louis No. 1 offers a different perspective of the history of New Orleans. Saint Louis No. 1 is the oldest exiting cemetery in the city. Why are there tombs and not crypts? Understand the religion and nationality of the earliest individuals and families of New Orleans. See how over 50,000 people can be buried in one city block. Visit the resting place some of New Orleans most notable characters to understand the unique character of New Orleans. Saint Louis No. 1 is recognized by the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail and the National Register of Historic Places as an experience of the history of the city's founding and evolution.. Mark Twain referred to New Orleans Cemeteries as "Cities of the Dead". The cemetery remains in use as a living memorable of New Orleans today.

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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French Quarter

From $25.00

Our French Quarter walking tour offers the opportunity to explore the evolution of New Orleans from its origin as a failed French colony to a city of diverse traditions, cuisine, architecture, history, music and culture.

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Overview

  • 1.5 Hours
  • Local Guide
  • View Mississippi River
  • St. Louis Cathedral
  • French Market
  • History & Culture

French Quarter

Our French Quarter walking tour offers the opportunity to explore the evolution of New Orleans from its origin as a failed French colony to a city of diverse traditions, cuisine, architecture, history, music and culture.

From its founding by French explorers in 1718 through its transition to a Spanish colony in the mid- 1700s, New Orleans was an unsuccessful business venture.

Its location on the Mississippi River offered great opportunity for growth and prosperity, but French and Spanish leaders failed to capitalize on its potential.

Spain retroceded New Orleans to Napoleon in 1800, thus enabling him to sell the colony to the United States in 1803. And then…the boom began.

New Orleans became the second largest port in the U.S. It held to the culture, traditions and architecture of its French and Spanish heritage, making it unlike any other city in America. By 1860, New Orleans was second among all U.S. cities in per capita income.

The French Quarter walking tour takes you on a time travel adventure through the city’s beginnings, transitions, tribulations, resilience, and triumphs.

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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Step-on Guide City Tour

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When one of our experienced New Orleans guides steps onto your bus, you will be “off and away” to a memorable trip through New Orleans.

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Overview

  • 2.5 hours or you decide
  • Local Guide
  • Basin St. Station
  • St. Charles Ave.
  • Cemetery Walking Tour
  • 9th Ward
  • City Park, Sculpture Garden
  • Morning Call
  • French Market
  • Narration

Step-on Guide City Tour

When one of our experienced New Orleans guides steps onto your bus, you will be "off and away" to a memorable trip through New Orleans.

With your own bus, your options are unlimited. You can take a general city tour and choose which areas you want to see. You can include short walking tours of the French Quarter, a cemetery; visit churches or synagogues, the lakefront, City Park. Your choices are limited only by the time you allot for the tour.

Whether you charter a bus for your stay here, or come with your own bus, we will help you customize your trip according to the requirements of your schedule.

Custom

As Step-On guides, we can take you on a city tour incorporating the locations you want to see. We will usually include two or three stops where everyone can get off and tour a location of interest, or not, if you prefer otherwise.

Here's a sample itinerary:

Example Itinerary

It covers:

  • MEET: 501 Basin Street Station 70112 for orientation
  • City Hall, CBD, Convention Center Blvd.
  • Decatur St. along the French Quarter riverfrontTo Congo Square and Louis Armstrong Park
  • Through the Bywater Neighborhood across Industrial Canal to Lower Ninth Ward
  • Cemetery walking tour
  • Esplanade Avenue to Bayou St. John
  • City Park and the Besthoff free Sculpture Garden
  • Canal Street the Cemetery District
  • Katrina Memorial
  • End Basin St. Station

* Italics indicate stops along route

Notes

Bilingual tour guides are available. Reservations are required. Contact us for more information and pricing.


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Orleans Tours and Step-On Guides was established in 2004, and for the last 15 years, we have continued to serve tourists around the country and the globe to discover the wealth of history and experiences of New Orleans.
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