Oak Alley and Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation from New Orleans

Rene was a great driver and guide. Kyla at Laura was really good and informative. I love Oak Alley and have actually stayed in one of their cottages. I do wish we’d had the extra 20 minutes that we had after the tour added to the 30 minutes before the tour so we could have eaten in the restaurant. The sandwiches in the cafe are okay but the restaurant has a larger variety.

Rene is a great tour guide and a conscientious driver. (Weather was challenging in the rain). Both Laura and Oak Alley we’re beautiful plantations with remarkable history. If you book both tours you will feel rushed at Oak Alley.

Our bus guide, Rene, was personable and pleasant. He went above and beyond to make sure everyone had a nice ride and had the correct information. The tours were both informative and interesting. Oak Alley was a bit rushed and had it been more crowded even having time to get some lunch would have been impossible. I would suggest allowing more time to explore the grounds and that would have improved my experience a lot.

The Laura plantation guide was excellent añd personable unlike the Oak Alley presenter. The Oak Alley tour was poorly planned and executed. Not enough time at Oak Alley for tour II n your own.

Our tour bus guide, Nate, was very friendly and we enjoyed his stories and jokes. Laura Plantation was our favorite tour. It had a more warm and inviting feel. Oak Alley was more formal. Both places are beautiful and would recommend to see when in the New Orleans area.

The history and storytelling. Guides were great and made the experience enjoyable. Would definitely recommend.

I had already visited both of these places back in the 1990’s and it was very nice to go back and rediscover them and learn more facts and refresh my memory of those that I’d forgotten.

I am going to review this in two separate pieces. I'll start with the terrible. First of all, they insist over and over that you arrive before the pickup time, but it turns out the time is just a window and so 14 people were standing at our stop for 35 minutes waiting, since we all got there at least 10 minutes early and pickup was 25 minutes after the time we were told. The driver was a NIGHTMARE. Dwayne told us over and over and over how much he did NOT want to do the plantation tour. He never shut up during the whole ride, but he spent most of the time telling us about his personal life - all his daughters' car accidents, for instance. Who cares?! He did point out where Andrew Jackson was buried - then said "he's some military guy. Google it." I mean, really? He also did NOT enforce the mask policy on the bus, so half the people weren't wearing them, which was very upsetting. The plantations, however, were wonderful. Especially Laura. Our guide, Crystal, was amazing and really made the place come to life. I'd never been to a Creole plantation and we all found it really interesting. Even my 13-year-old niece was really into it. The second plantation, Oak Alley, was also interesting. Our guide there was a little bland, but we happened to run into a guy giving a talk at the (reconstructed) slave houses and he was really fantastic. Overall, I'd say the tour was worth it, but a) try to get a real pickup time from the company and b) make sure you do NOT get Dwayne as your driver.

Laura tour gave more stories to the history of the plantation. Both for the owners and the slaves. Explained about the harsh lives and how the lives intertwined. Oak alley is beautiful, but no talk about lives of the slaves.

Laura Plantation guide was fantastic. Oak Alley was a bit rushed, wish we had more time there. Overall am so glad we chose this tour. The bus driver, and both guides at both plantations were very informative and told us fun stories of the past.