New Orleans Private Kickstart Tour with a Local

Break away from the tourist crowds and receive a warm New Orleans welcome from a passionate guide on this private orientation tour. It’s the next best thing to having a local friend show you around, as the guide offers customized recommendations about where to eat, shop, party, and explore to make the most of your time. So skip the tourist traps and learn to love New Orleans the way that locals do.

Avoid aimless wandering and get oriented to the layout of New Orleans
Guide offers personalized tips on where to go and what to do
Discover family-owned restaurants, local shops, and authentic venues
Private, carbon-neutral tour is stress free and low impact

What To Expect

Jackson Square

We start of our tour at Jackson Square where we will see several monuments with each and one of them having a special and intruiging story attachted to them
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Galerie Rue Royale

This was originally an open walkway to cut from “Place D’Armes (Jackson Square) ” to the “Rue de Royale(Royal Street.)
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Saint Peter

Get some views of the most photographed building in the quarter as well as an introduction to Royal Street
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Bourbon Street

Bourbon St can be a fun place to spend an evening, but there are things to look out for. Along with street performers, there are a lot of tricks, and ‘tourist traps’. Your host will tell you all of them.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Dauphine Street

We have reached the end of the French Quarter and the beginning of the Treme neighborhood. This is widely recognized as the Birthplace of Jazz.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Bourbon Street

Lafitte’s Blacksmith shop is one of the oldest buildings in the French Quarter. The story goes, this shop survived the fires of 1788 and 179_ because it was, in fact, a blacksmith shop, and so structurally it was built to withstand large amounts of heat.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Royal Street

Back on Royal Street we are going to sightsee a very special building. If you’ve seen American Horror Story you are probably familiar with Madame Delphine Lalaurie
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

French Market

Spanning 6 blocks, The French Market began where Cafe Du Monde stands currently – which is the direction we will be heading. Here you can find a variety of local foods, from beignets, to crawfish, local produce, alligator bites – you name it.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Lalaurie Mansion

The LaLaurie Mansion is widely considered one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Highlight

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Not wheelchair accessible
Private tour: only you & your local guide
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Include

Private Tour
Local Guide
Local Tips and Tricks
City Orientation

Exclude

Hotel pick-up and drop off