Small-Group Louisiana Plantations Tour with Gourmet Lunch from New Orleans

Great Experience! Rene (Guide) was very knowledgeable about NO/LA and its history, that it kept us engaged and wanting to see and learn more. The Plantations and Lunch Tour along with all the info was definitely worth our Time!

Wonderful tour of two plantations, with local guides at each location. Lunch was buffet style and delicious. Our guide Ellen provided a lot of history of New Orleans and the area. Isabella provided excellent service before the tour. Cannot say enough good about our experience.

The tour guide was a cheerful lady full of Louisiana facts. Houmas House was lovely. The guide there knew his stuff and the gardens were great. The food was a buffet there in a cafeteria and it was fine, not amazing. Destrehan isn't really worth it. The guide was very nice but mostly inarticulate, so I didn't learn much. I'd recommend doing a tour to Houmas and maybe some other plantation, instead. Still, it was a relaxing day out of the city.

Destrehan was just alright but Houmas was great. Renee shared a lot of interesting things with us while getting to the tours. Food was nothing to write home about. Houmas tour guide even let my son play the piano. I’d definitely recommend Houmas and Isabelle tours

Gisele was phenomenal, she is very knowledgeable about Louisiana’s rich history I would highly recommend

Stephen, with Isabella Tours, was an awesome guide. He was engaging and very knowledgeable about NOLA, Louisiana, and each of the plantations we visited. There was a scheduled mixup at one of the plantations and he proactively took care of his group to keep us on schedule. Would recommend this tour, especially if Stephen is the guide.

The food was a bit disappointing for the price, the plantation guides were great, but... Our bus driver/tour guide would not stop talking the whole way there, in between plantations, and the whole way back. Not for a pause or a second; just yak, yak, yak.. her experiences, her history, things she had done, a sort of one-sided conversation with the guy near her (passenger) where she had been, on and on. At one point we were on a road above some marshy land and bayous, and it was pouring rain, so hard that you could not see three feet in front of the van...fog, slushy rain; really slippery dangerous conditions. Our driver kept right on talking and driving, using hand gestures, and she had about 9-10 people in her charge, depending on her to get us there safely! She couldn't see any better than we could, with all the pouring rain and wind and fog- it was a real mess to drive in and yet, she just cheerfully kept on talking while driving! I was truly terrified that we were going to slide off the road into the marshy water! I wanted to yell at her to shut up and pay attention to the road, but my husband persuaded me not to do that, as it might startle her, and cause her to jerk the wheel and put us into the water for sure. On the way way back, the rain had stopped (thankfully) and most people around us were napping or trying to nap, and yet, she seemed oblivious, just talk , talk, talk.

We had a great time. Our tour guide Gisele was amazing! She really knows her history!! The mansions are magnificent and it was enlightening to see how things worked all those years ago! Also, the food was incredible!

Terrific organization from pickup to drop off with a knowledgeable guide seeing the history of the area and working of the early sugar cane plantations.

Lunch at Houmas House was great. We really enjoyed visiting the plantations. Our guide Steve was very personable and an excellent guide.