Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Step into the storied antebellum South on a private chauffeured tour of Oak Alley Plantation and the iconic Garden District. Walk the cathedral of live oaks, tour the 'Big House,' and glide past mansion-lined streets with your own expert guide.
Weave through the aromatic back streets of the French Quarter with a chef-guided small group, sampling beignets, charbroiled oysters, Creole gumbo, and pralines at legendary institutions. New Orleans cuisine is a bucket-list flavour education.
Discover the spiritual and artistic heart of New Orleans in and around Jackson Square, culminating with a private docent tour of the stunning St. Louis Cathedral. Street artists, fortune-tellers, and 300 years of Creole history converge in one extraordinary plaza.
Drift along the great Mississippi aboard a private chartered vessel as the New Orleans skyline glows amber at dusk, a live jazz duo playing on the foredeck. The river, the music, and the city skyline together are pure bucket-list magic.
Pole silently through the primeval cypress swamps of Honey Island — one of the least-altered river swamps in America — spotting alligators, egrets, and river otters from a traditional flat-bottomed pirogue with a specialist naturalist guide.
Wander the leafy boulevards of the Garden District with a local historian, then enter the hauntingly beautiful Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — the above-ground city of the dead that inspired Anne Rice. An intimate, expert-led portrait of New Orleans' most elegant neighbourhood.
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