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.
Slip beneath the surface of the French Quarter with a private historian-guide who unlocks centuries of Creole, Spanish, and French stories written into every ironwork balcony and hidden courtyard. This is New Orleans at its most intimate and luminous.
Travel the Great River Road in a private chauffeured vehicle to two of Louisiana's most storied antebellum plantations — the cathedral-like live-oak canopy of Oak Alley and the vivid Creole storytelling of Laura. A bucket-list window into the complex, haunting soul of the Deep South.
Let a jazz historian and cocktail authority guide you through the birthplace of both art forms — from a storied Preservation Hall session to the legendary bars where the Sazerac and Vieux Carré were invented. The definitive New Orleans evening for the curious and discerning.
Glide through the primordial Louisiana swamplands on a private airboat with a Cajun-born naturalist, spotting alligators, roseate spoonbills, and ancient cypress forests draped in Spanish moss at golden hour. One of North America's most extraordinary wilderness encounters.
Experience the iconic Saturday or Sunday Jazz Brunch at Commander's Palace in the Garden District — the temple of haute Creole cuisine and the restaurant that launched the careers of Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme. A meal that belongs on every serious food lover's list.
Explore the breathtaking New Orleans Museum of Art and its five-acre Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden — 90 works by Rodin, Miró, and Bourgeois set among ancient oaks and reflecting lagoons — guided privately by a museum curator. A world-class cultural encounter in a setting of rare beauty.
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