Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation | La Vacanza Travel

Laura Plantation Tour with Transportation

Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Destination: United States, Louisiana, New Orleans
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  • 6 hours 30 minutes
  • New Orleans
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

WEST-AFRICAN Captured for their agricultural and construction skills, their work created the Louisiana colony and influenced all segments of the newly-forming Creole culture, best seen today in language, cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. This sugarcane plantation started in 1805 with 7 enslaved people (six west-Africans and one Amerindian). As the plantation grew, so did the number of enslaved workers. Four original slave cabins built in the 1840s remain standing today on the plantation. By the onset of the Civil War, 186 workers were enslaved on this farm. Following the emancipation of slaves in Louisiana (1866), the great majority of these former slaves continued to live in the Laura Plantation quarters.
Descendants of these men & women were displaced in 1895 when cypress lumber companies had their own workers inhabit the Laura slave quarters. The cabins were lived in until 1977. Descendants of slaves live near the Laura Plantation to this day.

What Can You Expect?

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, LA 70090-5409

Once arriving at tour site all travelers will spend approximately two hours. Laura Plantation is a one hour and ten minute guided tour of the mansion. Travelers will also have a self guided tour of the grounds a viewing slave cabins. Also you can explore the gift shop and grab a quick snack before departure

Duration: 2 minutes

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • All Fees and Taxes
  • Entry/Admission - Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

Exclusions

    Additional Info

    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Stroller accessible
    • Most travelers can participate
    • Please observe silence during the transfer or travel time as a respect to your co travelers.
    • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
    • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
    • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 24 travelers
    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

    Departure Point

    Departure Point

    Traveler pickup is offered
    We pick up from most hotels in the downtown area if your hotel is not listed pick the location nearest to you. Pick up will be between 8 AM and 8:30 AM


    Departure Time

    08:00 AM

    Duration & Voucher Info

    Voucher info

    You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

    Duration

    6 hours 30 minutes

    Cancellation Policy

    User's Reviews

    Kristin_W

    21 Apr, 2024

    Our tour guide gave a very nuanced, historically accurate description of life on the plantation, from the plantation owners to the enslaved people. Learned more here than I ever did in school

    Mark_N

    09 Mar, 2024

    Very informative tour - All guides were great. Except arrived late for our tour at Laura Plantation to meet our guide there. And no information that you could get food and drink at Oak Alley Plantation at the stop for 45 minutes. That was in our opinion essential information, as no food at Laura Plantation. Otherwise thanks to all involved, in giving us this trip.

    Angelica_S

    30 Oct, 2023

    Always the best and my goto Plantation tour company! Beloved Crescent City Tours thank you again! Checkout google review for more details!

    Nicole_W

    16 Jun, 2023

    We enjoyed our tour of the Laura Plantation. Pam is a WONDERFUL tour guide. She knows her history and tells it in such a beautiful way. A well crafted story that loves you wanting more.

    Ian J

    04 Dec, 2022

    We did the Laura Plantation tour with transportation from Crescent City tours. The Laura Plantation tour itself was just ok, but Crescent City Tours doesn't actually do that tour for you, they just take you do the plantation and the plantation has their own tour guides. The transportation from Crescent City tours was ok. They picked us up at our hotel via a medium sized bus. After picking a few other people up at different hotels, it was about an hour drive to the plantation. The driver was nice and 'somewhat' funny; it was nice that he gave us informative information on the city and places we were passing along the way, so the ride wasn't boring. We were dropped off at our plantation and then picked up about 2 hours later. After all the people were back on board, we stopped at the Oak Alley planation for a 20 min break to get food or bathroom etc. Then we stopped other people off at a swamp tour and then back to the hotel. Overall, we were picked up around 8:20am and got dropped back off around 2:30pm.

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    Well worth the trip, except lack of helpful information - and arrived late for our guide at Laura Plantation

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