Tombs, Voodoo and burial history
A New Orleans cemetery ghost tour on this site starts at $25 for a 55-minute guided walk inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, where Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau is laid to rest. After dark, a 2-hour bus tour at $36 goes into an above-ground cemetery with an EMF detector lesson. A licensed guide’s city-and-cemetery bus runs 135 minutes for $55, and a Garden District walk that looks inside Lafayette Cemetery is $35 for two hours. Each includes a guide; the two buses include the ride.
Quick answer
The short answer. For Marie Laveau and the city’s best-known tombs, book the walk inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1: $25, 55 minutes, 4.6 from 1,889 reviews. For a New Orleans cemetery ghost tour after dark, the night bus is $36 for two hours, 4.5 from 1,789 reviews. The highest rating on this page, 4.9, is the Garden District walk with Lafayette Cemetery.
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One cemetery walk, one cemetery at night, one city bus with a cemetery stop, and one neighbourhood walk that looks inside a cemetery.
★ 4.6 · 1,889 reviews
★ 4.5 · 1,789 reviews
★ 4.7 · 393 reviews
★ 4.9 · 638 reviews
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Four tours, $25 to $55, 55 minutes to 135 minutes.
| Tour | Length | Price | Rating · reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans: Walking Tour Inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1Guided walk inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 | 55 minutes | $25 | 4.6 · 1,889 |
| New Orleans Cemetery Tour at Night: Go inside a CemeteryAfter-dark bus; inside an above-ground cemetery | 2 hours | $36 | 4.5 · 1,789 |
| New Orleans: 2-Hour 15-Minute City and Cemetery Tour by BusAir-conditioned bus; stop at an aboveground cemetery | 135 minutes | $55 | 4.7 · 393 |
| New Orleans: Garden District Guided Walking TourGarden District walk; a look inside Lafayette Cemetery | 2 hours | $35 | 4.9 · 638 |
On foot
Fifty-five minutes, one cemetery, and the resting place of Marie Laveau.
This is the listing most people mean when they look for a New Orleans cemetery ghost tour with a named cemetery. It is a guided walking tour inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, and the listing frames it around the city’s most famous figures laid to rest there, Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau among them.
It is short — 55 minutes — and at $25 it is the lowest price of the 33 tours on this site. It also has the most reviews on this page: 1,889, at 4.6. Of the New Orleans cemetery walking tours here, this is the one that spends its whole time inside a cemetery; the Garden District walk spends part of two hours in one.
After dark
A bus, a cemetery after dark, an EMF detector and burial history.
The New Orleans Cemetery Tour at Night is the after-dark choice: a bus tour of the city with access into an above-ground cemetery. The listing adds two specifics — you learn how to use an EMF detector, and you hear the history of New Orleans burial practices.
It costs $36 for two hours and holds 4.5 from 1,789 reviews. The listing does not name the cemetery, so if St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the one you want, book the walk above. If you want a ghost and cemetery tour New Orleans guides run as one evening outing, this is it. For French Quarter story walks with ghosts, Voodoo and vampires, see the ghost tours guide.
By bus, with a cemetery stop
The city tour with a cemetery in it, rather than the other way round.
The 2-Hour 15-Minute City and Cemetery Tour by Bus is a sightseeing tour first: a licensed guide, an air-conditioned bus, the most historic neighbourhoods “through the eyes of a native”, and a stop at a famous aboveground cemetery. The listing does not name that cemetery either.
It costs $55 for 135 minutes and holds 4.7 from 393 reviews. Pick it when the cemetery is one stop in a wider look at the city rather than the point of a New Orleans cemetery ghost tour.
In the Garden District
Mansions, gardens and a look inside Lafayette Cemetery, rated 4.9.
The New Orleans: Garden District Guided Walking Tour passes stately mansions and lush gardens and, in the listing’s words, lets you peek inside Lafayette Cemetery. It is $35 for two hours and holds 4.9 from 638 reviews — the highest rating of any tour on this page.
It is a Garden District walk with a cemetery in it, not a New Orleans cemetery ghost tour, which is why it rates so well with people who came for the houses. The Garden District guide compares it with the second walk in that neighbourhood.
Which one if…
One listing per answer, with the number behind it.
The walk inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1: $25, 55 minutes, 4.6 from 1,889 reviews.
The New Orleans Cemetery Tour at Night: $36, two hours by bus, with an EMF detector lesson.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 again: at 55 minutes it is the shortest tour on this page.
The City and Cemetery Tour by Bus: $55 for 135 minutes, licensed guide, 4.7 from 393 reviews.
The Garden District walk with Lafayette Cemetery: 4.9 from 638 reviews, $35.
Is it worth it
Yes, when the cemetery itself is the reason. Otherwise the Garden District walk is the better buy.
Per hour, the cheapest ticket is not the cheapest tour. The St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 walk is $25 for 55 minutes, about $27.27 an hour. The night bus is $36 for two hours, $18.00 an hour; the Garden District walk is $17.50 an hour; the city-and-cemetery bus about $24.44 an hour.
What you pay for differs, too. The St. Louis walk is the one with a named cemetery and Marie Laveau. The night bus is the one with the dark, the EMF detector and the burial history. If one of those is the reason you searched, that tour is worth its price; if neither is, the Garden District walk gives you a cemetery, the mansions and the best rating here. Free cancellation is on all four.
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Walking tours→Common questions
Yes, on the guided walking tour inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 listed here: $25 for 55 minutes, 4.6 from 1,889 reviews.
The St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 listing names Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau among the famous figures laid to rest there, and the guided walk goes inside.
The listing does not name it. It says the bus tour gives access into an above-ground cemetery after dark. If you need St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, book that walk instead.
It is a two-hour bus tour after dark with access into an above-ground cemetery. The listing says you learn to use an EMF detector and hear the history of New Orleans burial practices.
From 55 minutes for St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 to 135 minutes for the city and cemetery bus. The night bus and the Garden District walk are two hours each.
Two. The night tour at $36 goes inside an above-ground cemetery; the city tour at $55 stops at one during 135 minutes.
Free cancellation is listed on all four tours on this page. The cut-off time is on each listing.
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