Oak Alley Plantation tour: three trips from the city

This is the Oak Alley Plantation tour for a half day. The listing is a guided tour from New Orleans: you learn about plantation life, see antique farm equipment, and follow a guide in traditional dress. It runs 5.5 hours, which works out at $13.64 an hour.

Its rating is the lowest of the three. 539 reviews at 4.5, against 4.8 on both combos. Across the seven plantation listings on this site, ratings run from 4.5 to 5.0, so this Oak Alley Plantation tour sits at the bottom of that range. It is still a large review base, second only to the combo among Oak Alley trips.

Entry is not mentioned. The description does not say whether the plantation ticket is included, while the $160 combo says it is. Check the listing before you compare the two prices.

$160 for 8.5 hours, entry tickets and pickup included. The listing describes a guided day trip to Oak Alley and an airboat tour in the Barataria Basin as one full-day combo from New Orleans. It works out at $18.82 an hour.

It has the most reviews of any Oak Alley Plantation tour here. 1,060 at 4.8, nearly twice the 539 behind the $75 trip. If you are looking for an Oak Alley Plantation and swamp tour with real evidence behind it, this is the one.

Booking the two parts separately costs a little less. Oak Alley at $75 and the 16-passenger airboat at $65 come to $140, $20 under the combo. That means two bookings and two schedules, and the $75 listing does not confirm entry. The plantation and swamp combos are compared on their own page.

You choose one plantation, not both. This Oak Alley Plantation tour offers Oak Alley or Laura, exploring its history and grounds, then a small airboat through Louisiana swamps on private property, looking for wildlife. It runs 8 hours at $175.

It is not an Oak Alley and Laura plantation tour. Nothing on this site visits both in one day. For two plantations on one trip, the listing that does it is Whitney and Laura at $159, 5.5 hours, on the Whitney page.

Sixteen reviews at 4.8. A high score on a small sample. It costs $15 more than the $160 combo, which has 1,060 reviews; the reason to pick it is the Laura option or the small airboat.

The two listings describe different visits. Oak Alley at $75 is about plantation life, the farm equipment and a guide in traditional dress. Whitney at $89 is described as a plantation museum completely dedicated to the history of slavery, with 736 reviews at 4.7.

No Oak Alley and Whitney plantation tour is sold here as one booking. They are two separate trips from the city, $75 and $89, $164 together. All ten trips out of the city are compared on the day trips page.

At $75 it is the cheapest New Orleans Oak Alley plantation tour on this site, and the cheapest plantation trip of the seven. You pay $13.64 an hour, and accept the lowest rating of the three Oak Alley options.

The combo costs more per hour and scores higher. $18.82 an hour, 4.8 across 1,060 reviews, and it states what is included. If your day allows 8.5 hours, it is the Oak Alley Plantation tour with the strongest numbers.

Searching for an Oak Alley Plantation tour with transportation? The $75 listing is a guided tour from New Orleans, and the $160 combo states that pickup is included. All three carry free cancellation per the listings. The Oak Alley cards also sit in the 33 tours compared on the home page, filtered by price.