3 days in New Orleans with teens?

[Anonymous]

Definitely do a swamp tour.

[Anonymous]

Agree with the swamp tour and ghost tour recommendations. If your teens are girls, then definitely go shopping on Magazine St. Will add that Cochon Butcher is great for lunch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What research have you done yourself, OP? Do you have an outline or thoughts on what you and your kids would like to do?

Very little! Just got the idea today, but I'm thinking Whitney plantation, a food tour and maybe a swamp tour, unless it seems too hokie.

When are you going? If it’s too cold there won’t be gators on the swamp tour. But we did like the swamp tour. They are touristy as heck but the people that run them know a lot about the culture and the animals. We also went the aquarium, walked around French quarter and went to the NPS visitor center (which has free walking tours and other events), had brunch at Brennan’s and beignets at cafe du monde, and did a plantation tour. I think the one we did was Oak something and I think it was pretty well done—they had a section dedicated to true lives of enslaved people and even in the big house tour they talked a lot about how the lives of the owners affected the enslaved people that worked in the house and larger plantation. We also got po boys at mothers.

[Anonymous]

I hope you’re joking about the “plantation tour“. Please think about what that actually means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely do a swamp boat tour. We did Cajun Encounters.

Same. Highly recommend. If it isn’t too hot and sunny do the small open top boat one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope you’re joking about the “plantation tour“. Please think about what that actually means.

It means they don’t just ignore history and think that’s better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with the swamp tour and ghost tour recommendations. If your teens are girls, then definitely go shopping on Magazine St. Will add that Cochon Butcher is great for lunch.

Yes Cochon Butcher was so good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope you’re joking about the “plantation tour“. Please think about what that actually means.

+1

I'm the PP who used to live there. It was over 20 years ago, and we did tour a plantation. I would never recommend such a thing now.

[Anonymous]

Arrive Saturday. Go to Super Bowl on Sunday. Return Monday. Kids will love that.