Best Plantations to Tour near New Orleans?
Jul 10th, 2000, 08:49 AM
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I agree with Howard - rent a car and visit the plantations at your own speed. The plantations we visited and really liked were Oak Alley, Madewood, Nottoway & Ashland-Belle Helene (you might want to check on Ashland because I understand an oil company purchased it and it might not be open at all times). Another plantation that I've heard about is Laura (I believe it's near Oak Alley).
Jul 11th, 2000, 06:58 AM
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Donna,
We found renting a car the best way to go. We made a few wrong turns finding the plantations, but had a wonderful time touring the area.
Nottoway is a wonderful plantation to visit. My husband and I were there in March and stayed one night at the plantation. It was wonderful! After the tour groups leave for the day, guest are free to tour the house and grounds on their own. Often we were the only ones walking around the house in the evening.
The San Francisco Plantation is close to Oak Alley, I don't know that I would recommend going there, it's surrounded by an Oil Company, and not as grand as other plantations.
A word of advise, one plantation you DO NOT want to visit is Rosedown Plantation. Don't be mislead by any brochures you see.
We found renting a car the best way to go. We made a few wrong turns finding the plantations, but had a wonderful time touring the area.
Nottoway is a wonderful plantation to visit. My husband and I were there in March and stayed one night at the plantation. It was wonderful! After the tour groups leave for the day, guest are free to tour the house and grounds on their own. Often we were the only ones walking around the house in the evening.
The San Francisco Plantation is close to Oak Alley, I don't know that I would recommend going there, it's surrounded by an Oil Company, and not as grand as other plantations.
A word of advise, one plantation you DO NOT want to visit is Rosedown Plantation. Don't be mislead by any brochures you see.
Jul 15th, 2000, 08:15 PM
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If renting a car for one day is not reasonable, considering going on a tour. We went with Grey Line Tours to Oak Alley, and it was quite nice. The benefit of the tour was that we heard a lot of interesting information on the way to the plantations that we would've missed had we rented a car. Grey Line offers small tours (like Oak Alley), up to a seven hour tour of several plantations. When you're trying to squeeze a lot of sightseeing into one short vacation, the Oak Alley tour fits nicely!
