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New Orleans Walking Tour

TourTruth score 7.1 out of 10

AverageTop 48% in New Orleans

1 review · Rated on 2 providers · How we score

  • New Orleans
  • 2 hrs
  • Updated November 2, 2026

Walk through New Orleans’ stories of faith, vice, and legacy, from Storyville and Jackson Square to St. Louis Cathedral and Uptown.

About this tour

New Orleans wears its contradictions in plain sight: grand homes beside hidden scandals, a cathedral at the heart of a city shaped by both faith and vice. This two-hour walking tour follows those stories through the French Quarter and Uptown, asking who gets to define sin and who decides what salvation means.

Explore Storyville and the former Gallatin Street vice district, then hear about figures including May Baily, Norma Wallace, Josie Arlington, Lulu White, Bricktop, Marie Laveau, Henriette Delille, and Père Antoine. Stops include Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, and May Baily’s Place, a former bordello. Along the way, consider Catholicism, Voodoo, race, moral reform, Mardi Gras, and Lent. The Uptown stories add grand houses, hidden scandals, and the effects of ambition, wealth, and neglect. Your guide brings a personal connection to some of the people discussed.

New Orleans walking tour stories move beyond saints and sinners to explore the choices and legacies that shaped the city. Bring comfortable shoes, and come ready to see familiar streets from a more complicated perspective.

Highlights

  • Trace New Orleans’ tangled history of faith, vice, and morality
  • Hear stories of Storyville and the notorious Gallatin Street district
  • Visit Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, and May Baily’s Place
  • Meet the people behind the city’s stories, including a guide with family ties
  • Explore Uptown’s grand homes, scandals, and stories of wealth and legacy
  • Consider the Seven Deadly Sins through the lens of New Orleans history

What's included

Included

  • Guided walking tour
  • Licensed professional tour guide
  • Visit to Jackson Square
  • Stop at St. Louis Cathedral
  • Visit to Storyville
  • Visit to May Baily’s Place
  • Stories of New Orleans history and culture
  • Discussion of Mardi Gras, Lent, faith, and vice
  • Guide with family ties to people discussed

Not included

  • Food and drinks
  • Tips

Ratings on each provider

The ratings and review counts each booking site shows for this tour.

Important information

  • Wear comfortable shoes for the walking tour
  • Bring water and an umbrella
  • Themes of vice and morality may not suit all audiences
  • Wheelchair accessible
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  • Infants and small children can ride in a stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation is available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

How this score is calculated

This tour scores 5.00 on GetYourGuide (Viator shows no usable rating). Ratings on these sites cluster near the top of the 5-star scale, so we compare each one with all other ratings on the same site before combining them.

How the score works and rating distribution in New Orleans
  • Each provider rating is turned into a percentile: the share of that provider's ratings it beats, weighted by review counts.
  • Listings on different providers are combined in proportion to their review counts.
  • Tours with few reviews are pulled toward the average until more reviews come in, so a handful of perfect reviews can't top the list.
  • The result is shown from 0 to 10: this tour scores 7.1. Top 48% in New Orleans means it ranks in the top 48% of tours in New Orleans by this score.

Provider rating distribution in New Orleans

How many tours in New Orleans have a provider rating at or below each value. The dashed line is this tour.

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