Oak Alley Plantation, Restaurant & Inn
"The tickets are expensive to visit this plantation at around $28 per person and it is in the middle of nowhere - so you need to drive yourself if you have a car - or you'll book a tour with transportation 1.5 hours each way from New Orleans. We booked a 4.5 hour tour with transport and had 2 hours here to explore and do the tour. The ground are beautiful - the house was OK - the main star of the visit was the gorgeous Oak Alley for which the plantation was named which s about 0.5 miles to walk down some ancient oaks with a framing view of the home. Also, the cafe and restaurant and a nice gift shop were great and service/food at the restaurant was surprisingly good.Our tour of the home lasted about 25 minutes and it was decent - but I heard another guide going into far more detail about slavery and some of the artifacts in the upstairs rooms than we were told... so as with all tours like this of older historic properties, it's hit or miss. I don't think I would recommend this to someone on it's own as I just don't feel it was worth it to spend a half day and 3 hours round trip on a bus to see it. If you have your own car and can explore around or see something else and the other plantations on the same road - that's probably more worth it - but it wasn't something I felt was worth the time away from other things we could've done in the city for a half a day."
