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Could you be more surprised on a Gray Line tour?

It seemed like an ordinary day in New Orleans, but no so for visitors who took the Gray Line Katrina Tour recently. While our bus was stopped alongside Fats Dominos’ house, Fats pulled up to his house and offered to meet the group on the… Read More »

Gray Line Partners in Ghost Camp!

  New Orleans is often referred to as "The most haunted city in the America!" Join Gray Line Tours, New Orleans Ghost Hunters investigative team, and the Bourbon Orleans Hotel for a look at that well earned reputation.&… Read More »

Gray Line Visits Cabildo on Tour

Images and Instruments: Medical History at the Louisiana State Museum - Cabildo Instrument kit used by Confederate Army surgeon and medical researcher Dr. Joseph Jones (1833-1896). Louisiana State Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Jones.… Read More »

Cities of the Dead

    Considering the high infant mortality rate and the incidences of yellow fever in the city, death came easily and often in 19th century New Orleans. The many names on doorway tablets before above ground tombs indicate that th… Read More »

Take a Paddle & Wheel and add the Jazz Brunch

Take a Gray Line Tour (wheel)  and follow it with an authentic jazz brunch.  The "Paddle" portion is the iconic Steamboat Natchez which is pleased to introduce a mouth-watering brunch menu to its Sunday … Read More »

Life in the Big House

      It is a tour guide’s special art to conjure the past and explain how life was for those in the “Big House.” At Oak Alley Plantation, this guide explains dining room etiquette in the antebellu… Read More »

Breakfast in Bed?

 Breakfast in bed? Beds on the River Road plantations were often made of Spanish moss. Moss was boiled in large kettles until it turned black and fibrous. It was then dried and stuffed into the mattresses. Eventually, Spanish moss was al… Read More »

Jazz Fest Express - Official Shuttle

Ride Straight into Jazz Fest with the Official Jazz Fest Express Shuttle Operated by Gray Line New Orleans                       &… Read More »

Katrina Rescue Boat

    Long ago, when this tour guide was a kid, the entrance to the Presbytere was home to a Civil War submarine. Today the entrance holds another, more modern boat: One that rescued 3,000 people from rooftops after Hurricane … Read More »

St. Charles Masterpiece

INSIDE A ST. CHARLES MASTERPIECE: The Columns Hotel   The Columns Hotel was built in 1883 for a Jewish tobacco magnate who moved his family to New Orleans. For his home, to be located in fashionable Uptown along the famous St. Ch… Read More »