3-Night New Orleans Performance Adventure by Bus
This program immerses students in the vibrant cultural, musical, and historical traditions of New Orleans through engaging tours, performances, and iconic attractions.
Program Summary
Tour Number: 0725-201232
Experience the soul of New Orleans on this music and performance-focused tour that celebrates the city’s rich cultural and historical heritage. Students will take part in a guided music tour, enjoy a public performance opportunity, and visit key sites like the Audubon Aquarium, the National WWII Museum, and Mardi Gras World. With stops at the Voodoo Museum, the Jazz Museum, and a Swamp and Bayou Tour—plus time to explore the iconic French Quarter—this program offers a perfect blend of rhythm, learning, and adventure.
Program Highlights & Inclusions
- Private Bus transportation throughout your tour
- Professional tour manager with your group throughout the tour
- Three nights Hotel accommodations in the New Orleans area
- Free time in the French Quarter
- French Quarter Walking Tour
- Admission to The National WWII Museum
- Admission and tour of Mardi Gras World
- Public Performance Opportunity
- Guided Music Tour
- Admission to the New Orleans Jazz Museum
- Visit to the Riverwalk
- Swamp and Bayou Tour
- Admission to the Voodoo Museum
- Admission to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
Daily Itinerary
You’ll depart on the bus for your trip. When you arrive in New Orleans, you will meet your tour manager.
You’ll have free time in the French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carre, the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. Although it is called the “French” Quarter, most of the present day buildings were built under Spanish rule and show Spanish colonial tastes. The district as a whole is a National Historic Landmark, and contains numerous individual historic buildings. It was affected relatively lightly by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as compared to other areas of the city and the greater region.
You will take a break for lunch (not included).
You’ll visit at Cafe Du Monde. The Original Cafe Du Monde Coffee Stand was established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market. The Cafe is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It closes only on Christmas Day and on the day an occasional Hurricane passes too close to New Orleans. The Original Cafe Du Monde is a traditional coffee shop. Its menu consists of dark roasted Coffee and Chicory, Beignets, White and Chocolate Milk, and fresh squeezed Orange Juice. The coffee is served Black or Au Lait. Au Lait means that it is mixed half and half with hot milk. Beignets are square French -style doughnuts, lavishly covered with powdered sugar. In 1988 Iced Coffee was introduced to the cafe. Soft drinks also made their debut that year.
You will travel through three centuries of history, legends and romance as you take a walking tour through New Orleans’ French Quarter. You’ll see Bourbon Street, Royal Street, The St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, The French Market and more.
After dinner, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and depart the hotel for the day.
You will explore the lives of American men and women who took part in World War II through letters, recruitment posters, weapons, models, and film at the National World War II Museum.
After lunch, you will get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the magic of Mardi Gras when you take a tour of Mardi Gras World.
You’ll perform at a public venue.
You will enjoy dinner and live jazz music aboard the Steamer Natchez.
You will return to your hotel on the bus.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and depart the hotel for the day.
You’ll visit the Audubon Aquarium which will transport you to an underwater world from the Caribbean and Amazon Rainforest to the Mississippi River and the Gulf. With more than 3,600 animals from more than 250 species, including endangered and rare species, such as African penguins and white alligators, the Aquarium offers you an experience you’ll never forget.
After lunch, you’ll take a guided Music Tour where you’ll explore the soulful heart of New Orleans music beginning at Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square, the birthplace of American music where African rhythms gave rise to jazz. Discover the legacy of J&M Studios—cradle of the “New Orleans Sound” and rock ’n roll—alongside tributes like the Musicians Tomb and storied streets of Basin and Storyville, where early jazz legends once played. From the French Opera House to Preservation Hall, immerse yourself in a vibrant tapestry of musical history that still pulses through the city’s streets, bounce beats, and legendary performers.
You’ll visit The New Orleans Jazz Museum which celebrates jazz in the city where it was born. Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint, strategically located at the intersection of the French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor, the New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the heart of the city’s vibrant music scene.
You’ll have free time at the Riverwalk.
After dinner, you will return to your hotel on the bus.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel room and board your bus for the day.
Nowhere is Louisiana’s wildlife more abundant than in the swamps and bayous of New Orleans. Take a boat ride through these swamps and bayous and be on the lookout for alligators, raccoons, snakes, turtles and native birds. Hear stories from your guide about local Cajun culture and the mysteries of the swamps and bayous.
After lunch, you will discover the Historic Voodoo Museum. The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum is one of the most unique, and interesting, small museums in the country. Taking all the mysteries, the secrets, the history and folklore of rituals, zombies, of gris-gris, of Voodoo Queens and all that jazz, and putting it all in one place in the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter.
You’ll board your bus and begin the return trip home.
