New Orleans Small-Group Haunted History Carriage Tour
Overview
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1 hour
Mobile ticket
The French Quarter is known as one of the most haunted places in America, and with so many ghost tours to choose from, the best choice is this 1-hour carriage tour from the award-winning Royal Carriages, recently awarded the 2018 Louisiana Attraction of the Year Award. Instead of walking around with a large group of people, you'll travel to and from haunted locations comfortably in a mule-drawn carriage guided by a professional tour. Learn about all the history, culture, and architecture in addition to the ghostly spirits that refuse to leave.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
All tour participants must arrive 15 minutes early to the boarding location. Late arrivals will miss the tour and not be provided with a second opportunity to ride or a refund.
This tour activity is subject to cancellation due to inclement weather such as flooding or lightning.
Tours operate in favorable weather conditions, including rain. Please dress appropriately for the weather.
Tickets prices apply to each passenger onboard the carriage, with the exception of infants or toddlers up to 4 years of age. All infants and toddlers must remain in the lap of their parent or guardian throughout the carriage tour.
Wheelchair accessible; please advise at time of booking if wheelchair assistance is required.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Jackson Square
This authentic mode of transportation will help you time-travel back to the 1700s and 1800s when death and disease were rampant due to devastating fires, floods, murders, and more! Being that there are only 8-passengers on-board the carriage, the mule-drawn adventure is more intimate and unforgettable. The carriage-driving tour guides are top-rated licensed guides who have been sending chills down spines for over 75 years. Meet and board at the carriage stand located at 700 Decatur Street. As your carriage departs from Jackson Square, your driver/guide will regale you with stories of the city's founding as the carriage passes through the historic French Quarter street.
French Quarter
Travel past landmarks such as Saint Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, Napoleon House, and more as the carriage wind through New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter. Expect stories that are both historical, entertaining and appropriate for all visitors. It's important to understand the history so that you can understand the spirits that haunt the buildings. New Orleans is considered to be the most haunted city in America. Countless tragedies have happened right in the French Quarter, including devastating floods and fires killing thousands, contagious epidemics resulting in thousands of deaths, and other odd occurrences like weird human torture experiments, medical experiments, love lost, and more. These stories have been documented in police records and history books, and some can be quite alarming! You'll learn about the stories, then about how the "spirits" are letting people know that they are still very present! Do you have goosebumps yet?
What‘s Included
Licensed tour guide
1-hour mule-drawn carriage ride
Gratuities
Parking
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Food and drinks (available to purchase)
Options
Haunted Carriage Tour
This 1-Hour Group Carriage Tour includes lots of French Quarter history in addition to lots of creepy ghost stories.
Reviews
2,356 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
An excellent way to spend...
John M,Mar 26, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00An excellent way to spend an hour . Very personable and interesting guide with fun knowledge of local history.
Lovely tour through beautiful New Orleans
tracy l,Mar 25, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Mule is a great driver and friendly. Tour guide had great knowledge and personable. Lovely ride along areas of New Orleans we hadn’t seen yet.
Good Time
tonyhD7353UZ,Mar 24, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Our driver was very informative and had a great personality. We enjoyed seeing the buildings and hearing the stories that went with them.
Well worth your time
Jul F,Mar 24, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Nice long tour with lots of information and fun stories. Our tour guide, and Irma the mule were wonderful hosts.
Monday night experience.
raymN2530BN,Mar 24, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Great time. Our guide (KJ) was awesome. We had a group of 7, and he handled everything beautifully.
A Little Haunted, A Lot of History ✨👻
BB traveler2020,Mar 24, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I’ve been to New Orleans several times and can’t believe this was my first time doing the carriage ghost tour—but it definitely won’t be my last. Our guide Brit was so good. She was funny, engaging, and really knew her stuff. She didn’t just tell ghost stories—she gave a lot of history and background on the places we passed, which made the whole experience even better. And shoutout to Blaze the mule 🐴—she was adorable and did such a great job. Honestly added to the whole charm of the tour. We covered a lot of areas I hadn’t seen before, even after multiple trips to NOLA, which made it feel like a totally new experience. Highly recommend booking this whether it’s your first visit or your fifth—it’s such a fun, unique way to see the city at night.
Haunted Carriage Tour
piscesh2021,Mar 24, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amazing tour guide, she knew her history of the area. I even googled during the trip to "fact check" the information. It was all legit lol. The mule "desire" was very smart and loved a good ear scratch. Overall 10/10
Disappointing
Leon J,Mar 23, 2026
- Review from Viator
3.00Underwhelming experience. Passed some very prominent haunted locations without a single word about them. Tour ended 15 minutes early. Not worth the money.
Entertaining
413judyn,Mar 23, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The carriage ride was fun and the driver was very entertaining with his stories.It was a very enjoyable hour for our family.
It’s a dice roll…could be good could be bad.
Roam635636,Mar 23, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
2.00The carriage ride-nice… the tour guide - not into it but historically knowledgeable… Haunted stories- poor… Took my family on this tour, my 12 yr old son was super excited to hear about all the ghost and spooky lore New Orleans has to offer. We left with less magic and lore and more cynicism. While our tour guide was historically knowledgeable she told us maybe a 1/3 of the stories (as the other groups got) as we toured the city and then logically explained why they couldn’t be ghost stores/real…we were close enough to the other tours to hear some of the other guides lean into the spookiness (I’m not sure if that made it better or worse…we got to hear some stories at least, but were constantly reminded that our tour guide was sub-par and were sad when we got out of earshot of them). Examples of Our stories…well this general lived here and saw horrors of battle - he said the ghost followed him home, but really he had PTSD and syphilis. Oh and the scary things that happened here they locked the room and never went back in, that couldn’t have happened because it’s a museum and they need all the space, and how would the building inspectors done their jobs?? “I don’t believe in ghosts, most of the New Orleans stories are just over exaggerations or something people didn’t understand at the time”!?!? That’s what you are leading with on the Haunted Tour!?!? Our tour guide also shared that all the other tour guide “who were super into it” were actors that “couldn’t make it” in California so they came here to live out their failed dreams. If you read the description the tour is not logical explanations of New Orleans….it was supposed to be a haunted tour!!! Honestly I would have preferred a “failed actor” as my tour guide because at least then my son would have been entertained…. I’m not saying don’t do the tour…I’m saying that you’re spending a couple hundred bucks for a dice roll on a tour guide.
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