Swamp Adventures

A very good time, The tour guide was knowledgeable and personable. It made for an exciting afternoon.

Went to Swamp adventures today. Charlotte was a doll both on the phone and in person. Very kind and sweet. Rodney was our tour guide and did an excellent job. He was funny and informative. We would highly recommend this company as a must do. Thank you Swamp Adventures!

We visited New Orleans back in April of 2015 and wanted to experience a swamp on an air-​boat. The ride was just what we expected and more! Friendly staff and great boats. Wild rides and a fun adventure. This is as good as it can gets.

My mom and I did this tour as part of a package through Tours by Isabelle in April.
SO. MUCH. FUN.
You get a taste of the swamp, see the flora and fauna, have the air rushing through your hair as you fly down the water, and if you’re brave hold an alligator chick. (Note, I was not brave but my mom was.)
Rodney our driver and guide was funny and informative. He even stopped at one point and picked us a lily when he saw us pointing at them.
The Airboat ride was exhilarating and I’d suggest wearing dark clothes because you may get a bit of splash on you… and well… remember… it is a swamp.
They provide you with ear protection because the 454 engine is quite loud. But you make stops along the way to look at points of interest, birds, plants, trees, flowers… alligators, so you can easily hear one another once the engine is off.
The gators get CLOSE. So… be prepared to have them sidle right up to the boat. I’d suggest keeping all of your limbs IN the boat as you never know what they might want to chomp on.
Note, I would totally do this again!
Thank you, Rodney and Swamp Adventures for a great time!

Best thing we did on our entire trip to New Orleans! Pay the extra money and take this air boat tour.

I loved this part of my vacation. Captain Rodney was our tour guide and he was so knowledgeable, a sweetheart and had a lot of knowledge about the area. His family has been in the area for a really really long time and you can tell when he shares his stories with you.
Captain Rodney gives you the full experience, gets to work early to find a baby gator for you to take a picture with towards the end of your tour, feed the gators (he has names for them), and has no fear for spiders (yes I screamed like a girl when the spiders came out).
The small boats are really fast and loud. Bring a jacket — even in early October, it was soooooo cold. If you choose to wear your visor or baseball cap, make sure you tie it down because it will fly away if you aren’t holding it down.
The best part of the tour was the friendly demeanor of Captain Rodney, the spider crawling out of his pocket, and of course, picture taking with the baby gator!

We took an airboat ride with Captain Louis, a very knowledgeable, authentic Cajun guy. He pointed out various wildlife and local plants and answered every question we had. The airboat ride itself is awesome, especially through the narrow waterways. Capt. Louis made an effort to try and catch small alligators and even get them onto the boat. The bayou is beautiful and teeming with life. I highly recommend it.

I had such a great time going on a swamp tour. I had gone on one similar in Florida before, so I kind of knew what to expect. However, Swamp Adventures was way more fun and entertaining. I really liked our tour guide. He was friendly and gave a lot of information about the gators. We also got to see A LOT of gators along the tour. I was most excited about getting to hold a baby gator. He was so cute! I definitely recommend trying out a swamp tour!

Great tour and experience from start to finish.
Captain Gary was an awesome guy who knows how to keep the tour fun and interesting, a real mans’ man kind of guy.
Here is the checklist to follow:
–Bring Cooler and Beer
–Put Beer in Cooler
–Get on Boat with Cooler and friends and Captain Gary
–Ride on boat very fast
–Enjoy the air and the view
–Enjoy a few beers
–Enjoy a few more beers
–Talk to Gary, ask Gary any question you want, let Gary tell you things (best southern accent in town, and really funny guy)
–Let Gary feed Gator, and let Gator almost get on boat
–Ride some more and drink some more
Sound fun? I thought so, now go do it

Captain Gary is truly my favorite part of our trip to NOLA. He knew everything about the swamps and had a great sense of humor.
Byron drove us from our hotel to the swamp tour and gave such an informative drive that we cancelled our city tour because we already learned so much.

What a Fun experience. With hotel pick up, and very informative shuttle guide & a coupon for 20% off of our tour we were off to a great start. We had a small air boat tour booked & got lucky w tour guide Derek. He was very passionate and wanted to make sure we got the full experience. I wish I could have been out there all day, so much fun being out on the water exploring. This is something I can move check off my bucket list, and if this isn’t on Your Bucket List, well… something Must be wrong ;)

Fun tour the guides had lots of personality and are very knowledgeable. I would recommend this tour service.

Swamp Adventures was the Best Trip Ever and our boat driver Gary was an amazing fun person so much fun and a wealth of knowledge we learned so much. I would Highly Recommend this Trip and ask for Gary to be your guide He rocks!

Unsere reizende Concierge hat uns den Tipp gegeben, diesen Anbieter zu wählen und hat kurzerhand auch gleich gebucht. Pünklich zum vereinbarten Zeitpunkt holt ein Bus die Gäste von den verschiedenen Innenstadthotels ab und bringt sie zum ca. 35 Autominuten entfernten Ausgangspunkt der Tour. Im ersten Moment ist die einfache Holzhütte und der Steg nicht besonders einladend, aber langsam kommt man dem Sumpf näher. Wir haben ein kleineres Airboat gebucht, auf dem sechs Leute und der Tourguide Platz finden. Im Vergleich zu den größeren Booten ist die persönliche Betreuung und das Abenteuergefühl viel größer. Unser Guide, ein bodenständiger und humorvoller Mann, zog mit uns in voller Geschwindigkeit mitten in den Sumpf, eine großartige Landschaft, die an einem vorbeifliegt. Nach einigen Minuten stellt er den Motor ab und wartet auf die Bewohner, Aligatoren unterschiedlicher Größe, die schon warten — denn Besuch bedeutet auch Futter. Man kann sich schnell eine ungefähre Vorstellung von der Schnelligkeit und der Kraft eines solchen Tiers machen, wenn es auf das Boot zukommt und das Huhn am Haken haben will.
Auch abseits der Tiere lernt man das Leben im Swamp kennen. Nach der Tour wird man zufrieden wieder ins Hotel zurückgebracht — schöné Eindrücke und Bilder inklusive!

Captain Gary is a deep fried Southern character… and he was AWESOME!
Saw a bunch of gators and enjoyed a great airboat ride! Not bad at all especially with all the great pictures we got. What made the tour even better was that Gary was very informative and entertaining.
I don’t know how this compares to other places, but we definitely saw our fill of gators and wildlife. Truly a must do while visiting!

We took the small (6 person) airboat tour and it was interesting. Very loud, very fast at times (you will lose your hat or anything else not tied down-​I was worried about my glasses) but they give you hearing protectors to wear when going full throttle and believe me, you need them! We saw quite a few baby gators, a barred owl, turtles, blue herons and (drumroll please) a 12 foot gator (see photo). Of course, no guarantees you will see him — this is NOT the zoo — but the guide (he never identified himself) was adept at spotting wildlife so chances are good you will see interesting stuff. If you have back problems, don’t like fast and bumpy, don’t go — but it was fun and we would probably do it again.

Duck Dynasty meets New Orleans!
I really had no idea what to expect when my friend suggested we do the swamp tour but it was so much fun. It did seem sketchy at first when we booked through one of the tour companies at a booth near the pier and that they can pick you up from wherever you want to be picked up.
We decided to have them pick us up from near the pier since we were going to be down there. Definitely was a bit confusing for us since we weren’t sure where to stand. When the bus was just a few minutes late we got worried and started calling Swamp Adventures they assured us that we were good and sure enough the pickup van did arrive to pick us up.
It ends up being about 45 minutes to get to the swamp so I would recommend that you use a bathroom before your pickup if you have a small bladder like me. The location does also have toilets and they were surprisingly really clean.
The airboat and swamp has a duck dynasty type feel which is kind of neat. Even though our pickup van had 8 people including my friend and I they do not put all of you on one boat. They split us up into groups of four so everyone had a good seat. For us, we didn’t get to see too many alligators as the weather was cold and they don’t come up as much. We saw a few tiny ones and our guide did try to get them out but those suckers are fast! There were a couple big alligators (I can’t remember the names the company gives them but they do have names) that we saw about halfway through the tour. At first, those two did not move at all and totally looked like big plastic toys! One of the alligators did move its eyes side to side but it still looked so fake. I kept thinking the whole tour was a gimmick and taking the pics in front of them was so cheesy. They both looked so fake I was a bit annoyed but after our guide threw some raw drumsticks at them, the female did move her head. Who knew the real thing could look so fake. He did say because of the cold weather and probably just having eaten they are trying to regulate their temperature by laying still.
I would definitely recommend in the colder season to wear your hat, gloves, and a jacket as it does get chilly on the boat.

i was a little skeptical at first when the shuttle bus that picked us up from our hotel dropped us off at this small shack in the middle of nowhere.
but the airboat tour of the swamps turned out to be one of the most fun things i’ve ever done in my life! i didn’t know the airboats could travel so fast and have so much maneuverability — i felt like i was on a roller coaster ride. a very COLD roller coaster ride (it was mid december). i can imagine the wind is a welcome respite from the heat and humidity at any other time of year though.
i was a little disappointed that we weren’t able to see any alligators because they were all hibernating during the winter. so make sure you plan your trip accordingly if gator encounters is something important to you.
that being said, the tour was still really fun — very educational and always great to be immersed in nature. our boat captain, gary, was so insightful. he had so many interesting stories to tell — of the swamps and of life in general.
and as you can imagine, it wasn’t at all crowded or hard to get a reservation during the off-​season. be sure to book well in advance if you go during peak tourist seasons (ie. mardi gras all the way through end of october)!

Awesome! Went there the end of September! Weather was great, Gary was our guide, and was very knowledgable. Saw an 11 footer, 8 footer, caught a baby & got to hold it before releasing it back to the swamp!

Down from Iowa, looked into a lot of places. This place is great! Gary, our Captain, was awesome! We were caught in a brief downpour, still a great time! Up close and personal with gators. Highly recommended.

If you’re in New Orleans for a few days you have to venture off the beaten path for a few hours and take a Swamp Tour! When are you gonna be in Swamp Territory again?
We took a tour on a Monday Afternoon. A big bus came and picked us up from our Hotel and took us to a little shack off the freeway, looks sketchy but they don’t really need much there.
We took the small 6 passenger air boat. Our tour guide was Rodney. He was very entertaining and informative.
They give you gnarly earmuffs to block out the sound of the wind as you’re gliding through the water.
We came across at least 10 different alligators. Rodney has different names for all of them. He teaches you how to make a «Quack» sound while he feeds the alligators right there off the side of the boat a raw chicken drumstick.
At one point I got to feed an alligator and pet it on the snout (it’s on YouTube if you search Swamp Adventure). Rodney also pulled up on a bank and got his stick and pulled in the HUGEST brown spider you will ever see in your life… It crawled over my arm… I was scared $hitle$$ but I trusted the guy. He stuck it in this old man’s ear… it was quite the experience. I will never forget it! Great time!