French Quarter New Orleans Tours

while the french quarter is a fascinating place to simply sit and stare, it becomes ever more so when you make the effort to learn a bit about its history, quirks and secrets. a veritable panoply of guided tours are available to address all manner of subjects specific to the french quarter and a knowledgeable, enthusiastic tour guide can peel back the wrappings and allow you to see what's really inside. french quarter tours are quick crash courses that take the form of everything from polite, informative walking tours to pub-crawls, paddle wheeler sojourns, horse-drawn carriage rides and bizarre nocturnal romps in search of ghosts and vampires.some tour guides work independently and offer their services almost as a ?friend in new orleans? ? for hire. some of them are highly specialized and offer a microscopic look at one area of interest. others touch on a little bit of everything, like city sightseeing new orleans – new orleans’ hop-on hop-off tour that traverses four distinct neighborhoods in classic red open-top double decker buses. at the other end of the spectrum is gray line tours, a comprehensive one-stop shopping mecca on the tourism front with numerous tour options available from one brochure. the company offers investigative tours of the french quarter and garden district as well as a sweeping look at the entire city. specialty tours include a cocktail tour, swamp and bayou tours, plantation tours and ghosts and spirits tours.