About New Orleans Vampire Tours
New Orleans Vampire Tours is an independent guide built to help travelers find the best vampire, ghost, and voodoo walking tours in the French Quarter. We're not a tour operator — we research, compare, and review licensed night tours so you can book with confidence. Start with the side-by-side look at every French Quarter vampire tour.
Why We Built This Site
New Orleans has more ghost and vampire tours than almost any city on earth — and the quality varies wildly. Some operate without licensed guides. Others recycle the same thin script year after year. A few are genuinely exceptional: knowledgeable local guides, authentic French Quarter routes, and stories grounded in real history.
We built New Orleans Vampire Tours as a curated comparison guide, not a booking engine that lists everything. Every tour featured here has been evaluated against the same criteria: licensed local guides with demonstrable expertise in paranormal history, a genuine French Quarter route touching real historic sites, strong verified review scores (4.5 stars or higher, hundreds of reviews), and free cancellation so you're never locked in.
The result is a short list of tours we'd personally recommend to a friend visiting New Orleans for the first time.
How We Choose the Tours We Feature
We evaluate every tour on four criteria before it appears on this site:
Licensed local guides. New Orleans requires tour guides to be licensed by the city. Every tour we feature uses guides who know the French Quarter's history — not actors reading from a script.
Authentic French Quarter routes. The real vampire and ghost history of New Orleans is tied to specific streets and buildings: LaLaurie Mansion, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Marie Laveau's house, Jacques St. Germain's former residence. Tours that cover these sites are telling stories rooted in documented history, not invented scares.
Verified review quality. We look at review volume and consistency, not just a headline star rating. The tours listed here carry thousands of verified reviews across GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor.
Free cancellation. New Orleans weather is unpredictable. All tours we feature offer free cancellation, so plans can change without financial penalty.
Affiliate Transparency
We earn a small commission if you book a tour through a link on this site. This comes at no extra cost to you — GetYourGuide pays us a referral fee, and you pay exactly the same price as booking directly.
Our commissions don't influence which tours we feature. We don't list every tour available on GetYourGuide — only the ones we'd recommend on merit. Tours are ranked by quality and verified review score, not by commission rate.
If you ever spot a tour that's degraded in quality since we last reviewed it — or a great tour we've missed — email us at [email protected]. We update this guide regularly.
About the Author
The site is written and maintained by Marcus DeLacroix, a New Orleans-based writer and paranormal history researcher who has been covering vampire legends, voodoo culture, and the haunted history of the French Quarter since 2011. Marcus has personally walked every major ghost and vampire tour route in New Orleans and writes from firsthand knowledge of the sites, the stories, and the guides who bring them to life.
He lives in the Marigny, two blocks from the French Quarter, and considers LaLaurie Mansion the most genuinely unsettling address in America.