Enjoyed the Small tour experience. Two nights in a row. Great way to kill a couple hours. My girlfriend and I did two different tours here. Two nights in a row.
This... read moreMy girlfriend and I did two different tours here. Two nights in a row.
This is a small family operated outfit. Not one of the huge tours you see with 30 people in tow. If I recall, I think they told us they don’t take groups of more than somewhere between 6-12 people?
You meet at their funky little one room building in the French quarter. Somewhat of a gift shop/Voodoo shop, new age type place, and you’re are warmly welcomed. All kinds of super cool and slightly odd stuff on display to buy. I meant to buy a voodoo doll, but I didn’t get back before I left New Orleans!
The tours were about an hour and a half, to two hours long and not too strenuous of a walk. You don’t really leave the French Quarter or go more than a half dozen blocks.
We did the ‘Criminal Sinister Intentions’ tour, as well as the ‘Lewd Spirits’ tour. Sinister Intentions was with tour guide, Dave. Lewd Sprits with a younger, early to mid twenties blond women whose name has escaped me three weeks later… (I’m sorry, I’d like to give her credit! I think it was her mother who worked the desk at the shop?j
Both were great! -We particularly liked Dave and his sarcastic and rather straight forward, no BS personality.- Especially when he thought another tour group got too close “photobombing us” after they invaded our sidewalk space and he shared some words with their tour guide( We thought he was just being funny at first, but he was completely serious) Just something about him, we enjoyed his personality and character. He made us laugh. Especially when the age of people in our group came up relating to a story when he was talking about the year of the Kennedy assassination in relation to a story he was telling. He was guessing our ages when he incorrectly overestimated the age of woman in the group by ten plus years. (I thought she looked old, too) She was genuinely annoyed, but he recovered so well! I think he had been forgiven by her by the end of the tour? He was so apologetic after he realized he’d really offended the lady!
We liked ‘Sinister Intensions’ tour best, and liked how some of the stories of murder and death wasn’t long ago, but took place in more recent times. Such as the story about the soldier and ex-Iraq war vet who returned home destitute. Was discharged and found his girl cheating. He then slaughtered her before proceeding to get fall down drunk while ringing up a huge bar bill at a high end rooftop hotel bar in the French Quarter. Just as the bartender was getting worried he might skip out on his tab, he looked up to see the drunken man leaping from the rooftop and “splattering his brains all over the sidewalk” (Told with suspense and amazing enthusiasm and detail by Dave! )
There was another story about somebody getting murdered and mutilated up in their suite at the downtown Marriott in fairly recent times. With much detail of the crimes. And there were more gruesome stories going back 150 years. A good mix of old and new grisly New Orleans murder stories.
Might not be for everybody’s taste? But if you like true crime, maybe you’re even slightly demented or sadistic, this might be a good tour for you?
We didn’t find any lewd spirits on the other tour. But it’s not really one of the typical New Orleans ghost hunting tours. It was more stories about ghosts and visits to places where the stories took place. You stop at a couple bars along the tour for those who wants drinks to go.
We were disappointed that when we reached through the old iron bars of a back alley window of a building with a dark past, and, where sometimes people allegedly feel hands brushing them or even pulling them in, that we didn’t get touched! It was still entertaining. The tour guide showed us some photos on her phone that she took where some pretty weird things showed up in the background when taking photos at night on the tours. Even visible faces and figures.
We enjoyed both nights. We came back the second night because the first night had been great! We wish maybe the tours were just a bit longer. Time went by too fast! We wanted more. Would’ve been happy to pay just a little bit more for another hour! Great way to kill a couple hours in the early evening! read less
