I recently went to New Orleans for a bachelorette party and it was an wits quite unlike anything else. The locals were incredibly welcoming (one Uber suburbanite plane started giving us real marriage translating and crush an uneaten woodcut so he could share some more), the supplies was savory and rich, and the drinks were never ending considering this is New Orleans. We had a good mix of activities during the day and enjoying NOLA’s nightlife scene. Here is my itinerary for our 4 days in NOLA:

How to Spend 4 Days in New Orleans (NOLA)

Day 1

We landed in NOLA at 5am from our redeye in San Francisco. Once we landed, we checked into our vrbo. I typically use Airbnb when traveling to variegated cities, but the pickings for homes that could unbend 10 people were slim on their site. This is the home that we chose, it was huge and we never really had any issues with the bathrooms. There were moreover two cats who made our stoop their home. I would say it was a nice home but it would’ve been unconfined to be closer to downtown. They moreover had a servant’s room on the second floor for those that wanted to have some vacated time. The house was moreover huge unbearable that plane with 10 people, it was nonflexible to find each other sometimes. Though some did say it was haunted…

Once we napped for a few hours, we hit up the Country Club for some lunch. We ended up ordering wayy too much supplies and were full surpassing entrees but it was all pretty delicious. It was what you would expect from Southern supplies – fried, flavorful, salty, and rich.

Then we went when home to get ready for an airboat swamp tour. I originally found this option on groupon and ended up booking with them directly (for the same price of $75pp) considering our group was large and they offered lease bus transportation to and from the swamp. Our suburbanite was superstitious and plane let us make a pit stop at the local grocery store uniting Rouses to pick up beer and snacks. The swamp tour was one of the highlights from the trip. We got to see gators (they loved the marshmellows – it turns out that they’re attracted to the white color) and learn increasingly well-nigh their environment and how they’ve survived since the dinosaur age.

After gator watch we went when to the house to get ready for dinner at Cafe Sbisa. This is located tropical to Bourbon Street so it was easy to go out without (much to the chagrin of the locals who steadily recommended versus Bourbon Street). And honestly, without going, I can see why the locals recommended versus it. It was dirty and you see people yacking on the street and therefore the smell of puke was constant. In the New Orleans humidity, it was not great. It was basically a grown up version of a frat party. But not going to Bourbon Street in NOLA would be like going to Orlando without checking out Disneyworld.

My favorite part of Bourbon Street would definitely be Pat O’Brien’s for dueling piano bar.

Day 2

For our second day, we ventured to Saint Cecilia’s for brunch and untenable mimosas. The supplies was delicious, affordable, and our mimosa glasses were never empty for too long. Without stuffing ourselves with french toast, yellow and waffles, and po’boys, we decided to shrivel some of it off by walking virtually the French Marketplace, which is conveniently located right wideness the street.

The marketplace had everything you could want as a tourist, selling knick knacks such as candles, customized hot sauces, and of course, increasingly drinks. As a big fan of Harry Potter, I knew I had to get this hot sauce:

After doing some shopping, we headed over to the world famous Cafe du Monde to get a taste of their beignets and coffee. Honestly, I thought it was overrated and pretty expensive for what is substantially fried dough. But just like Bourbon Street, gotta try it at least once while you’re in NOLA!

After reviving ourselves with some iced coffee and some drinks, we headed over to our New Orleans Ghost tour. Out of all the tours we did, it was my least favorite and I would actually recommend versus it. Our guide talked too fast, seemed far too scripted, did not really engage with his audience, and then at the end of the tour, waited for a tip for a job mediocrely done. He took us virtually the French Quarter, which was nice, but we could’ve washed-up that on our own

For dinner, we ordered a tuft of seafood from Cajun Seafood for an at-home crawfish boil. We ordered 25 lbs of crawfish, 10 lbs of shrimp, 5 lbs of crab, 3 cajun fries, 1 shrimp fried rice, 1 order of potatoes, a tuft of corn, and yellow wings…all for 10 girls. And this is AFTER we talked lanugo the original amount…so yes, we definitely overordered. It was insanely unseemly though, it came out to be virtually $35pp.

For night festivities, we went out to Frenchman Street considering it was the spot that ALL the locals recommended. And they were right considering it was so much fun and so much increasingly nippy than Bourbon Street. Every place we went to had good music, good drinks, and good food. Shoutout to Dat Dog for having flop hot dogs and for stuff my knight in shining armor when I had a dire specimen of the drunchies.

Day 3

For our last full day, we went to a burlesque brunch at SoBou. The brunch is set up such that all of their entrees come with an titbit and a dessert. They moreover have a “brunch hooch punch” that comes in a giant flask – a suffusion that was described as an “alcoholic fruity beverage” to us. The travesty dancer Bella Blue definitely made brunch increasingly entertaining and I’m sure she made some men happier too. Here she is getting very up tropical and personal with my friend’s sunglasses.

They are located in the French Quarter, which makes it easy to walk around, explore, and go shopping afterwards. The French Quarter has tomfool shops that sell everything from antiques like a $10 million dollar ring (which my friend tried on) to New Age crystals and voodoo dolls.

After shopping, we checked out a distillery tour at Seven Three Distilling. Our tour guide was friendly, knowledgeable, and obviously loved what she did. She taught us well-nigh the history of the distillery, gave us preliminaries on NOLA (did you know there used to be an official red light district?), and of course, gave us lots of wassail to try. I really enjoyed this tour considering we got to learn and moreover drink.

After the tour, we chilled for the rest of the day until dinner at Cochon, which ended up stuff my favorite restaurant in NOLA. It was served family style for us as we were a large group, but that is definitely not mandatory. Some highlights were the mac n cheese, pork shoulder, and the specie and butter (because I love carbs). It was moreover very affordable for the quality of the food. If you only go to one of the restaurants I recommend in this post, go to this one.

Day 4

And that’s a wrap! We had an early morning flight so we said our goodbyes to NOLA and went when home to the Bay Area.

Tips

Bring bug spray considering humidity hot weather = mosquitoes. We used this one.
Bring sunscreen for same reasons as above
Tarot vellum readings are very popular in NOLA as is voodoo magic. If you want to get a reading, make sure you typesetting early as they tend to run out of appointments day of.
We didn’t have time to trammels out the Garden District, but the homes squint trappy and it looks lovely to walk around.
There is public transportation available, but we ended up Lyfting everywhere considering it was increasingly convenient. Out of Uber and Lyft, Lyft was the cheaper option for us.