Spirits - The Cocktail And Ghost Crawl in New Orleans

Join New Orleans’ top guide for an exclusive cocktail and ghost tour. Sip at select venues and uncover the city’s haunted history.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • 523 St Ann St. - I found my success as a guide, with a belief that the best tours are craft, even a bit of art. Let me help you connect with the great city of New Orleans, by sharing tales of old and examining its drinking legacy. We’ll walk cobbled alleys, and listen to ghost stories as classic as the libations you’ll be sipping upon.

I’ve created an evening of documented ghosts, city history, drinking yarns, and Voodoo. I’ll tie it all together into a cohesive experience of chills, laughs, and must-have drink suggestions. This is still well-researched history, but made fun. Let me save you from the dull recitation of New Orleans’ bullet points: I put on a show.

There will be no capes, no blurry photos, and no vampire tales. I use stories that are historically sourced – which makes this tour far more frightening.

By using actual stories, from the cultures that created this city, you will begin to unravel what makes New Orleans so special.

The tour is designed for the curious, people who wish to understand the places they visit and share drinks with fellow travelers. Don’t confuse this with the party-crawls. This is a professional drinking event - a genuinely full tour.

What's Included
  • Well-researched stories and history
  • Sourced from New Orleans
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities for bartenders are common
  • Drinks are not included, the average price for the suggested drinks will hover from 8 to 15 dollars per drink. Drink at your own pace, you are not required to purchase anything, please pace yourself!
Additional Information

I’ve served more pub crawls, by far, than any guide in New Orleans. This provides me preferential, or exclusive, access to select venues that will help aid the tour’s narrative and propel our exploration of New Orleans’ cocktail/ghost history. This tour pays for itself, once you know the places I sip. Between bars, we walk to haunted/historical locations unveiling the culture, history, architecture, and the city’s terrifying past.

  • This tour covers dark history, and guests enduring certain types of trauma, or recent tragedy, may find some of the content discomforting. Please do not hesitate to inquire with any concerns.
Location
523 St Ann St.
Saint Ann Street
We'll meet in front of the museum, prior to the start time.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Nangs_01
Aug 18, 2024
Ghostly cocktails - John is one of the best if not the best tour guide with many stories / tales that will keep your party entertained for hours !
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Ellen_m
Aug 11, 2024
We’ll definitely do this again next time - John was absolutely wonderful and so knowledgeable about the history and current culture of a city he obviously loves. The tour was fun, entertaining, and as someone who visits New Orleans 3-4 times a year we even learned a few new things! If you’re looking for something different than your basic ghost tour and you love trying new drinks then definitely reserve your tour with John!
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Gregf389
Jul 30, 2024
Great trip for a first timer - John’s tour was great. His stories were a great insight on the city. He was careful to note his tour is unique and updated from reputable sources. Cocktails were great and only one bar was a little crowded. Definitely an ideal tour for a first timer.
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Rosa
Jul 28, 2024
John our tour guide was great!. Very knowledgeable about the history and enthusiastic about sharing it with us. - John our tour guide was great! He was very knowledgeable about the history and enthusiastic to share it with us. We enjoyed the bars he took us to and the drink suggestions.
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Lindsay_b
Jul 6, 2024
Great tour - The tour guide John was very passionate about his craft and the city. We enjoyed hearing ghost stories and learning about and drinking absinthe and other fun drinks to try along the way.
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Nikolaj
Jun 27, 2024
Evening well spent - What a tour! If you like culture, history, stories, and/or cocktails, you will love this. John is a knowledgeable and very pleasant guide, and we felt welcome right away.
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Anhar2016
Jun 26, 2024
John is the best! - This historical spooky tour was everything I hoped for and more. John was on time, really communicative, and really entertaining and informative. Our trip to New Orleans and the French quarters was so memorable because of his tour. He told us about the history behind the spooky stories and combined it with a bar/sprits tour while explaining the history of why the drink suggestions was so important to New Orleans. I rate this tour a 10/10 and would recommend it to anyone else wanting a unique and boutique experience from a tour.
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Summer_w
Jun 9, 2024
John is so fun and... - John is so fun and enthusiastic! He really brought the stories to life, and had excellent drink recommendations!
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Aaron
Jun 8, 2024
We went to have a fine evening for our anniversary. - The tour guide was entertaining, informative and real. It was a very custom and personalized tour from our perspective. We highly recommend.
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Edwin_w
Jun 8, 2024
John is the perfect guide! - John is brilliant, witty, engaging, and well informed. He provides wonderful context with regard to the stories of New Orleans and its ghosts. Off the top of his head he can’t even provide you sources from newspapers to books for further investigation as a further delight He arranges specialty drinks with relevance New Orleans and it’s history. There is something for everyone and everyone had a wonderful time.
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