New Orleans: Vampire Walking Tour French Quarter & Movie Sites

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Duration2h

GroupUp to 28

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Two Hours in the French Quarter Hunting Stories the City Keeps in the Dark

You walk the French Quarter for two hours starting at 8:30pm with a theatrical guide who pulls vampire stories from the city's actual crime archives and folklore. The tour includes a vampire tavern, Interview with a Vampire filming locations, and stops at Royal Street and Jackson Square. You don't arrange your own route or research—the guide handles the narrative and the timing, and you arrive at St. Louis Cathedral ready to go.

Step-by-step itinerary

New Orleans vampire walking tour

Meet at Saint Louis Cathedral
Explore Jackson Square area
Walk French Quarter with guide
Hear vampire crimes and legends
Visit vampire tavern and movie sites
Stop at Boutique Du Vampyre
Listen to stories on Royal Street

The Experience

Hands grip the iron railings of balconies that have watched the same streets for two centuries. Footsteps echo off wet pavement as the group gathers at St. Louis Cathedral at 8:30pm, and the guide—theatrical, knowing, a little bit too comfortable with the shadows—starts walking. This is the New Orleans vampire tour, and it moves through the French Quarter on a 2-hour loop that treats the line between documented crime and local legend like it's deliberately blurred. The guide pulls from police reports, newspaper archives, and diaries to tell you about the Carter Brothers, Jacques St. Germain, and other figures who may or may not have been vampires, depending on who you ask and what you're willing to believe.

The tour stops at a vampire tavern—an actual bar where people gather to talk about the undead—and passes the filming locations from Interview with a Vampire, the movie that made the city's vampire mythology visible to people who'd never set foot here. You walk Royal Street and hear the specific, unsettling details: the scandals, the crimes that seemed to fit no ordinary pattern, the way the city's archives hold stories that don't quite fit into neat categories. The Boutique Du Vampyre sits along the route too, a shop where local artists sell vampire-themed goods, and it's the kind of place that exists because New Orleans takes its darkness seriously, not as a gimmick but as part of how the city talks about itself. Jackson Square and the Cathedral frame the start and the geography, but the real map is the one the guide draws through crime scenes and folklore.

The whole thing takes two hours and moves at a walking pace—nothing strenuous, and the route is accessible to people in wheelchairs or pushing strollers. The guide does the heavy lifting of research and storytelling; you just show up at the Cathedral at dusk and follow. It's the kind of tour where you leave knowing more about what New Orleans was willing to hide, and what it eventually decided to tell.

What’s included

Your 2-hour tour includes a theatrical guide, a walk through the French Quarter starting from St.
Louis Cathedral, a stop at a vampire tavern, visits to Interview with a Vampire filming locations, stories from New Orleans police archives and historical records, and a visit to the Boutique Du Vampyre.
The tour departs at 8:30pm and covers Jackson Square, Royal Street, and other sites connected to the city's vampire folklore and documented crimes.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

Operated by Haunted History Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want a guided evening walk through the French Quarter that treats the city's vampire history as something between fact and legend—the guide does the research and storytelling, so you just follow and listen. The fixed 8:30pm departure and 2-hour length fit an evening schedule without eating into your whole night.