Pub Crawl: Haunted New Orleans Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour is a two-hour Nightly Spirits outing in the French Quarter, booking from $39.92 per person at our August 3, 2026 check, when it was in stock. That was the first availability check we have run on this listing. Two rules govern it. It is genuinely adults only: the booking form posts a single band, adult 21 to 99, and the listing requires valid photo identification. And nothing captured says drinks are included, so budget for your own. The listing states that the tour visits at least three haunted bars without naming which ones. It rates 4.8 from 140 Viator reviews, a strong score sitting on the second-smallest review base of the fifteen New Orleans listings we track, so the two numbers print together here every time.
The booking card below appends a small-group qualifier to this product's name. We do not repeat it. No group cap was recorded for this listing in either source we hold, the qualifier looks inherited from the same operator's listings in other cities, and we publish no group size for this tour at all.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $39.92 per person (checked August 3, 2026, unchanged from July 30, 2026). Third-highest of the fifteen New Orleans listings we track, behind a $65 carriage tour and a $59 indoor ghost hunt, which makes it the dearest of the thirteen that are neither. |
| Duration | 2 hours (checked July 30, 2026) |
| Ages | 21 and over with valid photo identification. The booking form posts one band, adult 21 to 99, with no child, youth or senior band (checked July 30, 2026). Of the twelve listings in the set whose bands we captured, only two set the floor at 21, and this is the only one of the fifteen whose captured facts state a photo-ID requirement. |
| Rating | 4.8 from 140 Viator reviews (checked August 3, 2026). Joint second-highest score in the set, but on its second-smallest review base: the two listings level with it rest on 7,030 and 535 reviews, so the three are never ranked here without their samples. There is no second capture date for this listing, so no drift check is possible. |
| Route | Five entries: May Baily's Place, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar and The Cornstalk Hotel as pass-bys, St. Louis Cathedral, and Pirates Alley as a pass-by (checked July 30, 2026). The bar addresses are pass-by flags, not the crawl's drinking stops. |
| Included | A visit to at least three haunted bars, per the listing (checked July 30, 2026). Nothing captured says drinks are included. |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair accessible, per this New Orleans listing's own flag (checked July 30, 2026). The same operator's crawls in other cities are recorded not accessible in our files, so we print this as the listing's dated flag and would re-check it before relying on it. |
| When | Not captured. No time-of-day band is banked for this listing and the July 30, 2026 capture records none, so we print neither evening nor night and do not infer one from the product name. |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation flagged at our August 3, 2026 check. The window was not captured for this listing, so we print none. Confirm it on the booking page. |
| Availability | In stock at our August 3, 2026 check, the first availability check run on this listing |
| Not captured | Clock start time, meeting point, end point, group size, weather policy, confirmation timing and stroller access. We print none of them, and borrow none from the operator's listings in other cities. |
| Operator | Nightly Spirits. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
All five entries carry checked research in our files, which makes this one of only two banked New Orleans routes with full place coverage, and the larger of the two. Only the cathedral is un-flagged. What we hold records stop-versus-pass-by state and nothing about interior access, so treat going inside anywhere as unconfirmed.
St. Louis Cathedral is not the 1718 or 1727 building most people assume. A church was dedicated on the site in 1727, and the Good Friday fire of 21 March 1788 took most of the city with it; Pere Antoine wrote that it engulfed the parish church and the Presbytere in less than half an hour. What stands now is J. N. B. de Pouilly's rebuilding and enlargement of 1849 to 1851, a project whose central tower and parts of the walls collapsed during construction in 1850 and which Archbishop Antoine Blanc blessed on 7 December 1851. The oldest-cathedral line needs its qualifier: this is the oldest cathedral site in continuous use as such. And the strangest documented event here is not a haunting. On 25 April 1909 a dynamite bomb went off inside at about half past two in the afternoon, damaging nearly every stained-glass window along with the organ and choir loft. Nobody was hurt, and the case was never solved, so nobody gets named for it here.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar carries the most durable false attribution in the Quarter. The building most likely went up as a house in the 1770s, in the Spanish colonial period. Jean Lafitte was born around 1780 and did not enter the Gulf before about 1804, so any story putting him at a forge here in the 1770s or 1780s puts him there before he was born or before he arrived. Samuel Wilson Jr., the most respected architectural historian the city has produced, said flatly that the building never had anything to do with either Lafitte brother as far as any documentation indicates. The 1885 Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans, which we verified against the scanned original, is the earliest printed carrier of the association we could confirm, and even it places the famous shop at the corner rather than in this building. Bar use here dates to the mid-1940s, so the oldest-bar-in-the-country claim fails too. It is a National Historic Landmark, designated 15 April 1970.
The Cornstalk Hotel is the opposite case: house and fence are both documented, and neither matches the story told about them. 915 Royal Street was built in 1816 for Francois Xavier Martin, chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and author of the first published history of Louisiana. Dr. Joseph Secondo Biamenti bought it in 1834 and had the cornstalk fence put up in 1856, forty years after the house. The fence was cast rather than forged, by Wood and Perot Ornamental Ironworks of Philadelphia, and the pattern ran in that firm's 1858 catalogue, so it was a product any buyer could order. Lafitte did not make it, and it is not one of a kind: a second fence of the same pattern stands in the Garden District. The homesick-wife story that explains the design is anecdote.
May Baily's Place is the thinnest site on the route, and the honest material is legal history rather than the woman it is named for. Treat May Baily herself as unverified: no nationality, no sister's name, no opening year, and the story belongs to the hotel that tells it. The Dauphine Orleans Hotel opened in 1969 and May Baily's Place is its bar. The documented context is two ordinances. The Lorette Ordinance of 1857 tried to license and tax prostitution rather than criminalize it, and is generally described as a failure. Sidney Story's ordinance of 1897 created the district later called Storyville, effective in 1898 and closed on 12 November 1917, bounded by Iberville, St. Louis, Basin and North Robertson. That district lay outside the French Quarter and 415 Dauphine is deep inside it, so this address was never in Storyville. The Bellocq photographs are not of this house, and there was nothing glamorous about any of it.
Pirates Alley closes the route, running between the cathedral and the Cabildo with St. Anthony's Garden and its iron fence along one side. That fence matters: the duels routinely placed in the alley belong to the garden on its other side. The passage's nineteenth-century official name was Ruelle d'Orleans, Sud, and the city adopted Pirates Alley officially only in 1964, so nothing in the name implies pirates named it or drank in it. Because this route stops at the cathedral, the confusion worth naming is Pere Antoine Alley, the passage on the cathedral's other side.
Who it suits
Two hours from $39.92, strictly 21 and over with photo identification, wheelchair accessible per the listing, and built around at least three haunted bars. It suits an adults-only group that wants the drinking and the history in one outing and is content to hear the stories from the pavement.
- Not for anyone under 21. The only band is adult 21 to 99 and the listing requires photo identification.
- Not for anyone who does not drink and would be paying a bar-crawl price for a walk.
- Not for anyone booking for the LaLaurie Mansion or Jackson Square. This route names neither.
- Not for anyone who needs a confirmed start time or a group size. Neither was captured.
How it compares
The denominator is fifteen, the New Orleans listings we track, recomputed on August 2, 2026. Three of its five addresses belong to it alone: of the eleven banked stop lists, it is the only one naming St. Louis Cathedral, May Baily's Place or The Cornstalk Hotel, a count just one other listing in the set matches. Lafitte's turns up on four of the eleven and Pirates Alley on five. It is also one of two bar crawls we track, and the other one is $37 for the same two hours, also 21 and over, resting on 2,206 reviews against this listing's 140, so it is both cheaper and far better tested. What the difference buys is a set of addresses nobody else walks. The rest of the city is in our haunted New Orleans guide.
Questions people ask
Who runs it, and how long is it?
Nightly Spirits. Two hours, from $39.92 at our August 3, 2026 check. We do not run it.
What is the age rule?
Twenty-one and over with valid photo identification. The only band on the booking form is adult 21 to 99, so this is a genuine adults-only product rather than a recommendation.
Are drinks included?
Nothing captured on the listing says so. Budget for your own and confirm at booking.
Which bars does it go into?
The listing does not name them. It says the tour visits at least three haunted bars, and May Baily's Place, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar and The Cornstalk Hotel are flagged as pass-bys rather than as the drinking stops.
Is Lafitte's really Jean Lafitte's blacksmith shop?
No documentation connects the building to either brother, and the dates fail: the house is 1770s and Lafitte was born around 1780.
Can I go inside the cathedral?
The listing does not say so, and it is an active parish church. Treat interior access as unconfirmed and ask before you book.
