New Orleans Yellow Fever Ghost Tour is a 90-minute evening walk through the French Quarter run by SUPER CITY TOURS, from $35 per person at our July 30, 2026 check. It holds the highest rating of the fifteen New Orleans ghost tours in our research, 4.9 across 1,426 Viator reviews, and it is the only one of those listings that states a fitness requirement: the operator asks for a moderate fitness level and says the walk does not suit people with heart problems or other serious medical conditions. The route is four named addresses rather than a general loop: the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Pirates Alley, Marie Laveau House of Voodoo and the LaLaurie Mansion. It suits walkers who want those four in one compact evening.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $35 per person (checked July 30, 2026) |
| Duration | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Departures | Evening, per the listing. No clock time verified. |
| Ages | Child 6 to 12, adult 13 to 80, per the listing |
| Group size | Up to 28 travelers |
| Accessibility | Not wheelchair accessible. Stroller accessible. Moderate fitness level; warns off heart problems or serious medical conditions. |
| Meeting point | French Quarter, per the operator. No street address verified. |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead (July 2026 checks). |
| Rating | 4.9 from 1,426 Viator reviews, highest of the fifteen New Orleans tours we compared |
| Operator | SUPER CITY TOURS. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
The listing names four stops, none tied to the fever epidemics in our research. The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum at 514 Chartres Street fills the townhouse built in 1822 and 1823 for Louis J. Dufilho, Jr., who on May 11, 1816 became the first licensed pharmacist in the United States, after a three-hour oral examination before the medical board at the Cabildo under an 1804 Louisiana law (Pharmacy Museum). He opened the shop in 1823 and sold in 1855 (museum FAQ). Most Quarter tours will tell you that buyer, Dr. James Dupas, experimented on enslaved women here. The museum in the building says it has "no evidence of poisonings or medical experiments" there, and suspects the story is a transplanted version of Dr. J. Marion Sims, whose documented surgeries on enslaved women happened in Montgomery, Alabama.
Pirates Alley runs from Chartres to Royal, between St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo. It was paved in 1831 with stone that arrived as ship ballast, and through the nineteenth century it was called Ruelle d'Orleans, Sud (Experience New Orleans). The city adopted the name Pirates Alley only in 1964, which settles the pirate stories: no pirate walked a street by that name, the Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson meeting has no record behind it, and the slave sales some tours place here belong to the documented exchanges on Chartres, Royal and Common. The better fact is recent: William Faulkner drafted his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay," at what is now 624 Pirates Alley in 1925, and the room has held Faulkner House Books since 1990 (New Orleans Historical).
Marie Laveau House of Voodoo, the Bourbon Street stop, is a shop that opened in 1978, 97 years after Laveau died; she never lived or worked in it. Her home stood on St. Ann Street and was demolished in 1903 (New Orleans Historical). The record is better than the shop: born September 10, 1801, the first of her maternal line born free; from the 1830s the leader of a multiracial religious community who held the St. John's Eve gatherings at Lake Pontchartrain, and a practicing Catholic who nursed the sick (64 Parishes). She died June 15, 1881 and lies in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, not No. 2, where marking three X's on her tomb is a modern habit the Archdiocese treats as vandalism, and where solo access closed in March 2015.
The LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street carries the route's documented crime. Delphine LaLaurie bought the corner lot and its unfinished house in August 1831. A kitchen fire on April 10, 1834 exposed enslaved people confined inside; the New Orleans Bee reported the next day that seven were found, mutilated, and on April 12 that some 4,000 people went to the Cabildo to see them. A crowd then gutted the building (nola.com, quoting the Bee). Two corrections most tours skip. The catalogue of surgical horrors comes from Jeanne deLavigne's 1946 book "Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans," which cited no sources; it is absent from the 1834 papers and from Harriet Martineau's account of her 1836 visit. And this is not the building where it happened: Pierre E. Trastour bought the ruin on March 24, 1837 and rebuilt it (Vieux Carre Digital Survey).
Who it suits
This is 90 minutes on foot in the Quarter after dark, at a pace the operator calls moderate, in a group of up to 28. The listing does not claim interior access, so you are buying the guide's account rather than a way in. It fits people who want the four famous addresses in one short evening.
- Skip it if you need step-free access: not wheelchair accessible, one of three so marked in our ten-tour comparison.
- Skip it if a moderate-paced walk is a problem; the listing warns off heart problems and serious medical conditions.
- Skip it if you want a small group: the cap is 28, against 9 on The Ghosts of New Orleans Tour.
- Check the age bands for children: 6 to 12 child, 13 to 80 adult.
- Expect an outside walk: the mansion is private and the pharmacy is a ticketed museum.
How it compares
Among the tours we compared, this one leads on rating and loses on access. The Ghosts of New Orleans Tour from Ghost City Tours is the closest match on format, also 90 minutes and from $29.99, rated 4.7 across 718 reviews, wheelchair accessible, with a cap of 9. New Orleans Haunted History Ghost Tour runs two hours from $30, rated 4.6 across 2,274 reviews, is wheelchair accessible and also stops at the LaLaurie Mansion, so it is the longer and cheaper way to reach that address.
If price is the whole question, Haunted Ghost and Paranormal Tour in New Orleans starts at $15, the lowest of the New Orleans tours we compared, though its 4.5 rests on 98 reviews, a thin sample beside the 1,426 here. For the wider field, see New Orleans ghost tours compared and our guide to the best haunted tours in New Orleans.
Questions people ask
How long is it and what does it cost?
Ninety minutes, from $35 per person at our July 30, 2026 check, with free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead. Confirm the current rate on the booking page.
Which places does it visit?
Four, all named by the listing: the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Pirates Alley, Marie Laveau House of Voodoo on Bourbon Street and the LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street.
Is it wheelchair accessible?
No. The listing marks it not wheelchair accessible, though it does record stroller access, and it states a moderate fitness level plus a warning about heart problems and other serious medical conditions.
Can children come?
The age bands run 6 to 12 for the child rate and 13 to 80 for the adult rate, so under-sixes are not covered. Ask the operator if anyone falls outside those bands.
Do you go inside any of the buildings?
The listing does not claim interior access. The LaLaurie Mansion is a private residence, and the Pharmacy Museum is a ticketed museum with posted hours that ghost tours stop outside.
Is the Pharmacy Museum experiment story true?
The museum that occupies the building says there is no evidence for it, and suspects the tale is a transplanted version of Dr. J. Marion Sims, whose documented surgeries happened in Montgomery, Alabama.
