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New Orleans Power Pass - The perfect way to save on your New Orleans vacation

Power Pass - Save hundreds of dollars on admission to many attractions©2008 Power Pass

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Departs from: Redeem you Voucher for your Power Pass at Jax Brewery Gray Line Desk!

Price from:
$37.00 - $155.00 (USD)

Sale/Special Details:
The best way to save money is to buy a Discount New Orleans Power Pass. Real value and savings for your vacation.
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NEW ORLEANS POWER PASS - The perfect way to save on your New Orleans vacation!

  • Free entry to top attractions in New Orleans.
  • VIP, Front of line access to many attractions.
  • Map & guide book lets you plan every stop.
  • Discounts to top restaurants & retailers.
  • Save hundreds of dollars!

Power Pass is the exciting new visitor’s passport to New Orleans. Using smart card technology, Power Pass provides entry to the most exciting attractions…a combined value of over $300 in admission fees and special offers. Power Pass includes “Fast Tracking,” allowing pass holders to skip the line at many attractions. Every Power Pass comes with a colorful, comprehensive guidebook, and discounts and offers at a fine collection of retail shops, restaurants and sporting activities. With Power Pass, you have the freedom to customize your visit to New Orleans.

New Orleans Power Pass includes admission to the following attractions:

  • 1850 House - The Louisiana State Museum
  • Audobon Aquarium of the Americas
  • Audobon Park Golf Course
  • Audobon Zoo / New Orleans Zoo
  • Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World
  • Cabildo - The Louisiana State Musuem
  • Cajun Pride Swamp Tour by Boat
  • Confederate Memorial Hall Museum
  • Contemporary Arts Center
  • Cooking Class | New Orleans School of Cooking
  • Destrehan Plantation
  • Entergy IMAX Theatre
  • French Quarter MP3 Audio Tour
  • French Quarter Walking Tour
  • Gallier House
  • Garden District Walking Tour
  • Hermann-Grima House
  • Hurricane Katrina Tour
  • Longue Vue House & Gardens
  • Louisiana Children's Musuem
  • New Orleans Botanical Garden
  • New Orleans Museum of Art
  • Oak Alley Plantation
  • Presbytere - The Louisiana State Musuem
  • San Francisco Plantation
  • Southern Food and Beverage Museum
  • Steaboat Natchez Day Cruise
  • The Hisoric New Orlean's Collection
  • The National WWII Musuem
  • The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Power Pass also includes special offers and discounts for:
  • Crescent City Nights Walking Tour
  • Del Sol
  • Oak Alley Plantation Tour
  • Paddle & Wheel Tour
  • Southern Candy Makers
  • Swamp and Bayou Tour
  • Tobasco Pepper Sauce Country Store.
How it Works It's easy
  • The Power Pass is a smart chip card. You go to a participating attraction, restaurant or shop.
  • Present your Power Pass Card - Card is dipped into the Power Pass card reader and you and your group are admitted.
  • Vip access to atractions Many of our attractions offer "fast Tracking" allowing you to skip the long line just by showing your power pass..

The Power Pass guidebook makes it easy to find every participating attraction in and around Las Vegas.

The Power Pass card comes in 1, 2, 3 or 5 day increments. The card is activated the first time you use it. It is then valid for that day and the number of consecutive calendar days that you have purchased.

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Location: Redeem you Voucher for your Power Pass at Jax Brewery Gray Line Desk!
Schedule: Once the card is activated (from the first time it is used),
it is then valid for an entire calendar day, or consecutive calendar days
            

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 New Orleans Aquarium of The Americas and Audubon Zoo River Cruise©2006 NO Steamboat Co

Your PowerPass card gets you in!

Audobon Aquarium of the America's - Immerse yourself in one of the finest aquariums in the U.S. where you can explore the aquatic habitats of the Caribbean, Amazon, Mississippi River, and Gulf of Mexico. Watch penguins play, pet a shark, and experience the largest collection of sharks and jellies in the nation. Don’t miss sea otters “Buck and Emma”, Seahorses, frogs, or our Louisiana native white alligator. See it all in just two hours! Located at the foot of Canal Street on the banks of the Mississippi, just steps from the French Quarter.

The Audubon Zoo is one of the top five Zoos in the country and features 2000 exotic and local animals on 50 lush acres. Don’t miss the Louisiana Swamp exhibit, the world’s only urban swamp, the Louisiana black bear, and the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon. Be sure to catch the Jaguar Jungle, and climb high atop Monkey Hill and its newly renovated tree house. Experience it all in just 3 hours. Free parking is available. Offer not valid with any other offers or for Boo At the Zoo, Zoo To Do, Zoo To Do for Kids, or any special admission events.

New Orleans Mardi Gras World - Come See Where Mardi Gras is made©2006 Mardi Gras World

Come see where Mardi Gras is made at Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World. Guided tour includes video presentation, try on costumes and gift shop. Tour prop shop and see artists creating larger than life figures for Mardi Gras floats. View beautiful fiber optic floats; including the 240 ft sea monster ‘The Leviathan’ and don’t dare forget your camera! Tour includes King Cake and coffee. A daily Cooking Demonstration is also offered at an additional cost which includes a luncheon consisting of gumbo, rice, salad, bread pudding and iced tea plus a tour combination.

For many years people have traveled extensively to locate a unique and exciting form of entertainment that you can only experience here – the famous Manchac Swamp. We invite you to join Cajun Pride Swamp Tour for a unique journey back to the early days of Louisiana bayou and swamp explorations. Swamp creatures, seeing our boats daily, recognize them as part of their normal environment. Unafraid and responsive to their boat captain's call, they peak out from underbrush and between moss-draped trees and shrubs, frequently coming directly to the boat. In the safety and comfort of the boat, you can actually come within a few feet of jumping gators.

Celebrate the art of now at the Contemporary Arts Center, a pioneer landmark of the New Orleans Arts District since 1976. The CAC is a nationally known attraction, presenting a year-round schedule of cutting-edge art exhibitions during the day and cutting-edge music, dance and theatre performances by internationally renowned artists at night. Located in down town New Orleans, the CAC’s renovated warehouses mix the timelessness of New Orleans’ historic architecture with contemporary materials, open spaces and unique, permanent art installations created by Louisiana artists.

Destrahan Plantation Tour©2005 Grayline New Orleans

Destrehan Plantation. Costumed tour guides lead the way through this National Historic Landmark as you stroll under moss draped live oaks to the beautiful plantation home. The Destrehan’s were one of the most prominent families in Louisiana history. Stories of their life and the life of their enslaved workers are part of the tour. A highlight is an original document, signed by Thomas Jefferson in which Jean Noel Destrehan was appointed to the Orleans Territorial Council in 1806. Early plantation life skills are shown on a rotating basis, such as open hearth cooking, bousillage construction, dyeing with indigo, candle making and carpentry.

Entergy IMAX Theatre - Escape to BIG adventures in 2D and 3D. The five and one-half story towering silver screen, 12,000 watt digital surround sound system, and 354 “front row” seats put you in another world. Escape to hidden kingdoms, far off lands, outer space, animal habitats, or aquatic adventures all in less than one hour. It is like nothing you have ever seen. Everything else is just a movie. Located next door to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas at the foot of Canal Street.

New Orleans French Quarter - Royal Street Balcony©2005 Grayline New Orleans


Learn the real history and legends of the Creole people that made up the French Quarter of New Orleans on the French Quarter Walking Tour! Saunter down Royal, Bourbon and other quaint streets with names from New Orleans’ European past. Follow in the footsteps of Jean Laffitte, William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams en route from Washington Artillery Park on the mighty Mississippi River to Jackson Square. Visit the old Ursuline Convent, the oldest building in the Mississippi River Valley and the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum with an herb garden that illustrates the medicinal uses of plants. Live leeches, blood letting devices, Voodoo gris-gris potions and rare patent medicines are just a few of the displays.

Enjoy a walk through the elegant Garden District on a Garden District Walking Tour, known for its examples of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture. Once part of the plantation owned by Bienville, the founder of New Orleans, homes of former Kings and Queens of Mardi Gras are located in this area as is the residence of author Anne Rice, the house where Jefferson Davis died in 1889; and Toby’s Corner, the oldest house in the area. Learn about our unusual above-ground burial system at Lafayette Cemetery. The only New Orleans walking tour with a state of the art auditory assistance system. The tour is 2 hours long.

Built in 1831, Hermann-Grima House is one of the most significant residences in the French Quarter. This handsome Federal mansion with its courtyard garden boasts the only horse stable and functional outdoor kitchen in the Quarter. Prior to the Civil War, prosperous Creole families enjoyed an elegant lifestyle in the Vieux Carre. We invite you to tour this meticulously restored National Historic Landmark property for an insider’s look into the lives of all who resided on the estate during the Golden Age of New Orleans.

New Orleans Hurricane Katrina and City Tour©2006 Fema

Hurricane Katrina Tour. Learn the history of the original city, the French Quarter, and why it was built at this particular location along the Mississippi River. We'll drive past an actual levee that "breached" and see the resulting devastation that displaced hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents. The direct connection between America's disappearing coastal wetlands, oil & gas pipelines, levee protection and hurricane destruction will be explained.

Experience a world of art from every century and every culture at the New Orleans Museum of Art in beautiful City Park! Just minutes from the French Quarter on the Canal streetcar line. NOMA is the gulf south’s finest and most comprehensive art museum with a rich collection of American & European works of art, African, Asian & native American art, photography, & decorative arts with a special Faberge gallery. A highlight is the new 5 acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden adjacent to the museum. NOMA also hosts exceptional international traveling exhibitions.

Located on the Mississippi River between the historic Louisiana cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Oak Alley Plantation has been called the "Grande Dame of the Great River Road." Nowhere else in the south will you find such a spectacular setting! The quarter-mile canopy of giant live oak trees, believed to be nearly 300 years old, forms an impressive avenue leading to the classic Greek-revival style antebellum home.

Southern Food and Beverage Museum
Come learn the story of the cuisine of New Orleans and Louisiana, see artifacts, experience tastings and listen to oral histories. See the story of the development of the cocktail all at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

Steamboat Natchez - New Orleans Harbor Jazz Cruises aboard an Authentic Steamboat©2006 NO Steamboat Co

Savor the beauty and romance of New Orleans aboard the authentic sternwheeler Steamboat NATCHEZ. You will be drawn to the Mississippi River by the sounds of our unique steam calliope. Your two-hour daytime cruise will introduce you to the skyline of New Orleans by both historical and current narration. Enjoy a live jazz band, optional food and beverage, visits to the museum quality engine room and much more.

The Historic New Orleans Collection is located within a complex of historic French Quarter buildings. The oldest, constructed in the late 18th century, is one of the few structures to escape the disastrous fire of 1794. Today, The Collection serves the public as a museum and research center for regional history. Guided tours are available of the Williams Residence and of the Louisiana history galleries. Experience the elegant house museum of The Collection’s founders and enjoy a tour of the history galleries, highlighting authentic documents and artifacts that reveal fascinating stories of Louisiana’s history and culture.

The National World War II Museum opened in 2000 as The National D-Day Museum, and has been designated by Congress as the country's official National WWII Museum. The Museum illuminates the entire American experience during WWII. From Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, from the Home Front to the sands of Pacific Islands, visitors will come to know the courage, teamwork and sacrifice of the men and women who won the war that changed the world. The story is told through moving personal accounts, powerful interactive displays and priceless historic artifacts…from our massive C-47 aircraft, Sherman tank and Higgins boats to the dogtags of fallen heroes. You will understand with your mind and your heart that freedom is not free. Come celebrate the American Spirit at the National World War II Museum!

University of New Orleans
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is a national museum and an affiliate of The Smithsonian Institution dedicated to celebrating the visual art and culture of the American South. The Museum is home to the largest and most comprehensive collection of Southern art in the world. With over 3000 works in its collection, the collection includes painting, watercolors, drawings, prints, ceramics, photographs and sculpture, and embodies the visual heritage and history of the South from 1733 to the present. Featuring live music every Thursday evening during “Ogden After Hours.”

            

Prices

New Orleans Power Pass
Once the card is activated (from the first time it is used),
it is then valid for an entire calendar day, or consecutive calendar days

Duration:

Regular PriceDiscountInternet Price
1Day Adult$60.00$60.00
1 Day Child 2-12$37.00$37.00
2 Day Adult$89.00$89.00
2 Day Child 2-12$60.00$60.00
3 Day Adult$119.00$119.00
3 Day Child 2-12$89.00$89.00
5 Day Adult $155.00$155.00
5 Day Child 2-12$109.00$109.00

Sale/Special Details:
The best way to save money is to buy a Discount New Orleans Power Pass. Real value and savings for your vacation.
            

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Departure Dates:

Daily - Some attractions and tours closed Christmas and New Years Day

Departure Point:

The PowerPass Card offers you admission to many New Orleans attractions. Some attractions are seasonal or have special instructions for redeeming your PowerPass Card. Pick up you Power Pass at the locations listed below.

Discounts:

Children rates: Ages 3 to 12. Under 3 FREE. No addtional discounts available.

Redeem your Voucher for the Power Pass at:

Jax Brewery Gray Line Desk
600 Decatur Street, 1st Floor
New Orleans, Louisana 70130
Located on the corner of Decatur and Toulouse Street.
Open daily 7am-7pm
Phone: 504.569.1401

Payment:

Non refundable payment in advance by major credit card; Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover Card.

Confirmation & Voucher:

For every confirmed booking you will receive an e-mail with a link to your E-Ticket Voucher Please print this voucher on your home / office printer. Please present E-Ticket voucher at one of the redemtion locations.

Cancellation Policy:

PowerPass purchases cannot be canceled or refunded.

For terms, conditions and F.A.Q. please follow this link

            

Booking Information

Power Pass New Orleans©2008 New Orleans Power Pass

The Power Pass Card can be booked at any time prior to your visit. Your confirmation for this product will be received at time of booking.

Cancellation Policy:

Power Pass New Orleans purchases cannot be canceled or refunded.

Power Pass New Orleans assumes no responsibility for delays caused by accidents, breakdown, bad conditions of roads and other conditions beyond our control, in addition to insufficient numbers of passengers. Not responsible for loss or damage to property.

Meals, Gratuities and Souvenirs are not included.

All TourCorp company policies can be found at http://www.tourcorp.com and are part of this tour or activity purchase.

            

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