Go City: New Orleans All-Inclusive Pass with Over 25 Attractions

The most useful thing about this pass is its range. For one price, you can pair the National WWII Museum with a cooking demonstration, a river cruise, a cemetery tour, and small museums that you might otherwise skip. It gives you a ready-made way to see several sides of New Orleans beyond the French Quarter.

I like the freedom to choose a pass from one to five days, and I like that the list mixes major sights with local subjects such as pharmacy, jazz, Creole food, and architecture. The catch is that the pass takes planning. Some tours fill early, some attractions have limited schedules, and the digital ticket system has caused serious problems for some buyers.

Key points to know before you buy

• The National WWII Museum and cooking school are the strongest anchors: Both can fill a large part of your day and offer more than a quick photo stop.
• You get a broad mix of New Orleans: Choose among bus tours, museums, a paddlewheeler, food, bicycles, gardens, haunted tours, and seasonal events.
• Reservations matter: Haunted History Tours requires pre-booking, and other popular activities may need advance reservations through the Go City app or digital guide.
• A one-day pass requires discipline: A cooking demonstration lasts three hours, while the city bus tour takes about two, so you may fit only two major activities.
• The pass costs $84 per person: It can save money if you use several included attractions, but only if those attractions fit your schedule.
• Digital access is the weak spot: Keep your pass number, app details, and reservation information handy, and check that the barcode works before your first outing.

How the $84 New Orleans Pass earns its keep

At $84 per person, this is not an automatic bargain. The value depends on how many included activities you actually use and how well they fit together.

If you choose only one museum, the pass may not make financial sense. If you use it for a city tour, the WWII Museum, the Creole Queen, and the cooking school, you are using the pass in the way it was designed. Add a smaller museum or a bike ride and the arithmetic becomes more favorable.

I would treat the pass as a sightseeing plan, not just a discount card. Before buying, pick your likely attractions and check their regular admission prices, schedules, reservation rules, and locations. The included options can change, and some are affected by weather or availability.

The one-day version is best for a focused day with two substantial stops. A three-day pass gives you breathing room and makes it easier to add smaller museums between larger activities. A four or five-day pass is suited to a slower visit, especially if you want to include Longue Vue House and Gardens, a swamp or outdoor activity, and several museums.

The pass is non-refundable and cannot be changed after purchase. If poor weather cancels an included activity, the stated policy offers a different date or a full refund for that weather cancellation. A canceled flight, a packed tour, or a change of plans does not provide the same protection.

Start with the bus tour and get your bearings

The Adventures in New Orleans Bus Tour lasts about two hours and covers famous landmarks while explaining the city’s mix of cultures, buildings, and people. It is the most practical first stop because it gives you a broad look before you spend time walking from museum to museum.

A good guide can make this tour much more than a ride past old buildings. One especially praised guide, Howie, was noted for sharing personal knowledge and connecting New Orleans history with the resilience of its people. Guide quality can vary, but this is the sort of personal perspective that helps you read the city with more understanding.

The bus tour also helps with planning. Afterward, you will have a better sense of which areas deserve more time and which attractions can be grouped together. I would not schedule it immediately before a fixed-time cooking demonstration unless the timing is clearly confirmed.

Give the WWII Museum at least two hours

The National WWII Museum is the pass’s heavyweight attraction. Its exhibits cover the causes of the war, the American home front, and the campaigns in Europe and the Pacific.

The five permanent exhibit halls include The Arsenal of Democracy, Road to Tokyo, Road to Berlin, The D-Day Invasion of Normandy, and the US Merchant Marine Gallery. Interactive displays help connect military events with the people and industries that made the war effort possible.

Two hours is enough for a purposeful visit, but not enough to read everything closely. I would give this museum priority over a minor stop if you have limited time. It is also a useful choice for a hot or rainy day, since much of your visit takes place indoors.

The practical advantage here is that the museum has been used as a walk-in stop when other activities required advance arrangements. Still, check the current entry instructions in the digital guide before you go.

Ride the Creole Queen on the Mississippi

The one-hour Creole Queen cruise gives you a different view of New Orleans. Instead of seeing the city from streets and sidewalks, you look back at it from the river while hearing about roughly 300 years of local history.

This is an easy activity to fit into a day. It requires less physical effort than a bike tour or long museum visit, which makes it a useful choice when the heat begins to wear you down.

The cruise is not a replacement for a full historical tour, and the experience depends on weather and sailing times. I would use it as a change of pace between indoor attractions, not as the main reason to buy the pass.

Learn New Orleans through its food

The New Orleans School of Cooking is one of the best uses of the pass because it combines a demonstration, a meal, and cultural context. The session lasts about three hours, so set aside a real block of your day.

A Cajun or Creole chef demonstrates Louisiana cooking and explains dishes such as gumbo, jambalaya, pralines, shrimp Creole, crawfish etouffee, red beans and rice, or shrimp and artichoke soup. The value is not only the food. You get a clearer sense of how cooking fits into Louisiana’s history and daily life.

This is a demonstration rather than a hands-on cooking class, based on the supplied description. You watch the preparation and eat the resulting dishes. Alternative recipes may be available for people who do not eat meat, but I would confirm current options when reserving.

I would make this a priority for a first New Orleans visit. It was repeatedly singled out as a favorite, and it gives you something that a standard museum cannot: a better idea of what to order and why the food matters.

Walk through Jackson Square’s historic buildings

Three included stops sit around Jackson Square or nearby, making them easy to combine: The Presbytere, the 1850 House, and the Cabildo.

The Presbytere belongs to the Louisiana State Museum and was designed to match the Cabildo. Its setting helps you understand how carefully the buildings around Jackson Square were planned as a group.

The 1850 House occupies part of the Pontalba Buildings, built by Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba. It presents apartment life in one of the oldest apartment buildings in the United States. This is a compact stop, but it adds useful detail to the grand façades outside.

The Cabildo is an elegant Spanish colonial building constructed between 1795 and 1799. It later served as the headquarters of the Louisiana State Supreme Court and became part of the Louisiana State Museum. I would visit all three together, but check opening days carefully. A major drawback is that museum schedules can reduce your choices, especially early in the week. One pass user found that many museums were closed on Monday.

Find medicine, jazz, and art in smaller museums

The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum occupies an 1823 Creole apothecary connected with Louis Dufilho Jr., America’s first licensed pharmacist. Two floors of exhibits cover 19th-century pharmacy, medicine, and health care in New Orleans.

It is a focused museum, not a large attraction. That is precisely its strength. You can see it in about an hour and come away with a subject that is rarely covered in a general city tour.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is housed in the Old US Mint, a Greek Revival building that minted money from 1838 to 1909 for both the United States and the Confederacy. Its displays cover New Orleans jazz, Newcomb Pottery, the Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour lasts about two hours and 15 minutes. Degas lived and worked there during a five-month stay, the only American journey made by a French painter of the Impressionist period. This stop will appeal most to you if you enjoy art, architecture, or unusual links between New Orleans and Europe.

These smaller museums work well as fillers between fixed-time tours. They also show why a longer pass can be more useful than a one-day pass. You do not need to force every compact museum into a single exhausting schedule.

Add a bike ride, gardens, or an evening of ghosts

RideTHISbike offers a two-hour guided bike tour, guided ride, or self-guided ride. The package includes a bicycle, helmet, lock, and guide for the guided options.

Cycling can help you cover more ground than walking, but the heat and weather matter. Choose it only if you are comfortable riding in those conditions, and confirm which format is available when you reserve.

Longue Vue House and Gardens takes about two hours. The estate was founded by Edith Rosenwald Stern and Edgar Bloom Stern and includes a house museum, eight acres of gardens, and an interactive Discovery Garden for children.

This is a quieter choice than the French Quarter attractions. It suits you if you want architecture, gardens, and a pause from downtown crowds. It also takes more planning because it is not simply a quick walk from the Jackson Square museums.

Haunted History Tours offers the Cities of the Dead Cemetery Tour, a two-hour outing built around New Orleans cemetery traditions and supernatural stories. Pre-booking is necessary. Do not wait until the evening you want to go, especially if this is one of the main reasons you bought the pass.

Know which special events need extra caution

The Bayou Segnette State Park option is described as the New Orleans Lantern Festival. It features illuminated Chinese lanterns, cultural storytelling, and an acrobatic show by performers from China.

This is a distinctive evening event, but it is not the same kind of attraction as a permanent museum. Festival dates, weather, and availability are especially important here. Check the current schedule before building your pass around it.

The Southern Food and Beverage Museum offers exhibits on American food and drink, including the Museum of the American Cocktail’s New Orleans collection, La Galerie d’Absinthe, and Purloo Restaurant. Allow about an hour and a half.

The museum gives you another way to understand New Orleans through eating and drinking, making it a natural companion to the cooking school. I would choose one or both depending on your interest, but remember that the cooking demonstration already occupies three hours.

Plan by neighborhood, time, and reservation

The pass is easiest to use when you group nearby attractions. Put the Presbytere, Cabildo, and 1850 House on the same outing. Pair the Pharmacy Museum with other French Quarter plans. Keep the WWII Museum and cooking school as major blocks rather than trying to squeeze them into spare minutes.

Use the Go City app or included digital guide before your trip. The instructions explain which attractions accept the pass directly and which require reservations. Several popular activities may need advance booking, and Haunted History Tours specifically requires it.

The digital system deserves careful attention. Some buyers have had barcodes or confirmation numbers fail at the entrance, while manually entering the pass number eventually worked. Others reported that a pass stopped working after the first day or that they had to pay separately and seek help afterward.

I would download the pass, save the pass number, keep the booking confirmation, and check the entry instructions for every attraction. Do this before leaving your hotel. If the barcode does not display correctly, contact Go City promptly rather than discovering the problem at a timed tour.

The experience is offered in English. The supplied information allows service animals, and most people can participate. The activity information gives a maximum group size of 15, though the attractions themselves may have separate operating rules.

Who should buy this pass?

I would recommend it to an organized visitor who wants several different kinds of experiences and is willing to plan ahead. It is especially useful for a three-day visit built around the WWII Museum, cooking school, Creole Queen, city tour, and two or three shorter stops.

Families can benefit from the choice of museums, the zoo and aquarium options noted in the pass materials, and the Discovery Garden at Longue Vue. Couples and solo visitors may prefer the cooking school, jazz museum, river cruise, bike ride, or cemetery tour.

I would be cautious if you prefer spontaneous sightseeing. Sold-out tours, conflicting schedules, Monday closures, weather, and reservation requirements can leave you with fewer usable choices than expected.

FAQ

How much does the Go City New Orleans All-Inclusive Pass cost?

The listed price is $84 per person. Passes are available for periods ranging from one to five days.

What attractions are included?

Included choices listed here include the Adventures in New Orleans Bus Tour, National WWII Museum, Creole Queen, Vue Orleans, New Orleans School of Cooking, Presbytere, 1850 House, Cabildo, Pharmacy Museum, Edgar Degas House, New Orleans Jazz Museum, RideTHISbike, Bayou Segnette State Park’s lantern festival, Haunted History Tours, Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and Longue Vue House and Gardens. The full selection is described as more than 25 attractions, and the list can change.

Do I need reservations?

Yes, some popular activities require advance reservations. Haunted History Tours requires pre-booking, and the Go City app or digital guide provides instructions for other attractions.

How long does the cooking school experience take?

The New Orleans School of Cooking demonstration takes about three hours. It includes a live demonstration and Louisiana dishes such as gumbo, jambalaya, pralines, or other listed specialties.

Is transportation included to every attraction?

No. The pass does not include transportation to plantation or swamp tour locations, according to the supplied user information. Check the current instructions for each attraction before planning your route.

Can I cancel or change the pass?

The experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If an included activity is canceled because of poor weather, you are offered a different date or a full refund under the stated policy.

Should you book it?

Book the pass if you can name at least three or four included attractions you genuinely want to visit, then reserve the time-sensitive ones before you arrive. The strongest combination is the WWII Museum, New Orleans School of Cooking, Creole Queen, and city bus tour, with smaller museums added around them.

Skip it if you want a loose, last-minute schedule or if your visit falls on days when many museums are closed. At $84, the pass can be a good deal, but only when you use it actively. Save the digital details, plan by neighborhood, and treat reservations as part of the purchase, not an optional extra.