Nearly all New Orleans travel writing is aimed at couples. You’re bringing eighteen people. Those are different sports, and this site only plays one of them.
NOLA Group Travel is an independent guide to planning big-group trips to New Orleans — bachelorette and bachelor weekends, family reunions, corporate retreats, festival crews, friends who finally picked a date. Every page assumes there are a lot of you, because that one fact changes everything: where you can sleep, which restaurants will seat you, how you get around, and what the weekend costs.
The editorial rules
We take sides. A guide that likes everything is a brochure. When something is overpriced, overhyped, or a logistical trap for a crowd, the page says so. When a famous name is genuinely worth it, the page says that too.
Nobody pays to be here. No restaurant, hotel, venue, or rental company pays to appear in these guides — there are no sponsored placements, no affiliate links, and no pay-for-praise. Recommendations are made on fit, and competing options are compared on equal footing.
Specifics over credentials. We don’t ask you to trust us because of who we are. We put dates, prices, capacities, and names on the page so you can check the work.
Updated continuously. Festival dates roll forward, restaurants close, laws change. Pages carry their last-updated date, and the calendar pages are maintained against each year’s announced dates.
What’s actually on the site
- Where to stay when there are a lot of you — the honest comparison of villas, guesthouses, suite hotels, and room blocks
- Every festival and its dates — Mardi Gras through Southern Decadence, with group logistics
- Restaurants that take big groups — private rooms, buyouts, and booking strategy
- All guides — three hundred and counting, organized by occasion and neighborhood
If you’re planning a trip where the group chat has more than a dozen people in it, you’re in the right place.