Southern Music & Dixieland Tour

Optional Excursions

Mobile Dinner
Tonight is an excellent opportunity to mix and mingle with your fellow holiday makers in a casual "down-home" Southeastern setting. First, we drive by Mobile Bay's shore for sights of the USS Alabama Battleship en route to one of Mobile's historic restaurants offering choices like fresh gulf seafood, chicken and prime rib.
New Orleans Cruise Dinner Jazz
Your visit to New Orleans would be incomplete without a trip on the authentic Sternwheel Steamboat Natchez along the banks of the Mississippi River. The 2-hour dinner jazz cruise offers a casual New Orleans style buffet and live Dixieland jazz. This tour takes in views of the city that you can only see from the water.
Oak Alley Plantation
Feel the gentle breeze of Southern hospitality on a tour that takes you back to the glory of the Old South! We will leave the city and travel to the Oak Alley Plantation, built in 1839. 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 antebellum home. An included guided tour will reveal the fascinating stories of the home and its history.
Court of Two Sisters Brunch
Enjoy a unique dining experience at the Court of Two Sisters located in a historic courtyard of the French Quarter. The authentic Jazz Brunch buffet features more than sixty authentic Creole and New Orleans dishes, from eggs benedict to fresh seafood. Let your palate experience the gourmet pleasures while listening to an authentic New Orleans jazz band. Truly a brunch you will never forget.
Swamp Tour
Journey with us by boat, Cajun style, through the heart of Louisiana's swamplands. From the comfort of your swamp boat, you will travel deep into the bayous to see and hear life in this fascinating land. Be sure to bring your camera as the swamp boat may encounter wildlife at any time! Alligators, snakes, egrets, white tailed deer, mink and nutria all make their homes here.
French Quarter Walking Tour
Take a locally guided walking tour through the French Quarter, hearing the stories, history and legends of the famous buildings, bars and restaurants. See the Quarter come to life in its courtyards, corners and quaint streets named after the saints and sinners from the towns European past. And no walking tour is complete without a stop or two to discover the famous "spirits" of New Orleans. This is history?with a twist.
Memphis Mojo Tour
On this locally guided tour you'll see and learn a little about Memphis and its rich musical heritage in a live-music tour with plenty of interactive fun. The tour will show you sights relating to Elvis, such as Graceland, Lauderdale Courts (the Presley family's first home in Memphis), places where Elvis worked and frequented, and the old Hotel Chisca (where radio station WHBQ first broadcast his music to the world); it will also feature sights relating to other Memphis legends including WC Handy ("Father of the Blues"), BB King and Johnny Cash, as well as colourful items of local history and lore. After seeing the sights and hearing the tales, you will have time on your own to explore Beale Street before you are transferred back to the hotel.
Memphis Highlights
Today we visit Sun Studio, where the sound of rock and roll was born! You will see Sun Studio itself, where the music was recorded and visit the museum gallery, which has pictures, records, memorabilia about the studio and the artists who recorded there. From here we head over to the Beale Street area and the Rock-n-Soul Museum, a Smithsonian exhibit, where you will have time to visit the galleries that examine the history of Memphis music and its impact on cultural change

Customer feedback for Southern Music & Dixieland Tour

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"My husband and I travelled with your company to Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville on Friday 21 May 2010 and I would just like to take this opportunity of thanking Alice and Gerome for making our very first tour holiday fantastic and unforgettable. They are both an asset to Jetsave. Alice's knowledge was second to none she was very helpful and nothing was a chore to her. The tour was unbelievable, everything ran like clockwork, the weather was superb and the company was too. I will not hesitate to recommend this tour to anyone, in fact I've not stopped talking about it and we will be looking to travel with Jetsave in the near future."
Carol Scullion