New Orleans True Murder Tour: Sinister Criminal Intentions

It is really challenging to figure out what kind of “spooky” walking tour to take in New Orleans. I wanted something that would be scary enough for my horror-loving teen and also not too cheesy. When my kid was a pre-teen, we enjoyed “ghost tours” in other southern cities (Savannah, Charleston) and they can delve into cheesy pretty quickly. I read a lot of reviews and decided that the “true crime” aspect of this tour was appealing. Since there was an age restriction (over 16,) my hope was that it would hit the right balance of scary, but not cheesy for our group. Our guide was very knowledgeable and made point to tell us the facts of each case. If he delved into speculation, he always made a point to say that-I did appreciate that the stories were true. However, in an effort to state the facts, sometimes the experience lacked shock value/delivery. Sometimes he jumbled the stories/repeated information that he already said or got the sequence of events mixed up. I can appreciate that if you’re doing multiple tours in a day, but I expected more for what we paid. He did admit and apologized that he was a bit distracted, but it made me wonder if we would have been happier with another tour altogether.

Mikko was an amazing guide. We loved the stories. He was very informative about the city of New Orleans.

Really wish it was different. I had such high hopes for it too. The fact that it was lacking in entertainment was very disappointing. The stories didn’t seem compatible with the area, a lot of them took place elsewhere and either began or ended in NOLA but it wasn’t the general history of the area. It was more opinionated than cold hard thrilling facts. I honestly enjoy a podcast more. What was promised was not all there, we didn’t enter or get that close to the locations that were listed and the highlight location of the tour, being the Lalaurie Mansion, the main reason I even booked this tour to begin with was completely overlooked. We never went nor got close to it and no stories came of it either. It was highly disappointing. The tour guide Mikko, seemed tired and disinterested in his work as guide, like he was it happy to do our tour & he drifted off and had long pauses when telling the stories almost like he was either trying to remember the details or filling in the blanks & the walks in between locations were in silence and we spent more time sitting in bars than anything. He even made it blatantly obvious and stated he would gladly take drinks as his tip & my group wasn’t into drinking but he went ahead and drank anyway. Honestly would like a refund of some kind. Don’t feel like I got what I paid for. This was the worst moment of our entire trip. Wish my tour guide had been Dane, I heard so many good things about him. Incredibly bummed out.