15 NEW ORLEANS Scams, Rip Offs & Tourist Traps (Watch Before You Go to Mardi Gras in 2023) !
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- What are the BIGGEST Scams, Rip Offs & Tourist Traps to avoid on a trip to New Orleans Mardi Gras in 2023? We take a stroll around the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, point out what to be aware of and what to avoid in NOLA and around the French Quarter. Make sure you leave a comment down below and let me know if any of these Rip Offs have happened to you!
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I'm from New Orleans and I can tell you this video is a very accurate description of what to expect is you come here.
Hi Jaycation thank you for this informative video! This is going to be very helpful for the future visitors in NOLA. You’re doing a great job!
NOLA is fun!
Thanks for the helpful advice and tips. I hope to visit there someday!
Its a fun city!
Amazing vid ty
Thanks for this!!
Thanks for the heads up me and my family are about to go out there 🙏
Excellent, accurate info!
Thanks for the info. Hope to visit New Orleans some day soon!
I want to go back!
Great video
New Orleans is my home by watching this video, you have been given some valuable information, so be safe.❤🎉😂
Man I haven't been since my 19th bday and me and my mama had a blast! SO want to go back but glad you made this video since now I am a mama and I am more aware! Awesome content Jay Jay keep the videos coming.
I am here right now, I promise to come back, lovingggg it..😊
These are really good tips for my trip to NOLA next month. This is the type of stuff I worry about because I am too nice and talk to everyone.
Enjoy yourself! You’ll have a great time
Great Tips! We were on our way there this weekend but sadly, had to change our plans. Will keep these in mind when we do end up getting out there.
Mardi Gras is always a fun time! Ill be in Vegas 🤣
@@Jaycation love the videos and really enjoy the footage cut into the dialog. You’re doing great things!
Ive been there many times. My last trip I took my first ride on the Steamboat Natchez. It was really cool. Everything you said it was, plus, you get to talk to so many friendly, interesting people!
My advice: be prepared to spend a decent amount of money. In my experience, trying to go anywhere on the cheap, is not going to bring the most enjoyment. I agree to do your research and avoid the scammers, but good meals and drinks, and a nice hotel, they gonna cost you. So be ready. And you will have a great time!
I go a couplenofntimesnoer year. Excellent advice, thanks. Keep it up!!
Thank you, I'm viistng next week !
Thank you Jaycation for the tips. Im going to NOLA this weekend for the first time and I also watched your Vegas video vefore going last week!
A tip from someone born and raised here in New Orleans is don’t carry a wallet around. Instead keep your ID, an just 1 credit card in your front pocket. Also keep your money split up between your front 2 pockets. Another tip my dad and uncle’s who are all retired NOPD taught me as a kid/teens was keep an old wallet with a few bucks in it, and if someone tries to rob you to toss your wallet out on the ground, and when they are going for your wallet run the opposite direction. I’m 53 years old now and was born and raised here in New Orleans, and I only had to do that wallet trick once when I was 26 years old. You most likely won’t ever need to do it, but if you do you’ll only be out a few bucks. The other word of advice I’ll give you is stay on main streets, and don’t go venturing down the side streets in the French Quarters, and if possible always stay in a big group. Majority of the crime in New Orleans doesn’t involve the citizens/tourists, but that doesn’t mean to not pay attention to your friends, and yourself. I hope you really enjoy my city
We made the mistake of taking only big bills to Bourbon Street. Our bar tab at one place was about $35.00, so we gave the waitress a $100. She said she`d be "right back' with the change. But then she walked past us again and again and again, ignoring our signal . Finally, my buddy grabbed her arm, dragged her back to our table and reached into her bar apron where she already had all our change and more... Lesson learned. Exact change next time, to avoid the stall...
Here's a lesson for others--NEVER stick your hand into a waitresses pocket if you want to go home in one piece!!
@@skontheroad Yeah if that bar had a bouncer that saw that not only would that idiot have lost his change but he'd end up in OPP with a bruise or two.
And not a bruise to his ego.
NOPD don't play and their motto is toss em into the clink and let the lawyers sort it out.
@@skontheroad naw don't play with people's money in the first place and you won't have any problems. You take my money, I take it back by any means necessary. Plain n simple
@@lightoftabor you can do that but you'll be in jail. Proper response is to go to a manager.
@@getmeouttatennessee4473 sounds like something a coward would say
Good advice Jay Jay
Thanks Phil!
Great informative video👍🏻👍🏻
Where were you at the end of the video? On an observation deck of a building? Is it free to go there? Which building is it?
Thanks that was Vue Orleans. Its about $20 but a nice experience that takes u through new orleans history
WILD!!!!! Thank you!! Heading to NOLA this weekend and your tips are great! THANK YOU
That STUPID Shoes ones...WE got hit with that....and so many "speeding tickets" through school zones from their traffic camera even when it's NOT school hours.
Thanks for this Jay, would love to visit New Orleans at some point but as a Englishman there are not a ton of flights directly from UK so I would need to find another location to combine with it.
Thanks so informative! this is exactly what I was looking for!
Best advice is look for hidden gems in the city outside of the quarter. There are so many good tips in this video for real. Bourbon Street is alright, but there is so much to see everywhere else too. Will subscribe for sure after seeing this video ❤🎉
Great video thank you
Good job young man.
Great job geeze😂 im nervous
Great video here! I visit there often and recommend ALL the precautions he listed. To add, go with a buddy especially recommended for ladies, don't drink if you don't have a better than average tolerance for alcohol, pre-game for what you intend to do, and book way far in advance to save cash when you get there. Again great pointers and hope you enjoy a trip to New Orleans safely y'all!
Thanks! Great points. Such a fun city just have to take precautions to enjoy!
I was born & raised in New Orleans and used to work at the NOPD Auto Pound. Always be careful and observant of where you park. Do not park where it's posted to NOT PARK. There are hundred of tourist cars towed by the Street Department daily. You'll have to pay for towing fee, storage fees, and of course, parking tickets. And if you wait too long, your car can get transferred to another pound, so then there's more fees.
Thanks for sharing. I got a lot of good information from this video. I'm planning to visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
The joke ''I know where you bought your shoes'' is an very old one that i have heard for years, i live in Europe and there are several places here this scam has come to in later year such as in London, Madrid, Paris, Rome (across colosseum) including in Moscow (My russian ex witnessed that) altough some do it with a joke and other will put liquid on your shoes and charge you everthing from 10-20 euro. As always if you dont know the person KEEP WALKING!
Ty
Awesome job jay.
My partna! How r u
Awesome jay you ?
Great my friend
Awesome how is my San Diego doing ?
Do you have the info for which swamp tour you went on with the alligator they put on your head?
I had to laugh when he said "be sure it's a legit ghost tour." Right...one with actual ghosts. Legit.
I think he means legit like make sure they’re really taking you to well know places that are “supposedly” haunted or historical. Sometimes you’ll pay 30 bucks for a tour and they’ll literally just walk you down a couple blocks, point to a bar or two where you can get a drink and be done. We did our homework and booked a walking tour and it was supposed to be an hour and a half walking tour. But the lady doing the tour was really awesome. Took us to great spots and gave a ton of information. The tour she gave us was over 2 hours. That’s what he means.
You give $20-40 for a shot tip?
Wow, 5 bucks tops!
Yep,$5 bucks tops for a shot!
Definitely RECOMMEND STAYING AT OLDE TOWNE INN IF YOU COME it’s a smaller local hotel really cute with cheaper prices
I’ll be visiting for a few days + staying now far from the French Quarter, I booked a rental car but now I’m thinking I won’t need it. Would you recommend keeping it or canceling it?
Do you know of a good parking garage for the car while staying in Nola but not walking distance!?
It looks beautiful I always wanted to see it.
Guys park in the garage at Harrahs covered garage go play two dollars for 30 minutes at the penny machine and get the free parking while you hang out in the quarter for as long as you want
When visiting Bourbon Street, I knew something was up when they were influencing me to go in the Gentlemen’s Club.
I successfully resisted to enter those places, but their persuasion ALMOST got me. 😂
They are Streetcars. Cable cars are in San Francisco.
Love New Orleans
Someone tried the “I know where you got those shoes” scam on me and my wife.
I was an English major.
I proceeded to lecture him on the difference between “got” and “have.”
He gave up pretty quickly.
Grammar is Kryptonite to New Orleanians.
Have you done a video on Miami beach?
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What was your hotel? Looked nice. About how many blocks from bourbon st?
It was the Marriott in the Warehouse district. About a 20-25 min walk to bourbon st.
So glad you gave Mambo Sally a plug. Well done!
New Orleans looks like a wonderful place Jay. I have to visit the city one day
Don't waste your time
Overnight parking (near big events) in big cities costs $$.$65 in SF, $55 Boston or L.A.
My son is eighteen, we’re from Belgium. Can we enter bars at night (eg to watch a band play), or only during the day?
You need to be 21 to drink in the US
That happened to me I told him as I kept walking that I wasn't wearing shoes it was his imagination the trick is to keep walking
Your wallet and phone have in your front pocket.
Yes. I had my wallet stole from my back pocket when I was in middle school here in Vegas. It had my school id 🪪 and 5 bucks in it.
Welcome back to the NOLA Jay. Be safe crime in the NOLA has been on the rise. Stay on Bourbon and Stay Close to the NOPD!!
Thanks! I actually filmed this back in October. Just posting now with Mardi Gras coming!
@@Jaycation Gotcha!! Good job on the Vid. I like how you got photo bombed LOL Great job, Educational for sure for visitors to the Big Easy.
My experience right after covid was Marriott canal street 189 a night no channels on TV no hot running water piece of junk never ever Marriott anything agin
Heads up, the horse rides are cheaper if you go in a group. But I dont have a group you say? No problem.... Told them it was only 2 of us and they let wait while sitting down in the carriage enjoying the sights until 4-6 more people want a tour as well and then we were off. Was amazing and we only spend $20 for 2 people.
I only paid $10 for a pic with a snake, might help my man’s from Nola. But we got fair prices on everything
Born and raised in New orleans.we go camping, fishing or to the beach during Mardi Gras. Tourists and transplants ruined it for us.
Or, they helped prop up the local economy within 2 weeks time!!
@@skontheroad nope, it's not worth it.
Brooo, I had a shot girl run up on me, jam a tube of Fireball into my mouth & then ask me for $20. I'm allergic as hell to cinnamon, specifically artificial cinnamon. I start freaking out. She starts freaking out. She's handing me shot after shot to rinse my mouth out; I was like "Dude, I am not paying for these - my mouth is blistering," & she said "do not worry about it, just don't tell anyone." lol.
as someone who is a sucker for scams and ripoffs - thanks for crossing that one off my list of places to visit, a dog eat dog world at its finest
Any place that is cool enough to attract tourist is going to attract the people who attempt to get money from them. It’s just a fact of life.
What the best place to stay?
Scams are the LEAST of your problems. CRIME is OFF THE HOOK, even on famous CANAL STREET which borders the Quarter.
Also this goes with the first one watch out for women handing out beads in the quarter you’ll think they are being nice but they will want payment for their beads😂
I went to New Orleans for wrestle mania in 2018 and had a blast! I definitely had a couple guys pull that “were you got your shoes” thing but I just have them $20 laughed and kept it moving. My bro and I definitely took a couple wrong turns and ended up in the hood, there was a group of young black men we came across and one of them walked us back to our hotel to keep us safe! I know the crime rate is worse now than it was then but I can’t say enough good things about that city!❤
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Thank you so much! We’ve been wanting to visit and this make sit helpful! Side note: I sent an email and wanted to know best way to communicate? I sent it via IG too. Thanks! ❤
Someone appeared to purposely drop a tightly folded up dollar bill right as I walked past during my visit. We were on the same street as, but up a little ways from, The Court of Two Sisters. I immediately thought it was strange/a scam, so I didn’t pick it up or anything but it’s not a particular scam that I had heard of in all the vids that I’ve watched nor research that I did so it had me curious. I wasn’t alone, my husband was with me but I guess we “obviously” looked like tourists. Lol Idk. Odd.
Street cars and walking is the easiest form of transportation if you have the money. If you’re on the west bank like me, Algiers, it is not a walking town. You can try to walk but you’re surrounded by so much water and it’s scary. It’s best to just walk in small neighborhoods in Algiers.
And Gun Fire. Don’t forget Gun fire
8:02 “woo girls” (HIMYM)
I miss that show!
How it’s like? What?
I was in New Orleans last week aint none of this happened to me. But im from Louisiana so
Anyone else from Chicago look at the parking rates and laughed?
Always go outside the quarter to eat!
And just FYI-"Mardi Gras" (the real experience), is not INSIDE the French Quarter!!
And you can NOT buy tickets to ride the floats from tourist agencies! There are strict rules as to who can ride, and when (which years). They have cameras at certain points who ticket the float organization and charge them $1,000's if they screw up! So, they don't!! Buyer beware!!
Some krewes do allow outsiders to ride for a fee, especially the truck parades that run through Metairie and the outskirts of town.
Every rider is required to wear mask so the whole camera thing is questionable. 🎉
The whole city is a ripoff😂😂 just saying I’m a local and there’s better places then the city worth seeing here. We stay far far away from the city it’s to much.
Heading there on Thursday staying up on st. Bernard Ave. Wanna go check put the voodoo museums.
You should never book on spirit airlines for any destination.
When they give me the shoe bit I tell them their hallucinating iam batefoot
I go to New Orleans all the time of course I live here in Louisiana. When on Bourbon st make sure you don't down the drink called hand grenades. You will be intoxicated before you even realize it. Mardi Gras is amazing but I have to say Halloween time is so much fun. People who dress like demons do walk on stilts and will appear out of no where. It is amazing if your into the Halloween theme.
stay at "name brand" hotels...the cheap ones are cheap for a reason...dont wonder down side streets, stay where the people are...
From Miami American has best prices
I’m from New Orleans and the parking thing is true.
Mardi Gras started in Mobile Alabama and they Marci Gras parades too. It’s a little more family friendly
Penny pinching there bro. Who's assed? X
This video makes me scared to take my family and little nephews to French Quarter
Haha New Orleans isnt family friendly IMO less than Vegas is!
I just got back last night from my 18th trip. This video was WARNINGS . Not all these things happen or happen often. The FQ and NOLA is VERY VERY safe for tourists.
I def wouldn’t take kids to BOURBON STREET after about 6/7 o clock .older teens could handle it. It is not the drunken mess and craziness many people think it is . Although that can happen after midnight or on very busy nights. Plenty to see in Nola without sticking to bourbon street. There are about 8 blocks of bourbon that is crazy part of the FQ . The other 98% of the quarter is not as crazy. Although you will see harmless homeless/mentally I’ll people everywhere
@@tubelance I heard that area was called The Battlefield by Louis Armstrong because it was so bad
@@latruce well he died over 50’years ago . The FQ is different ,policing is different financially the city has to protect its money maker (the tourism /convention crowds ) if you look into it crime in the quarter and downtown areas is actually not that high especially from like 7 am til 2 am. Of course crazy things can happen at 4 am in any big city. I’ve never felt unsafe in NOLA.
@@tubelance you’re right. That’s good they did a good job with protecting the area
Holy Cow! There must be other cities that are a hundred times better than New Orleans!
Bourbon street is a must when visiting New Orleans
Sounds like a must stay away from to me
just like the las vegas street performers, the pictures are free, the tips are pressured out of you. that's one thing you got wrong here.
#trustno1 🤣
NO ONE! Hahaha
One ripoff is buying beads for $10 per necklace!! They promised me things, specific things! And I never got what they promised with those beads!
Also “free shot!!” Then they ask you “want another one?” - 3 shots later, ONLY that first shot was free, but they talked like it was all free
Haha ive never paid for beads! 🤣
They promised you "things"???? Dude, you are the idiot! 😅😅😅
@@Jaycation And NEVER pay for beads!!! SOOO amateur!
Why do people wear the beads?
Bourbon street is in the French quarter. Infact, it’s the heart beat of it
Please please be careful getting in a Uber with anyone, watch for cars & pedestrians at stop lights bc they will rob you, be careful riding bikes no one knows how to drive down here someone is literally hurt or dead from being hit by a car while on a bike so ridiculously often!!!! Just please be careful. Our city is beautiful and fun but very dangerous just don’t be dumb and let your guard down. Be aware of your surroundings and don’t trust anyone. We have southern hospitality but they have some scummy ass people.
Don’t go on spirit? Bro. My wifey and I just came back from Jazz fest this week. We stayed at the Westin close to the warehouse district and we booked with spirit. Everything in total, hotel and flight was $450. But we booked this last November. My advice, book early. If you try to go to NOLA and you book within a couple weeks or maybe even a month then you won’t book a decent prices. PLAN YOUR TRIPS!! And one more thing. Yes. There are people there that will do the scams about your feet. But cops have been on those people pretty hard lately. Either way, if someone asks you anything about your shoes or tells you a riddle, just walk away. Or say you’re a local. But worse case, even if you do start talking to them and at some point they ask you for money and you refuse they might get mad and talk shit to you but 9 out of 10 they won’t do anything because they know they’ll be leaving in cuffs.
Most of what you say are not scams people are doing stuff like giving you a shot or whatever and if you want a service then you tip if you don't then you don't
Make discord
I need to learn discord
@@Jaycation nah
If you like the smell of vomit and stale beer,you'll love the French Quarter.
Would you recommend other areas of Louisiana?
Best food in NOLA?