12 Fun Team Building Activities in New Orleans for 2025
A trip to New Orleans is so full of culture, cuisine, and activities that it can be overwhelming to choose the best option for your group. It’s easy to visit the city during a festival, stop off at tourist traps, and miss out on all the other historical and cultural offerings. If you’re someone interested in seeing what locals and travelers love about New Orleans, you’re in the right place!
We’ve compiled a list of twelve large group activities in New Orleans for anybody that wants to make sure that their friends, family, and coworkers not only have a blast, but experience a proper piece of everything the city of a million dreams has to offer.
Yum!
New Orleans has a great rep for music and drinking (thanks in large part due to Mardi Gras) but there’s another aspect that deserves its flowers: the food. Through Sidewalk Food Tour’s guided experience, you can try out all the delicious flavors The Big Easy has in stock.
Sidewalk Food Tour offers options for experiencing traditiona; Creole and Cajun cuisines such as fresh shucked oysters, spicy jambalaya, and ice cream daiquiris. Alternatively, you can try out the unique takes on Jewish-Italian cuisine, Korean BBQ, and even Tex-Mex. You can also customize for a private or corporate team-building experience, ensuring that everyone gets an experience that’s more to their taste, pun intended.
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Learn a new recipe!
Sidewalk also offers interactive cooking classes for groups! We allow you and your companions to customize the experience. Do you have a dietary restriction? Do you have a small group or large group? Are you interested in getting your hands dirty? Focus on New Orleans favorites or select other options, and choose if you want an instructional focus or would rather turn it into a little competition between you and your group.
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Cheers to that!
3. Mixology Classes
Learn how to make classic New Orleans cocktails at one of the many mixology classes open to group participation. Many of these come with history and flavor profiles provided, giving additional insight into how drinks you’re familiar with may have their roots in New Orleans culture.
New Orleans
4. Swamp Tour
If you’re going to be down in the bayou, you might as well do it right. With an expert providing a guided tour through a swamp on a flat-bottomed boat or an airboat, you and your group can get a proper taste of what it’s like to visit a serene, protected wetland. It’s a nice way to escape the liveliness of the city, even just for a short while.
Get outside!
5. Historic Cruise
If swamp tours aren’t quite your thing, try a historic cruise instead. These guided experiences include visiting historical landmarks and rivers, and some even include live jazz music and mouthwatering dinner options. See New Orleans from a different point of view.
A performance you can’t miss!
6. Live Jazz Show
New Orleans is credited with being the birthplace of jazz music thanks to its role as a port city where musical styles collided. Visiting a live jazz show is a prime opportunity to get a taste of the mix of cultures and sounds that created one of the most renowned music forms in history. Sit in on future legends performing for guests! You never know who you’ll catch on stage.
Should you try out for American Idol?
7. Karaoke
Just because New Orleans is known for music doesn’t mean you and your friends can’t thoroughly damage that reputation. New Orleans has plenty of Karaoke clubs ready for you and your group to eat, drink, and sing at a questionable quality.
Can you figure it out before time runs out?
8. Escape Rooms
Escape rooms are fun in any city, and New Orleans is no exception. Grab your group and enjoy solving puzzles and figuring out riddles as you logic your way out of a room. The fun here is the New Orleans settings and themes, and how aspects like voodoo can play into an escape room’s design. Escape rooms allow your group to work together, creating camaraderie and getting everyone involved.
Learn something while in NOLA
9. Museum Trips
For the more historically minded, we’ve got you covered. There are several museum trips you can schedule to step back through history, including a visit to the national WWII Museum. These venues are filled with history and facts not just from New Orleans, but from across the country. Are you interested in art? NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art) has been in business since 1911 and now spans three floors! What about insects? New Orleans has a fascinating Audubon Insectarium!
Photo-ops included!
10. Architecture Tours
Taking an architecture tour from New Orleans doesn’t just teach you about the city, it teaches you about the country. Learn how interaction with visitors from all over the globe influenced the styles of houses, cottages, and mansions that are now part of the genetic makeup of New Orleans.
Incredible strings performance!
11. Orchestra
Jazz isn’t the only musical experience New Orleans has to offer. While you’re visiting, why not bring your group to witness the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra? Whether you go for rehearsal, a featured artist, or even their open rehearsals, you can leave with a brand new music experience under your belt.
Enjoy the view and some quality time!
12. Rooftop bar
One great way to end of a trip to New Orleans is with a night at a rooftop bar. Get a great view of the city at night, drink and eat to your heart’s content, and leave off with a view seared in your mind.
Just like any other city, a trip to New Orleans is what you make it. Our advice is to put your group’s fun in the hands of local experts who can make sure you experience the real NOLA – not just the tourist traps that barely scratch the surface.