A fair trip. You'd be better off just taking an airboat tour. If you only have the time, do that tour. If you have some extra time to kill, this is a nice tour. See plenty of alligators and some turtles, and some nice scenery, on a barge-style boat.

Instead of this tour, do the Post-Katrina City Tour. It is the same tour, but with half an hour of Katrina info and touring, including a drive through the lower 9th Ward. This half an hour is all you need of Katrina Touring.

Don't take the full Katrina Disaster Tour, as that was mostly, "this happened here, and that was there...", all from inside a bus. I slept through much of it. Waste of a tour.

The Post-Katrina City Tour was also entirely from inside of a bus, with only a ten minute stop at an above ground cemetery. Very informative though. Decent tour.

Highlight of my trip. Great jazz, awesome food-buffet style, all you can eat- have the creamed spinach. The tour is only 2 hours, but you can get on board the ship an hour early. Do this. The band starts playing immediately, and you will get an extra hour of jazz to enjoy.

What a damned Waste of Money:
You spend more time filling out paperwork and waivers than actually riding to the base of the mountain, which is only 10 minutes away by bus. Meal choice was lousy. Guide was late to pick-up, then didn't even drop us off back at the train station, but made us walk.! Got no info from guide on mountain, history, etc.