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So I keep telling everyone to get out an about and so I thought I’d write about it…….so how do you plan the perfect vacation—Well I thought I’d start out with

The “simple” Vacation

OK first you gotta figure out what you like or want to see the most or whatever

and for this proposed trip, lets say you’re a Vampire fan….and go from there.

 

First thing first though:

  1.  how far do you want to go?  Simple vacarions are defined by me as some place you can drive to or take quick flight—like you can fly to the Key West from Orlando in an hour or so and you can drive to New Orleans from Texas in a few hours.   And do you wanta take the car (or lease one just for the trip) or a bus or a train or fly what ever
  2. How long do you have available to take off?.  Also are your vacation times specific—like you’re all expected to take vacation in the summer (i.e. teachers) or around holidays or whatever-
  3. How much do you have and/or can afford to spend?
  4. Who’s going, you and family, you and friend, you and a significant lover or even you alone?

Now we can pick a place:

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Bottom of the Cup Tearoom / Psychic Reading & Gifts

327 Chartres St | New Orleans
Crystal-ball gazers, psychics, palmists and tarot card readers are all on the menu at this fabled tea house, first opened in 1929.

 

 

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What better place to go for spook the New Orleans:

New Orleans Haunted Ghost, Voodoo, and Vampire  and Witches Tour  

Welcome to Witches Brew Tours

I mean you can’t ask for more than a 4 in 1 tour

By: Witches Brew Tours

 

These go  at 5, 7 and 9 daily from Mon-Sat and cost $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $12 for children

 

and things are so easy with the internet just go to

Just go to the www.NewOrleans.com  and then mystical and haunted

and of course Vampires are a choice as well

 

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Join the city’s mystical séance. Take a cemetery tour or spend a night in a ghostly hotel. New Orleans features witches and warlocks, vampires and ghosts of every description. New Orleans welcomes everyone: the living, the dead and those souls in between.

 

 

 

St. Roch Cemetery

 

Vampire lore has a history in New Orleans that resurfaced when Anne Rice, the New Orleans-born doyenne of dark vampire fiction, wrote her “Interview with the Vampire” series in the 1980s. The popular books inspired hordes of fans to mill outside of her possibly haunted Garden District abode on First Street and to peek around other places for vampire-resting places. Rice moved to California in 2004 but you can still find signed copies of her books at Garden District Book Shop, where she once arrived at a book signing in a ferried in a horse-drawn hearse. Then there’s Boutique du Vampyre in the French Quarter, which claims to be the only vampire shop in the country, open to both mortals and vampires since 2003. They offer tours,coffin-shapedd backpacks, capes, you know… the usual.

 

and there’s no problem picking a hotel and a room in that hotel

 

Vampire’s Lover Lair

This is our MOST REQUESTED ROOM & for those seeking “ETERNAL BLISS” People are just dying to get in this room, as it is “Drop Dead Gorgeous” & dark! The walls are the color of a rich Merlot wine it screams rich decadence, & decorated with a hand carved replica of the bed in the “Interview with a Vampire “movie, comfortable chairs, a period style desk, a large armoire, & has a large sculpted drape tub & hand held shower, with beautiful black marble vanity & wash basin.
This is at the MAGNOLIA MANSION HOTEL
 in the historic garden district of New Orleans
and if you think that this is all just made up for the tourists read:
about CASA DO DIABO!!  and the real vampire of New Orleans
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Voodoo Authentica™of New Orleans Cultural Center & Collection is a practitioner-owned and operated establishment, founded in 1996. We’re located on the quiet and picturesque rue Dumaine, in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans.Here at the shop, we provide a complete line of locally handmade Voodoo Dolls, Gris Gris Bags, Potion Oils, and other unique New Orleanian, Haitian, & African Spiritual Arts & Crafts. Additionally, we offer Rituals, Readings, Spiritual Work & Consultations performed by our experienced team of In-House Spiritualists.

http://www.voodooshop.com/

 

 

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How about a little sight seeing—On  the corner of Chestnut and First, in the Garden District, stands a handsome Greek revival mansion with Ionic and Corinthian columns and arches of ornate, lacy ironwork.   It use to be Anne Rice’s home famous for her Interview with the Vampire.
Plan Your Trip to New Orleans at Halloween and attend  The Endless Night Vampire Ball at the House of Blues which is on October 26 this year.  https://endlessnight.com/   which brings up the subject of when is the right time to take your vacation—you don’t want to visit Alaska in the middle of winter—especially if there are vampire chasing you—well one would think.  Or when not to plan it—like in New Orleans avoid Feb. and March—Mardi Gras like Easter (and Lent) vary and you don’t wanta book then—first cause it will be impossible if you aren’t early and second because it will be SO MUCH More Expensive and finally if you do make it there the place will be packed and activities less available and the crowds not conducive to your Vampire hunting.
We mentioned the Boutique du Vampyre 
https://feelthebite.com/https://feelthebite.com/
709 St Ann St,
that has Red hot chocolate mix as well as the mandatory fangs. reading, books, journals  and MUCH more
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New Orleans Vampire Tour

Enter the world of the undead as our licensed guides take you for an unforgettable journey into the darkest ends of the French Quarter on our New Orleans Vampire Tour.  Experience the legends of famous New Orleans vampires, real and fictional.  Visit locations associated with these creatures of the night including a visit to a once Vampire Tavern!  Are there vampires still lurking in the French Quarter?  You decide!

  • Victoria/Czech Dessert Motif TEA SET with 4 Small Cups and Saucers, Creamer and Serving Plate

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Southern Costume Company NOLA (504) 523-4333

https://sccnola.com/

951 Lafayette St. | New Orleans 70113
Regular Hours: Monday – Friday from 9:00 to 6:00

Get a custom costume made to relive your vampire dream—or to wander the French quarter and really get into the mood.

 

 

Oh and be sure you’re careful—stay in the well lit tourist areas. New Orleans has a reputation of being hard on the lax and careless.    Keep your wallets in inside pockets and the like—avoid areas where lights and people are scant….ladies you might want one of those small purses that you can carry in a bra or when you get the costume made get a hidden inside pocket—avoid cemeteries —unless your a vampire and then avoid people with crosses and/or stakes and policemen with silver bullets.  The best time to tour cemeteries is during the day and with a tour group…..there’s a lot more out there that’s scary beyond ghost, goblins, vampires and witches.

 

Voodoo Bar

718 N Rampart St

Ghost tours depart from this bar so that’s a plus.

 

 

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Like the Spanish Moss that drapes the trees of the nearby bayous, mystery and the occult have shrouded New Orleans since its birth.   For hundreds of years, families there have practiced a custom called “sitting up with the dead.” “In the Footsteps of Dracula”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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