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Festival · annual
Mardi Gras Transportation
New Orleans, LA · usually February or March
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Why this week is different
Two weeks of parades that close major corridors on a published schedule, culminating on Fat Tuesday.
Venue. Parade routes across the city.
Booking advice. The parade route sheet is published in advance and we plan every booking around it. Hotel access changes by the day and sometimes by the hour.
What we provide during Mardi Gras
- Airport meets on the peak arrival and departure days, with a greeter desk for larger programmes
- Executive sedans and SUVs for individual and small-group movement
- Sprinters that keep a delegation together between the venue, the hotel and the customer dinner
- Published-interval shuttle loops between hotel blocks and the venue, reinforced at the two peaks
- Hospitality staging for suites, offsites and after-parties with a curfew that is actually held
- Setup and teardown runs outside normal service hours for exhibitor crews
- Consolidated billing per programme, per exhibitor or per department
Getting around New Orleans that week
New Orleans has one of the largest contiguous exhibition halls in the country at the Morial Convention Center, a cruise terminal on the river, and a festival calendar — Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Essence — that deliberately closes the streets. Parade routes are published in advance and a chauffeur who knows them is worth considerably more than one who does not.
Local note. Parade routes are published in advance and close whole corridors for hours. During Mardi Gras every booking is planned around the route sheet, and hotel access changes daily.
If the city is sold out, the nearest alternatives are within driving range: Baton Rouge (about 1.5 hours), Gulfport and Biloxi (about 1.5 hours), Houston (about 5.5 hours). We run those legs as fixed-fare city-to-city transfers.
Vehicles for this week
- Executive Sedan — 3 passengers
- Executive SUV — 6 passengers
- Executive Sprinter Van — 14 passengers
- Mini Bus & Executive Shuttle — 28 passengers
- Motorcoach — 56 passengers
Questions
Mardi Gras: frequently asked
When is Mardi Gras held?
Usually in February or March, at Parade routes across the city. Exact dates move year to year and are set by the organiser, so the desk confirms the published dates before quoting.
How far ahead should I book transportation for Mardi Gras?
The parade route sheet is published in advance and we plan every booking around it. Hotel access changes by the day and sometimes by the hour.
What vehicles are available during Mardi Gras?
Executive sedans and SUVs for individual travel, executive Sprinters for delegations of up to fourteen, and mini buses and motorcoaches for shuttle blocks. Availability in this week is genuinely finite, so the class you get is the class you booked early.
Do you run shuttles during Mardi Gras?
Yes — published-interval hotel-to-venue loops sized to your headcount, with vehicles added at the opening and closing peaks rather than run at full strength all day.
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