Location: Lafayette
Top Things to do in Lafayette
Top 10 Budget-friendly Things to do in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA)
Founded by the Acadians in the 19th century, the legacy of Louisiana's French, Spanish and Caribbean ancestors comes together in Lafayette, creating a city with, amongst other things, a vast selection of restaurants serving everything from spicy po'boys to crawfish etouffee. With its lively street festivals, impromptu Zydeco concerts, historic plantations and food markets where locals still order their plate lunches in Louisiana French, Lafayette is the heart of Cajun country.
Restaurants in Lafayette
1. Pack & Paddle
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 181 reviews
Pack & Paddle offers kayak tours of our local swamps and bayous as well as hikes in the area. Join one of our scheduled tours or book a private tour for your group. Explore the Lake Martin, Bayou Teche, Lake Fausse Point or Chicot areas with us! Pack & Paddle also specializes in Kayak fishing trips in our brackish marshes. We love introducing folks to the beauty and excitement of Louisiana.
2. Red Lerille's Health & Raquet Club
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 64 reviews
The south's oldest and largest health and racquet club keeping the people of Lafayette, LA healthy for over 50 years. Red's facilities include: 2 large co-ed work-out areas, ladies only workout area, 20 outdoor and 3 indoor tennis courts, 4 racquetball courts, junior olympic outdoor pool, 2 indoor pools, kids water park, basketball court, MIT (maximum intensity training) facility, indoor and outdoor jogging tracks, indoor and outdoor bootcamp courses, and more.
Reviewed By cjwolfhead - Lafayette, United States
This gym is truly the largest and top notch gym out there. This gym sports 1000 pieces of equipment which makes it convenient to workout cause you always have a choice of your favorite machines. I have been to such a large and super nice gym. This is a two story gym with about 20 or 30 tennis courts including several indoor tennis courts with several indoor racket ball courts. It also possesses several indoor basketball courts as well as a boxing ring and three pools. Not to mention the owner was a mr America and is one of the best human beings I have ever met. He is in his 70’s and still opens his own gym at 3 am every morning. He is a man of great faith and it shows in his love and generosity. If you are passing through the area and are looking for a great gym that sells day passes this is the place for you. Truly an awesome gym!!!!!!
3. Cajun Food Tours
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 693 reviews
The best way to experience the flavor of Louisiana! Laissez les bon temps rouler on our cozy customized tour bus. Visitors will learn the history, love the culture and, best of all, stop to taste several of the reknowned Cajun delights that make our area so unique. Enjoy samplings of some of the best local eateries while our guides bring Acadiana’s culture to life. Our Original Cajun Taste tours make 5 different tasting stops! Lafayette was named the Tastiest Town in the South by Southern Living Magazine, and Cajun Food Tours wants you to find out why! We pick up from many area hotels. Enjoy fun, friendly Cajun hospitality in a cozy setting. Now offering walking tours and Cajun Experience All-day day trips including a Cajun Swamp tour, Vermilionville Historic Village, and Cajun Dance lessons. Visit out website at www.cajunfoodtours.com to see all of our tours.
4. Escape Room Lafayette
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 147 reviews
Escape Room Lafayette is an exciting & interactive entertainment experience that will have your heart pumping and your adrenalin flowing as you attempt to solve puzzles and clues while trying to escape one of our four realistically themed rooms within a 60 minute time limit.
Reviewed By cajunqn1
Omg!!!! This was amazingly awesome!!! I wanna go back and do all the others!! The staff was great!!! Tho if u need glasses to read....make sure you bring them in!!! Revolutionary was intense, frustrating, confusing!!...and as said...gory!! Tho this was my 14yo’s choice to do this 1!! But with teamwork...my family got out alive!!! We will be back!!!
5. Evangeline State Park
6. Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 403 reviews
This quasi-Romanesque brick cathedral in Lafayette is worth a look.
Reviewed By sallyhZ267CK - Youngsville, United States
We were led to grounds of St John’s Cathedral in our downtown Lafayette scavenger hunt. We happened to see the cathedral the day before Easter. Unbelievably beautiful!
7. Vermilionville
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 807 reviews
Get a taste of life for the 18th-century Acadian settlers in this 23-acre village with meticulously recreated period homes, costumed staff demonstrating arts and crafts and a restaurant serving Cajun and Creole food.
Reviewed By virginias729
One of the earliest settlements along the banks of the Bayou Vermilion. Two hundred years ago! Very historic and the interpreters are wonderful. They are in the time period wardrobe and give detailed history of life and crafts of the time period 1765 to 1890. We were totally impressed with this historic village! Spend as much time as you have in this place.
8. Acadian Village
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 391 reviews
Step back in time to a small 19th-century Cajun bayou community, which includes genuine Cajun homes relocated and combined with recreated period buildings and a Native American museum.
Reviewed By sodabear2003 - DeRidder, United States
This is a very pretty place to visit, it is a step back in time. when we visited they had a wedding taking place, but you could still visit all the buildings except 2 where the wedding party was. charming, ducks, turtles, and fish are in the ponds and they have little food machine where you can feed all the animals. The store has all kinds of stuff you can buy and the staff is very helpful.
9. Lafayette Science Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 94 reviews
The cultural heritage of Southwestern Louisiana is preserved at this combination museum and planetarium, which houses over 1,000 paintings, prints and sculpture of Louisiana artists and regularly changing exhibits and planetarium programs.
Reviewed By kellymB5695PA - Opp, United States
Downtown Lafayette so it's within walking distance of parking and other places to visit. Admission prices are reasonable, staff is very friendly and helpful. Lot's of hands on activities and interesting exhibits. Loved the Acadiana 360 virtual reality experience and the big screen that put you in the picture (forgot what the exhibit was called). A must do when in downtown Lafayette.
10. Children's Museum of Acadiana
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 60 reviews
Reviewed By Four_Points_Travel - League City, United States
We stopped in with the kids one day, there was plenty to do for both even with a pretty big age gap between them. Price is reasonable, and the staff is great!
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