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Mardi Gras in Mobile 

Tue 9 Feb

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Fat Tuesday in Mobile, the original American Mardi Gras and the closest real one.

Where
Downtown Mobile, Mobile
Leaves
9:00 AM
Heads back
10:00 PM
Drive
3h 30m each way
Runs at
4 of 9 seats

Seats on sale soon

We are getting this one ready. Seats go on sale here first, and the van runs once 4 of them are booked.

Can't wait, or travelling as a group? A charter takes the whole van, on your date, to the door.

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$95.00 a seat

Get on at one of these

FSU Union

Governor's Square Mall

Drops you at

Downtown Mobile, Mobile

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On film

What it looks like

Mardi Gras in Mobile, from Visit Mobile's own channel.

The trip

Fat Tuesday where it started. Home the same night.

Mobile dates its Mardi Gras to 1703, when French settlers held the first celebration, and it credits Joe Cain with bringing it back after the Civil War by leading an impromptu parade down the city's streets. Carnival builds for two and a half weeks, and on Fat Tuesday the parades roll through downtown one after another: masked mystic societies on themed floats, marching bands, mounted police, and MoonPies flying off the floats. The Order of Myths has been the last parade of the day, with Folly chasing Death around a broken column on its emblem float.

Mobile is three and a half hours from Tallahassee, and on parade days the city tows cars left in the signed no parking areas along the routes. So we drive it. The van leaves Tallahassee in the morning, drops you downtown, and waits for the time on your booking to bring you home the same night. Nine seats, one driver, and nobody in your group has to drive back in the dark.

0 of 9 seats booked. 4 more seats and the van runs.

A seat is $95.00. Pay now, and if the van does not fill, every cent comes back. It leaves in 147 days.

Photos

Mardi Gras in Mobile, in pictures

Visit Mobile publishes the parade schedule, and its Instagram is where its pictures of the city go. For Mardi Gras news, its own parade schedule sends people to the Mobile Mardi Gras page on Facebook.

No ticket needed

Buy the ride here. The parades are free.

Mobile's parades are free to watch from the street. Nobody sells a ticket to stand on the route. What we sell is the ride: from Tallahassee to downtown Mobile, and home again the same night.

Visit Mobile publishes the parade schedule for the season, and the City of Mobile publishes the routes, parking and rules. Both are worth a look before the day.

Follow it

Mardi Gras in Mobile, online

The night

How it goes

Getting on. Be at your pickup a few minutes early. It is a long drive, the van leaves on time, and it does not come back for a second run.

  • FSU Union
  • Governor's Square Mall

Downtown. You are dropped in downtown Mobile. Streets close before each parade, so Visit Mobile says to be in your spot half an hour before it starts. Stay behind the barricades and do not follow the floats. Glass, pets, skateboards, Silly String and Snap and Pops are not allowed, and there is no underage drinking. Pick a place to meet in case your group gets split up, and for the night parades, a well-lit one.

Coming home. The van waits for you at the time on your booking. Mobile is on Central time, an hour behind Tallahassee, so check the time on your booking against the clock on your phone, and put it in your phone before the first parade rolls.