Located on 640 South Canal Street, the Visitor Reception Center has visitor parking, Natchez exhibits, National Park Service Info, and a 20-minute show, "The Natchez Story". It also has a Natchez Logo Gift Shop, a bookstore, and tickets for special events, carriage tours and city tours, historic homes tours, and Melrose. There are also hotel reservations, but during Hurricane Ivan, when I went, they didn't know anything. The hotels weren't calling them, and they weren't calling the hotels.
The Historic City Tour was costly. They began in the back of the building, where you got into this small white bus with a tour guide who'd tell you about the places--homes such as Rosalie and Stanton Hall--drive you Under The Hill and up and down the city streets. The woman we had knew what she was talking about, but she couldn't speak clearly enough to understand her.