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The following itinerary is for general planning and budgetary discussion purposes only. You will have plenty of time to make changes to the route and costs. Your final custom itinerary will include detailed accommodation information, voucher information (meeting time & place), personalized recommendations, local and emergency contact information, area highlights, tips and specialized traveler information specific to you and your trip. Request a price quote on this tour by clicking the button below.

Day 1: Depart for France

The experts at Travel4Real will help you find the best route and price at no extra cost to you with our free airfare quoting service. If you are departing from North America you will arrive to France on Day 2. If departing from the EU, you will arrive the same day.

Day 2: Arrival to Paris

Private Airport Transfer from Paris airport to your hotel.

Your driver will be waiting for you outside luggage claim with a signboard. We will arrange for a private car and driver transfer to or from the Paris airport. Your driver will meet you at your flight and take you in comfort and ease.

Check into a great Paris hotel –

We specialize in offering some of the most unique and wonderful; fully inspected apartments in Paris. From small flats to multi-bedroom apartments; from clean and simple to grand and luxurious. Our experts will work with you to understand your exact accommodation needs and present several choices that will fit perfectly.

Or: Apartment Accommodations in the historic center of the city

We specialize in offering some of the most unique and wonderful; fully inspected apartments in Paris. From small flats to multi-bedroom apartments; from clean and simple to grand and luxurious. Our experts will work with you to understand your exact accommodation needs and present several choices that will fit perfectly.

Once you check in you can relax from the long travel day, because tomorrow you start your sightseeing in Paris

Day 3: Paris

City Group Tour of Paris and Lunch on the Seine River

Enjoy a panoramic sightseeing tour to the must see Paris monuments and quarters from two points of view. The tour starts at 10:30am. You must taxi to the starting point of the tour.

You start with a Paris city tour in an air-conditioned coach. Discover Paris with individual earphones and an audio guide to shed light on the history of the main monuments. Explore the city through the cults areas of Paris: Place Vendôme – Opera – The Louvre – Notre Dame Cathedral – The Pantheon – Luxembourg gardens – Orsay Museum – Place de la Concorde – Champs-Elysées – the Arc de Triomphe – the Eiffel Tower – Invalides.

Audio guides are available in: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Russian, Dutch.

Audio guides for children are available in: English, French and Spanish

After about an hour and 45 minutes on the city tour, you will arrive at the quay de La Bourdonnais facing the Eiffel Tower, and climb aboard on of the Bateaux Parisiens for a lunch cruise.

Departure at 12.45 pm.

Enjoy French gastronomic cuisine in a musical and warm atmosphere. Take this opportunity to see the exceptional view of the monuments along the Seine river through the large windows on the boat.

Menu*:

Starter at choice:

Velouté of butternut squash, mushroom royale and toasted pumpkin seeds

Poultry pâté with foie gras in a pastry crust served with a red onion and grape compote Ile de France potatoes with Taggiasca olives and chive cream cheese mousse

Beluga lentil salad with half-smoked half-cooked salmon and a herb vinaigrette

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Main course at choice:

Salt cod and haddock brandade with Taggiasca olives and a tarragon oil emulsion Braised beef steak with daube sauce, stewed vegetables and cream of broccoli Poultry supreme with a herb crust, spelt and lemon confit sauce

Pollack steak served with black rice and lobster sauce

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Cheese or Dessert at choice:

Ossau Iraty served with black cherry jam

Small pot of café liégeois cream served with an almond financier cake

Exotic fruit savarin cake served with a rum syrup

Poached pear with spiced red wine, walnut and almond crumble

Chocolate caramel tart

persons hand pouring bubbly wine into three glasses

Drinks:

1 bottle of wine between 4 people

White wine kir, Pays d’Oc Chardonnay Viognier PGI, PDO Minervois Terroir

Mineral water

Coffee

* Example of menu, subject to modification

Back at 2:45pm.

The tour ends at the quay de La Bourdonnais.

Day 4: Paris

Small group tour to the Louvre with guide

A minibus picks you up and takes you to the Louvre Museum for a guided visit focused on 3 world-famous works: the “Venus of Milo”, “The Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I” by David and “the Mona Lisa” by Leonardo Da Vinci. Our guide then takes you to the main exhibition rooms.

End of the tour at the Louvre Museum, no return to your hotel.

Note:

The skip-the-line access is subject to the Louvre museum procedures: The security control or an unforeseen crowd can slow down the entrance.

Included :

* Pick up from your hotel or apartment in Paris

* Services of a licensed guide

* Guided visit of the Louvre Museum * Entrance ticket

Day 5: Paris

Small Group Morning trip to Versailles including lunch

The Palace of Versailles was the residence of three kings of France: Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, from 1682 to 1789. Your guide will accompany you throughout the day as you discover the majesty of the Palace of Versailles and its most beautiful rooms. A symbol of royal power, admire the decoration, the palace’s Baroque architecture, its works of art, and antique furniture. After your tour, spend time exploring the beautiful formal gardens at your own pace before enjoying lunch in a restaurant near the Grand Canal. In the afternoon, discover another part of Versailles on a tour of the Small and Large Trianons and the Queen’s Hamlet, created especially for Marie Antoinette and located in a distant and peaceful corner of the grounds.

Set off from your Paris accommodation at 8 am for the Palace of Versailles. Relax during the minibus journey and listen to the first part of your guide’s commentary about the history of the Palace of Versailles, which consists of more than 700 rooms!

Follow your guide and head straight of the front of the line to see the Palace of Versailles’s most beautiful rooms: the King’s Apartments, with seven sophisticated salons, and the Queen’s Apartments. You will also visit the magnificent Hall of Mirrors, a place to see and be seen, designed to amaze visitors to the Sun King with its marble decoration and gilded bronzes.

After an hour and a quarter of visiting time, explore Versailles’s stunning gardens at your own pace and admire its artworks, fountains, pools, flowerbeds, and trees.

After your walk, enjoy lunch at the “La Petite Venise” restaurant in a peaceful spot right in the heart of the palace’s grounds, near the Grand Canal.

Menu* at “La Petite Venise” restaurant

Arugula salad with parmesan

Chicken breast, mashed potatoes with olive oil Chocolate fudge cake

Coffee or Tea

1/4 bottle of mineral water

1 glass of red wine du Pays de Gard

Menu* in private basis tour at “La Petite Venise” restaurant

Starter at choice:

Cold seasonal vegetable soup

Arugula salad with Parmesan cheese

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Main course at choice:

Poultry with sundries tomatoes, shoot of spinash, risotto al salto

Cod, squid and zucchini tempura, mayonnaise and aurora sauces Spaghetti made with eggs and the Chef’s tomato sauce baked in the oven Risotto of the day

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Dessert at choice:

Chocolate fondant, vanilla Madagascar ice cream

Fruits Salad

Strawberry and basil tartar, pistachio sponge cake

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Drinks:

Coffee or Tea

1/4 bottle of mineral water

1 glass of red wine du Pays de Gard

* Example of menu, subject to modification

After lunch, your guide will take you on a 1 hour 30 minute tour of the royal family’s secondary residences. Visit Louis XIV’s palace, the Grand Trianon. This pink marble palace is surrounded by picturesque gardens and pools, making it one of the most elegant of all the buildings at Versailles. See the small apartment where Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte spent time after his divorce from Joséphine de Beauharnais. He restored the building and stayed there on several occasions with his wife, the Empress Marie-Louise. Enjoy a self-guided visit to the Small Trianon, Marie Antoinette’s boudoir, and the Queen’s Hamlet. Like a small Normandy village, the Hamlet is home to 12 cottages, a lake, rivers, and a farm. It was Queen Marie Antoinette’s favorite place; she would come here with her children and friends to experience the charm of country life and to amuse herself.

Return to Paris.

Arrival scheduled for around 4 pm.

Please note :

Important: Closing of the Queen’s State Apartment for renovation works

In Winter: ride the mini train across the gardens to the Trianon/ In Summer: walk through the gardens to the Trianon Flat shoes are highly recommended (parquet flooring in the palace’s rooms and cobblestones in the courtyard) Strollers are not permitted in the palace or the Trianons

Excursion not recommended for those with walking difficulties or reduced mobility: it includes around three hours of brisk walking

The skip-the-line access is subject to the Versailles Palace procedures: The Vigipirate plan, the security control or an unforeseen crowd can slow down the entrance.

 

The tour includes:

* Minibus transfers to and from your Paris accommodation

* Services of a driver-guide, with commentary through individual headsets

* Priority access ticket to skip the line at the Palace of Versailles (Royal Apartments and Hall of Mirrors), the two Trianons, the Queen’s Hamlet, and the gardens

* Lunch at the “La Petite Venise” restaurant (drinks included)

Day 6: Paris

Small Group Day trip from Paris Giverny

Excursion from Paris to visit the house and the gardens of Claude Monet, the well-known Impressionist painter. Immerse yourself in the world of the painter, famous for his landscape canvases and numerous views of his garden, such as the “Water Lilies,” the “Japanese Bridge” and “The Irises.” Your visit will also include the beautiful water lily pond, with its play of colors and Monet’s legendary Japanese-inspired bridge. Learn about the artist’s daily life by visiting his home and his studio.

travel in the footsteps of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. The painter and gardener Claude Monet lived there for 43 years, with his family of eight children, from 1883 until his death in 1926.

Passionate about gardening and color variations, he designed his flower garden, fruit tree orchard and water garden as if they were works of art. As you visit the gardens at Giverny, you will see the central pathway leading up to the house, bordered by different varieties of nasturtiums and roses, as well as the multicolored flower beds full of tulips, narcissi, daffodils, irises and peonies. Stroll through the Clos Normand Flower Garden, which is home to many plants of Eastern origins, until you reach the lavish water garden, so famous for its water lilies, weeping willows and green-painted Japanese Bridge (bridges like this are traditionally red in Japan). Be captivated by Giverny’s unique atmosphere, its light and the reflection of clouds on the water.

Take the opportunity to explore Monet’s pink-plastered house, where he lived and worked for many years (guided tours are not permitted due to the lack of space). Discover the blue reading room, which leads into the larder and Claude Monet’s studio, where the doyen of the French impressionists worked until 1889. These rooms, as well as those of his private apartments, have been reconstructed with the original furniture that was already in the house in Monet’s day. Visit the sunny yellow dining room, which has been reconstructed down to the very last detail. It was very modern for its time, with earthenware dishes and a kitchen tiled with local blue and white Rouen tiles. In the Dining Room, admire one of the most important collections of Japanese prints in the world.

At the end of your visit, take advantage of the village and the pretty gift and book shop; it is housed in what was once the studio where Monet painted the huge Water Lilies canvases. It stretches for more than 3,200 square feet! The shop offers a wide range of products linked to the Impressionist’s work: postcards, posters, teas, books, official Claude Monet tableware, flower seeds and plants.

Day 7: Paris

Free day in Paris

Enjoy sleeping in or we can arrange any number of optional tours such as a cooking class, Lunch and dinner cruises, Day trips outside Paris, City tours by car, Museum tickets and more. Just ask your travel expert when booking.

Day 8: Depart

Check out of your Paris hotel

Private airport transfer from Paris hotel to the Paris airport

This is a sample trip which can be customized for your needs and budget. Ask your Travel Expert for more details or send us a message.

 

Tour Includes:

 

Private Airport Transfer from Paris airport to your hotel. – Paris, France: Private airport transfer

A great Paris hotel – – Paris, France: Accommodations in the historic center of the city

City Group Tour of Paris and Lunch on the Seine River

Small group tour to the Louvre with guide

Small Group Morning trip to Versailles – Paris, France: Day tour to see Palace of Versailles

Small Group Day trip from Paris Giverny – Giverny – Monet’s house & gardens

Free day in Paris – Paris, France or optional tours and sightseeing options

Private airport transfer from Paris hotel to the Paris airport

 

Tour dates and prices:

 

This tour is customizable to your dates and budget level. Request a quote today on this tour.

Tour Dates & Prices

This tour is customizable to your dates and budget level. Request a quote today on this tour.

What's Included

Included

  • Private Airport Transfer from Paris airport to your hotel — Paris, France: Private airport transfer
  • A great Paris hotel — Paris, France: Accommodations in the historic center of the city
  • City Group Tour of Paris and Lunch on the Seine River
  • Small group tour to the Louvre with guide
  • Small Group Morning trip to Versailles — Paris, France: Day tour to see Palace of Versailles
  • Small Group Day trip from Paris Giverny – Giverny — Monet’s house & gardens
  • Free day in Paris – Paris, France or optional tours and sightseeing options
  • Private airport transfer from Paris hotel to the Paris airport

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