Top Île-de-France Half-day Tours - page 29

Experience an epic night of partying in Paris on this private party bus and bar crawl experience. Travel in style on a party bus nightclub on wheels as your cruise around the City of Light. Admire illuminated views of landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe as you hop to bar to pub to club.

It can be hard for tourists to know where to start in Paris because there’s just so much to see. With this comprehensive experience, you see two different sides of what the City of Love has to offer with one simple booking. First, soak up the city skyline from the deck of a ship cruising down the River Seine. Then, immerse yourself in masterpieces at The Louvre.

Explore two iconic monuments on Île de la Cité in Paris in a half-day: Sainte-Chapelle, the exterior of the Conciergerie, and the exterior of Notre-Dame.

With a maximum group size of 7, this guided discovery tour will make you feel like a VIP. Thanks to this half-day tour, you'll be able to see the monuments of the Parc du Chateau de Versailles (Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon) in the 600-hectare park on an electric scooter. Then, after hanging up the scooter, you'll discover the groves and gardens of the Chateau (77 hectares) on foot, still accompanied by your guide. After your refreshment break, you'll take to your scooters to continue your discovery of the former hunting grounds of King Louis 14, then return to your starting point, crossing the town of Versailles. We'll lend you a Go Pro to film your discovery.

During this two-hour walk, we will explore the remarkable and scandalous lives of Paris's most legendary courtesans. Along the way, we learn how to tell a courtesan from a lorette, a grisette, and even a soubrette, and uncover the social worlds that separated them. We trace how Esther Lachmann, a girl from Moscow, reinvented herself as the dazzling Marquise de Païva, and revisit the woman who captivated Alexandre Dumas fils and became the inspiration for The Lady of the Camellias. We also ask one of the tour’s most unexpected questions: did France ever have a real courtesan turned resistance fighter, and what connection did she have to brothels? The walk also touches on the secret love affairs of President Félix Faure which ended in spectacular scandal, and leads us to the neighborhood where the woman who inspired Zola’s Nana once lived. This is a story of ambition, reinvention, desire, and survival in the shadows and salons of Paris.

Eleven kilometres of protected riverside path, almost entirely flat, running through the middle of Paris. On one side the water, on the other the Institut du Monde Arabe, Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Pont Neuf, the Eiffel Tower. This self-guided tour follows that path from one end to the other. You begin at the four glass towers of the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, shaped like open books, and ride west. The Left Bank carries you past the floating Joséphine Baker swimming pool, the Jardin des Plantes and its second-oldest zoo in the world, the statue of Rimbaud, the bouquinistes and their four kilometres of green boxes, Notre-Dame, and the address every French crime novel knows, 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Then the Pont Neuf, the Louvre, the Assemblée Nationale, the Pont Alexandre III, the sewers, the Eiffel Tower, and finally the Île aux Cygnes, where the little sister of the Statue of Liberty looks west across the Atlantic. This is not a live guided tour.