Top Île-de-France Tours by Duration - page 12

Discover more of Paris, whilst leaving the organization and logistics to someone else, on this group tour. Skip planning your own route and instead follow your guide to the city's highlights as you explore both on foot and by public transportation. Enjoy an itinerary that includes Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Arc de Triomphe, and Champs-Élysées, and learn about the city's history, culture, and legacy as you go.

Don't get lost or overwhelmed in the expansive corridors and galleries of the Louvre. Instead, opt for this small-group guided tour, which ensures you see all of the art museum's highlights while also enjoying insightful commentary from an art historian guide. Admire many famous masterpieces, including Leonardo Da Vinci's, "Mona Lisa", and ask your guide as many questions as you like. The perfect activity for art lovers and history enthusiasts alike.

Overlooked by most visitors, the covered passages of Paris (lined with bustling bars, bistros, and boutiques) are one of the city’s most distinctive, in-the-know locations—and this tour provides the best way to discover them. With just your guide and a small group for company, you'll discover these hidden hotspots, will immerse yourself in their long history, will have the chance to shop for souvenirs, and will even enjoy a wine tasting along the way.

See the best of Paris in two ways on a tour that combines a Seine River cruise and a bicycle tour. Start with a guide-led bike ride and learn about the city while you pedal around town with a small group of fellow travelers. Then climb aboard a riverboat for a relaxing cruise on the Seine.

Explore the grandeur of the Palace of Versailles on this small-group half-day guided tour from Paris. Includes round-trip train tickets. Learn about the history from your guide on the train ride from Paris. At the palace, your guide will show you the top highlights, including incredible pieces of art. The tour ends in the gardens and you will have the choice to explore further on your own or to join your guide back to Paris.

Embark on a unique shopping adventure Paris with a small-group tour of the famous Saint-Ouen Flea Market. Also known as the Marché aux Puces Saint-Ouen, it’s one of the largest flea markets in the world. Hunt for unique items as your guide shows you the most interesting parts of the market and helps negotiate purchases with French-speaking sellers. After shopping, enjoy a hot drink at a local cabaret café.

Touring top sights in Paris often involves peering out from behind the windows of a tour bus. Put your legs to work during this small-group cycling tour along the Seine River. Hop onto your bicycle in central Paris and take to the streets with a guide. Ride past iconic attractions including Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, and the Louvre Museum—all in just a few hours.

Spend 1.5 exhilarating hours seeing Paris in a way most tourists won’t, in a vintage motorcycle sidecar. From little-known streets to iconic landmarks, you’ll zip around town with a local guide who can share stories about the City of Love as you go. Make memories that will last a lifetime whether you’ve never ridden a motorcycle before or you do it all the time.

Discover top Paris landmarks by night during this special, small-group bike tour. See where the City of Light got its name as you cruise between illuminated monuments with your guide; sights along the way include the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame. As you go, soak up the city's nightlife scene, and learn insider stories from your guide that you wouldn't discover on your own.

Many tours of Paris cover the major landmarks—such as the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower—but few cater their commentary for kids. This family-friendly walking tour is led by a Blue Badge guide and art historian who explains Paris’ exceptional heritage in an entertaining style, suitable for all ages. Visit the Opera House, Place Vendome, Tuileries Garden, Place de la Concorde, Champs Elysées, Le Petit and Grand Palais, and more.

To understand the history of World War I, few experiences are more rewarding than visiting the actual French battlefields where soldiers fought for their lives. With this guided tour from Paris, history enthusiasts can see where US Marines fought the German soldiers in Belleau Wood. Visit actual trenches and bomb craters, see the graves in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, and stop at the Devil Dog Fountain—all with a guide to lead the way.

Don't waste time visiting a bunch of places you're not interested in with a group of strangers. On this private half-day tour, you can select the places that you really want to see, customizing the itinerary to suit your interests. You'll travel around in comfortable transport with a local driver and guide, who will tell you everything you need to know about Paris. An ideal tour for first-time visitors.

You could read *A Moveable Feast*, Ernest Hemingway’s 1964 memoir about Paris. But there’s nothing like experiencing the famous writer's Parisian haunts yourself. Ideal for literary aficionados, this small-group walking tour delves deep into the Lost generation. Explore the Left Bank on foot, discovering places where Hemingway (and other luminaries like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald) once lived and worked, with archival photos to bring lost literary histories to life.

Many Loire Valley tours squeeze wine tasting in between chateau visits, leaving little time for each, but this tour has just one focus—the Sancerre wine region. With the entire itinerary devoted to sampling Sancerre’s famous wines and delicious regional food, you’ll feel like you can really savor the experience. Visit at least two wineries, enjoy a wine-paired lunch, and learn the secrets behind Sancerre’s celebrated sauvignon blanc wines.

Discover tales from the graves at Père Lachaise Cemetery, the final resting place of legends such as Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Edith Piaf, on a walking tour that reveals parts of the graveyard that most people miss. Not only will you delve into the rich history of the region, you’ll enjoy traditional French crepes afterwards.

Take a walk in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh with this small-group tour to Auvers sur Oise. You'll take a 40-minute train ride out to Auvers, where your professional guide will take you on a 6-mile (9.7 kilometer) hike to a variety of spots that inspired the great painter's works, including the Eglise Notre-Dame d'Auvers, the subject of a Van Gogh painting that now hangs in the Orsay Museum in Paris.

See the inspiration for many of Claude Monet's paintings with a tour out to where the prolific painter once called home. Get picked up anywhere in Paris by your private driver so you can visit Giverny without the hassle of figuring out public transportation. Enjoy free time to explore, grab lunch, or do some shopping before making your way back to Paris.

Anyone looking for an exciting way to explore Paris should skip the standard sightseeing tour. Instead, feel the wind in your face as you explore the City of Light during this private sidecar adventure focused on sites related to the Olympics, such as Invalides, the Grand Palais and the Trocadéro, along with the city's highlights. Follow a customized itinerary, stopping whenever you’d like to take a photo or grab a bite.

Immerse yourself in Parisian life on a guided tour of the Belleville neighborhood. Explore this off-the-beaten-path neighborhood with a strong gastronomic identity and sample local snacks as you meet the bakers and artisans who make these delicious French staples. Enjoy samples of chocolates, charcuterie, pastries, desserts, and more while you learn about Paris's celebrated culinary culture

Discover Paris like a Parisian on a private tour with a local host and an itinerary packed with must-see attractions and hidden gems. Marvel at Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, and Place de la Concorde, then admire views of the Eiffel Tower from the Galeries Lafayette observation deck. Relish the flexibility to customize your itinerary according to your interests on this personalized tour, including a local snack.

On this private tour, immerse yourself in the impressionist movement with a tour of the Musee d'Orsay and Montmartre. Enjoy entrance at the Musee d'Orsay and view important impressionist works, then walk the romantic streets of hilly Montmartre, stopping at the same places that inspired artists like Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne, including Moulin Rouge, Le Clos vineyard, and Sacré Coeur.

Immerse yourself in the art and history of the Louvre, arguably the world's most famous museum, on this 3-hour private tour. Access the museum with your dedicated guide and explore the collection with personalized attention and a flexible itinerary that includes the works and artists that interest you. See some of the museum's legendary masterpieces, including the Mona Lisa, some of Michelangelo's works in marble, and the ancient Greek Venus de Milo.

Fall in love with Paris during this private van tour. Consider it a short orientation to the best that France’s capital city has to offer. You’ll spend a few hours with a private driver and a dedicated English speaking guide as you drive around the city’s most popular sites like the Louvre Museum and Notre Dame Cathedral. Other sites you’ll pass by include the Eiffel Tower, the Latin Quarter, and Champs-Elysees.

See Claude Monet’s home at Giverny on this private tour from Paris. Stroll through the artist’s colorful garden and restored house. Check out where he painted some of his masterpieces, and visit the Giverny Museum of Impressionism (Musée des impressionnismes Giverny).