Paris Covered Passages Walking Tour plus Seine Cruise Option
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Paris, France
- 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Paris is home to elegant covered passages—galleries with domed-glass roofs that were the forerunners to modern-day malls. This walking tour visits some of the best, from the neoclassical Galerie Vivienne—a national monument filled today with luxury boutiques—to the Passage Verdeau, lined with antique vintage shops. Along the way, your guide points out architectural details and relevant bits of Parisian history.
- A small-group walking tour of Paris’ covered passages
- Visit 5 passages from Galerie Vivienne to the Passage Verdeau
- Learn about Paris architecture and history from your guide
- Small group ensures personalized attention from your guide
What's Included
- Experienced, local guide
- Paris shuttle for convenient transportation, included with your tour.
- Optional upgrade for a narrated Seine river cruise, good for a year from the tour date
- Lunch
- Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Place des Petits PèresPl. des Petits Pères, 75002 Paris, France
Please meet us in front of the big church at the following address: Place des Petits-Pères, 75002 Paris. Your guide will be holding an orange sign with “ExperienceFirst” written on it. For easier navigation, you can paste this address into Google Maps: Pl. des Petits-Pères, 75002 Paris.
End point
- 6 Rue de la Grange Batelière, 75009 Paris, France
This tour ends at Passage Verdeau, 6 Rue de la Grange-Batelière.
Operating hours.10:00 am
Itinerary
1
Galerie Vivienne
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Passage Choiseul
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Passage des Panoramas
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
4
Passage Jouffroy
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Passage Verdeau
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The Seine (Pass By)
Eiffel Tower (Pass By)
Petit Palais (Pass By)
Musee d'Orsay (Pass By)
Notre Dame (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Most travelers can participate
- Add on a Seine river cruise. Your ticket is good for a one-hour cruise along the Seine anytime within one year of the date of your tour.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
bobtown
All of it was exceptional. Our guide Marie was very knowledgeable and made the tour interesting and enjoyable. Will highly recommend it to my friends and hope Maria is their guide!
Reviews
4.9
based on 124 reviews
Peter_J, Mar 2026
Be prepared to learn much more than just covered shopping… much more. Our guide was far more than knowledgeable, she was a joy, a riot, and a very sharp observer of humanity.
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Thank you for such a lovely review! The covered passages have so many hidden stories, and we’re thrilled your guide made the experience both fun and insightful.
Sarah_D, Jan 2026
Fanny was an excellent guide. She was very knowledgeable and engaging. I enjoyed that she discussed the history of the passages and why they came about. It is an interesting tour but pretty short. Of course, it was freezing the day we went!
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are glad to hear that Fanny’s knowledge and engaging approach added value to your visit and brought the history of the passages to life. We appreciate your comments and hope to welcome you again, hopefully under more comfortable weather conditions.
George_P, Apr 2025
A disaster. We got there a few minutes late and there was no way to get in touch with the tour guide before or during the tour, so we paid for absolutely nothing. Viator offered to comp us the tour on a date after we had left Paris. Thanks for no nothing. I have been on other tours in other cities and communication with the guide has been available. Not customer friendly at all, especially as a traveler negotiating a new city. I'm very disappointed in how the whole thing was handled.
Response from Host, May 2025
We’re really sorry to hear this was your experience. We completely understand how stressful it can be to navigate a new city and try to connect with a tour group—especially when running just a few minutes late. Our guides do start promptly to respect all participants’ time, and while they can’t monitor messages during the tour, we always recommend reaching out to our local team directly for real-time help. We also sent you some of the spots the guide was heading to - we hope you were able to use that resource. We're sorry we couldn't make it work this time and will share your comments with Viator as well. We do hope your next experience in Paris is much smoother.
ANN, Mar 2025
Our tour guide Fanny was excellent. The history of the passages was interesting. I somehow expected them to be a little more elegant.
Response from Host, May 2025
Dear Ann,
Thank you so much for your kind words about Fanny — we’re delighted to hear she made the experience enjoyable and that you found the history of the passages interesting.
We do regret receiving a 3-star rating, especially given that your comments were positive and the elements you mentioned — such as the appearance of the passages — are, of course, outside our control. Our goal is always to deliver a high-quality and engaging experience, and we’re glad that Fanny met that standard.
We truly appreciate your feedback and hope to welcome you again on another tour that might exceed your expectations in every way.
Best regards,
Team ExperienceFirst
MaryEllen_H, Feb 2025
We enjoyed our tour with Paula of the Passages, and more. She provided many interesting facts along the way and the pacing was good allowing us time to have a quick look around each area. We liked the order in which they were presented really highlighting the differences.
Linda_K, Jan 2025
This was definitely a fun and informative tour. We would never have visited the covered passages on our own!
Kenneth_K, Oct 2024
Paula brought history to life and when we were walking outside to the passages she stopped to tell us what took place in various streets. For example She gave us interesting background on Colette when we passed her plaque.
bobtown, May 2024
All of it was exceptional. Our guide Marie was very knowledgeable and made the tour interesting and enjoyable. Will highly recommend it to my friends and hope Maria is their guide!
Heather_L, Mar 2024
Maria was our tour guide to visit the covered passages. The meeting point was easy to find and Maria was very passionate about the covered passageways in Paris. It was interesting, the passages are filled with many curiosity shops selling all sorts of things. If I had more time I would’ve gone back to explore some places more thoroughly. Maria gave us a great suggestion for lunch too. If I had anything bad to say it was that at times our guide was a little hard to understand, Spanish was her first language and so she had quite an accent. Maria was very pleasant and she repeated the things that we didn’t comprehend the first time she said them and it worked out fine. All in all a great tour and one of the more interesting things to do that’s sort of off the beaten path.
Response from Host, Mar 2024
Dear Heather,
Thank you so much for your detailed feedback!
It's wonderful to hear that you found the tour interesting and that you discovered some intriguing places along the way. We're delighted that Maria was able to suggest a great lunch spot for you as well and we're happy to hear that she made efforts to ensure everyone understood by repeating herself when needed.
Thank you for choosing our tour, and we hope to see you again for more off-the-beaten-path adventures in the future!
Matthew_S, Oct 2023
Maria was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. I recommend the tour to anyone visiting Paris for the first time.
Response from Host, Nov 2023
It's wonderful to hear that you would recommend the tour, especially for first-time visitors to Paris. We appreciate your recommendation and hope to welcome you back for more enriching experiences in the future! Thank you so much.
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