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PRIVATE TOURING IN PARIS AND FRANCE

Fancy an absolutely fabulous overview of Paris? Then you should take a city tour with Al, your private guide, a man with a great sense of history and humor. He'll pick you up at your hotel in his nice air-conditioned sedan and tour the city with you, stopping where and when you want, telling you stories that will make you feel part of history and parisian life.    

PARIS 4 hour city tour  - What's to discover?                                 

Ile de la Cité  - Island of the city, the birthplace of Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral – early gothic of the 12/13C. Le Marais - Paris in the 16/17C with numerous noblemens townhouses. Island of Saint Louis – Haven of Parisian Bourgeoisie. Haussmann-Opera district - the elegance of the 19C. : Garnier Opera, Haussmann architecture, the jewellers on the Place Vendome, the Hotel palaces Ritz, The Westin and Le Meurice. The Louvre – in older times luxurious residence of the French kings, today biggest museum in the world – with the still contoversial glass pyramid, the little Arc de Triomphe and the royal gardens : the Tuileries. Place de la Concorde with the more than 3.300 years old egyptian obelisk. The Champs Elysées with Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe. The still unmissable Eiffel tower. The Invalids dome with it’s gold leaf cupola – Napoleon's mausoleum. The Seine river and its bridges. Latin Quarter : The dignified Sorbonne University for liberal arts. The Pantheon – mausoleum for famous philosophers, writers and scientists : Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Marie Curie... The Luxembourg Gardens with Maria de Medici’s palace. St. Germain-des-Prés: intelligentsia, fine arts and luxury. Once the neighbourhood of the Jazz cellars, of philosophers and writers (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Wilde...) nowadays more a neighborhood of haute couture and art galeries. Montmartre – first a vineyard then playground of painters: Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Picasso, Dali..., the Moulin Rouge and the painters’ village, just in back of the Sacré-Cœur church. (Daily)

Fees Paris (sedan up to 3 adults or 2 adults with 1 or 2 children) : 

Paris City Introduction tour :    4 hrs / 210 €

Full day Paris tour :   8 hrs / 330 €

Airport Transfer :   2 hrs / 90 €

Airport Transfer - Day in Paris - Airport : 10 hrs / 380 €

Tours mentioned above are part of my basic offer.

All kinds of customized tours are of course available.

YOU NAME IT, WE’LL DO IT !

For booking and talking about your special ideas send an e-mail at: touringwithal@yahoo.com

All tours in this beautiful air- conditioned vintage Mercedes sedan

TOURS OUTSIDE OF PARIS

Half day excursions:   Versailles • Chantilly • Giverny • Fontainebleau •  Vaux-le Vicomte :   5 hrs / 250 € Full day excursions   Fontainebleau/Vaux-le-Vicomte   •   Versailles/ Giverny and other combined tours :   8 hrs / 360 € Champagne and Reims :    10 hrs / 440 € Chateaux de la Loire :   12 hrs / 520 € Normandy D-Day Beaches :   12 hrs / 520 € Normandy Honfleur / Deauville : 10 hrs / 480 € Mont Saint-Michel : 13 hrs / 570 €. Bruges :  14 hrs / 570 € Entrance tickets, audioguides etc. are not included

VERSAILLES CASTLE  •   Once in your life you should see the 17C Versailles castle, impressive symbol of splendor and power of the French monarchy.

Two hours to visit the royal apartements with audio guides, splendid gardens and Marie-Antoinette’s village. UNESCO World Heritage. (Castle closed on Monday)

VAUX-LE-VICOMTE CASTLE •  Fouquet’s castle from the 17C, inspired by Palladio, admired and envied by Louis XIV. Two hours visit of the castle and its most beautiful gardens. (Daily)

During summer season the castle opens every Saturday evening for a candlelight visit :  over 2000 candles are lit throughout the château and the gardens. Absolutely fabulous! (Only Saturday at 7 p.m.)  

FONTAINEBLEAU CASTLE  •   Built in the early 16C by King François I, this castle became after the French Revolution the favorite place of Napoleon. You’ll find paintings, furniture, tapisteries from the 16th century until Napoleon’s times. UNESCO World Heritage.  (Castle closed on Tuesday)

CHARTRES  •   One of the greatest gothic cathedrals in France

with the most refined stained glass windows in the world, 13C. 

UNESCO World Heritage. (Daily)

CHAMPAGNE/REIMS  •   Discover the charms of the Champaign region.

1:  Guided visit of a major champaign cellar (Moet & Chandon).   2: The lovely village of Dom Pérignon in the middle of the vineyards.  3: Reims and its gothic cathedral, 13C.  UNESCO World heritage. (Daily except Sunday)

GIVERNY  •   3 hours strolling around in the house and gardens of Claude Monet. A lovely summer tour for garden-lovers. (Closed on Monday)

NORMANDY D-DAY BEACHES •   Utah/Omaha/Gold/Juno/Sword: A voyage back to the battle fields 1944. Pointe du Hoc, American cemetery and memorial, Mulberry Harbour and Museum of Arromanches, fully equipped german guns batteries. Possible visits of the Memorial in Caen or the famous tapestry in Bayeux, showing on a 70m / 203ft long woolen brodery the conquest of England in 1066 by the Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror.

MONT ST.-MICHEL •  The mediaeval abbey on top of  a rock, a little bit lost in the landscape with always a foot in  the tides. Unique jewel.  UNESCO  World Heritage.  

BRUGES •  «  The Venice of the North » got it’s city charter in 1128. Surrounded by a ring of canals this belgian town is the best preserved example of medieval Flanders. Fascinating meeting of the Middle-Ages and the 19C neo-gothic style. Have a drink on the Grote Market, be inspired by great northern architecture, visit the numerous churches (romanesque or gothic period), have a boat ride around the channels, au plaisir !

Tours mentioned above are part of my basic offer.

All kinds of customized tours are of course available.

YOU NAME IT, WE’LL DO IT !

Send me an e-mail and let’s talk about it : touringwithal@yahoo.com

All tours in this beautiful air- conditioned vintage Mercedes sedan

CAR+DRIVER IN PARIS AND FRANCE

Rates including taxes, toll fees, gas, insurance and good vibrations

5 hrs (incl. 200 km)280 €

8 hrs (400 km) 490 €

10 hrs (500 km) 580 €

12 hrs (600 km) 660 €

(every extra km is counted 0.40 cents)

Driver's Hotel etc. 90€

THANKS FOR HAVING VISITED MY SITE, HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON

touringwithal@yahoo.com

SPACE AND LIGHT. PRIVATE TOURING IN PARIS AND FRANCE

75010 PARIS

TEL: +33 (0) 6 08 96 12 98