Veronique Murie is a fabulous tour guide, highly recommended by Quintess, LRW Members. Veronique offers tours of the Louvre and many other Paris museums. When planning your tour, ask your Member Travel Advisor to request a table outdoors if the weather is expected to be nice or a table inside that is next to the windows of Cafe Marly. These look upon the inside of the Louvre and are incredible locations making the experience even more exceptional.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Should you need to cancel your reservation, please let your host know at least 48 hours in advance to avoid penalty. Less than 24 hours notice will result in paying full price.
Sit back and watch the sites of Paris pass you by as a personal driver tours you around the city. Be picked up at your apartment by a minivan and dropped off with direct access to the museums and sites you would like to visit, and they can arrange to pick up pre-purchased tickets as well. They offer a range of tours and will customize tours and times to suit your needs. Choose from Paris half day, Paris full day, Versailles, Fountainbleau, Giverny.
This company organize also some great tours out of Paris in the countryside:
Champagne region
This tour is dedicated to the most famous sparkling wine in the world : the Champagne; we will be head first towards Reims where you will be able to visit a cellar; then you will have the choice between visiting another cellar or the cathedral of Reims (lunch in Reims); then we will drive through the vineyards and reach Hautvilliers, the very charming village of Dom Pérignon; finally we will go to Epernay,the capital of Champagne; visite of a cellar).
Loire Valley
The Loire valley is the craddle of the French Renaissance;to have a better understanding about what happened here in this part of France during the 15th and 16th C. ,we will visit 3 palaces among the most famous: Amboise* which overlooks the Loire river and where L.da Vinci is buried. Chenonceau which was built over the river and the impressive chateau of Chambord built for the king Francis I; an unforgettable day along that delightful river.
D-day Normandy Beaches
After a 3-hour drive, we will reach Arromanches, where was built by the allies one of the 2 artificial harbours ; then we will go to Longues Sur Mer, (the only battery which still has its guns and its observation post where scenes from the movie “the longest day” were filmed; right after the lunch we will drive towards "Omaha beach" and visit the moving American cemetery where 9387 soldiers are buried. Finally we will head towards the spectacular Pointe du Hoc, stormed by Colonel James Rudder and the 2nd battalion of Rangers at the dawn of the D-Day .
Reservations: Required and will be made by your Destination Host.
