Full-Day Canadian Battlefields & sites Normandy Tour from Bayeux
Description
This battlefield and site Shared tour leaves from Bayeux at 8:30am with your English/French-speaking guide. The caravelle (mini van) carries up to 8 passengers. The itinerary for this tour includes stops at Canadian Underground Bunkers, Juno Beach Center, Beny sur Mer Canadian Cemetery, Authie, the Abbey d'Ardenne, Carpiquet & Hill 67.
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- Specialized infant seats are available
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Please note that this tour departs from the town of Bayeux - Normandy. There is no hotel pickup from Paris or from Ports.
- Please be aware that this tour retunrs to Bayeux around 6pm
Reviews(232)
He has a large book of pictures to compliment the experience. He is very knowledgeable and a great sense of humor.
I can honestly say this was the best guided tour I have been on, and I have been on many in my travels. Wally, our guide was extremely knowledgeable, an excellent teacher, and considerate of our needs. Of course it was an emotional day, because it was about the Canadian forces on D- Day and their courageous advance over the following months, but Wally’s sensitivity with a splash of humour helped. I learned and will remember. Thank you.
It was wonderful to visit the sights of Normandy. Heavy, emotional and wonderful all at once. An unforgettable experience.
Helene was a knowledgable guide who gave an excellent tour.
Great tour of the Canadian WW2 landing sites in Normandy. Our guide Stefan was very knowledgeable and thorough, arrived on time, the lunch spot he chose was excellent, vehicle was great — he answered all of our questions and provided albums of photos with many interesting details about the Allied Landing from June 6th 1944 on to the end of the war. We visited a number of sites including the Juno Center and bunkers, Gold Beach, Abbaye d’Ardenne, Commonwealth Canadian Cemetery. Highly recommend this excursion to those especially interested in the incredible efforts and sacrifice of the Canadian soldiers of WW2.
Wonderful & moving experience! Beautiful weather, excellent guide. Being picky & 80 could have used one extra bathroom break.
Emmanuel was an excellent tour guide! He was ver knowledgeable and we were able to go into the Canada House. We enjoyed every minute of our day.
A wonderfully thorough tour with Adrian & Pauline. Adrian’s knowledge & passion for the subject was presented in a respectful & thoughtful way. The 8 hours flew by as we traced the progress of Canadian soldiers on DDay & the following days. Highly recommend this tour. Cheers Greg & Terri
moving informative thorough and very well done. Stefan our tour guide was outstanding. full day but every part of it was important and detailed.
We are very very distressed that we paid £235 for a private tour only to find that six other people were on the same minibus. Very disappointing and we demand a refund please. Not exceptional in any way the guide was less than informed and knowledgeable rely on pictures from her book and information that frankly I knew more than her. The guide picked us up at our hotel pretty much on time by the time she had collected the remaining three couples all at different hotels we were obviously running late. We arrived late for every event that we’ve been that we were scheduled to see including a service at the Canadian beach and frankly the tour guide was appeared certainly currently flustered and I’m not quite sure whether or not really appeared that she had actually lost away during the driving across to Juno Beach from Bay all in all it was very unsatisfactory and a complete contrast to the second tour we did on the Monday the 8th Omaha Beach and Utah Beach the American D-Day private tour booking reference 1378888513, which was the eighth where we were picked up on time by a very important guide. It was a private tour just the two of us and the tour operator driver his knowledge was encyclopedic. His presentation was good. He asked us what we would like to see for the most part kept to that schedule. He made very good suggestions as it would be a good idea to see and I think probably all in all over the 7 1/2 eight hours we were with him we probably went to must’ve been seven maybe even eight different areas and each time I hit you fast about vast amount about it and impacted the information very clearly his English was good and over and about that he was a personal personal lad spoke very good English so And Ann finally that was something in the region of £130 as opposed to the previous was £235 so we paid very very much less for a fast superior tour. I think that he is to be congratulated but our first tour guide is to be castigated as simple as that.
Dear Guest, We strongly dispute several of the statements made in this review. Your central complaint is that you allegedly paid for a private tour and were surprised to find other guests in the vehicle. This statement is simply false. The tour you booked was a shared small-group tour, as clearly described at the time of booking. Furthermore, the day before the tour on June 5th, you contacted our booking department and received the following written confirmation: "The tour you have booked is a shared tour, with a maximum of 8 clients + the guide inside the van." You therefore had explicit written confirmation that this was not a private tour before the excursion took place. Claiming otherwise in a public review is misleading. For clarity, our private Canadian Battlefields tour is a completely different product, priced at approximately €800. The £235 you paid bears no resemblance to the cost of a private tour and corresponds to a shared excursion. Your comments regarding the schedule are equally unfair. Before departure, all participants received written notice explaining that June 6th commemorations would create exceptional traffic conditions, access restrictions, and possible delays. You were specifically informed that schedules might not be maintained exactly as planned due to the extraordinary number of visitors in Normandy during this period. Despite these circumstances, the tour operated and the guide did everything possible to adapt to conditions beyond anyone's control. We also reject the personal attacks directed at our guide. Our guides are trained professionals with extensive experience leading Normandy battlefield tours. Disagreeing with a guide's presentation style is one thing; portraying them as incompetent without factual basis is quite another. Finally, comparing a shared commemorative tour operated on June 6th with a private tour operated on a different day, under entirely different conditions, is not a meaningful comparison. We welcome honest feedback, but we cannot accept a refund request based on claims that are directly contradicted by the written communications sent to you before the tour. The tour was delivered exactly as booked, and your request for a refund is therefore unfounded.
