バイユー発ノルマンディービーチ半日アフタヌーントリップ（A2）

Our first trip to Normandy and we decided to go with a half day tour; perfect! Our guide Pauline was just terrific and extremely knowledgeable and incredibly friendly

My husband and I did this half day trip and enjoyed it. I can’t remember if we had a choice, but ours started at 1:00 and we got back around 6:00. We stayed right in Bayeux, so being picked up and dropped off at the hotel was nice and convenient. Our guide was nice and spoke good English. The only thing that was disappointing was that her headset stopped working about halfway through the trip, so if you were near the back of the van, you couldn’t really hear what she was saying as she was driving from place to place. We happened to be in the very back and felt like we missed out a good bit due to this. Also note that the tour guide doesn’t walk with you the entire time to explain things as you are going through. She will get out and take you into the area and will use her binder with pictures to explain what you will see, but she’s not always with you explaining everything the whole time. I actually prefer this so that you can wander at your own pace, but I did see some guides (maybe private ones) where the tour guide was walking with them in each place or building explaining things in real time. I felt like 5 hours was enough time to see what we wanted to see. We first went to Point du Hoc and spent about 30 minutes wandering around there after the guide let us free. Then we went to Omaha Beach and had about 25 minutes there (she told us we would come back later to look at it some more). Then we went to the American Cemetery and had about 45 minutes there. Note that you can’t (or at least we couldn’t at that time) walk out and look at any graves up close. They had them all roped off. Then we went back to Omaha Beach and had about 20 minutes to walk on the beach area. It was a good tour and wasn’t exhausting. I would recommend if you want to see the highlights.

Visited Pt du Hoc, Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. Stefan changed up our schedule so we could be at the American cemetery when the US flags were retired - very moving.

I wish the guide was more informative and engaging. I felt like she was just reading from a script. Normandy experience was very moving.

Great experience with a super friendly and knowledgeable guide and the half day experience was perfect for us!

I very much enjoyed the half day tour despite the less than great weather. Our tour guide was great and knowledgeable she not only explained the historical significance of each location and told us stories but also let us spend time and explore and take pictures on our own at each spot.

Great trip, very moving, especially at the cemetery. The guide was excellent.

Totally worth it, Pauline was amazing. With a small group, was able to ask many questions. She had great stories for each site as well!

Lots of history brought to life. Our guide , Lucie, was very knowledgeable and went beyond the narrative with stories and facts from her own research.

A fascinating tour with a brilliant tour guide. Thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Great weaving in of personal soldiers stories. A must if in the region