1st Day in Paris Discovery Private Tour: 'How-to' Orientation & Sightseeing Fun!
Description
Starting from your hotel, this walking adventure begins on a most unique discovery & orientation tour ever offered of Paris! It's called your 1st Day in Paris Tour because this 2 hour plus experience focuses on providing you freedom with knowledge of how to do Paris while at the same time you are enjoying as many sights as possible. So much more than just facts & figures, the tour immerses you in to the Paris culture providing the visitor with understanding how things work, how to get around, what areas are safe, buying tickets, riding the buses & metro, protecting yourself from pickpockets, ordering at a café, or a bakery. Of course you get to do amazing sightseeing, find hidden gems, quaint neighbourhoods and pass by the top must-see monuments, museums and parks in all of Paris which may include the Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysées, Montmartre, Louvre, Marais, Opéra, Places, Notre-Dame, Luxembourg Gardens, Montparnasse and more.
Tour Options
Itinerary
If we make it here then we enter the oldest church in Paris. And we pass by the famous café where Emily in Paris and Hemingway have their hot chocolates.
We explore hidden gems that are all about the Latin Quarter. Depending on time we will see the famous cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, its 1000 year old church, medieval streets, and monuments, even a Picasso sculpture.
We stop for a photo opportunity as we walk and traverse Paris' oldest bridge and see all the points that make this area of Paris truly the heart of the city.
We stop for a photo opportunity as we walk from the left bank to the right bank seeing the famous cathedral on the island. When it reopens in a year we will enter it.
Depending on time we visit this neighbourhood from the Palais Royal, quintessential passages, restaurants, all the way up the Avenue to the Opéra Garnier and behind to the facades and the rooftop terraces of the grand department stores of the Le Printemps and the Galeries Lafayette.
The 2 hour Paris Discovery Orientation Tour takes you anywhere you wish to go however the tour may include a visit to Montmartre where we see as much as possible of the area in the time remaining.
We visit the outside of the museum with photo opportunities in front of the glass pyramid and the Tuileries Garden.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
This private walking tour meet-up is at your Hotel lobby, Airbnb, other.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately