Château, calanque or cabaret: pick your France.
Which Versailles ticket actually skips the queue. Whether the Mont Saint-Michel run from Paris is worth fourteen hours. What a Saint-Emilion afternoon costs. Read the review, then book.
An hour on the Seine, or a private Loire day: what France costs.
Every reviewed tour sorted by what it actually charges. A great deal of the best of France starts under the price of lunch.
Entry tickets, market mornings, an hour on the river, a village tasting with the grower.
The day out proper: Versailles with the transport, the D-Day coast, the Calanques by boat, food walks with lunch in them.
Private drivers, small-group château days and the long hauls to Mont Saint-Michel and back.
Versailles, the Louvre, and the bay at Mont Saint-Michel.
The handful of days most France trips get planned around, and the sensible way to book each one.
Lavender opens late June. Plan the rest of Provence around it.
The rows above Valensole and Sault flower from the end of June to about the middle of July, and cut soon after. Everything else — Verdon's green water, the ochre villages of the Luberon, Aix on a market morning — bends around that fortnight.
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France books its boats and its palaces before anything else.
Every review →More travellers take these than anything else on the site — and here is what each is actually like on the day.
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1-Hour Seine Cruise departing from the Eiffel Tower
1-hour Seine cruise from the Eiffel Tower with panoramic deck views, multilingual audio, and a simple way to tick off Paris landmarks.
From · $20
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Disneyland® Paris 1-Day Ticket
from $61
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Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access Ticket
from $17
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Arc de Triomphe Rooftop Tickets
from $18
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Orsay Museum Entry Ticket
from $15
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Evening River Cruise with Music
from $27
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Eiffel Tower Entry Ticket with Optional Summit Access
from $29
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Eiffel Tower Dedicated Reserved Access Summit or 2nd Floor
from $25
France pours by region, not by grape.
Médoc and Saint-Emilion within an hour of Bordeaux, chalk cellars cut under Reims, Burgundy measured plot by plot, Alsace strung along one road. Choose the region first and the tasting follows.
The D-Day coast is a day trip from Paris, and a long one.
Omaha and Utah, the American cemetery above Colleville, the harbour remains at Arromanches. Run from Paris it is a fourteen-hour door-to-door day; based in Bayeux you are within an hour of every site and can take them slowly.
- 1Normandy D-Day Sites & Cemetery Day Trip from Paris with Lunchfrom $120
- 2Normandy D-Day Small-Group Day Trip with Omaha Beach, Cemetery & Cider Tastingfrom $320
- 3Normandy D-Day Beaches and American Cemetery Day Trip from Parisfrom $207
A 2CV, a perfume bench, a cabaret at ten.
Museums and food walks exist everywhere. These three belong to France on their own, and all three need booking.
The Citroën 2CV Tour
Citroën's brief for the 2CV was a car that could carry a farmer, a sack of potatoes and a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without cracking one. Nearly four million were built between 1948 and 1990. The survivors now run sightseeing laps of Paris, Lille and the Riviera with the canvas roof rolled back and the engine quiet enough to talk over.
- 1Lille Driving Tour by Convertible Citroen 2CV★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 711 reviews
- 2Vintage 2CV Adventure: 2 -Hour Paris Secrets Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 488 reviews
- 3Discover Paris 2CV★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 472 reviews
The Perfume Atelier
Grasse has made scent since the 1500s, when its tanners started perfuming leather gloves and discovered the better business. The houses that grew out of it — Fragonard, Molinard, Galimard — still keep benches where you blend and bottle your own, in Grasse itself and at their Paris and Riviera addresses.
- 1Fragonard Paris: Mini Perfume Workshop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,924 reviews
- 2Molinard Parfums Nice: Discovery Perfume Workshop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 915 reviews
- 3Fragonard Eze: Perfume Making Class and Factory Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 743 reviews
The Cabaret Night
The Moulin Rouge opened in 1889 at the foot of Montmartre and has kept the same shape of evening ever since: a seated room, champagne priced by the bottle, and a chorus line that finishes where the can-can started. Tables go by row, the front ones weeks ahead.
- 1Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with Champagne★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 16,088 reviews
- 2Dinner Show at the Moulin Rouge★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 3,333 reviews
- 3Crazy Horse Cabaret Show★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,726 reviews
Paris does not stop when the museums close.
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Wet in Paris? The Louvre, a pastry bench and a cellar are all indoors.
Northern France is grey for a good part of the year and none of its best indoor days care: a museum with reserved entry, a class where you actually cook, a tasting cellar under the pavement, a covered market with someone who knows the stalls.
The Eiffel summit, the Louvre slot, the cabaret table: book these from home.
Most of France will still be there when you arrive. These will not — timed slots, lift tickets and cabaret tables move weeks ahead, and two of the biggest rooms in the country each shut one day a week.
- 01Eiffel Tower Entry Ticket with Optional Summit AccessLift tickets are timed and released in advance; the summit slots go before the lower floors.
- 02Louvre Guided Tour with Reserved Access & Boat CruiseEntry is by timed slot, and the museum is closed on Tuesdays.
- 03Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access TicketThe palace is closed on Mondays and the state apartments run on timed entry.
- 04Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with ChampagneOne room, two shows a night. Weekend tables are gone well ahead.
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