Day 1

Depart from Newark 

 

8:30 hr non-stop

Day 2

Details: Historically a Jewish neighborhood, Belleville is now a cosmopolitan district where various cultures and traditions meet: Asian, African, Maghrebi, and more. It is also in this district that one of Paris's two Chinatowns can be found. The sloping streets of Belleville come to life on the weekend. The district is attracting more and more Parisian "bobos" (bourgeois bohemians), who love its artistic, bohemian feel. A typical, authentic neighborhood Downtown Belleville has retained its authentic character with suburban houses, craft workshops, and alleyways.

Day 3

Details: This tour will give you a great introduction of central Paris, its history and architecture and its timeless cobbled streets and hidden alleys as well as its charming islands. Paris is a very nice city to walk through and you will see details that you only can catch while walking, this is the best way to experience Paris while taking the time to actually "live" the City of Lights.

Your professional guide will be with you at all times and share her passion for the City, its history and its architecture. She will provide you with as many information as you need in a fun and interesting way, to make this tour the highlight of your stay in Paris. 

Details: The highest part of Parc de Belleville offers an exceptional view of Paris. Inside of the park, various elements symbolic of the district's former glories can be seen, including vines, grottoes, waterfalls, basins, and cobblestones. In Ménilmontant, a trail invites visitors to retrace the path along which the old Belleville springs once flowed, right up to Les Lilas. For almost 500 years, these waters supplied the whole of Paris's right bank. The district has kept its working class appeal with its large market held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The musical "Le Vieux Belleville" bistro is renowned for its welcoming atmosphere and its authentic Parisian ambiance. 

Day 5

Details: The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre) is a former royal palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine  in Paris, between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Its origins date back to the medieval period, and its present structure has evolved in stages since the 16th century. It was the actual seat of power in France until Louis XIV moved to Versailles in 1682, bringing the government with him. The Louvre remained the nominal, or formal, seat of government until the end of the Ancien Régime in 1789. Since then it has housed the celebrated Musée du Louvre as well as various government departments.

Details: The Jardin de Tuileries (park and playground) is in the center of Paris, lying at the foot of the Louvre and the head of the Champs-Elysées. Originally designed by Catherine de Medici in the Italian style, it was redesigned by Le Notre in 1664 to reflect French tastes. Only two parts of de Medici's original garden remain: the Musee de l'Orangerie and the Galerie Nationale du Jeu du Paume. The garden itself is so lovely - especially in Spring and Summer - you'll have a hard time tearing your eyes away from its tidy lines of jewel-like flowers and harmonious pathways. At the top of the entry stairs at the southern part of the garden (close to the Louvre), look north and you'll not only have have a sweeping view of the entire park, but also of Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Elysees, and the Arc de Triomphe (Arch of Triumph), all of which will lie directly in front of you. If you wander over to the northern part of the garden (near the Place de la Concorde entrance), go onto the upper level on the west side, and you'll have a good view of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine river.

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Cruise along Paris’ Seine River on a hop-on hop-off sightseeing cruise! Aboard a panoramic riverboat, with both deck and lower-deck seating, admire top city attractions, such as Notre Dame Cathedral with its gorgeous French Gothic architecture, and Hôtel de Ville where the Mayor of Paris holds office.

Pass the chic neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés with its bustling boutiques and prestigious art galleries, and perhaps hop off at the Eiffel Tower to marvel at one of the world’s most iconic feats of architecture. Your route also allows you to hop off at the Musée d'Orsay, with its unparalleled collection of Renaissance art.

 

Highlights:

• Multiple departure times and locations available

• Perfect introduction for first-time visitors

• Travel by boat and see the sights from the water

• Flexibility to customize your itinerary to your own preferences

Day 7

Details: The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed in 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world: 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 300 millionth visitor in 2015.

Day 9

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Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement. It is 130 metres high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank in the northern section of the city. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district. The other older church is on the hill is Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit order of priests was founded.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Belle Époque, many artists had studios or worked in or around Montmartre, including Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. 

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The Montmartre funicular is an automatic funicular railway serving the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris, in the Eighteenth arrondissement. It is operated by the RATP, the Paris transport authority. It was opened on 13 July 1900 and was entirely rebuilt in 1935 and again in 1991.

The funicular carries passengers between the foot of the butte (outlier) of Montmartre and its summit, near the foot of the Sacré-Cœur basilica. It provides an alternative to the multiple stairways of more than 300 steps that lead to the top of the Butte Montmartre. At 108 m (354 ft) long, the funicular climbs and drops the 36 m (118 ft) in under a minute and a half. It carries two million passengers a year.

 

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Enjoy a picturesque mini train ride through the atmospheric streets of Montmartre and look over the romantic views and sights of this vibrant neighbourhood.

Let the train take you up and down the windy streets of the hill-topped district, and sit back and enjoy the sites. Stop off at the Sacre Coeur for some views over the city and to discover the famous church, or stretch your legs at the Moulin Rouge, on the way down.

A great way to see the sites, without all the effort!

The Petit Train de Montmatre leaves every 30 minutes in the summer, and every 45 in the winter. The train runs later (10.00 - 21.00) in June, July & August.

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When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.

Day 4

Day 11

Depart from Paris

 

8:30 hr non-stop

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The Disneyland Paris is an entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallée, a new town located 32 km (20 mi) east of the centre of Paris, and is the most visited theme park in all of France and Europe. The resort covers 4,800 acres (19 km2) and encompasses two theme parks, several resort hotels, a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex, and a golf course, in addition to several additional recreational and entertainment venues

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Day 6

Details: The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.

Details: Unlike certain other playgrounds in Paris, the Jardin du Luxembourg playground offers a satisfying range of age-appropriate opportunities for fun. The play structures for the smaller children are near the entrance of the playground; structures for the older kids toward the back. 

Here are some interesting features:

• A rope climbing structure resembling the Eiffel Tower. 

• A massive sandpit featuring a large wooden platform where you can hoist and lower sand in a bucket with a pulley.

• An intricate system of climbing structures and slides. 

• A zip line

 

It’s next to one of the oldest and coolest carousels in Paris.  Just outside of the playground is a creaking wooden carousel from the 19thcentury.  No new-fangled plastic flashiness here, the animals are carved from wood and their battered haunches and faded paint jobs are a testament to their age.  This carousel is proof that kids don’t always need new and shiny to be entertained – when the playground closes, they mob the carousel.  Why? Because this is a traditional “brass ring” carousel.  Each child receives a small baton upon climbing upon their favorite animal. As the merry-go-round circles, they try to loop the baton through a ring held by the carousel operator

Details: Paris-Plages is a plan run by the office of the mayor of Paris that creates temporary artificial beaches each summer along the river Seine in the centre of Paris, and, since 2007, along the Bassin de la Villette in the northeast of Paris. Every July and August, roadways on the banks of the Seine are closed off and host various activities, including sandy beaches and palm trees.

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The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the Muséum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum. In addition to the gardens there is also a small zoo, Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the royal menagerie at Versailles.

 

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One of the best ways to experience Paris is on foot!

Take the time to walk the streets at a leisurely pace, discovering the details and delights of Paris, exploring its cobbled streets, wandering amongst markets and experiencing its thriving cafe life.

Day 10