Best of Paris

Day One

• Arrival in Paris and private transfer to your hotel.
• Time to relax tonight, with dinner on your own.

Day Two

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Meet your driver at the hotel and transfer to meet your chef for your Paris cooking class. You will first head to the market to select ingredients before then heading back to the chef’s home for your hands-on cooking class in Paris. You will help prepare a 3-course meal, which will then be enjoyed with wine.
• Transfer back to your hotel, or if you prefer your driver can transfer you elsewhere in the city center.
• Rest of day at leisure, dinner on your own.

Day Three

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• This morning transfer from your hotel and meet your guide at for a 6-hour private tour of both the Musee du Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay, two of the world’s most famous museums. You will have skip-the-line access and will be able to go at your own pace. Your guide will lead you to the Louvre for a 2-hour tour including works by Rembrandt, David, Delacroix, and Gericault, as well as the famed Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa.
• Time for a lunch break (cost paid locally), then it is on to the Orsay.
• At the Musee d’Orsay you’ll discover some of the most famous works of art of the Nineteenth Century, including by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Manet.
• Time to explore on your own after your tour, and make your own way back to your hotel.
• Evening and dinner on your own.

Day Four

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Morning at leisure. We recommend you explore the Ile Saint-Louis, or spend some time shopping on your own.
• Lunch on your own.
• This afternoon it is time to discover more of the food of Paris on our Paris food tours! Make your way to the Saint-Germain des Pres neighborhood for a 3-hour Paris gourmet food tour featuring chocolate and pastries. You will explore the medieval neighborhood and sample local products such as chocolates, pastries, macarons, and bread. (A transfer can be arranged on request, but we recommend you make your own way there as you explore Paris!)
• After your chocolate and pastry tour enjoy a private 2-hour Paris wine tasting tour: you will learn about the wines of several regions and will taste the with a professional oenologist. Don’t worry – no experience necessary! You will learn about – and taste – five different wines in a charming location that evokes the feeling of nineteenth-century Paris.
• Transfer back to your hotel, dinner on your own.

Day Five

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Free time to explore Paris! We recommend you visit the Eiffel Tower. (Tickets should be purchased in advance. If you’d like, we can add a private 3-hour guided tour of the Trocadéro Esplanade and the Eiffel Tower with skip the line tickets.)
• Lunch on your own.
• In the afternoon, transfer to a local patisserie for a pastry or dessert class. Depending on the day, you might learn to make breakfast pastries such as croissants, classic French desserts, or the famous macarons. Taste your creations.
  (Depending on the dates chosen, the order of activities could be switched, with the dessert class in the morning and free time in the afternoon.)
• Transfer back to your hotel, dinner on your own.

Day Six

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• One last day for exploring Paris! If you’d like, we can also add optional tours today. Options include: Versailles, the “Pletzl” Jewish District, the Sacre Coeur, the posh Maris neighborhood, Gay Paris, or even Paris by Bike!
• Rest up before tonight’s special farewell experience. You will be collected from your hotel and transported to Montmartre for an authentic and intimate evening. Enjoy a walking tour of this famous neighborhood, formerly a hillside village in its own right and now a part of Paris. It was the center of artistic and Bohemian movements. You will stop for a multi-course dinner in a typical restaurant (beverages not included, paid locally) and then head to a traditional cabaret at the famous Lapin Agile, which is perfectly evocative of nineteenth-century Paris.
• Or, if you prefer, we can substitute one of the following:
  •  an evening cooking class (transfers included)
  • a 1-hour Champagne cruise followed by dinner (beverages not included, paid locally) and a Paris-by-night driving tour (5 1/2 hours total, add +$100 per person to tour cost)
• Transfer back to your hotel, overnight.

Day Seven

• Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport or train station.