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France, Multi Region – Loire Valley, Brittany & Normandy Private Tour

From $9695pp

Please note that prices are indicative only, subject to availability for your travel dates and the exchange rate. Prices per person decrease significantly if you increase your travel party. Why not invite friends or family to join you? Prices per person decrease significantly if you increase your travel party. Why not invite friends or family to join you?
  • duration-trip
    Duration
    8 Days
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  • Product Code
    FRPARLCFW

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Looking for an adventure in the French countryside? This trip will show you the best of these three iconic French regions. This is a unique trip through villages and landmarks, with highlights of history, nature, and food.

Loire Valley and its magnificent chateaux will enchant you, and you will love Brittany's beautiful coast with its iconic Mont Saint Michel. In Normandy you will visit the D-Day Landing beaches and explore the Pays d'Auge, dreamy place for food lovers.

Paris to Loire Valley

In the morning, meet and greet with your driver guide in Paris for your private transfer to Loire Valley and enjoy a full day guided tour.

Start with a visit of Chambord Castle. The castle of Chambord is a Renaissance masterpiece. Today, this glorious symbol of history is featured on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The double-spiral staircase forms the centrepiece of the décor!

Visit and wine pairing lunch in an organic wine estate in Cheverny.

After lunch visit Chenonceau castle. This Castle reminds you why you admire France. Arching over the River Cher, it is one of the most romantic Chateau of the Loire Valley. Enjoy an authentic visit, meeting with the Florist Manager of the castle where you will be introduced to the garden and their inhouse flower workshop.

Overnight Tours

Meals L

Loire Valley

Meet and greet with your driver-guide for a full day gourmet experience.

Your tour starts with a morning visit to a picturesque French food market, where you will taste and buy fresh local products.

You will take your produce purchases with you, and transfer to your guide’s private home. The house is located in a small typical French village, and it is here where you will prepare your lunch and later enjoy together.

A unique experience of the French Art de vivre!

Overnight Tours

Loire Valley to Brittany

Meet and greet with your guide for a full day guided tour.

In the morning, enjoy a visit of an regional winery located in the Vouvray region. Here they are most famous for Chenin Blanc, a white grape which is made in many styles, from dry through to sweet dessert wines, and also sparkling!

You will tour the cellar and end the visit with a wine and cheese pairing tasting.

Later, your guide will drive you to your next destination: Brittany.

Overnight Saint Malo

Meals B, T(Wines & Cheese)

Brittany

Meet and greet with your driver guide for a morning guided tour.

Start with the visit of Cancale, the oyster capital. Cancale is the pearl of the Emerald Coast, a remarkable place where you can taste delicious fresh oysters all year round, both directly from the port and also in local and seasonal dishes.

Return back to Saint-Malo by the Pointe du Grouin and Emerald Coast.

The afternoon is free for you to explore Saint Malo. With its walled citadel and cobbled streets, inviting beaches and fishy, friendly restaurants, St Malo is much more than a ferry port! This old town feels like you’ve stepped back in time.

Overnight Saint Malo

Meals B

Brittany & Normandy

Meet and greet with your driver guide for a full day guided tour to Mont Saint Michel.

Enjoy a full day guided tour to the magnificent Mont St Michel and its bay. Sitting majestically just off the coast of Lower Normandy in the Gulf of Saint-Malo is one of the world’s most breath taking and memorable sites, Mont Saint-Michel.

The tidal island is significant for its construction of medieval structures built as if stacked upon one another and crowned with the star attraction, the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.

Overnight Bayeux

Meals B

Normandy, D-Day Landing Beaches

Private full day guided tour with your expert guide of Normandy landing beaches.

During the day, you will step on this historical beach where so many lost their lives. See German bunkers and monuments and pay your respects to the fallen. Your local tour guide will remind you of what was at stake in June 1944 and of the incredible planning needed for Operation Overlord to be a success.

Discover a true open air museum, and follow the unfolding of this pivotal battle ground, on which the outcome of the Second World War depended. Your visit will include a stop to Arromanches, Omaha, Juno beach as well as the sadly famous American cemetery.

Free time for lunch during the day. Your guide will happily suggest great places to stop.

Overnight Bayeux

Meals B

Normandy Gourmet

Meet and greet with your driver guide for a full day gourmet tour exploring the Pays d’Auge region.

Start with the guided visit of a Calvados distillery. Calvados is a brandy famous in the Normandy region and is made from apples and/or pears. Visit the cellar and the château, followed by a tasting session in the former cider press room. A unique experience!

In the afternoon, continue with the visit to a famous cheese factory and discover how Livarot and Pont l’Evêque are made. The visit is of course followed by a tasting.

Overnight Bayeux

Meals B, T(Calvados), T(Cheese)

Normandy, Giverny, Paris

Meet and greet with your driver guide for your transfer back to Paris.

On the way, make a stop to discover the inspiration for Monet’s Impressionist paintings with a visit to Giverny gardens.

Drop-off in Paris

Included
Inclusions
  • Seven nights 4 star hotels including city taxes

  • Breakfast daily

  • Transfers in private mini van or luxury sedan with driver or driver/guide

  • Entrance tickets for visits and places mentioned in the program

  • The tastings mentioned in the program

  • Wine paired lunch on day one

  • Cooking class and lunch on day two

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This is a private tour and is available all year round

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Please note that prices are indicative only, subject to availability for your travel dates and the exchange rate.
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Price
$9695 per person

based on twin/double

Price subject to availability at time of booking

Please note that prices are indicative only, subject to availability for your travel dates and the exchange rate.
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