FAMILY TRAVEL CONCIERGE
London - Paris
12 days, including travel.
Day 1
Depart from NYC
8:00 hr non-stop
London
Day 2
Details: The 4-star Novotel London Tower Bridge hotel is located in the city of London, close to the Tower Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral. Its 203 guest rooms welcome you with free internet access and satellite TV. The Elements Restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and you can relax in the bar with a drink after your dinner.
10 AM: Arrive at Novotel London Tower Bridge Hotel
12 PM: Private walk - London Orientation: Kensington and Knightsbridge
Details: This tour is a wonderful way to begin your discovery of London. During two full hours, your knowledgeable guide will introduce you to the main sights in Kensington and Knightsbridge and will help you to get a sense of the city and its districts. This tour will prepare you for all your further adventures in London. Seize the opportunity to ask your guide for further recommendations and directions.
Day 3
Details: The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.
10 AM: Tower of London
1 PM: London Eye
Details: It is Europe's tallest Ferris wheel, and offered the highest public viewing point in London until it was superseded by the 804 feet (245 m) observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard, which opened to the public on 1 February 2013. It is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.75 million visitors annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture.
3 PM: Thames River Cruise
Details:
Escape the crowds and discover London from the river Thames on a relaxing river cruise. With its rich history and iconic landmarks, including the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge, it’s a great way to see London from a different perspective. There are a variety of river tours available to suit all tastes, including sightseeing trips with commentaries, themed cruises and dining experiences.
Day 4
Details: The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
10 AM: The British Museum
2 PM: Westminster Abbey
Details: Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom and has been the traditional place of coronation and burial site for Englishand, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556 the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign. The building itself is the original abbey church.
Day 5
Details:
The guard is changed every hour on the hour October 1 to March 31 in an elaborate ritual. From April 1 through September 30, there are more than double the opportunities to view the change because another change is added on the half hour and the cemetery closing time moves from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
An impeccably uniformed relief commander appears on the plaza to announce the Changing of the Guard. Soon the new sentinel leaves the Quarters and unlocks the bolt of his or her M-14 rifle to signal to the relief commander to start the ceremony. The relief commander walks out to the Tomb and salutes, then faces the spectators and asks them to stand and stay silent during the ceremony. See it live.
10 AM: Changing Guard
1 PM: Buckingham Palace
Details: Buckingham Palace is the London residence and principal workplace of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of the state occasions and royal hospitality.
3 PM: The Sherlock Holmes Museum
Details:
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a privately run museum in London, England, dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster, although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent's Park.
Day 6
Details: The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
10 AM: Harry Potter Muggle Tour
Paris
Train To Paris
2.5 hr total travel time
Details: Novotel Paris Les Halles is a 4 star hotel located in the center of historic Paris, with direct access to Orly and Roissy Charles de Gaulle. Notre Dame de Paris , the Pompidou Centre , the Louvre, rue Saint Honoré and its many shops and the Marais district are a few minutes walk from the hotel.
5 pm: Novotel Paris Les Halles - Hotel Arrival
Details:
Private Driving Tour of Paris' highlights and off the beaten path walks with a driver & a guide. With a duration of 8 hours this tour highlights include: Notre Dame Cathedral, Sainte-Chapelle, Conciergerie, Luxembourg Gardens, Pantheon, Montmartre, Sacred-Heart Basilica, Tuileries Gardens, Louvre from outside, Concorde Square, Champs Elysées, Arch of Triumph, Eiffel Tower etc.
Pick-up/Drop-off is arranged at your hotel.
10 am: Paris In Depth Private Driving Tour
Day 7
Day 8
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.
9 AM: Louvre tour
3:30 PM: Eiffel Tower
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.
Details:
Explore the heart and soul of the French countryside on our Loire Valley Tours, taking you directly from Paris into this stunning region to explore fairy-tale castles, sample local foods and wines, and experience some of France’s most beautiful scenery. See two of the most famous castles in the world - Château de Chambord, which inspired Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”, and Château de Chenonceau.
10 am: City Wonders Tour - Loire Valley, Castles and Wine
Day 9
Day 10
Details:
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.
9 AM: Montmartre
3:30 PM: Centre Georges Pompidou
Details:
Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research.
Details:
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.
10 am: Versailles
Day 11
Day 12
Depart from Paris
8:30 hr non-stop