manstouch travel
Near Paris
Private Guided Tours
Near Paris
Private Tours Beyond Paris
With a private guide to pick you up and drop you off at your hotel or apartment rental and personalized service you can spend the day exploring some of the most beautiful regions of France in comfort.
We can also arrange multi day tours with private guides. See these 2 excitiing suggested itineraries:
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& Large Chateaux of the Loire
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Airport Meet & Greet CDG / Paris Rate Examples |
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Standard 2 pax 89€ 4 pax 120€ 8 pax 150€ |
Premium 2 pax 110€ 4 pax 155€ 8 pax 180€ |
Groups Check out our group tours to give you an idea of what we can do for you. We can create tours based on practically any theme and at a price within your budget. We can book budget or chateau accommodation for any size party. Limousine & Luxury Bus Transfers We offer groups first class service to the Greater Paris area for corporate accounts and VIP service. Here are some of the service we include: Coach with Driver and & Guides for 12 19 20 or 49 passengers on request Overnight Guides available for Touring |
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Attention to Detail
Once again I want to thank you for arranging our tour at the last minute. I am afraid that without your help our family trip to Paris would have been greatly diminished and certainly not nearly as educational.
Although we enjoyed the tours of the two flea markets, I wanted to write to you regarding Angelo. Our three days with Angelo were marvelous and his attention to detail, knowledge and ability to entertain my wife, myself and our four children was remarkable. We feel truly blessed to have him as our guide over these days and wanted to let you know how happy we were with both his services and his warm personality and professionalism.
From the time we first met him we knew he was special and our time with him in Paris would be exceptional. While we will certainly tell everyone we know how wonderful of a guide he was, I wanted to let you know as well just how pleased we were with his services.
Again we appreciate everything you did in arranging our last minute trip once our original guide fell ill. Without your help, knowledge and expertise our trip would not be nearly as memorable as it was. I look forward to working with you on our trip to Italy next year and will stay in touch. DW
Larry,
Just wanted to thank YOU and the companies that you sub-contract to for the excellent service and on-time pickups while in Paris. The transfer from Paris Est to CDG went very well and the driver/owner was excellent. I will not hestiate to recommend Manstouch to my friends contemplating trips to Paris and environs.
I hope to utilize your services in the next year as well and maybe spend a longer time in Paris.
Damn was it hot temperature wise as other ways too! Thanks again. TV
Suggested Personalized Itineraries outside Paris with driver/guides
Giverny, Versailles, Champagne, D-Day Beaches & More
Giverny & Versailles
• Follow the Seine, on the steps of the Impressionnist painters, until the lovely village of Giverny. Discover Monet’s house, workshop and gardens with its water lilies and Japanese bridge.
• In the afternoon, visit the universe of the Sun King. Admire the plush Royal Apartments, the celebrated Mirrored Gallery, the formal geometrical gardens, and stroll along the Grand Canal to discover the Grand & Petit Trianons (entrance fees not included), as well as Marie-Antoinette’s private hamlet.
Vaux le Vicomte & Barbizon
• Discover the splendors created by Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre for the Finance Steward Nicolas Fouquet, who gave Louis XIV the idea to built Versailles, and at the same time who was punished for its insolence. That anyone other than his royal self could own such a splendor could not be tolerated by the Sun King.
• Then visit the quaint village of Barbizon, by the Fontainebleau Forest and painted by Impressionist painters.
Champagne Region & Reims:
• A wonderful day of excursion and tasting through the "Montagne de Reims". In the morning, the Marne valley and first tasting-visit at a small Champagne house.
• Then keep on towards Epernay, and get ready for
Champagne tasting along the prestigious Avenue de Champagne,
where the famous Champagne makers such as Moet & Chandon,
Pommery, or La Veuve Clicquot will be happy to host you
in their cellars.
• In the afternoon, visit Reims cathedral where most
French Kings were crowned. Visit and tasting of a major
Champagne house and cellars and or visit the magnificient
cathedral, where most of the French kings were crowned.
Option: visit to the Foujita chapel, entirely decorated by the famous painter from the 1920's Ecole de Paris.
NORMANDY
The D. Day Landing Beaches and Bayeux.
• A journey from the high cliffs of the Seine to the capital of Normandy, Caen. Visit the Caen Memorial, known as the World War II Museum.
• Lunch at Bayeux, or in a nearby charming city, which hosts the famous Bayeux Tapestry.
• Then visit, the D-Day Beaches of Omaha, the Pointe du Hoc, and the American Cemetery at St Laurent.
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• Start with a drive along Juno and Gold beaches , where the Canadians and the British troops landed and visit the D Day museum in Arromanches . You will see how the artificial port built there allowed to unload the necessary equipment to win the war.
• Continue with Omaha beach and the very moving American cemetery. Then drive along Omaha beach where your guide will show you some of the German bunkers and machine-gun nests.
• See Pointe du Hoc where the Ranger heroes of colonel James Earl Rudder climbed the cliff to destroy a German battery, key action for the success of D Day and therefore victory in WorldWar II!
Option: on the way back to Paris, see the Tapestry of Queen Mathilda in Bayeux , actually a 70 meters long work of embroidery retracing the epic of William the Conqueror's expedition to England in 1066.
Mont-Saint-Michel
The granite island, 80 meters high in the middle of a bay forms a monumental and picturesque sight with its village houses huddled close together and encircled by walls and on top, the old abbey founded in 708 with its gothic "Marvel". During equinoxes, watch the highest tides in Europe rising with the speed of a running horse.
Rouen, Honfleur and Deauville
• Walking tour in the old town of Rouen, Capital of Upper Normandy with its gothic churches and half timbered houses and the old market square where Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.
• Afternoon visit of the charming port in Honfleur, birthplace of impressionism, from where Samuel de Champlain and Cavelier de la Salle set sail.
• Drive along the coastal road to discover Trouville and Deauville, smart seaside resorts of the wealthy Parisians.
CASTLES OF THE LOIRE VALLEY
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND WINES FROM AMBOISE.
Chambord
The Château is the largest in the Loire Valley, allegedly
built to a design created by Leonardo da Vinci. Extravagant
structure with massive tours and terraces holding 360 chimneys
where the court and the women used to attend the king coming
back from hunting. Of all the architectural wonders of Chambord,
the most famous is the double-spiral staircase, core of
the building.
Amboise
Royal castle and gardens overlooking the river and the blue-slate
roofs of the town. The Saint Hubert chapel houses the tomb
of Leonardo who died in Amboise.
• Tasting of Touraine wines, appellation Amboise or Montlouis.
Manoir de Clos Lucé
Leonardo spent the last time three years of his life at
Clos Lucé (until his death in 1519). Discover the
amazing collection of 40 inventions, drawn by Leonardo himself
and constructed by IBM : the first automobile, the tank,
the parachute, the helicopter, the swing bridge. A thrilling
meeting with Leonardo the engineer, four centuries ahead
of his time.
CHAMBORD, CHENONCEAU AND CHEVERNY OR CHAUMONT OR BLOIS
Chenonceau, Castle-bridge built over the river Cher, where the unique beauty of its architecture reflects in the water, nicknamed "le Château des Dames", it owes a large part of its charm to women.
Cheverny is a classical early 17th century private castle richly furnished, with a beautiful park and a hundred hound dogs in their kennels.
Blois is a magnificent royal castle in a major town and illustrates different periods in architecture : it combines a Gothic, a Renaissance and a Classical wing.
Chaumont : Former medieval fortress transformed in the Renaissance, exceptional setting for the International Festival of Parks and Gardens (from mid-June to September).
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