Exclusive Paris 2026-27
PASSAGES - PANTHÉON - ORANGERIE - SAINTE-CHAPELLE - CONCIERGERIE - MONTMARTRE & PIGALLE - SAINT-DENIS - CHANTILLY - ROYAUMONT - GIVERNY - OPÉRA - ARC DE TRIOMPHE – FONTAINEBLEAU – BARBIZON – VAUX-LE-VICOMTE
Exclusive Paris 2026-27 is a Guiness Travel escorted group tour in France: 7 days by plane, with a tour leader from Italy. 1 departure scheduled, on 18 October 2026. Participation fee from 2.000,00 € per person. Required document: Identity card / Passport.
Exclusive Paris 2026-27
PASSAGES - PANTHÉON - ORANGERIE - SAINTE-CHAPELLE - CONCIERGERIE - MONTMARTRE & PIGALLE - SAINT-DENIS - CHANTILLY - ROYAUMONT - GIVERNY - OPÉRA - ARC DE TRIOMPHE – FONTAINEBLEAU – BARBIZON – VAUX-LE-VICOMTE

7 days starting from
2.000,00 €
Departures
Legend
Plus Guiness
- dinners at typical restaurants with a 4-course menu
- pre-booked interior visits as listed (entrance fees not included)
- tasting of local specialities
- individual wireless audio-guide system
- city taxes included
- 4 by-night excursions with private coach and tour leader
- travel in exclusive style with a maximum of 30 people
Why this tour?
- to discover places in Paris not featured on other itineraries
- to visit the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, “the inspiration for Versailles”
- to appreciate the charm and romance of Royaumont Abbey
Description
The Parisian Passages.
The Passages were where European high society went shopping, and they would go on to inspire the modern department store. Appearing in Paris towards the end of the 18th century, they reached the height of their splendour in the first half of the 19th. Initially built of wood, the Passages later came to be characterised by the extensive use of glass and iron. They then evolved from places of consumption into monuments. The Galerie Véro-Dodat, dating from 1826, has been restored to its former glory after skilful restoration. The Galerie Vivienne, from 1823, houses, among other shops, the Petits-Sirioux bookshop, founded in 1826 and frequented by Aragon and Cocteau. The Passage Choiseul, from 1827, at no. 44 Rue des Petits-Champs, is home to Pandora, one of the capital’s best-known tea rooms. The Passage des Panoramas, from 1799, at no. 11 Boulevard Montmartre and no. 10 Rue Saint-Marc, owes its name to the landscape panoramas of the American Fulton, which were a resounding success with the public. In the Passage Jouffroy, at no. 10 Boulevard Montmartre, you will find the entrance to the Musée Grévin wax museum, the Sénanques pen shop and Degas’ walking-stick shop.
Returning to Paris to see new things.
A tour designed for those who have already seen the essentials of this splendid city. But as José Saramago says, “you have to go back over the steps already taken, to repeat them, and to trace new paths alongside them…” This is our invitation to discover areas untouched by mass tourism. Please note that some half-day visits are made entirely on foot, such as the Passages, from Pigalle to Montmartre, the Orangerie and the Tuileries, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie, the Latin Quarter and Notre-Dame.
Itinerary
Day 1
ITALY > PARIS
Departure for Paris on Ita Airways scheduled flights – on arrival, transfer to the hotel - dinner at the hotel - after dinner, Paris la nuit: panoramic tour of the Ville Lumière with the tour leader and private coach (Opéra, La Madeleine, Place Vendôme, Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower) – overnight stay.
Day 2
PARIS – PASSAGES – OPÉRA – SAINTE-CHAPELLE – CONCIERGERIE
Breakfast at the hotel – full day devoted to visiting the city with a guide (visits made on foot and by public transport to make the best use of time and experience the city to the full) – in the morning, visit of the Passages between the Louvre and the Opéra: the Galerie Véro-Dodat, the Palais Royal, the Galerie Vivienne, the Galerie Colbert, famous for its great dome 17 metres in diameter (which inspired the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and the Galleria Umberto I in Naples), Panoramas, Jouffroy, and a visit inside the Opéra – in the afternoon, visit of the Sainte-Chapelle (a masterpiece of Gothic art in which the walls are replaced by immense stained-glass windows, built as a worthy reliquary for Christ’s Crown of Thorns) and the Conciergerie (a political prison during the Revolution, where we will learn about the last tragic moments in the life of Queen Marie Antoinette and piece together the meaning of the French Revolution, which changed the destiny of Europe) – lunch at leisure – dinner at a typical restaurant - after dinner, Paris la nuit excursion by private coach with the tour leader: a mini-cruise on the Bateaux Mouches to see the Banks of the Seine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (boat ticket not included) and a stroll along the Champs-Élysées – overnight stay.
Day 3
PARIS – GIVERNY – MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE – LES TUILERIES
Breakfast at the hotel – morning excursion with a guide to Giverny - visit of Monet’s House, Museum and Garden – return to Paris - visit with a guide of the Musée de l’Orangerie (a place which, since 2005 and after a lengthy restoration, brings together famous Impressionist works by Renoir, Cézanne, Manet and Rousseau, but above all Monet’s celebrated Water Lilies) and a stroll in the Tuileries Gardens (created by order of Catherine de’ Medici in 1564 by Bernardo Carnesecchi, redesigned by Mollet in 1609 and by the famous architect André Le Nôtre in 1664, whose mark they still bear) – lunch at leisure – dinner at a typical restaurant - after dinner, Paris la nuit: by private coach with the tour leader to the Eiffel Tower, and a trip up the Tower to admire the city from a strategic vantage point (Tower ticket not included) – overnight stay.
Day 4
ARC DE TRIOMPHE – MONTMARTRE - BASILICA OF SAINT-DENIS
Breakfast at the hotel – full day devoted to visiting the city with a guide – exterior visit of the Arc de Triomphe, a walk from Pigalle to Montmartre with a visit inside the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur (together with the Vittoriano in Rome, the whitest monument in Europe), visit inside the Basilica of Saint-Denis (the first cathedral built in the Gothic style and the royal necropolis of France) – lunch at leisure – dinner at a typical restaurant - after dinner, Paris la nuit excursion: tour by private coach with the tour leader through the Montparnasse district, which enjoyed its heyday between 1900 and 1930 (shortly after the Wall Street crash of ’29), home to the studios of famous artists and painters such as Modigliani, “the swan of Livorno”, and the stage for celebrated models such as Alice Prin, “Kiki de Montparnasse” - as the meeting place of this colony of artists, it made the fortune of the cafés at the Vavin crossroads (the junction of Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard du Montparnasse), giving them a fame that endures to this day – optional trip up the Tour Montparnasse – overnight stay.
Day 5
ROYAUMONT ABBEY – CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY
Breakfast at the hotel – full-day excursion with a guide - visit of Royaumont Abbey (a great Cistercian abbey, a place full of charm and romance: visit of the abbey buildings, the park and the ruins of the church) and the Château de Chantilly (the second museum in France after the Louvre, with an exceptionally rich collection of paintings: visit of the château and the park) – lunch at leisure – dinner at a typical restaurant - after dinner, Paris la nuit excursion by public transport with the tour leader: a stroll along the Champs-Élysées – overnight stay.
Day 6
FONTAINEBLEAU – BARBIZON – CHÂTEAU DE VAUX-LE-VICOMTE
Breakfast at the hotel – full-day excursion with a guide - visit of the Château de Fontainebleau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (a magnificent Renaissance château, home to the sovereigns of France from Francis I to Napoleon III), the painters’ village of Barbizon (a small town which between 1830 and 1870 welcomed a colony of Realist painters who gave rise to the Barbizon School), and the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (a beautiful 17th-century château that inspired Louis XIV to create Versailles) – lunch at leisure – dinner at leisure – evening at leisure - tour leader available – overnight stay.
Day 7
PARIS > ITALY
Breakfast at the hotel - in the morning, visit with the tour leader of historic Paris (Notre-Dame, the Latin Quarter with an exterior visit of the Panthéon, a stroll in the Luxembourg Gardens) - lunch at leisure – transfer to the airport – departure on Ita Airways scheduled flights back to Italy.
Prices
- return trip Italy/Paris on Air France scheduled flights
- airport/hotel transfers and vice versa
- accommodation in a 4-star hotel on a bed and buffet breakfast basis
- 5 dinners at the hotel/restaurant
- visits as listed by GT coach
- buffet breakfasts
- guided visits as listed
- tasting of local specialities
- individual wireless audio-guide system for the entire tour
- taxes, VAT
- city taxes
- tour leader from Italy on departures from Rome
- tour leader Paris/Paris for those departing from other airports
- evening excursions as listed
drinks, entrance fees and anything not expressly indicated.
Entrance fees
Paris:
- Eiffel Tower
- up to the 2nd floor €23.10 – ages 12/24 €11.60 - Children ages 4/11 €5.90
- up to the 3rd floor €36.10 – ages 12/24 €18.10 - Children ages 4/11 €9.10
- Stairs €14.50 – ages 12/24 €7.30 - ages 4/11 €3.70
- Bateaux Mouches €18.00 - free up to age 4 - ages 4/11 €8.00
- Opéra - €15.00 - Under 25s free
- Musée de l’Orangerie - €12.50 - Under 25s free
- Tour Montparnasse - €16.00
- Conciergerie + Sainte-Chapelle - €23.00 - combined ticket
- Basilica of Saint-Denis - €9.50 - Under 25s free
Giverny: Monet’s House and Museum - €11.00 - reduced €5.50
Royaumont: Abbey - €9.00 - Under 26s free
Chantilly: Château - €18.00 - reduced €14.50
Fontainebleau: Château - €14.00 - Under 25s free
Vaux-le-Vicomte: Château - €17.00 - Reduced €13.50
Please note:
- Entrance fees may change after the catalogue goes to print.
- Access to the Eiffel Tower may involve significant queues depending on: access levels, the season, special events, or sudden decisions by the monument’s management due to weather conditions, staffing or other factors. Guiness therefore cannot guarantee that the visit will take place smoothly and/or with absolute certainty.
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Info and schedule
N.B. The planned visits may be rearranged between days according to museum opening hours or for operational reasons, but the programme remains unchanged.
- Required document: Identity card / Passport
Flight times
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Frequently asked questions
How long is the tour?
The tour lasts 7 days by plane, with a Guiness tour leader from Italy.
When does it depart?
1 departure scheduled, on 18 October 2026.
How much does it cost?
The individual participation fee starts from 2.000,00 € by plane.
What does the price include?
return trip Italy/Paris on Air France scheduled flights; airport/hotel transfers and vice versa; accommodation in a 4-star hotel on a bed and buffet breakfast basis; 5 dinners at the hotel/restaurant; visits as listed by GT coach; buffet breakfasts; guided visits as listed; tasting of local specialities; individual wireless audio-guide system for the entire tour; taxes, VAT; city taxes; tour leader from Italy on departures from Rome; tour leader Paris/Paris for those departing from other airports; evening excursions as listed
What is not included in the price?
drinks, entrance fees and anything not expressly indicated.
Which documents are required?
Identity card / Passport
Can I cancel?
Cancel without penalty up to 45 days in advance
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