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Highlights of France
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Length
13 Days
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Quality
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Starts in
Paris (France)
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Ends in
Paris (France)
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Available Tour Start Dates
APR 9, 2027 to SEP 22, 2028
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Activity Level
No Rating Provided
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Language
English
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Guaranteed Date(s)
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$2,133.23
Overview
Across 13 days, your route runs from Paris into the Loire Valley, where vineyards pattern the land. In Carcassonne, you pass between narrow streets and fortified walls, hear voices brush against the stone and the medieval city seems to answer in faint echoes. Between Beaune and Bordeaux, patterned rooftops and stone courtyards give way to 18th-century façades and the hum of city streets. Further south, on the French Riviera and in Monaco, the Mediterranean breeze slips along elegant boulevards, private yachts dot the water and sleek cars flash along the coast. In Normandy, you’ll see the shore where Allied soldiers first reached France, sand and sea carrying the weight of WWII history.
Visited During Tour
Aix-en-Provence (France) | Amboise (France) | Arles (France) | Avignon (France) | Beaune (France) | Biarritz (France) | Bordeaux (France) | Carcassonne (France) | Chambord (France) | Chenonceaux (France) | Deauville (France) | Honfleur (France) | Lourdes (France) | Lyon (France) | Monaco City (Monaco) | Mont-Saint-Michel (France) | Nimes (France) | Omaha Beach (France) | Paris (France) | Pont du Gard (France) | Rouen (France) | Saint-Emilion (France) | Tours (France)
Dates, Offers & Prices Dates
Tour Itinerary Itinerary
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Dates, Offers & Prices
The following are Highlights of France tour dates available from Trafalgar. Select a bonus offer graphic to view its details, including its terms.
Tour Itinerary
Trafalgar Tour Code 955-2484
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1Bonjour Paris
You begin in Paris, where past and present weave through Haussmann boulevards, cafe terraces, museum doors and the quays of the Seine. After check-in, there is time to head into the city, where cafe conversations spill out onto the sidewalk and quieter corners wait just beyond the main avenues. You might catch the scent of a croque monsieur warming on the grill or glimpse your first view of the monuments that shape the capital. Today’s Optional Experience will pair a cruise along the Seine with a scenic drive taking in many of the city’s main sights from the sculpture lined Pont Alexandre III to the towering ironwork of the Eiffel Tower.
Accommodations: Mercure Paris Porte d'Orleans -
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2From the Arc de Triomphe to the Champs-Élysées
Today, your Travel Director guides you along Paris’s grand boulevards, through the heart of the city towards the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Élysées. The sidewalk stretches before grand avenues open out from the Arc like the points of a star. You may choose an Optional Experience to Montmartre, where you may catch the sweet buttery scent of crêpes wafting down cobbled streets and in Artist’s Square you explore neighborhood once walked by Picasso and Dalí. An Optional Experience dinner will give you time to ease into the evening over food and conversation with your fellow travelers.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Mercure Paris Porte d'Orleans -
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3Burgundy Color and Lyon Flavor
With Paris behind you, your route turns towards Beaune, a medieval town known for local wine, patterned roof tiles and centuries-old walls. You have time to explore the 15th-century Hôtel-Dieu, where patterned roof tiles echo the autumn colors of Burgundy vines and stone courtyards carry the sound of your footsteps between centuries-old walls. From Beaune, the focus will shift to Lyon, moving from local wine to a city known for classical French cuisine. An orientation tour with your Travel Director will help you get your bearings, with an Optional Experience offering the chance to follow Lyon through the flavors and traditions that helped make it famous.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: ibis Styles Gerland -
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4Through the Rhône Valley, onto the Côte d’Azur
South through the Rhône Valley, Aix-en-Provence awaits you with worn stone streets, shaded corners and town squares laid over natural hot springs first known to the Romans. During free time, you can follow the town through gold-toned stone, shaded squares and the low murmur of fountains, with the thought of warm springs still flowing beneath the Roman foundations. The road stretches beyond inland Provence towards the Mediterranean coast as Aix-en-Provence’s golden squares give way to Monaco’s elegant boulevards and the Côte d’Azur.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Ibis Cannes Mandelieu -
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5Relax on the Riviera
With a free day on the French Riviera, you could breathe in the fresh sea air with a stroll along the beach or join an Optional Experience to Saint-Paul-de-Vence. In this walled hill town, stone streets, old façades and a quieter hillside setting contrast with the Riviera’s sleek cars, private yachts and waterfront life. It’s another side of the coast, felt through old walls, narrow streets and a softer sense of style.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Cannes Mandelieu -
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6Brushstrokes of Arles and the Stone of Avignon
In Arles, Roman heritage lingers in the stonework around you, from streets and squares to riverside places that helped inspire Van Gogh’s paintings. You may choose an Optional Experience that follows the artist’s time in Arles more closely, moving through the scenes that helped shape his bold brushstrokes. Avignon brings you into the heart of Provence, where the Palais des Papes stands in pale fortress stone. The old city circled by chapels, thick walls and medieval ramparts. At the Pont du Gard, stones placed 2,000 years ago tower over you as you take in the arches of this first-century aqueduct.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: B&B Nîmes Centre Arènes -
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7Journey From Carcassonne To Candlelit Lourdes
Ahead of you, the hillside hardens into Carcassonne’s fortified stone walls, 12th-century architecture and turreted medieval castle. From there, the foothills of the Pyrénées carry you towards Lourdes. Your visit follows in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who have traveled here to honor St Bernadette and visit the basilica above the Grotto, where she is said to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary. You may also have the opportunity to join a torchlight procession with the pilgrims, warm candlelight flickering through the crowd around you.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Mercure Imperial -
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8Biarritz’s coastal elegance to Bordeaux’s hilly green
On the Atlantic coast, Biarritz sets you beside the ocean, with a resort-town elegance that has drawn European royalty since the 1800s. From the seafront, you might watch waves fold towards the shore or catch a glimpse of a local surfer gliding across the water. An Optional Experience into Basque Country takes you beyond sandy beaches towards lofty peaks. On the road to Bordeaux, the seaside gives way to rolling countryside as you travel through Les Landes.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Centre Mériadeck -
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9Discover Châteaux across Saint-Émilion And Loire
At hilltop Saint-Émilion, château country spreads across the landscape below, with vineyards patterning the slopes beyond the village. You can choose an Optional Experience wine tasting at a French chateau, velvety tannins painting your palate while you hear the history of the vineyard. Later, you'll continue towards the Loire Valley, finishing at your hotel near Tours.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Ibis Tours Centre Gare -
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10Following the Loire Through Château Country
At Château de Chenonceau, the Cher River passes beneath you, lapping softly against the stone as your Local Specialist guides you across the checkered floor of the Long Gallery, crossed by royalty and resistance alike. Inside the Château, tapestries, paintings and Renaissance furniture fill the spaces with fabric, wood and the sense of lives once lived within these walls. Outside, the landscaped gardens draw you down garden paths and into the open air. In Amboise, Leonardo da Vinci’s presumed final resting place, you can wander through the town's beautiful Château grounds or simply gaze out at the Loire Valley unfolding before you. The final Chateau of the day is one of the world's most remarkable. Chateau de Chambord's scale and detail are made to be taken in slowly. Back in Tours, you may choose an Optional Experience: a final evening in the Old Town over Touraine cuisine in a traditional restaurant.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Ibis Tours Centre Gare -
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11Normandy Shores: Mont Saint-Michel To Deauville
Mont Saint-Michel meets you in salt air and stone, its medieval town rising from a rocky outcrop above the sea. Here, you can hear how the Archangel inspired the Bishop of Avranches to build a church at the summit, a story that still feels woven into the abbey walls and narrow streets. At the D-Day beaches, the sea breeze mingles with whispers of history at the spot where Allied soldiers first landed on the French shore. At the Normandy American Cemetery above Omaha Beach, white marble headstones stand in long rows across the grass, with the sea stirring quietly beyond the bluff. Later, Deauville offers another face of Normandy, with its harbor, racecourse and long association with international film.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Ibis Deauville Centre -
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12Artists And Cathedrals: Honfleur To Paris
In Honfleur, you can follow the harbor’s edge past moored boats and water brushing the quay, catching the color, reflections and harbor light Monet and other artists returned to on canvas. In Rouen, the place where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, your path runs through cobbled streets between Gothic churches and the carved stone of its cathedral, with rough walls, pointed arches and old city corners. Paris waits at the end of the day. You may choose an Optional Experience dinner and cabaret performance, with food, music and a sense of celebration.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Mercure Paris Porte d'Orleans -
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13Au Revoir Paris
This morning, your journey through France comes to an end. You’ll say a fond au revoir to your Travel Director and fellow travelers, taking the memories of the past 13 days with you as you begin the journey home.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
More Details
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Travelers Notes
* TRIP RUN BY COSTSAVER.* ARRIVAL: Guests are to arrive in Paris at Charles De Gaulle International Airport (CDG). Guests should arrive prior to the Welcome Meeting with the Travel Director in the late afternoon.* DEPARTURE: Guest are to depart from Paris at Charles De Gaulle International Airport (CDG).* TRANSFERS: Both complimentary and chargeable transfers are not offered in conjunction with this trip. Guests should make their own way from/to the airport at their own expense.* PORTERAGE: Porterage is not included; guests will be required to handle their own luggage throughout the tour.* NOTE: This Trip falls under Tour Deposit LEVEL 1. Please refer to the Deposit, Payment and Cancellations policies on our website.
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