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FRENCH RIVIERA & PROVENCE

This tour is a full discovery of the French Riviera and also one day in Provence . You will be staying in Nice in a 4 star hotel overlooking the Sea. With your local guide, you will enjoy this mediterranean part of France. Visit small villages and meet wonderful people!


Day 1: Paris (Saturday)

Arrival in CDG airport in Paris, morning arrival, transfer directly to your 4-star hotel. Limousine service with bilingual driver waiting for you right after customs.

Check in your hotel centrally located in Paris (click here to see hotels)

Meet your guide and chauffeured transport at your hotel, your guide will take you directly for lunch on the first floor of the Eiffel tower.

Afternoon, city tour of the city of Paris.

Return to your hotel, evening on your own.


Day 2: Paris to Nice (Sunday)

After breakfast, train transfer(early) with assistance for a TGV departure headed south to Nice on a direct train.

Upon arrival in Nice, meet your guide at the train station with transport, he will take you directly to your beautiful 4-star hotel on the beach. The Hotel WEST END in Nice.

Lunch with your guide near the Nice's harbor.

Afternoon city tour of Nice.

Return to your hotel and evening on your own.


Day 3: Nice (Monday)

After breakfast, full day tour of discovery of the Riviera coast.

Meet your guide with transport in the morning after breakfast,he will take you to Monaco for a guided tour of this town : the gardens near the Palace, the oceanographic museum, the casino square.

Lunch with your guide in Monaco or in Eze village.

Afternoon visit the village of Eze and the perfume factory. Return to Nice by the coastal scenic road, stop in Villefranche and many other small villages of the coast.

Return to Nice by the coastal scenic road, stop in Villefranche and many other small villages of the coast.

Evening is free.


Day 4: Riviera (Tuesday)

Meet your guide in the morning with transport after breakfast, he will take you to Antibes, and then, Cannes first for a guided tour of the city.

Lunch in Cannes.

Afternoon in the small village of Mougins, and then, reach Grasse, visit of the famous perfume factory "Fragonard".

Return to Nice, your hotel to dress up for an evening in Monaco.

Dinner in Monaco with your guide. Then he will take you to the Casino (jacket and ties required for men and formal dress for ladies).

Return to your hotel in Nice.


Day 5: (Wednesday)

Today you will go to "the arriére pays" as locals say here, the villages and small canyons behind the Riviera.

First stop in Saint paul de Vence, famous for the artists who lived there.

Visit of the small village of tourrettes sur loup.

Visit of a sweets factory "confiserie florain". Then, if you still can eat, lunch.

After visit of the very impressive canyons of the wolf.

Visit of the village of Gourdon.

Return to your hotel by 6PM. Evening on your own.


Day 6: One day in Provence (Thursday)

After breakfast, you will take the "road of the wines of Provence", and visit the famous castles and wineries of the Luberon.

Visit the house of wines and have a pleasant lunch.

Visit of cellars and tastings at these 3 castles in Provence: Château Saint martin, Château Sainte Roseline, Château Fond du broc.

Return to Nice. Evening on your own.


Day 7: Nice to Paris (Friday)

Breakfast

Transfer, after checking out of your hotel, to the train station in Nice with assistance of your guide for a TGV departure to Paris.

Transfer upon arrival in Paris directly to your Parisian 4-star hotel.

Evening on your own to explore Paris at night.


Day: 8 (Saturday)

Breakfast

Transportation to CDG airport.

Cost of this tour, which is limited to 6 persons, per person as listed is €2,995. Land services only in France, your airline tickets are not included. Travel insurance is not included but is recommended.


Schedule for this tour:

YEAR 2004
    April 17 th to 24th. May 15th. to 22nd.


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