This trip was one of my favorite parts of our trip to Paris, by far. We were picked up by Abi, our…read moredriver, who gave us the option as to which areas of Paris we wanted to see on our two-hour nighttime vintage car tour, with champagne. Bundled in a blanket, under the lights of Paris, Abi drove us like the badass he is, and along the way gave us tips on where to eat, trivia about movie locations, and history you won't find in a tour book. My husband and I knew at some point that we were being treated to an experience that we wouldn't soon forget. Abi is cool dude who drives with a great respect for that beautiful car. Be prepared to be gawked at, and for gods sake get the champagne - it is delicious.

I am honored to leave the first review for City Wheels. If I could give 100 stars, I would…read more My husband and I were only in Paris for two days, and it was our first time visiting. We knew we wanted to do many things, but we kind of felt overwhelmed by all the possibilities in Paris. On the train ride in from London, I found a suggestion for taking a nighttime tour in a car. My husband reached out to the company, but of course everything was booked. I went on Yelp and found City Wheels. There weren't any reviews, so that made a little nervous. However, the booking was easy and a timeslot was available for the same day. We scheduled the tour for 10 AM on a Monday. Unfortunately, the time slot ended up not being available, but Laurent called and actually was able to fit us in for a more suitable time later that evening. Laurent was quick to respond to phone calls. We had a cooking class scheduled, and it ended at 5pm. Laurent showed up around 5:15, and my husband and I were giddy with glee. The car was impeccable. It was clean, shiny, and awesome. Laurent spent 10 minutes or so explaining how he was going to start the tour and he used a map to point out certain points and places in Paris. Our two hour tour was absolutely amazing. Laurent told us lots of French history, he took us to all the main touristy sites, and he actually took our pictures for us, too. He even used his iPhone editing skills for the photos! The tour was so personable and fantastic and my husband and I could not be more pleased. It was the highlight of our European vacation. We've tried hop on/hop off tours in other cities, and this tour was 100% better. Laurent was cheerful, personal, honest, and a great driver. I'd recommend City Wheels to anyone!

Yes. Come do the touristy things like shopping, eating, and sightseeing. But also consider this…read moreplace with a spin to the sightseeing portion with a historical twist. The admissions price you pay is worth it. You just don't see this type of local flair anywhere else. Soak in the history about Paris and also its darker side. Your perspective about things will change, for most people anyway. The takeaway the hubs took from this experience is that nothing really matters at the end. It's a real eye opening experience TBH. As you wander the dark corridors, you will see piles of real human bones piled in neat stacks. It was saddening to realize that these were once human beings. Now they are part of a collection of unknown souls. It was just a down to earth experience. The audio tour will allow you to wander at your pleasure so there's no real rush or live tour. Book early because spots are limited!

The major thing we wanted to do in Paris was visit the catacombs, an underground ossuary containing…read morethe bones of more than six million people. The catacombs are part of Paris' abandoned mine and quarry network, and bones were moved to the catacombs because the cemeteries were running out of space. The first bones were transferred from the Cimetière des Saints-Innocents after the cemetery was closed in 1780 due to overuse. The catacombs are an extremely popular attraction, and purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended as a limited number of people are admitted each hour, and with good reason -- the experience would be extremely unpleasant if overly crowded. However, you can only purchase tickets one week in advance, and the catacombs are not open on Mondays. The two full days we were in Paris were Sunday and Monday, so I had to ensure that we were able to get tickets for Sunday April 7. Fortunately I was successful! Tickets were €29 each, although per the website, they are now €31. Unfortunately, the catacombs are not accessible for people in wheelchairs or who have mobility issues -- the 1.5km long route has 243 stairs -- 131 to descend and 112 to ascend. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit, and if you want to see bones and skulls (no full skeletons, though), the Paris catacombs won't disappoint! [Yelp collections: Europe 2024; Paris, France; Beware of stairs!]

We booked a 2 hr private tour of The Louvre for kids with Meet The Locals. Our tour guide Justine…read morewas so knowledgeable & friendly. The kids loved it, and the adults learned new things too! I can't recommend this group enough, they did a stellar job & we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Our family of 5 (including 3 teens/tweens) loved our time with Sonia. On the first day, we did the…read moreLourve (fun interactive mystery activity), crepes for lunch and the Eiffel Tower (I spy competition). The second day was a chocolate and sweets tour with a bunch of stops for candy, macrons, chocolate and ice cream. Sonia had the right combo of history and fun and it was wonderful. Highly recommend!

I just went on the street art walking tour - this amazing tour was fun, engaging and informative…read more this is my 5th visit to Paris and I am so glad I did this tour. I highly recommend this tour and this company. the company is extremely helpful and responsiv. I highly recommend these tours. I have already booked a second tour! This tour was unique- I had a one of a kind experience.

My 16 year old daughter and I did Paul's tour and just loved it. I've been to Paris 4-5 times but…read morenot in many many years. Paul's tour is an insider tour for the outsider. He's one of those people who knows thousands of things about Paris and seemed to custom his comments to people's interests and curiosities. He was friendly, professional, knowledgeable, and just an genuinely nice guy....everything you want in a tour guide. You could ask him anything. He starts at the origin of Paris and goes from there. Fascinating. I highly recommend you wear comfortable shoes, a bottle of water, etc. He does a snack break & bathroom stop, but I'd get a snack elsewhere. The food truck was tasty, but pricey.

Paul gave us the best tour ever! Personable and warm with a full grasp of the history of Paris. We…read morewere on a tight schedule to see what we could in the city and Paul gave us a full view of the history and sights to see. He gathered what we had seen so far and tuned the tour around it. Always entertaining in his reccounting of historical events and some insights into what was going on in Paris at the time too. He was like an old friend that you hadn't seen for some time, recounting some of his life in Paris as well as having interest in ours. Couldn't ask for a better tour guide. Even offered that he would be available for recommendations should we ever go back or venture out to other areas of the country. Paul made Paris seem even more like that place you would want to return to again and again.

We signed up for the full-day Versailles Tour with transportation from our hotel in the 7th…read morearrondissement. Exactly at 0800 our guide, Quentin, arrived at our hotel with our driver in a new Porsche Panamera sedan for our trip to Versailles. Quentin was personable, friendly, and a wealth of information about Versailles. He handled all the arrangements and escorted us throughout virtually all of the accessible areas of the palace. He had also arranged for our lunch at Ducasse (yes, an Alain Ducasse restaurant located within the Versailles palace - see separate review of the restaurant, under Ore - Ducasse au Chateau de Versailles - spoiler - very, very good). Quentin had an amazing range of knowledge about the palace and about the furnishings and artwork throughout. He was highly informative without overloading us with too much detail, and where appropriate, he simply got us to another amazing location and let us look around for ourselves. His special guide permit allowed him (and us) to enter many of the rooms that require separate tickets to enter, and we bypassed some bunches of visitors through doors only accessible by licensed Versailles guides. We visited on a cold January day (high was 40F that day) and that kept the crowds away. Quentin kept exclaiming that he had never seen so few visitors in Versailles. That was great for us, as we never felt crowded and in fact were all by ourselves in some of the rooms of the palace. Following a great lunch, Quentin escorted us to the Petite Trianon and to the fantasy village built for Marie Antoinette. Quentin pointed out how the palace, the Parc de Versailles, the landscaping were all carefully designed to awe visitors. Most visitors would never know how the hill that leads from the palace down to the statute of Apollo is designed to trick the eye and make new surprising vistas appear as you progress. Or how the lake was designed to make it feel much longer and farther through subtle engineering. We also would never have known all the inside meta-symbology is spread throughout the palace and the art. All the associations with Apollo for Louis XIV (the "Sun King") hidden within the columns, wall and ceiling decorations mean a lot more when you know why they are designed that way. After a full day of Versailles palace, Petit Trianon, and Marie Antoinette's fantasy village, we were glad to see our driver waiting for us on a street right next to the fantasy village, so we didn't need to hike a mile back to the palace parking areas. We had a nice ride back to our hotel. Highly recommended - we had an exceptional time. Quentin was a wonderful tour guide, and we appreciated his excellent English and encyclopedic knowledge of Versailles and the history of the French aristocracy.

My wife and I took the Notre Dame - The Full Experience tour with Marie…read more Booking the food tour was very easy through the website, we were contacted immediately through email by Bertrand confirming our information. The food tour started at 10am. My wife and I were in a group with two others and our tour guide, Marie. The tour was thought through well. The idea was basically to eat like Parisians for the day which I was super excited about. Also, Marie grew up in Paris, and moved around to multiple arrondissements which is really helpful because each area is different, and she has experienced cultures of each of the areas. We started off with breakfast at a local coffee shop. We grabbed a quick coffee and went on our way. On the tour there was a variety of sweets and bakery items for breakfast. In between each of our visits to each of the local shops, Marie covered some of the history of Paris. After breakfast, we took a longer walk, seeing some sights around the area. We then went to pick up a baguette, cheese, and meat for our lunch. At the cheese shop, we were able to sample a variety of cheeses along with purchase multiple cheeses for our lunch which was to come. We ended up at a local wine shop that only sold organic wines. Marie prepared the cheeses and meats and the wine shop owner selected a wine for us. He also showed us how to properly drink the wine. He was quite the character. Lots of opinions and was very straightforward. I thought he was great! I'm not a huge fan of wine, but wow was the wine he chose for us good. I had wine again tonight, and it definitely did not taste as clean and pure as the wine he served us. We sat in the wine store and had bread, cheese, meats, and wine for the remainder of the tour. The tour cost a little less than $100 per person, but if you are a foodie I think it's definitely worth it. I mean you get to eat like a Parisian for a day. I would have never found some of those little stores that Marie had led us to. Marie was also very friendly and made everyone feel very comfortable. It was like we were among friends. During the whole tour, we did not feel rushed. We took our time at each of the different locations and really enjoyed ourselves. I would definitely recommend this food tour for those who enjoy food and are adventurous. This was definitely one of my favorite things we have done on our trip to Europe.

Great concept of free or pay as you wish. I paid E15 per person and thought it was excellent value…read more Guide was knowledgeable, helpful and responsive. Actually the Marais was the second tour after Montmartre yesterday. I would recommend both wholeheartedly. I've lived in Paris but realized how little I know or how much more there is to know. Leonie our Montmartre guid also did an excellent interpretation of a Dalida song. Merci Leonie and Sara.

We've had a few successes with Viator so this is leaving me completely puzzled. On May 8, 2025, we…read morewere supposed to meet someone at the Henry IV statue at the Pont Neuf bridge at 3:15 to get our tickets for the 3:30 tour. We got there early enough to have lunch and walk around a bit. At 2:30 we went over to the statue and sat on a bench to enjoy the sights and wait for our tour. at 3:20, no one had showed up with tickets. We called the tour provider and they said they had notified Viator that this specific tour was oversold and that we were moved to the 3:00 tour. NO ONE ever told us. ON top of that, we were at the location at 2:45 (the time they said we needed to get the tickets at the statue) and NO ONE was there. We called Viator and they said we were considered "late" and they could not refund us, despite the fact that we were way early. at 3:37 pm, we received an email from Viator saying that our tour had changed to 3:00 pm and we needed to be at the statue at 2:45. nearly an HOUR after the time we were supposed to be there, they notified us. However, we WERE there. Viator still claims they cannot refund our tickets. I'll add, the email they sent us had a 3:00pm timed ticket to enter Notre Dame on our own, but we received it 37 minutes too late. This was a once in a lifetime trip, and to miss such a highlight as Notre Dame, after we've taken so much time to plan ahead, and pay nearly $200 for this unique experience.

Lorenzo was a great tour guide. He knows his history and presented a great story and vision of the…read moretime! It was a great way to learn about the details of Versailles, the gardens, the petit Trianon, and the Hamlet. I feel like I had a personal history lesson.

We enjoyed our tour with Lorenzo of the Chateau de Chantilly. He was very knowledgeable about the…read moreChateau and it's history. There were lots of school tours and he did an excellent job of maneuvering around the large crowds. We would highly recommend this tour!

From the owner: Que faire ce week-end ? Chaque semaine, nous finissons tous par nous poser cette question. Et si…read morecette fois-ci vous veniez vous balader dans les vestiges de la ville antique ? Découvrir le Paris d'Henri IV ? Admirer les œuvres de Paul Klee ? Des Mots & des Arts vous propose de nombreuses activités pour rythmer vos journées et vos soirées dans la capitale : promenades urbaines, cours d'histoire de l'art, Apéro Arty, visites d'expositions, de collections mais aussi de galeries. Conçus pour un public parisien curieux et exigeant, plusieurs rendez-vous en petit comité ont été pensés comme autant d'occasions de se retrouver dans une ambiance détendue et conviviale dans la (re)découverte artistique de lieux incontournables et plus intimes. Loin de la conférence magistrale ou de la visite marathon, nos intervenants (chercheurs, médiévistes, experts en photographie...) désirent avant tout partager leurs connaissances de façon à la fois ouverte, pointue, indépendante et accessible. Promis, ce week-end, vous ne vous ennuierez pas !