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🍜 Food & Cooking

France

Classic visit and tasting of 3 wines

Walk through Clos Triguedina, a Cahors landmark dating back to 1830, with a knowledgeable guide leading you through the estate's heritage and winemaking. You'll taste three wines from their collection, learning what distinguishes each expression. The 45-minute visit suits all fitness levels and is fully accessible.

Poitiers Audio guided walking tour 2h00 and 16 audio commentary

Navigate Poitiers' architectural heritage on a self-guided 5 km circuit using audio narration across 16 significant sites. This two-hour walk threads through the city's medieval core, revealing Romanesque masterpieces like Notre-Dame-la-Grande and St. Peter's Cathedral alongside quieter backstreets and riverside paths. Audio commentary (available in French, English, Spanish) anchors each stop with historical context. Download the Navaway app and move at your own rhythm—no tickets, no groups, no rush.

Explore Caen in 60 minutes with a Local

Walk Caen's medieval heart in 60 minutes guided by someone who actually lives here. You'll move between the castle's ramparts and the Vaugueux district, picking up the rhythm of Norman architecture and local life. Your guide steers you toward genuine neighbourhood haunts—the cafés, bistros, and bars where Caennais actually spend their evenings, skipping the tourist traps. Small group keeps it intimate; the route flexes to match your pace and interests.

Explore Strasbourg’s Art and Culture with a Local

Walk through Strasbourg's creative neighbourhoods with a local who knows the city's artistic pulse. Over 90 minutes, you'll discover street art installations, independent galleries, and the contemporary scene that defines this Alsatian city. Hear direct accounts from the artists shaping Strasbourg's visual culture, and get genuine insight into how the local creative community thrives. Whether you're returning or visiting for the first time, you'll see the city through someone who actually lives its art scene.

1h 30mfrom AUD $166

Best Intro to Lille in 2 hours with a Local

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Best Intro to Lille in 2 hours with a Local

Navigate Lille's essential landmarks and neighbourhood backstreets on a 2-hour walking tour steered by someone who actually lives here. You'll pass through Porte de Paris and la Grande Place, duck into lanes most visitors miss, sample a regional speciality like Croustillons, and leave with a working knowledge of where locals eat, drink, and move around. Small groups—up to 8 people—mean the pace flexes with your interests and energy levels.

Architectural Lyon: Private Tour with a Local Expert

Explore Lyon's architectural layers with a local guide who knows the city's built heritage inside out. This two-hour private walk traces how the city has grown and changed through its structures—from the Palais de la Bourse that anchors the skyline to contemporary interventions. Your guide shapes the route around what interests you most, moving at your pace through neighbourhoods that reveal the relationship between old and new.

Private Normandy Tour DDAY Beaches from Paris

This 12–13 hour private tour guides you through Normandy's D-Day landing sites, departing and returning to your Paris location. Travel in a comfortable minivan with a knowledgeable driver, visiting carefully selected positions across the beaches and surrounding countryside. The itinerary suits both first-time visitors and military history enthusiasts, with sites chosen to illuminate Operation Overlord's scope and strategy. Allow roughly five to six hours for road travel between Paris and Normandy, plus time exploring the locations themselves.

12 hours – 13 hoursfrom AUD $4347

Escape Game Theme Magic Team in the streets of Lille

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🏔 Adventure & Sports

France

Escape Game Theme Magic Team in the streets of Lille

Solve puzzles woven through Lille's streets in this app-guided escape game for groups of any size. You choose when to play within a two-hour window, following cryptic clues and challenges across the city's landmarks and hidden corners. Download the free app, grab your unique code, and work together to unravel the scenario. Capture your progress on your phone as you go—the game saves everything automatically.

2 hoursfrom AUD $115

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Private Paris city tour with Minivan

Explore Paris's iconic landmarks and distinctive neighbourhoods on this 3.5-hour minivan tour, available mornings or afternoons. Your licensed guide navigates the city's 20 arrondissements—each with its own character and stories—from an air-conditioned Mercedes van. Hotel pickup and drop-off included, so you can finish with a wander through central Paris or head straight back to rest.

3h 30mfrom AUD $436

Antibes & St Paul de Vence Private Half-Day Tour

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Antibes & St Paul de Vence Private Half-Day Tour

Explore two quintessential French Riviera villages on this five-hour private tour. Start in Antibes, where sixteenth-century fortifications overlook a working port lined with superyachts and a vibrant Provençal market. Then head inland to hilltop St Paul de Vence, where narrow medieval streets once captivated Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall. Your private guide navigates both spots at a pace that suits your group of up to seven.

5 hoursfrom AUD $1254

Annecy Challenges EVG EVJF City Challenge team

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Annecy Challenges EVG EVJF City Challenge team

A 2-hour self-guided mobile game through Annecy for stag and hen parties. Teams receive a unique code and download the free app, then navigate the old town completing wedding-themed challenges at their own pace. No physical guide needed—just your phones, the app, and your crew. Works as an alternative to standard pub crawls, mixing competition with exploration of Annecy's lakeside streets and architecture.

Gourmet Truffle Dinner with MasterChef Winner in Le Marais

Spend an evening in a subterranean wine cellar in Le Marais where Jean-Yves, winner of MasterChef France 2012, prepares a four-course truffle-centred meal. Over two and a half hours, you'll dine on truffle-touched salmon, prawns, and ostrich with foie gras, paired with carefully selected wines and champagne. Conversation flows between courses as you experience truffle cookery from someone who's proven their chops at the highest level.

2h 30mfrom AUD $587

Half-day small group tour from Colmar to castle,Riquewihr

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Half-day small group tour from Colmar to castle,Riquewihr

Explore Alsace's most picturesque villages and castle ruins on this flexible half-day trip from Colmar. Your driver drops you at hand-picked stops—including the medieval stronghold and the wine-producing town of Riquewihr—then collects you at your chosen time. Groups stay small (maximum 8 people per van), so you're free to wander cobbled streets, duck into galleries, or linger over a glass of local Riesling at your own pace. Perfect for those who'd rather navigate independently than follow a set itinerary.

Omaha and Band Of Brothers Full Day Tour

Spend nine hours tracing two pivotal chapters of World War II history across Normandy. The morning explores the Omaha beachhead—bunkers, memorials, and the clifftop positions that shaped the invasion. After lunch, shift inland to retrace the route of Easy Company, the soldiers profiled in Band of Brothers, visiting their key positions and bivouacs across the Norman countryside. A guide drives and narrates throughout.

Toulouse Food & History Tour with a Chef (in English)

Walk through Toulouse's old town with Chef Alejandro, stopping at six landmarks—from the Basilica to Victor Hugo market—while he prepares regional Southwestern dishes on the spot. This 4-hour tour threads together centuries of local history with tastings of cassoulet, foie gras, and other classics, giving you both stories and flavours that stick with you long after.

Private D-Day Experience from Bayeux

Explore the American landing zones across Normandy's D-Day beaches with a dedicated guide steering your private group of up to seven. This eight-hour tour departs from Bayeux and covers the key sites where Operation Overlord unfolded, moving through the beaches, bunkers and monuments that shaped 1944. Your air-conditioned minivan provides transport between stops, with hotel collection and return included. Museum entries aren't part of the package, so budget accordingly if you want to step inside.

French Wine, Champagne And Cheese Tasting Paris SECRET WINE DOOR

A two-hour tasting session in Paris where you'll work through six French cheeses paired with six wines—one champagne, two whites, and three reds from renowned regions. A sommelier guides you through professional tasting techniques, cheese-wine matching principles, and the stories behind each selection, leaving you with genuinely useful knowledge to take home.

Sports, fun and educational discovery of Paris

Lace up and explore Paris on foot with a local runner who knows the city inside out. This private 5-mile route starts from your accommodation and winds through neighbourhoods most visitors miss, combining a genuine workout with frank conversation about Parisian life, architecture, and hidden corners. Your guide adapts the pace to suit you—whether you're building fitness or training for distance—stopping to point out landmarks and share stories that don't make the guidebooks. You'll finish with a folder of photos and insider tips for the rest of your trip.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $144

★ 5.0 (392)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Highlights of Provence in one day

This nine-and-a-half-hour tour sweeps across Provence, linking medieval hilltop settlements with Roman ruins and artistic landmarks. You'll explore Pont du Gard's ancient engineering, wander Roussillon's ochre-coloured streets, visit Nostradamus's childhood home in Saint-Rémy, and trace Van Gogh's Provençal chapter. A lavender field stop fills the itinerary mid-June through July, whilst the Sunday market at L'Isle-sur-la-Sorges showcases local produce and crafts. The pace allows proper breathing room between sites rather than rushed ticking-off.

Paris Montmartre Free Walking Tour in English

Wander Montmartre's steep streets and hidden squares with a local guide who knows where the artists still set up easels. This two-hour walk traces how a former vineyard became the crucible of modern art, from Picasso's studio days to the cabarets that still pulse with energy. You'll reach Sacré-Cœur's white dome for views across Paris, then duck into narrow alleys where the bohemian spirit lingers. Tip-based, so you pay what the experience was worth.

Small Group Guided E-bike Tour in Nice's Organic Vineyard

Cycle through Nice's organic vineyards on electric bikes, guided by the winemaker who tends the vines. Over four to five hours, you'll pedal between hillside plots, learn how grapes become wine through hands-on conversation, and taste several wines directly from the source. It's a working vineyard tour, not a polished cellar experience—expect dirt under fingernails and genuine stories about what makes each vintage different.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $184

An Aix-traordinary Walking City Tour of Aix-en-Provence

★ 5.0 (258)

🛕 Culture & History

France

An Aix-traordinary Walking City Tour of Aix-en-Provence

Spend 2–3 hours walking Aix-en-Provence with a Franco-British guide who unpacks the city's layered past: Roman foundations, medieval religious influence, Renaissance splendour, 19th-century quietude, post-war revival, and modern scientific standing. You'll navigate lesser-known streets, pause at the Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins, browse the morning markets, and finish at the Cathedral near Cézanne's studio. Groups capped at 12; private bookings available.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $184

Louvre and Musee d Orsay Exclusive Museum Tour Entry Included

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🛕 Culture & History

France

Louvre and Musee d Orsay Exclusive Museum Tour Entry Included

Skip the queues at two of Paris's greatest art repositories on this 5.5-hour guided tour. Your private guide leads you through the Louvre's Egyptian galleries and Renaissance halls, then across to Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection. Reserved entry tickets included. You'll stand before the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and works by Monet, Renoir and van Gogh, learning the stories behind each piece as you move from ancient civilisation through to post-Impressionism.

Paris Latin Quarter Exclusive Guided Walking Tour

A dedicated guide leads you through Paris's Left Bank for two and a half hours, tracing the intellectual heart of the city from Notre-Dame's exterior to the Panthéon and Luxembourg Gardens. This neighbourhood shaped generations of writers, philosophers and students; your guide unpicks the stories woven into its streets and squares. Choose morning or afternoon to suit your pace. You'll need your own transport to the meeting point.

2- to 6-hour sidecar excursion on the D-Day Landing Beaches

Ride through Normandy's D-Day sites in an authentic vintage sidecar, experiencing the region's coastal landscapes and wartime history firsthand. Your driver navigates between significant landing beaches and memorials over 2 to 6 hours, offering detailed accounts of the 1944 campaign. You'll be fitted with period goggles, gloves and protective gear—essentials for open-air travel through this historically charged terrain.

2 hours – 6 hoursfrom AUD $234

Paris Montmartre and Sacre Coeur Semi Private Tour 12ppl Max

★ 5.0 (209)

🛕 Culture & History

France

Paris Montmartre and Sacre Coeur Semi Private Tour 12ppl Max

Walk through Montmartre's winding streets and discover the neighbourhood's Belle Époque heritage on this 2.5-hour guided tour with a maximum of 12 guests. Your guide uncovers the stories of artists, cabarets, and historic landmarks as you climb toward Sacré-Cœur Basilica, perched atop the hill with sweeping views across Paris. Rain or shine, you'll explore the district's character through its people and places.

Corsica Extreme Sud Day 4X4 Excursions from Porto-Vecchio

This eight-hour 4X4 expedition ventures into southern Corsica's rugged interior from Porto-Vecchio with a locally-born guide. You'll drive remote tracks through maquis scrubland, stop for traditional mountain lunch, and walk gentle trails through aromatic plant country with sweeping views across the granite peaks. A proper taste of the island's wild heart without needing mountain-climbing fitness.

Private excursion to Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits (full day)

A full-day private tour through Burgundy's two most prestigious wine regions, Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits. Your guide—a qualified wine specialist—takes you inside two working domains to taste a dozen wines, including grand cru and premier cru selections. You'll learn how Burgundy's winemaking tradition evolved from Roman times through modern practice, reading vineyard landscapes and observing cellar techniques firsthand. The day suits everyone from curious drinkers to serious collectors.

Paris - Historic City Center Walking Tour

Walk through central Paris with a specialist guide who unpacks the city's 2,000-year narrative across 2.5 hours. You'll stand before Notre-Dame and the Louvre, trace the Seine's embankments, and absorb how the French Revolution and Baron Haussmann's 19th-century redesign shaped what you see. The guide shares practical intel on neighbourhood restaurants and genuine local habits—the kind of detail that turns sightseeing into understanding.

2h 30mfrom AUD $216

★ 5.0 (173)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Eze and Monaco Private Half-Day Tour

A private half-day tour of the French Riviera's two standout destinations: the clifftop medieval village of Eze and the principality of Monaco. Your certified local guide navigates you through Monaco's iconic sights—the Royal Palace, Guard ceremony, and Grand Prix circuit—before driving up to Eze's winding stone streets and Mediterranean overlooks. Five hours, departing from Nice or Villefranche-sur-Mer in a private Mercedes with bottled water included. Casino entry (€20) paid separately on arrival.

5 hoursfrom AUD $1120

★ 5.0 (170)

🍜 Food & Cooking

France

Burgundy Wines Masterclass in Dijon

A two-hour Burgundy masterclass in Dijon that decodes the region's wine classification system, terroir, and production methods through tasting six wines paired with local cheese and charcuterie. You'll learn to taste like a sommelier—from fundamental technique to advanced palate training—whilst understanding how Burgundy's geography, grape varieties, and winemaking traditions shape what's in your glass. Relaxed, practical, and grounded in real knowledge rather than pretence.

Carcassonne During World War 2

Explore Carcassonne's World War 2 landmarks and memorials across this 2 hour 15 minute walking tour. Your guide unpacks the conflict's local impact through archival photographs and personal accounts of those caught in the occupation and liberation. You'll move through streets and sites that shaped this corner of France during the war, gaining insight into how ordinary lives intersected with extraordinary events. The tour skips the medieval citadel, focusing instead on the town's wartime geography.

A Day of Exploring Black Paris

This six-hour walking tour traces Black presence across Paris neighbourhoods, connecting African, Caribbean, and diasporic histories often absent from standard guidebooks. You'll move through communities and landmarks that reveal how Black culture has quietly and openly shaped the city's character. The pace allows for genuine conversation and reflection rather than rushing between photo stops. Includes all-day metro pass and a croissant with quality butter and hot drink to start.

6 hoursfrom AUD $299

Sunrise Biking Tour: Paris Before the Crowds

★ 5.0 (152)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Sunrise Biking Tour: Paris Before the Crowds

Pedal through Paris during the quiet hours before dawn breaks and tourist crowds descend. This 2-hour guided bike ride loops past the [Eiffel Tower](/places/eiffel-tower), Louvre, Alexander III Bridge, and Notre-Dame whilst the city is still yours to explore. Stop at a neighbourhood café for traditional French breakfast—fresh croissants and coffee—before traffic picks up. Limited to 8 riders.

2 hoursfrom AUD $115

★ 5.0 (149)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Paris One-Hour Private Photo Shoot

A professional photographer meets you at a Paris landmark for a guided one-hour shoot, coaching you through poses while capturing candid moments across the city's most photogenic streets. You'll receive 30 edited images plus 150+ unedited shots via WeTransfer, ready to print, frame, or share. The photographer—a Paris local—scouts locations beforehand via WhatsApp and adapts the session to your vision, whether that's couples portraiture, family portraits, or solo shots. Rain won't stop the shoot; covered spots work equally well.

Private Full day American D-Day Guided Tour in Bayeux

Spend nine hours exploring the D-Day landing sites around Bayeux with a dedicated guide in a private vehicle. This customisable tour covers the American sectors of the Normandy beaches and surrounding historical landmarks at your own pace, with no group constraints. Your guide provides full attention throughout, tailoring stops and timing to suit your interests. The air-conditioned car handles all transport, leaving you free to absorb the significance of each location.

9 hoursfrom AUD $1001

Private Guided Tour in WW2 Jeep of the Landing Beaches

★ 5.0 (139)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

France

Private Guided Tour in WW2 Jeep of the Landing Beaches

Travel the Normandy coastline in an authentically restored 1944 American military Jeep on this two-hour private tour. Your local guide navigates backroads and forgotten corners around the D-Day landing sites, sharing regional stories and historical context that standard tours miss. You'll weave through characteristic Norman villages, bocage hedgerows, and coastal areas, getting a tactile sense of the landscape that shaped the 1944 campaign. Completely refurbished for comfort and safety, the Jeep itself becomes part of the historical narrative.

First canyoning in Grenoble in the Vercors

Your first canyon descent in the Vercors, just outside Grenoble, takes you down water-carved gorges through forested terrain. This 3.5-hour guided session pairs you with certified instructors who handle the technical bits—abseiling, jumping, sliding—while you focus on the thrill. You'll kit up in wetsuit and harness, work through natural obstacles, and emerge with action shots from the day. It's accessible to beginners who can swim and manage moderate exertion.

Normandy WWII Private Half-day Sidecar Tour From Bayeux

Travel through Normandy's D-Day sites aboard a vintage sidecar with a knowledgeable local operator. This 4-4.5 hour half-day tour departs Bayeux and visits Arromanches, Omaha Beach, and the American Cemetery via quiet country lanes untouched by coach groups. The open-air format lets you absorb the landscape at a measured pace. Finish with an optional cider and Calvados tasting at a working fortified farm, or head straight back.

4 hours – 4h 30mfrom AUD $354

Traditional Gourmet Food & Wine Tour in Bordeaux

★ 5.0 (122)

🍜 Food & Cooking

France

Traditional Gourmet Food & Wine Tour in Bordeaux

Wander Bordeaux's medieval lanes with a local guide who knows where the best food hides. Over 3.5 hours, you'll taste your way through seven carefully chosen stops: buttery pastries, aged cheeses, house-made chocolates, crispy cannelés, and regional wines finished in an intimate cellar tasting. Everything's included, the groups stay small (eight people maximum), and your guide adapts the pace to what the group enjoys.

3h 30mfrom AUD $201

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