Paris City Tour by Minivan and Montmartre

Paris, France

Take this small group morning or afternoon tour to combine an overview of Paris' famous monuments, squares and buildings with some leisure time in Paris' most bohemian quarter, Montmartre. You'll be picked up and dropped off at your centrally located Paris hotel by air-conditioned minivan, which holds a maximum of only eight passengers and ensures you'll receive individual attention from your expert tour guide.

During your minivan tour of central Paris you'll gain insights into the history of Paris and its famous monuments and sites as you listen to the accompanying commentary. Your air-conditioned minivan tour of Paris takes in major landmarks, including La Madeleine, Opera, Vendome Square, Concorde, Champs-Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, Invalides, the world-famous Louvre Museum and Notre Dame Cathedral, to name just a few.

Your personalized tour of Paris concludes with a some free time in Montmartre, you are free to visit the Sacre-Coeur basilica, the picturesque Moulin de la Galette windmill or the central Place du Tertre square. It's a great way to end your introduction to Paris, the City of Light!

USD $84.27

Traveler Reviews

Review by: MIGUEL Z	April 2012
Tour guide arrived on time, very knowledgeable, courteous, and accommodating. The only disappointment was his recommendation for dining which we followed. Will recommend to friends.

Review by: Radhakrishnan P	April 2012
John gave us a good tour and was very receptive to our questions.

Review by: Ned	March 2012
Great tour and great fun. Our driver was right on time and the tour was as we had hoped. Well done.

Review by: Lisa S	March 2012
A terrific way to start our week in Paris.

Review by: Aral328	February 2012
Great Tour!!!

Review by: DouglasGeorgia	January 2012
This tour is a great way to get a quick overview of Paris so that you know what to come back to and explore in depth. The tour guide (Paolo) was very knowledgeable and also quite personable. There were quick stops at Notre Dame and Montmartre. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to see a good bit of Paris in a short time.

Review by: Mark I	December 2011
Very forced;. My guide was a professional but was not into it because I was the only person on the tour. Next time I will do the history and drive around myself. Very disappointed. FYI : If your heat in not in it, then don't do it.. I spent a lot of US money for that and will no do that again. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!

Review by: brandy	November 2011
. City tour/montmatre 5 hours was shorter than expected but still enjoyed it.. Very friendly tour host with lots of knowledge of the city

Review by: Anne M	November 2011
The best way to start a visit to Paris is you havent been before

Review by: Sharmon B	November 2011
Excellent service! The tour van was right on time with plenty of space for passengers. The driver was curtious, knowledgeable and offered superb information on the various sights. I really liked that this was a small group tour (6 people). The driver stopped for photo opts and getting a closer look at some of the sights. Instead of dropping us off at the hotel at the end of the tour, at our request, he dropped us off at the Louvre. Thank you.

Review by: Kylic76	October 2011
Great group tour.

Review by: Rhona	October 2011
We selected this tour because we had only one morning in Paris and wanted to see as many of the sights as possible. Called ahead as requested. Timely pick up at the hotel. Two other pick up stops and our tour started.. Paris traffic in the morning is horrible and the guide did a wonderful job of avoiding it when possible and talking those times when she couldn't. _br/_ The guide had a wealth of knowledge about the city and gave lots of photo ops. We were returned to the hotel at the scheduled time.

Review by: Anne P	October 2011
We received as much information from our taxi driver on our way out of the city as we did from our guide.

Review by: Lisa k	September 2011
Tour didn't seem to be prepared ahead of time. Guide was very nice and informative.

Review by: Mr D C	September 2011
Excellent guide one of the best ways to see around Paris

Review by: jocelyn d	August 2011
our bus tour guide/driver was very and spoke well in english and spanish, i feel that he interpreted without any biases in both languages even though 90% of the passengers were spanish and loud-he continued his best to make sure we hear his interpretation.

Review by: Athena K	August 2011
It was a great introductory tour to Paris.

Review by: Paul T	July 2011
Great for a first-time trip to Paris: informative, comfortable and a great tour guide, Fabi.

Review by: SUZANNE W	July 2011
Very good. Guide on time to pick us up at hotel and was very nice and informative. 5 stars

Review by: Noni	July 2011
We were in a minivan with 6 people + a child._br/_ Female driver/ tour guide explained very little, talked unclear via microphone. It was a waste of our money for this tour. The worst tour guide we ever had.

Review by: Peter Slykhuis	July 2011
On time, but tour guide himself was not very enthusiastic. It felt like he was just mailing this one in, he just told us the very basics of the sites we viewed. There were many "uncomfortable silences" which we filled in through conversations with our fellow travellers. l will give ouir guide a positive comment for the fact that he did not drop us off at Montmartre as scheduled because of the heavy rain, he was kind enough to drive us back to our hotels or drop us where-ever we asked him.

Review by: Anonymous	May 2011
Our Paris city tour was conducted in a mini van by Coco who was both entertaining and knowledgable about Paris. She hit all the highlights of Paris and gave us time in Montmartre, which was lovely. Congratulations on having such a great guide.

Review by: Yakov S	May 2011
The City Tour by Minivan was very pleasant,we had a good time.We though that it was money well spent.We will advice our friends to use the Viator.

Review by: Holly C	April 2011
Pablo our guide was very knowledgable and gave a great commentary. He tried very hard to give everyone in the van the opportunity to take pictures by driving around monuments. He gave enough time for people to look around at Notre Dame and Montmarte and meet back at the van.

Review by: PHILLIP B	March 2011
The tour operator was very helpful and nice. I have no issues with things being bi-lingual (in fact I enjoy speaking french, the person I was travelling with only spoke english) the tour was not in english only as stated. It was in spanish and english and with only 7 people in the van it was an odd mixture of sentences half in english half in spanish, where sometimes things were pointed out in spanish and sometimes in english and occasionally in both languages. When the english speaking people asked questions they were answered in english and when the spanish speaking people asked questions in spanish they were answered in spanish. This left me feeling like those not understanding the questions were being omitted from the answer. For the price for two people, this tour could have been done independently given the information that was provided. With only seven people, a dual language tour was awkward.

Review by: Maria R B	December 2010
This was worth every cent ! Fred, our guide and driver was very competent, knowledgeable and able to converse in English, French and Japanese. The fact that we were combined with 4 japanese tourists seemed such a strange combination and, initially, appeared to be a mistake because my husband and I would not be able to undertsand Japanese at all. But, that was before Fred launched into his full tri-lingual mode. He delivered a well-constructed tour with accompanying information for our small group of 6 people. He also negotiated the traffic around the CBD and ensured that he gave very precise instructions regarding free time and appointed meeting places at each of the selected sites we visited. Although it was a cloudy and cold day, the quality of the tour was not diminished due to Fred's care and efforts. This was a great way to have a quick introduction to Paris - with particular emphasis on Montmatre and the Sacre-Couer_br/_ Basilica. If you want just a short introduction_br/_ to Paris - then this tour is a definite must. Highly recommended.

Review by: Richard F	November 2010
Loved our guide, Manuel. Took us all around town. Glad it wasn't a walking tour bc it rained the whole time. Good overview of Paris on our first day there.

Review by: Gary A	November 2010
The actual trip was very informative and if you only have a limited time in Paris i would highly recommend it. The only down side for us was the driver was over an hour late getting to us and we were not informed, we had to do all the chasing for information.

Review by: Nini	October 2010
Fun tour although I feel that we wasted time picking us other passengers/unavoidable. Tour guide was considerate of our time at two stops and was very knowledgeable.

Review by: Randi-Leigh P	October 2010
Very dissappointing. The tour lasted less than 2 hours. It was a quick drive through Paris, stopping only at the Eiffel Tower for 3 minutes for pictures. Then the walking tour of Montmartre was nothing. The driver drops you off and tells you to be back to the van in 30 min. Hardly enough time to walk around the area, much less the Eglise Sacre Coeur. Considering the cost, I would not reccomend this tour.

Review by: Elizabeth A	October 2010
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Review by: Brian D	October 2010
This was a good way to get a quick overview of Paris. The guide was knowledgeable and friendly. Since it was only a few hours, we seemed to speed past things and only get a glimpse, but at least you know what you want to go back and see in more detail and what you don't. Much prefer this over the big tour bus version as for the stops we did make it was very quick to get in and out and move on to the next thing.

Review by: Cynthia D	September 2010
A good overview of Paris. Good guide. Was picked up on time and he was very knowledgable.

Review by: Jacqueline C, Malaysia	July 2010
This is the tour you should take if you have a limited time in Paris. It brings you to the main attraction with 3 photo stops. The tour guide is wonderful!

Review by: Debbie K	July 2010
Very good for a high-level introduction to the area. Could have been better if it was not during rush hour. We spent more time on the road than at the actual sites.

Review by: Anonymous	June 2010
It is OK as an introductory tour to the places to visit. But we got to stop only at three places. The rest have to be viewed from the van. I booked this tour since I was unfamiliar with the city and wanted a pick up and drop off but one has to be real careful that the hotel is centrally located. The guide is friedly, informative and helpful.

Review by: Alan N, United States of America	May 2010
Guide was great.

Review by: Greg S, Canada	April 2010
Tour was quite well organized and interesting.

Review by: Anonymous	April 2010
Nothing special but was ok.

Review by: Anonymous	March 2010
I felt the driver was just doing his job, there was not a lot of information. He left us on our own to walk around Montmartre. I was expecting a tour with him with some information. I felt he just wanted to get it over as soon as possible!

Review by: Colin L, Canada	November 2009
Guide was superb! Great sense of humor. I'm glad we did the tour upon arriving as it set us up to navigate on our own for the following few days. Thanks.

Review by: Marika D, United States of America	October 2009
It was a wonderful day. The driver was fantastic. He was knowledgeable and personable! We had a wonderful vacation. I recommended you to a friend who has already booked the same tour.

Review by: Michelle Z	October 2009
I had read the other reviews and this trip sounded great but we certainly didn't get the amusing bus driver on our trip. Also, the walking tour is not a 'tour', we were dropped off in Montmartre and left to wander it by ourselves. I enjoyed this but expected a walking tour. The bus driver tried to drop us off at the Eiffel Tower on the return leg rather than our pickup place, and we had to be adamant that we needed to return to the pickup location. Average experience overall! The bus driver also had a cold and it was pretty obvious he just wanted to get it all over and done with!

Review by: Lester T, United States of America	September 2009
This was our introductory tour and it was most interesting! We would have enjoyed more time in Montmarte, but went back there on our own.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	June 2009
It could have been better if we had more time at Montmarte. The views of the city from there are spectacular. There were many artist and street performers and endless places to shop and eat. The tour guide was great, had great information, and went out of his way to ensure everyone got great pictures. He dropped us off at or near our desired locations.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	May 2009
I was satisfied.

Review by: Janet G, Canada	May 2009
Driver was wonderful, very knowledgeable and FUNNY!!! Right on time and perfect.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	May 2009
The guide's biggest problem was his English, but we could understand him. It was great to get an overview of Paris's main monuments and some of its history.

Review by: Stephen B, United Kingdom	March 2009
Fantastic way to see the sights of Paris, small group of six people, great tour guide full of information on all buildings we saw and passed, very relaxed and a fab start to our holiday.

Review by: Anne M, Australia	January 2009
The guide was absolutely excellent and provided so much information and was really interesting.