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Hello,

I wanted to introduce my new website to you : FRANCE TRAVEL TOUR

This is very difficult for us to be known by people because bus tours have huge budgets to communicate through Internet. Even if their service is much more lower than ours. 

Through my website you can get in touch with us, and have a better description of our services. Our purpose is to work to facilitate your stay as much as possible. Through guided tours, but also through a 24/7 assistance.

In case of loss of passport, or theft, or any problem that you can meet when you travel abroad, you can always contact us. 

The goal is to create a link with our guests coming to France. Not only commercial. We are creating a new way to visit France, more interactive. We create your tour together.

I met many tourists who were disappointed because of their bus tours. They had a meeting point in Paris, and when you're coming from Australia, or Taiwan, or any far country it is very difficult to reach it.

Many times people were late on the meeting point and the bus left without them. I cannot imagine that any more. 

With those companies they even make you stop in front of souvenirs shop they have deals with, because for any of your shopping they earn a commission. Same with lunch : most of the time you will be brought in a restaurant, regardless of the service or the quality of the food. Only cares the commission.

I know I wouldn't say that but...that makes all the difference between their services and our services. Local tour-guides will never bring you to shops, or restaurant to earn commission, because we are passionate, and, in most of the cases, we are travelers, just like you. We run small agencies, we don't pay a lot of charges, we don't need those commissions.

With local guides, pick-up and drop-off are always included in your tour price. Because we prefer taking more time to know you were happy and don't met any problem. Even for layovers we accompany you into your terminal, to make sure you've chosen the right one. 

With bus tours you're a part of a group. With local guides you're a guest. We do have a responsibility that bus tours don't. We are proud when you're happy and enjoyed the tours. 

Loire castles

Hi,

There are many jewels to see in France. It is an old country so our history runs over many centuries. French kings let us some wonderful castles, and I invite you to visit them through a guided tour. 

We will leave Paris for the city of Amboise, a lovely typical french city, land of welcome to Leonardo da Vinci invites you to discover all its cultural, natural, artisanal and gastronomical treasures. 

You can choose to visit the Amboise Castle, symbol of the City. King Francois Ier lived there and loved this castle. It is also the last home of the Genius, Leonardo Da Vinci.

After visiting and walking around Amboise City, I will drive you to Chenonceaux castle. It is the most visited Loire Castle.

Château des Dames as recorded in the French history books, Chenonceau owes a large part of its charm to women: it was built in 1513 by Katherine Briçonnet, then made even more attractive by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Médicis, and saved from the rigours of the French Revolution by Mrs Dupin.

The "five Queens room" : This bedroom is thus named in memory of Catherine de Medicis two daughters and three daughters-in-law.

If you are interested in French Renaissance period and discovering typical french villages, this tour is made for you !

Tasty Paris

Hello,

Tasty Paris is an amazing tour ! It has a lot of success with guests coming from Asia and Middle-East for the moment. 

Tasty Paris is a guided tour of Paris highlights, and in the afternoon, a cooking class with a french pastry chef ! Our pastries are world-famous, such as macaron ! He will learn you, through a funny cooking class, to make some macaron, or other pastries. 

After the lesson a tasting of your cookies, and pictures are taken as a "souvenir" of this wonderful moment. It is always amazing and interesting to say to people once you are back in your country : I learnt in Paris how to make macaron ! " Or you can choose to eat your creations in front of Tour Eiffel or Sacré-Coeur basilica !

Feel free to contact me for more information about this tour !

Testimonials

Hello,

Here I will post the feedback emails I receive for my tours. Thanks to all my guests, from Australia, United States, Japan, Singapore, Egypt, Israel, Germany and many other countries for their kind reviews!

Layover in Paris is one of my "best-sellers", and most of my reviews are for this tour :

Jill, United States, Utah
David was so friendly and extremely accommodating. We had a wonderful tour! We arrived very late and wanted to make it to the top of the Eiffel Tower. David made it happen! We didn't realize how far the airport was from the things we wanted to see and ended up spending much more time than we anticipated. It was not a problem! David was willing to spend as much time as we wanted to and take us anywhere we wanted! We would book with this company again. The entire experience was top notch!

Kylah L, Australia, Melbourne
I could not ask for anything more than David's professional approach to the way he showed us around Paris. Nothing was too much to ask and we immediately felt comfortable in his presence. David took time to personalise our tour and the experience resulted in a wonderful trip to Paris that we were able to build upon following the tour. David was given some tourist sites as the base, then he showed us the parts of Paris we didn't even know about. Tremendous service. Highly recommended.

Roger, Singapore, Singapore ( 29/12/2009 )
We made a fantastic tour! David came at the airport at 5.50 AM and we made a magic stopover tour in Paris, still at night! We visited many highlights, such as Tour Eiffel, Concorde Square, Champs-Elyses, Louvre museum, Sacred-Heart basilica, wonderful National Opera! We were late due to customs ( 1 hour ) and David was still here waiting for us! Very easy-going guide, nice car and very professional! We will recommend him in Singapore !

Rana, Egypt, Cairo (03/01/2010 )
Dear David, Thanks a lot for the tour, it was 'really' the best tour I have ever had. The tour was very short, but because I had to catch my flight at CDG which was extremely busy, I loved the tour eiffel, notre dam, louvre view, bateau, opera house.... David was extremely helpful and was treating me like his little sister (who he doesnt want to get lost anytime :)) he took me to the terminal entrance by himself and he stopped many times as per my request to take pictures and watch buildings....etc. He offered many times to be free and say i want to stop many times, and many times he was the one who offered. The tour was lovely, and David was extremely friendly. One thing that needs to be improved, well nothing to be mentioned during the tour. the only thing is that perhaps u need to have papers with the names of the persons when waiting for them in the airport, because I didn't know how David looked like and neither did he know me :))) so far, I'd love to repeat a longer tour, and I will surely contact you again for that All the best for the new year :)

Layover in Paris

Hi Terry ~ my girlfriend and I are scheduled to arrive sat. april 12th 8:50 am at
CDG and are scheduled to leave at 10:25pm ~ we don't feel like running around
but want to go into town for a nice lunch "with a view". We don't know paris,would like to walk around the eiffel tower and are open to any suggestions you might have. Is that enough information?

I know there are a lot of threads out there about CDG layovers - I'm adding yet another one. I had a 7-hour hour layover in Rome last year and hired a cab through the airport which took me on an abbreviated tour of Rome. If I get into CDG at 6 am on a Friday - can I do the same with an 8 hour layover?

Specifically, as a woman alone, can I:

1) hire a cab through the airport and therefore be assured about the safety of the cab company?

2) get a quick driving tour of Paris, including breakfast? Where should I have have a true Parisienne breakfast?

3) have enough time to make my connection - I'd likely clear Passport control around 6:30-7:00am - would going into the city at that time be possible or is there too much traffic?

Thanks.

There are many tourists that want to visit Paris during their layover. Indeed, how is it possible to stay in the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle when you know that you are in the most vsited city in the World.

Usually layover tours are very expensive. Due to the pick-up and drop-off to the Airport, parking fees, organization due to limited time.

Normally do not risk to visit Paris during your layover if you are landing for 2-3 hours. It is too short, Charles De Gaulle Airport is one of the worst concerning customs. You need at least one hour to get out.

Take advantage of my layover tour 24/7 available ! For example my last layover tour in Paris was yesterday, at 6 AM. A week ago I picked-up at the Airport a family at 11PM.

I regularly organize layover tours, so feel free to ask me any enquiries on my mail adress david.kafari@france-travel-tour.com

Yesterday for a 5 hours layover we visited the National Opera, the Louvre pyramid, Concorde Square, we made a walk in the Champs-Elysees, visited the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, Alexandre III bridge, we saw the Grand and Petit Palais, and made a boat tour of one hour in Paris, here is a video : here

Booking a private layover tour will avoid all the risks that you could take trying to make a layover tour by your own : getting lost, transportation strike or problem...