Provence May 2020 Tour by Contrast Tours. Tour Options

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TOUR OPTIONS

PROVENCE WINE TOUR, MAY 2020

PARIS

It is possible to extend your stay in Paris beyond the dates of the Tour, see below, and you could also go wherever you'd like on your own and come back to Paris to fly back.

* I can book for you additional nights in the hotel where we stay in Paris for $285 in Classique room, $338 in Supérieure room, per night and per room.

* You can choose the option of Room and Meet for Dinner, in which you follow your own desires all day and meet us for dinner: add $110 per person to the price of the room above.

* You may want to participate in my Paris Itinerary which I guide and is as follows:

Please note that this itinerary entails a fair amount of walking. We will take buses mostly when people are tired or if we need to speed up of for long distances. This itinerary may evolve in function of the dynamic of the group, the weather and opportunities.

These prices are all inclusive like the rest of the tour, and therefore include, hotel, meals, drinks, bus, entrance fees etc.

PARIS ITINERARY:

DAY 12 Thursday May 21

Walk to the Sainte Chapelle
Palais Royal Lunch
Le Louvre (outside)
Petit Carrousel
Jardin des Tuileries
Place Vendôme
Grands Magasins
Apéritif on the Grands Boulevards
Dinner

$610

The Sainte Chapelle

DAY 13 Friday May 22

This itinerary is made that day so that we may have lunch in a rare gem of a small restaurant, very convivial, as Parisian as it gets. It is best to go there for lunch on a weekday. Disclosure: this restaurant is so authentic that its only toilet is a turk one. When I was growing up these were still the norm, although now they are kind of an oddity. There will be more modern bathrooms everywhere else, but you should know what to expect. Turkish toilets BTW, are supposed to be more hygienic, and other than that the restaurant meets all proper standards, in an authentic package. Their food and wine have won them the respect of most Parisians in the know.

Walk to Pont des Arts
Back to Saint Germain des Près
Saint Sulpice
Bus to restaurant
Lunch
Jardin du Luxembourg
Quartier Vavin
Montparnasse

SPECIAL DINNER at my friend's Philippe Lambert in his Montparnasse's appartment. Philippe was born in Durham, although I did not know that until I moved here, he was first a customer, then became a friend. He grew up in Montréal, and is perfectly bilingual. The dinner will be catered by a top notch south west restaurant (Basque), we will have wines that we toured, and Philippe will treat us with some accordion, as he is a rather accomplished modern style accordion player.

We cannot accommodate more than 8 participants for this dinner. Priority is given to the Paris Itinerary participants. For non Itinerary participants, the cost will be $105.

$610