PARIS · FRANCE
Seven days. The whole of Paris.
The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, Seine cruises and Versailles, Montmartre by day and the Moulin Rouge by night. Every Paris experience worth your week, reviewed and ready to book.
Only in Paris
The icons the whole world pictures.
Other cities have grand museums, iron towers and royal palaces. The Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Versailles are the originals every one of them is measured against.
Iron and light
The Eiffel Tower
Built for the 1889 World's Fair and meant to stand for twenty years, the tower the city once wanted torn down is now the first thing the world pictures when it thinks of Paris. Eighteen thousand iron pieces, three levels of views, and a five-minute shimmer of lights on the hour once it is dark.
- 1 Paris: 1-Hour Seine Cruise departing from the Eiffel Tower
- 2 Paris: Eiffel Tower Entry Ticket with Optional Summit Access
- 3 Paris: Eiffel Tower Summit or Second Floor Access
Palace of art
The Louvre
A medieval fortress that became a royal palace and then the most-visited museum on earth. Behind the glass pyramid wait the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory, somewhere among thirty-five thousand works. No one sees it all in a day, which is exactly why choosing well matters.
- 1 Paris: Louvre Museum Timed-Entrance Ticket
- 2 Paris: Louvre Guided Tour with Reserved Access & Boat Cruise
- 3 Louvre Museum Masterpieces Guided Tour with Access
The Sun King
The Palace of Versailles
Half an hour from the city, Louis XIV turned a hunting lodge into the most extravagant palace in Europe. Walk the Hall of Mirrors where the First World War was formally ended, then the gardens Le Nôtre laid out to the horizon. A full day, and worth every minute of the train.
- 1 Paris: Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access Ticket
- 2 Versailles: Skip-the-Line Tour of Palace with Gardens Access
- 3 From Paris: Versailles Palace & Gardens with Transportation
Start here
The one most visitors book first.
If your first day in Paris only has room for one thing, this is where most people begin.
The classics
Paris's Most Popular Experiences
The Seine, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Versailles. The experiences nearly every first week in Paris is built around.
Where to begin
The experiences a week in Paris is built around.
A cruise on the Seine, a morning in the Louvre, the climb up the Eiffel Tower, a day at Versailles, a night at the Moulin Rouge and Monet's garden at Giverny. The handful most first trips are planned around, and the best of each.
Beyond the city
The day trips worth leaving Paris for.
Versailles aside, a week has room for a day in the country. Giverny for Monet\'s garden. Champagne for the cellars. Mont-Saint-Michel for the abbey on the tide. Each one an easy train or coach from the centre.
The river
The city is best seen from the water.
The Seine cuts Paris in two and ties it back together, sliding past Notre-Dame and the islands, under the Pont Neuf and along the foot of the Louvre, with the Eiffel Tower lit at the far end. An hour by day for the sightseeing, or dinner and the lights by night.
See the best Seine cruises in Paris →After dark
Why they call it the City of Light.
When the sun drops, Paris turns gold. The monuments light up one by one, the Eiffel Tower breaks into its sparkle on the hour, and the river fills with dinner boats. The city you walked by day is a different place after dark.
See the best evenings out in Paris →The view
A city built to be looked at.
Wide boulevards that each end on a monument, bridges strung with lamps, pale stone façades and grey zinc roofs running to the horizon, and one iron tower over all of it. Paris was rebuilt in the 1850s to look exactly like this, and a century and a half on, it still does.
See it from the Seine →By icon
Pick a Paris landmark.
The Eiffel Tower for the view. The Louvre for the art. Montmartre for the morning. Versailles for the day out. The Orsay for the Impressionists. Notre-Dame for the islands.
By experience
Or pick how to spend a day.
A cruise if you want the river. A museum if it rains. A walking tour if you want the stories. Wine, dinner, cabaret, or the open-top bus that hits everything.
Plan it
Your week in Paris.
Seven days, seven ideas, in the order most first-timers wish they had taken them. Tap any day for the best of it.
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