Paris, ticket by ticket.
Which Eiffel ticket actually reaches the summit. Why the Louvre is shut on Tuesdays. Whether the fountains will be running at Versailles. Every tour in Paris, compared on price, length and what it really includes.
The Paris doors that need a ticket in advance.
All Paris tickets →Eight monuments carry most of a first Paris trip, and each one has a rule that catches people out. Prices are the cheapest we currently list; the note is the thing that decides your day.
Eiffel TowerThe standard ticket takes the lift to the second floor. The summit is a separate, much smaller allocation.
from $20167 tours
Eiffel Tower summitBook the summit weeks out, and know that the top lift shuts when the wind gets up.
from $2561 tours
The LouvreClosed on Tuesdays. Entry is timed, and the glass pyramid is not the only way in.
from $41171 tours
Palace of VersaillesClosed on Mondays. On fountain-show days the gardens carry their own separate ticket.
from $17151 tours
Musée d’OrsayClosed on Mondays, open late on Thursday — when the clock face on the top floor is quietest.
from $1556 tours
Arc de TriompheTwo hundred and eighty-four steps up, and the best view of the Eiffel Tower in the city at the top.
from $186 tours
Sainte-ChapelleGo on a bright morning. The fifteen windows of the upper chapel are the whole point and they need sun.
from $12.0216 tours
Notre-DameThe cathedral reopened in December 2024; interior slots are free and released ahead of the date.
from $5101 tours
The tours more travellers take than anything else in Paris.
Every review →Ranked by the number of travellers who have been and rated it — not by what anyone wants to sell you this week.
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1-Hour Seine Cruise departing from the Eiffel Tower
1-hour Seine cruise from the Eiffel Tower, audio in 14 languages, top-deck panorama, and a smartphone app to learn Paris sights.
From · $20
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Disneyland® Paris 1-Day Ticket
from $61
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Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access Ticket
from $17
4
Arc de Triomphe Rooftop Tickets
from $18
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Orsay Museum Entry Ticket
from $15
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Evening River Cruise with Music
from $27
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Eiffel Tower Entry Ticket with Optional Summit Access
from $29
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Eiffel Tower Dedicated Reserved Access Summit or 2nd Floor
from $25
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Louvre Guided Tour with Reserved Access & Boat Cruise
from $81
Sooner or later every Paris trip ends up on the water.
An hour from the foot of the Eiffel Tower, past the Louvre, round the Île de la Cité and back, is the cheapest hour of sightseeing in the city. Dinner afloat is a different evening entirely, and priced like one.
Paris is twenty village centres wearing one city’s name.
Montmartre still behaves like the hill village it was. The Marais keeps its medieval street plan and its bakeries. The Latin Quarter belongs to the students, and Père Lachaise to everyone who ever got famous here. Pick the quarter, then the walk.
What a day out in Paris actually costs.
Every tour on the site sorted by price. The gap between a good cheap morning and an expensive one is smaller than the brochures suggest.
Entry tickets, the one-hour river cruise, audio walks and the cemetery tours. A real Paris morning for the price of lunch.
The workhorse bracket: guided monuments, food walks, pastry classes, the hop-on bus and most skip-the-line tickets.
Full days out of the city, dinner cruises, cabaret seats with champagne, and the small-group tours that stay small.
Private guides, a car and driver for the day, Normandy done properly, and the once-a-trip evenings.
The day trips that are worth losing a Paris day for.
All day trips from Paris →Not all of them are. These five are, and the travel time is the part nobody tells you before you book — so it is the first thing listed here.
GivernyAn hour and a half each way. Monet’s garden closes for the winter and opens again around the start of April.52 tours · from $89
ChampagneReims is forty-five minutes from Gare de l’Est by TGV — the shortest big day out Paris has.27 tours · from $90.7
Loire ValleyTwo hours south-west. Most days pair Chambord with Chenonceau and put a tasting in between.27 tours · from $104
Normandy beachesThree hours each way. The tours that do it justice leave Paris before seven in the morning.38 tours · from $117
Mont Saint-MichelFour hours each way. Worth it — but it is the whole day and most of the evening.28 tours · from $128 Three things you can only really do in Paris.
Museums and river cruises exist in every European capital. A 2CV with the roof rolled back, a macaron built the way this city invented it, and a bottle you blended yourself do not.
The 2CV, roof rolled back
Citroën’s brief for the 2CV was blunt: carry two farmers and fifty kilos of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking one. A few hundred survive in Paris as open-roof tour cars, and an hour in the back of one — canvas peeled away, Haussmann’s boulevards going past at the speed they were drawn for — is the least museum-like thing in this city.
- 1Discover Paris by Night in a Vintage Car with a Local★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 1,058 reviews
- 2Paris Private Flexible Duration Guided Tour on a Vintage Sidecar★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 776 reviews
- 3Vintage 2CV Adventure: 2 -Hour Paris Secrets Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 488 reviews
The macaron, made properly
The almond biscuit is old and Italian. The Paris version — two shells, a ganache pressed between them, a clean ruffled foot — was put together at Ladurée on the rue Royale early last century, and every pastry counter in the city has been copying it since. A class here is three hours of piping, resting and failing before it works.
- 1Montmartre Cheese, Wine & Pastry Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 2,255 reviews
- 2Macaron Class at Galeries Lafayette★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 1,196 reviews
- 3Award-Winning Paris French Bakery Experience — Le Marais, 4th Arr★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,186 reviews
A bottle blended to your own recipe
The flowers are grown down in Grasse, but the houses, the noses and the archives are in Paris. A workshop puts you in front of the organ of raw materials — the citrus top notes, the heart florals, the woods and resins underneath — and you leave with a numbered bottle they will remix from your recipe by post.
- 1Fragonard Paris: Mini Perfume Workshop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,924 reviews
- 22-Hour Perfume Creation Workshop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 731 reviews
- 3Molinard Parfums Paris 6: Classic Perfume Creation Workshop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 405 reviews
Book these before you fly to Paris.
Most of Paris can be arranged from a café table the morning of. These four cannot: they run on timed releases, fixed closing days and a calendar that does not care when your flight lands.
- 01Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with ChampagneTwo shows a night, at nine and at eleven, and the tables anywhere near the stage go weeks ahead.
- 02Eiffel Tower Entry Ticket with Optional Summit AccessSummit allocations are released before the date and disappear fast — and the top lift shuts when the wind gets up.
- 03Louvre Guided Tour with Reserved Access & Boat CruiseTimed entry only, and Tuesday is not an option: the museum is closed.
- 04Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access TicketThe musical fountain days run April to October at weekends, and the gardens need their own ticket on those days.
From November to March, Paris moves indoors — and it has had two centuries of practice.
The terraces empty, the light goes flat by four, and none of it matters. The city built its museums, its covered passages, its cooking schools and its cabarets for exactly this weather. Rain cancels nothing below.
- 1Orsay Museum Entry Ticketfrom $15
- 2Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with Champagnefrom $115
- 3Louvre Museum Masterpieces Guided Tour with Accessfrom $86.89
By monument — where the queues are
- Eiffel Tower167 tours
- The Louvre171 tours
- Versailles151 tours
- Musée d’Orsay56 tours
- Notre-Dame101 tours
- Arc de Triomphe6 tours
Opéra Garnier7 tours
Les Invalides14 tours- Every Paris ticket →
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