Joanna's Fun
& Friendly Tours of Paris
Full-Day
tours
Create your tour of Paris with us!
We know. There is different Paris for art lovers, perfume lovers, gourmets and history lovers. And this is fantastic in sightseeing Paris.
Maybe you were in Paris briefly long time ago and want to explore only local parts of the city this time
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Don't panic, I will help you skip all lines. You will have time stroll through beautiful Tuilleries Gardens (first open to the public in 1667). You will see Place de la Concorde too.
Your day continues with a visit to the site of the Eiffel Tower where you will take your perfect souvenir photo. After walking, we'll take a one hour boat tour on the Seine River. Be prepared to see beautiful things and learn history of Paris.
Then we head to the Montmarte area. We'll climb through back alleys and secluded gardens until we reach the Sacre Coeur Cathedral.
By the end of this tour you will have been all over Paris, seen some of the most beautiful art in the world, some of the most beautiful gardens in the world and local nooks along the way.
Cost: 90 EURO
Duration: 8 hours
Sweet Paris - Chocolate
& pastry
Tour
You can discover Parisian monuments and trendy local city areas in a very sweet way ! After this tour You'll know how important was chocolate for the history of France and You will try some of the best pastries in the world! This is a very sweet tour!
We love Paris and chocolate so we know that it was in 1615 that Anne of Austria, Louis XIII’s wife, introduced chocolate to France. Thanks to Louis XIV’s wife, Marie Thérèse, sweet drink became a habit at the court in Versailles. At that time, only the court and the wealthiest could have access to the hot drink from America. King Louis XV was real lover of hot chocolate.He would even prepare it himself from time to time! With the Industrial Revolution, hot chocolate spread to tearooms in Paris.
And now... There are hundreds of artisan chocolate shops throughout the city. We know the best local addresses. We will start this sweet walk on the Right Bank, in the historic First Arrondissement of Paris. Walk around the Louvre, Place de la Concorde and talk about the history of Paris, including delicious history of chocolate. Stop in the Angelina - a temple of true hot chocolate in Paris established in 1903 by the Austrian confectioner Antoine Rumpelmayer.
Coco Chanel was a permanent guest here! You will be too!
Then we will move to le Marais - another trendy city district. You will take part in chocolate workshop in the Edwart Chocolatier. It's modern chocolatier in Paris. You will have a lot of fun, not only making chocolate but also chatting to the Edwart team. They are friendly and give chocolate
to everybody!
When father sends him to Paris Napoleon was a young student barely speaks French. He was called “Napolione Buonaparte“. Embrassing a military career quickly becomes a man of society, desired by women who has his favorite restaurants, theaters and places in Paris.
On this tour we will show You all this places. We know even where hero of France left his hat and on this tour we will look for !
On our route the most important places in Paris : The Invalides, Arc of the Triomphe, The Louvre, the Vendôme square and Notre Dame Cathedral as well as places where Napoleon I liked to go for dinner and for theater!
We'll start royally -on the top of the grand
steps Paris Opera House.
They have workshops for kids too. Then we'll change the neighborhood again and stroll through the Latin Quarter with the medieval church Saint-Germaine-des-Prés, literary cafés, bookstores and unique hot chocolate places of course!
At the statue of Danton we will explain to you what meaning had hot chocolate in the French Revolution. Obliged with a mug of hot chocolate from Un Dimanche a Paris, best local pastry shop.
We will show you also Debauve & Gallais, the first Paris chocolate shop, opened in 1818 still at the same location. You'll see the first Parisian store of Pierre Hermé, a French pastry king most famous for his macarons. At the end we will have ... a chocolate break in the Café Les Deux Magots, famous left bank café frequented by Hemingway, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Cost: 90 EURO
Duration: 8 hours
Cost: 90 EURO
Duration: 8 hours
Smells like Paris !
Perfume
walk
This is one of the most fascinating walks around Paris. Completely off the beaten path.
Bonjour Paris!
tour
Is this your first time in Paris? - Therefore, let's fall in love with the city at first sight! This tour is the perfect introduction to the discovery the best of Paris.
We will ride the famous Paris Metro and start with a visit to Notre Dame Cathedral, the Gothic marvel of architecture with stained glass windows, flying buttresses, gargoyles and legendary bell ringer.
Then we'll see old Hotel de Ville (City Hall -center of Paris since 1357). You will visit the Louvre Museum and see the Mona Lisa (As well as many other famous paintings and sculptures)
.
At the Paris Fragonard's Perfume Museum you will learn the secrets French perfume industry since the 17th Century and you'll see the way to prepare perfume. Did you've ever wondered why good perfumes are expensive? Consider this: It takes 200 kg or 440 pounds of lavender flowers to produce 1 kg or 2.2 pounds of lavender extract use in 1 perfume! Do you know why without Madame de Pompadour, the French perfume industry would not be what it's today ? - I will tell You about this too.
Then we will visit unusual Artisan Parfumeur with amasing love story who gave an idea to create fragrance that reflects the character of a true Parisienne.
After this you will have a look to exclusive environs of JAR Parfums in Paris. The perfumes here are the creation of one of the world’s most famous, secretive, and idiosyncratic jewellers, Joel Arthur Rosenthal, who goes by his initials as JAR.
Continuing the exclusive experience we will have a look in the store with the rarest fragrances of the world.
Cost: 60 EURO
Duration: 6 hours
Paris of Napoleon
- very important
tour !
Shopping
tour of Paris
Paris is a paradise for
any kind of shopping. There is many hidden antique shops.You can find all styles of clothes, accessories and original gifts in all possible prices. You can even buy a medieval knight's armor at a bargain price! Don't have a fortune to spend in a Chanel boutique ? - Dont worry ! You can still make nice shopping in Paris! Take this tour.
Want to have fancy earrings or socks ? - We know great boutiques in the Montmartre quarter. As well as fashionable scarves and shawls boutique around
the Montorgeuil street. Something for the boys in You will find in the La Garçonnière or in the L'Oriental. French perfumes at the Fragonard... and so on until when we'll get to Galeries Lafayette - the most famous french department store.
After a few hours fun & friendly shopping tour with us you will have original scarf, socks and jewelry in Parisian style. You will have handmade hat or special hand-knitted sweater that reminds you of Paris every time you put it on.
You will have also full bag of the best Parisian macarons, cheese and a bottle of good red wine to celebrate a fun shopping. As well as original gifts from Paris for your friends. On the way we' ll meet friendly local vendors who will gladly advise you what is best for you !
Cost: 40 EURO
Duration: 4 hours
On the two-hour workshop You
will learn from the French specialists how to create your own perfume in Le Studio des Parfums.
Discovering Paris during this walk will be the
highlight
of your trip to Paris !
Than you'll take a breath of the beautiful smells with a cup of aromatic chocolate and we will change district for trendy la Marais where personal perfumer had kings of France.
