At night, by flight and the culture train:3 different ways for touring Paris

You have panoramic city tours which focus on the most important monuments, allowing you to take your time for photographs. There are riverboat tours, and even the Edith Piaf and Amelie’s tours. There’s always something fun to do, and lots of original ways to travel Paris style. So, you’ve managed to make it into Paris. Now that you’re there, you can finally get acquainted with the Louvre, Montmartre, Notre Dame, and all those beautiful places you’ve so much heard about everywhere. Taking a guided tour is always a smart choice, especially for first timers, and Paris offers a wide variety of such services.

Here are three very different, very extraordinary, and very enjoyable ways to get in touch with Paris: “at night, by flight, and the culture train”.

PARIS AFTER MIDNIGHT

One of the most enthralling ways to get in touch with Parisian nightlife’s by taking a nocturnal guided minibus-tour.
You can either call for a special tour to a particular zone of the city, or you can chose to take one of the various “packages” which include the majority of “must see” places the city has to offer. Once the tour is over, they can leave you in a location of your preference, or right back at the hotel. Some nocturnal minibus tour services include dinner and ballroom show. Another highly recommended night-time option is to take a nocturnal cruise through the River Seine: Paris lights will spread wide for your eyes to gaze in amazement. Most agencies offer different versions of this tour: some of them including dinner at “Altitude 95”, the famous Eiffel Tower restaurant, and visits to world celebrated Moulin Rouge and Lido cabarets. Nocturnal Paris is a whole new way of experiencing this city, and one that can make for an unforgettable romantic evening.

PARIS FROM THE SKY

Paris City Sightseeing Tours offers are so many and so diverse, it could get really difficult for you to make up your mind which way is better… if you’re in a tight budget, or you’re there in a business trip and have little time to enjoy the city as much as you would like to, then this is the one thing you should spend your bucks in/take the time for: a helicopter flight over the city. Of course, you’ll not be renting yourself a helicopter, be left alone to the mercy of your maker. No, you can actually contract a professionally trained helicopter driver to chauffer you in a 25 minutes trip above the edges of the City of Lights -always have in mind that helicopters are NOT allowed to fly directly over the city.
As usual, you’ll get picked up at your hotel, taken to a heliport and then the sky’s the limit. You’ll have the chance to be as high-up-close to the Eiffel Tower as possible; you’ll fly above the Château de Versailles and the Champs Elyseés will shine away below your feet. Helicopter tours usually have a length of about 25 minutes, and you can take them during daytime only.

CULTURE UNDERGROUND

Not exactly calling for underground cultural expressions, really: rather, this one is about taking a tour through all the major historical and cultural arteries of the City of Lights via metro. This option is particularly recommended for connoisseurs of Parisian suburban mythology: France’s oldest metro line shall take you in a soul trip, as you watch the country’s very history unfold before your eyes. You’ll be able to take pictures of the city’s unknown side, its engineering and catacombs, as well as the subterranean halls of the Louvre Museum. If you are in love with the City of Lights and feel intrigued and driven to its many mysteries, this is the tour you should take.

PIAF TOUR

For music lovers and particularly Piaf culturists, there is the “Edith Piaf” guided tour, starting at the district where the female singer was born and began her career; then you’ll visit Piaf’s museum, filled to the brim with her personal belongings such as dresses and photographs. Then you’re off to the Piaf Café, and, if so you wish, you can visit the singer’s grave at the famous Père Lachaise cemetery.

TO CHOSE FROM

This is just a glimpse of the variety of Paris tours that will be available to you on your trip to the City of Lights. You’ll find art related tours, architecture oriented tours, literary tours and also fun and gaming tours. There’s a tour plan for everyone, and this gives truth to the saying that Paris is a friendly place, and one worth visiting. It’s all been laid out for you to enjoy, get amazed and fall in love with.