Welcome to Paris. Your driver meets you at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) and transfers you to your hotel in the heart of the city. Your specialist selects the arrondissement based on your preference — the 6th (Saint-Germain literary cafés), the 7th (Eiffel Tower views), or the Marais (3rd/4th, the most walkable).
Afternoon: panoramic city orientation — a private guided drive or walk past the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame (exterior, under reconstruction), and the Seine bridges. The purpose is orientation, not sightseeing — you’ll return to each of these in depth over the next 5 days. Welcome dinner at a specialist-selected bistro.
Morning: the Louvre (pre-booked timed entry). Your specialist has the 2-hour route that covers the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, and Venus de Milo without the crowd crush — the secret is the Denon wing entrance and the order you see the galleries. The Louvre rewards a focused visit more than an exhaustive one.
Afternoon: Musée d’Orsay (the Impressionists — Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne, all in a converted Beaux-Arts railway station). Or the Rodin Museum (the Thinker in the garden, less crowded, deeply satisfying). Evening: stroll through the Tuileries Gardens toward Place de la Concorde as the light fades.
Full day: Palace of Versailles (pre-booked 8:30am first entry). The Hall of Mirrors, the King’s Grand Apartments, and the formal gardens — the scale is deliberate, designed to overwhelm, and it still does. Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet in the Petit Trianon gardens is the part most visitors skip and the part most worth seeing — a mock-rustic village where the queen played at country life.
Return to Paris by late afternoon. Evening: dinner in Le Marais or the Île Saint-Louis — the small island in the Seine with Berthillon ice cream and the quietest streets in central Paris.
Morning: Montmartre — Sacré-Cœur basilica (the white-domed church on the hill with the best panoramic view of Paris), the Place du Tertre artists’ square, and the cobblestoned lanes where Picasso, Modigliani, and Toulouse-Lautrec lived and worked. The Musée de Montmartre (Renoir’s former studio) has the garden terrace with the vineyard view.
Afternoon: Le Marais food tour — your specialist has arranged a guided walk through the Marais covering the Jewish quarter (Rue des Rosiers), the Place des Vosges (the oldest planned square in Paris, where Victor Hugo lived), and tastings at a fromagerie, a boulangerie, and a chocolate atelier. Evening at leisure — the Marais is the best neighborhood for evening wandering.
Morning: the Left Bank — Saint-Germain-des-Prés (the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, where Sartre and de Beauvoir held court), the Luxembourg Gardens (the most beautiful park in Paris — the Medici Fountain, the puppet theater, the old men playing boules), and the Latin Quarter (the Panthéon, the medieval Sorbonne).
Afternoon: free time for shopping, a return visit to a favorite museum, or the Musée de l’Orangerie (Monet’s Water Lilies in the oval rooms — a 30-minute visit that justifies the entire trip). Evening: Seine river cruise at sunset — the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, the Louvre, and the Musée d’Orsay illuminated from the water. Farewell dinner.
A final Parisian morning. Your specialist has left the morning open for a last café au lait at your neighborhood café, a walk through the Tuileries, or a final pass through a favorite quarter. Transfer to Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) for your departure flight.
Six days in Paris — the Louvre at the right pace, Versailles without the afternoon crowds, Montmartre in the morning light, and the Seine at sunset. Your Juniper specialist remains reachable throughout departure day. Safe travels home.
This is a sample luxury custom route — a starting point, not a fixed package. Many clients travel something very close to this, customized for their travel style, group, and dates. Book a free consultation and a specialist will build from here.
Your specialist pre-arranges the right luxury experiences based on your interests and travel style. These are the custom experience types available on this route — specific choices are made with you, not for you.
Activities are selected and pre-booked with your specialist based on your interests — not all activities are included in every trip version. Availability varies by season.
You work directly with a specialist who knows France deeply — not a call center or booking agent. Every consultation is with someone who has walked these places in person.
Juniper Tours' most tenured specialist with 25 years of experience. CMSC certified and a former Peace Corps volunteer. Taryn brings the same detail-orientation to Portugal that she's known for across Ireland and Iceland — she knows which Lisbon neighborhood hotel has the best terrace view, which Sintra entry time avoids the coach-tour peaks, and which Douro Valley quinta pours the reserve that doesn't appear on the standard tasting menu.
Florence and Salzburg-based with 8 years of experience across Southern Europe. Lexi covers Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland with the same firsthand knowledge she brings to every destination — sourced from living there rather than visiting. Her France itineraries are built around the restaurants that require a local’s recommendation, the Burgundy and Bordeaux producers who don’t appear in guidebooks, and the Provence villages that haven’t been found by the travel influencers yet.
“Definitely recommending Juniper Tours to all our friends and family! We had the best trip ever for our honeymoon exploring Ireland and Paris! Katie was wonderful to work with and helped us through the whole process making honeymoon planning stress-free!”
Bree A.M. · · Verified Google Review
30 minutes, completely free. Walk away with a clear picture of what your luxury custom France trip could look like — dates, route, 4 and 5-star accommodations, and all.
