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9 Days | 8 Nights | From $4,999 per person*

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A private journey through the city that invented the art of living well

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The Journey

Paris rewards the traveler who slows down. Not the one racing between monuments with a map, but the one who lingers over a café crème, wanders into a gallery on a side street, and finds a bistro that isn't in any guidebook. This nine-day journey is built around that kind of Paris — the classics are here, because they're classics for a reason, but so are the quieter moments that most visitors miss entirely.
 

Day 1 — Arrival

A private meet and greet at Charles de Gaulle airport and transfer to your four or five-star hotel — your home for the next eight nights, perfectly positioned for everything that follows. Freshen up, let the city wash over you. This evening, an open-top panoramic bus tour — the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, the Seine bridges, the grand boulevards seen from above as Paris lights up for the night. If the timing is right, the Eiffel Tower's famous light show, sparkling on the hour after dark. A perfect, effortless first evening that asks nothing of you except to look.
 

Day 2 — The Right Bank & the Marais

Each morning begins with breakfast at the hotel — an unhurried start before the city draws you in. Today, a morning in the Marais: the Place des Vosges, the oldest planned square in the city, anchored by arcaded galleries and the kind of quiet grandeur that Paris does effortlessly. The Musée Picasso occupies a 17th-century hôtel particulier nearby — worth an hour for the building alone. Afternoon in the covered passages of the Right Bank — the Galerie Vivienne and the Passage Jouffroy, 19th-century arcades lined with antiquarian bookshops, vintage prints, and tea rooms that feel like they belong to another century. Evening at leisure — the Marais has some of the best restaurant streets in Paris.
 

Day 3 — The Louvre

A private two-hour guided tour of the Louvre — with a plan, because the Louvre without one is simply overwhelming. The Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo, the Grande Galerie, and yes, the Mona Lisa — seen with context and without the chaos of the general queue. Afterward, the Tuileries Garden and the Palais Royal — one of the most undervisited spots in central Paris, a colonnaded garden hidden behind the rue de Rivoli where Parisians come to sit, read, and escape the crowds entirely. Afternoon free in the 1st arrondissement. For dinner, Café de la Paix — an institution since 1862, steps from the Opéra Garnier, where the Belle Époque dining room is as worth seeing as anything in the Louvre. Nancy can arrange a reservation.
 

Day 4 — Giverny & the Impressionists

A private driver takes you west through the Normandy countryside to Giverny — the village where Monet lived for over forty years and where the water lilies, the Japanese bridge, and the wisteria-draped house look almost exactly as he painted them. The Fondation Claude Monet opens at 9:30; arriving early means the gardens at their most peaceful. Just steps away, the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny is one of the best-kept secrets on the day-trip circuit — a small, beautifully curated museum dedicated to Impressionism and its American practitioners who followed Monet to Normandy. Worth an hour that most visitors skip entirely. Lunch in the village, then back to Paris by mid-afternoon.
 

Day 5 — A Dinner on the Seine

A morning at your own pace — the Musée d'Orsay for the Impressionists, or simply the Left Bank: the Luxembourg Gardens, the rue de Buci market, the bookstalls along the quais. This evening, a dinner cruise on the Seine — the city seen from the water as the lights come on, the Eiffel Tower passing overhead, the bridges of Paris one by one. One of those evenings that stays with you.

Signature moment: The Eiffel Tower sparkling on the hour as your boat passes beneath it — there's nothing quite like it.
 

Day 6 — Montmartre & Sacré-Cœur

An early morning in Montmartre before the tour groups arrive — the quiet cobbled streets, the vineyard, the view from the steps of Sacré-Cœur over the whole city spread below. The Musée de Montmartre, housed in the oldest building in the neighborhood, where Renoir had his studio. The Place du Tertre and its artists. Afternoon back in the city — the grands magasins of the 9th if shopping is on the agenda: Galeries Lafayette with its Art Nouveau dome, and Printemps with its rooftop restaurant and views toward the Opera.
 

Day 7 — The Left Bank & Île de la Cité

A day for the quieter, more literary Paris. Notre-Dame de Paris — now fully restored and more luminous than ever — and Sainte-Chapelle next door, where the 13th-century stained glass turns the upper chapel into something close to a religious experience. Then across to the Left Bank: the rue du Bac, the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal, and Saint-Sulpice. Before the afternoon slips away, lunch at one of the famous Left Bank cafés — Les Deux Magots or Café de Flore, where Hemingway and Simone de Beauvoir once held court, and where Karl Lagerfeld read his morning papers and Brigitte Bardot once made herself at home — and simply watch Paris go by. This is not sightseeing. This is living like a Parisian, if only for an afternoon. A stroll through the Jardin du Luxembourg to close out the day.
 

Day 8 — Your Paris

The last full day is yours. Revisit a neighborhood that stayed with you, find the shop you walked past and meant to go into, sit at a café with no particular destination in mind. A morning at the Atelier des Lumières — the immersive digital art experience in a converted foundry in the 11th — is worth considering for those who haven't had enough of the Impressionists. An afternoon of shopping, wandering, or simply being in Paris. A final dinner at a restaurant Nancy will recommend and reserve — somewhere that fits exactly what the trip has shown her about your taste.
 

Day 9 — Departure

Breakfast at the hotel, then private transfer to Charles de Gaulle airport for your onward journey.
 

What's Included

• Private meet and greet at Charles de Gaulle airport

• Private airport transfers throughout

• Eight nights at a four or five-star hotel selected for location and quality

• Daily breakfast at the hotel

• Open-top panoramic evening bus tour on arrival day

• Private two-hour guided Louvre tour

• Private driver for Giverny day trip

• Seine dinner cruise

• Restaurant recommendations and reservations throughout

Rates are per person, based on double occupancy, and vary by season. Twin bedding available — ideal for two travelers sharing. Contact Nancy for single supplement pricing.
 

This is a sample itinerary offered as inspiration. Every Equinox Travel journey is tailored to your interests, pace, and travel style — contact Nancy to design your own Paris experience.
 

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