Paris Louvre and Orsay Museums Masterpieces Private Day Tour
Description
Explore and learn the stories behind some of the world’s most famous works of art on this private tour of the Louvre Museum and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. With your informative English-speaking guide, visit the Louvre and admire the 'Mona Lisa,' 'The Raft of the Medusa,' 'Venus de Milo' and other masterpieces. Enjoy some free time before meeting your guide again at the Musée d’Orsay, home to 4,000 artworks from the second half of the 19th century by artists including Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and Rodin. This private tour limited to six people ensures more personalized attention from your guide.
Tour Options
Itinerary
After meeting your guide at your central Paris hotel, travel by metro or comfortable minivan to Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall near the Louvre. During your 2-hour visit to the Louvre, your informative guide will share anecdotes and history about artistic masterpieces including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and The Raft of the Medusa. Admire works by artists such as Rembrandt and Delacroix, and tell your guide about any other works you particularly want to see.
A former train station, this museum houses more than 4,000 artworks from the second half of the 19th century by legends including Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin and Rodin. Again, enjoy the convenience of skipping the entry lines. Your guide will show you the highlights, sharing facts and stories to help you better understand the significance of the many famous artworks here.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
For the hotel pick-up option, your guide can meet you at any hotel within Paris city limits (ZIP Code beginning with 75). Transportation (taxi, metro, etc) is at your expense.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- You will go by foot between the two museums, which is a walk of approximately 10 to 15 minutes
- Please note this tour is limited to a maximum of six people per group.
- For the Louvre : Free admission applies to visitors under 18 and EEA residents under 26, upon presentation of valid ID and proof of residency
Reviews(13)
David was a fantastic guide and knew anything we wanted to know! If there was a “highlight” it was being evacuated from the Louvre because of a bomb threat! The Louvre and the d’Orsay were both amazing!!!
Tour guide was very knowledgeable, we didn’t have to wait in any lines. Definitely have a game plan for the Louvre, the guide will know the fastest way through to see the most.
Sophie was an excellent guide. So knowledgeable! She made visiting the two museums so easy and helped us to understand art history much better. Our guide was especially helpful in the Louvre. It was very crowded and would have been overwhelming without Sophie. She made sure we saw the important items.
This was a highlight of our trip. Our guide Virginia met us in our hotel lobby and together we took the metro to the Louvre. We skipped the line and she gave us a historical background of the Louvre dating back to the initial fortress from the 1200s. We then hit the highlights of the Louvre. After a quick lunch we walked to the Musee d’Orsay and again got a historical perspective on the building and it’s transformation into a museum. Then we hit the highlights including wonderful descriptions of the masterpieces. Virginia was such a kind and happy person! We loved having her as our guide and would have her show us all of Paris if we could!
<p>Our guide's depth of knowledge exceeded our expectation. The time passed quickly with her. Money well spent! JW, Colorado</p>
<p>Our tour guide was the most amazing young woman. She was so knowledgable and friendly. The Lourvre is so massive, that she had a nice plan to move us through it, hit some highlights, and describe French history through the paintings. Lunch at Dorsay was amazing. Highly recommend the tour.</p>
<p>It was nice to avoid the lines at the Museums. The guide was friendly and kind. However, she did not offer much information beyond what a printed guide would have, and very little background on artists and styles. For $650 I was expecting an expert art guide. I feel I was shortchanged on this tour.</p>
<p>The tours were fantastic. Helen was exceptional and we would highly recommend both the tours and Helen to anyone inquiring into whether this is both highly educational and worth the money. Thank you very much for our entire family. Best, PDW</p>
<p>Absolutely wonderful! We were able to see what we most wanted to see, and our guide even went over her time allotted. We only had one day, but managed to see works by Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Raphael, Renoir, Monet and Cezanne, to name only a few. However, we only were able to see a small bit of all of the art there, so spend several days if you can.</p>
<p>Skip the line did not work at Musée d'Orsay. I the Louvre it worked only at the second location, not at the first try. The guide tried to make up for the missed Museé d'Orsay by improvising a short tour for the couvert passages which was a nice try, I appreciated it, but originally I booked the tour for the possibility of avoiding the line and spend the time instead in the museums.</p>
