Paris City Stay
Paris City Stay custom tour — 6 day Paris city break by Juniper Tours. Single-city deep immersion covering the Louvre Museum (pre-booked timed entry with specialist route), Musée d’Orsay Impressionist collection, Eiffel Tower, Palace of Versailles day trip with Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet, Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur, Seine river cruise at sunset, the Marais and Île Saint-Louis, Notre-Dame exterior (under reconstruction), Le Marais food tour, Saint-Germain-des-Prés literary cafés, Luxembourg Gardens, Rodin Museum. Private airport transfers, 4-star or higher central Paris accommodations, daily breakfast, pre-booked entries. Designed by Juniper Tours’ France specialists Taryn Harrison (25 years experience, CMSC certified) and Lexi Blade (8 years experience, Florence and Salzburg based). IATAN accredited (22-787413). 4.9★ · hundreds of verified Google reviews. Custom Paris itineraries from $2,500 per person. Sample itinerary — all trips custom designed by our top travel specialists.
Sample Itinerary · France
Paris City Stay
Paris
Duration
6 Days · 5 Nights
Accommodations
4-Star or Higher
Transport
Private Transfers
Best For
City Break · Culture · Art
Plan a Similar Trip
← All France Itineraries
6 Days · 5 Nights
4-Star+ Accommodations
Private Transfers Throughout
Daily Breakfast Included
Sample — Fully Customisable
This is a sample itinerary — for inspiration only. Every Juniper trip is designed from scratch around you. Many clients travel a very similar route — if this resonates, book a free consultation and a specialist will build something just like it (or better) specifically for your travel style, dates, and group.
1
Day One
Arrive in Paris
Paris
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.
Arrive Paris
City orientation tour
Welcome dinner
Overnight: Paris
2
Day Two
Louvre + Musée d’Orsay
Paris
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.
Louvre pre-booked · 2hr route
Musée d’Orsay Impressionists
Tuileries Gardens
Overnight: Paris
3
Day Three
Versailles Day Trip
Paris
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.
Private driver to Versailles
Versailles · Hall of Mirrors
Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet
Overnight: Paris
4
Day Four
Montmartre + Le Marais
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.
Montmartre + Sacré-Cœur
Le Marais food tour
Place des Vosges
Overnight: Paris
5
Day Five
Left Bank + Seine Cruise
Paris
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.
Saint-Germain + Luxembourg
Musée de l’Orangerie optional
Seine sunset cruise
Overnight: Paris
6
Day Six
Depart Paris
Paris
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.
Transfer to CDG
App support
Love this itinerary? Make it yours.
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.
Accommodations
Boutique hotels, charming B&Bs, or historic castle stays — chosen based on your preferences and travel style.
Transportation
Private driver-guide, self-drive rental, or a mix of both — all transfers confirmed before you travel.
Experiences
Pre-arranged tours and activities built around your interests — entrance tickets sorted, no queuing.
Book a Free Consultation
See All France Itineraries
Activities on this itinerary
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.
Louvre Museum Pre-Booked2-hour specialist route · Denon wing
Musée d’OrsayImpressionists · converted railway station
Versailles Palace + Gardens8:30am entry · Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet
Montmartre + Sacré-CœurArtists’ quarter · panoramic views
Le Marais Food TourFromagerie · boulangerie · chocolatier
Seine Sunset CruiseEiffel Tower + Notre-Dame from the water
Luxembourg GardensLeft Bank · Medici Fountain · boules
Place des VosgesOldest square in Paris · Victor Hugo
Musée de l’OrangerieMonet’s Water Lilies · optional
Île Saint-LouisSeine island · Berthillon ice cream
Saint-Germain CafésCafé de Flore · Les Deux Magots
Rodin MuseumThe Thinker · garden sculpture · optional
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.
The people who will design your France trip
You work directly with a specialist who knows France deeply — not a call center or booking agent. Every consultation is with someone who has been there, knows which Paris arrondissement café has the croque monsieur worth crossing the city for, which Louvre gallery is empty at 4pm when everyone else is at the Mona Lisa, and which Montmartre side street has the view that the tourist lookout doesn’t.
Ireland · Scotland · Iceland · Portugal · France
Taryn Harrison
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.
25 Yrs
CMSC
France & Europe
Book a Consultation
Italy · Portugal · Spain · Switzerland
Lexi Blade
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.
8 Yrs
Florence Based
Southern Europe
Book a Consultation
About this itinerary
April through June and September through October are ideal — warm, clear, and manageable crowds at the major sites. July and August are peak season with extreme heat in Madrid and interior Spain (regularly above 38 degrees C) and peak crowds in Barcelona. Winter is mild along the Mediterranean coast (Barcelona and Valencia rarely drop below 10 degrees C) but can be cold in Madrid. The shoulder seasons give you outdoor dining weather, shorter museum queues, and the best light for photography. Your specialist adjusts the pacing around your travel dates.
Six days is the ideal depth for a first Paris visit. It gives you time to see the essential museums (Louvre, Orsay, Rodin), do the Versailles day trip, explore multiple neighborhoods on foot (Marais, Saint-Germain, Montmartre, Ile Saint-Louis), and still have unhurried evenings for bistro dinners and Seine walks. Three or four days feels rushed — you end up running between sites. Six days lets you have a slow morning at a cafe before the museum opens, which is how Paris is meant to be experienced.
It depends on your priority. The 6th arrondissement (Saint-Germain-des-Pres) is literary Paris — cafes, bookshops, walking distance to the Orsay and Luxembourg Gardens. The 7th is closest to the Eiffel Tower with quieter residential streets. The Marais (3rd and 4th) is the most walkable and lively — galleries, boutiques, falafel on Rue des Rosiers, and the Place des Vosges. The 1st puts you steps from the Louvre and Tuileries. Your specialist selects the hotel based on your preferences.
Yes — common extensions include adding Normandy (D-Day beaches, Mont-Saint-Michel, 2 to 3 days), the Loire Valley chateaux (2 days), or Champagne (a day trip or overnight from Paris). Our Best of France itinerary covers Paris plus Normandy, Loire, Provence, and the Riviera in 11 days. Your specialist can also build a Paris-plus-one-region trip at any length you prefer.
Other trips worth considering
Best of France
Paris · Normandy · Loire · Provence
Paris plus four more regions — the complete France experience in 11 days.
View Itinerary
7 Days
Gastronomy Tour · Paris & Provence
Paris · Avignon
Paris through the lens of food — cooking classes, market tours, and Michelin dining.
View Itinerary
7 Days
A Week in Southern France
Nice · Provence · Riviera
Add the south after Paris — Provence, the Riviera, and the Mediterranean coast.
View Itinerary
“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. · Paris City Break · Verified Google Review
Build your luxury custom Portugal trip with one of our top travel specialists.
30 minutes, completely free. Walk away with a clear picture of what your luxury custom Portugal trip could look like — dates, route, 4 and 5-star accommodations, and all.