How to Visit the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux
Skip this page if you only want to know the bare minimum. Stay if you want…
How to Book an Eze, Monaco and Monte-Carlo Tour from Nice
Monaco is smaller than New York’s Central Park. The whole principality squeezes into about two square…
How to Book a French Riviera Day Tour from Nice
The French Riviera in your head is probably one slow morning on a Cap Ferrat terrace…
How to Visit Mont-Saint-Michel from Paris
I almost ruined Mont-Saint-Michel for myself. I tried to do it as a same-day round trip…
How to Book a Normandy D-Day Tour from Paris
A friend of mine took her father, a retired history teacher, to Normandy two summers ago….
How to Visit the Loire Valley Castles from Paris
It’s about 4 in the afternoon, the bus is rolling north toward Paris, and you’ve just…
How to Visit the Fondation Louis Vuitton
The building wears 3,600 panes of curved glass. Frank Gehry called it a “magnificent vessel” —…
How to Book a Paris Food Tour
Our guide Hugo took us to a fromagerie tucked behind Notre-Dame and asked the owner to…
How to Get the Paris Museum Pass
Buy the 6-day Paris Museum Pass and you’re paying about $31 a day for unlimited entry…
How to Book a Paris Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
The Paris Métro is the fastest way to get anywhere in this city. Most days, that’s…
How to Book a Paris Evening River Cruise with Music
The boat pushed off from the foot of the Eiffel Tower just as the river went…
How to Book a Paris Dinner Cruise
My friend Mira flew into Paris last June for her tenth wedding anniversary. She had one…
How to Book Grévin Wax Museum Tickets
How can a museum that opened in 1882 still pull crowds in a city packed with…
How to Book Disneyland Paris Tickets
My friend Lena flew from Berlin with her two kids and four hours of theme-park stamina….
How to Book Opéra Garnier Tickets
There is a lake under the Opéra Garnier. An actual underground reservoir, built into the foundations…
How to Book Moulin Rouge Tickets
The Moulin Rouge starts before the curtain. You smell it as soon as you walk into…
How to Visit the Panthéon in Paris
You climb 270-odd steps up a stone spiral and step out onto a balcony that ringed…
How to Visit Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie
Most people walking the Île de la Cité queue for Notre-Dame’s exterior, snap a photo, and…
How to Visit Montparnasse Tower
Why does the best view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris come from a 1970s office…
How to Visit the Arc de Triomphe
Most Paris monuments hide their best view inside the building. The Arc de Triomphe does the…
How to Visit Les Invalides in Paris
There are 17 rabbits living on the lawn of one of the most visited war museums…
How to Visit the Musée de l’Orangerie
A stranger in the oval room once told me she’d been coming to the Orangerie every…
How to Book Musée d’Orsay Tickets
The Musée d’Orsay smells of old wood varnish and floor wax, the kind of scent that…
How to Book an Eiffel Tower Summit Ticket
There is a payoff at the summit that you do not get from the second floor,…
