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Paris Tour - Eiffel Tower and Bayeux Questions - Cross Posted

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** Cross Posted from the RS Tour Forum **

Hello Everyone,

We are taking our first RS tour (Best of Paris) this September. Our time before and after the tour is not as extensive as I'd like. Your help with our itinerary would be much appreciated!

  1. Eiffel Tower: Does it matter whether we plan this during free time, or after tour? Some tour accounts mentioned there are "surprises" in the itinerary. Our schedule doesn't really allow for going before the tour starts, but we are not sure if we should chance missing something from the tour, or waiting to go at the very end.
  2. We are traveling to Bayeux the Saturday morning after our farewell dinner for an afternoon tour of D-day Beaches. Should we plan on returning to Paris Sunday mid-day or is there enough to do there between the Cathedral, Tapestry etc. to spend all of Sunday there as well? Is a car necessary if we will only be there 1.5 days max?

Thank you all!

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1540 posts

I was in Bayeux for 3 days.
1 day to walk around Bayeux - see the tapestry, visit churches, very walkable
and charming place
1 full day on a tour of the Beaches and Cemeteries of Normandy
( I would recommend a tour....we used viator.com (consolidator))
1 day we spent the day again a tour going to Mount St. Michel.

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920 posts

I agree with the above! We loved walking Bayeux to see the cathedral, the tapestry and the British cemetery. The British cemetery allowed the families of its soldiers to put personal messages on each gravestone. It is also landscaped so that each row of gravestones has a row of soil where irises, roses and other flowers are blooming around the stones. We felt it was well worth the walk at the edge of Bayeux to see this part of WW2 history.

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7209 posts

There are signs and billboards up all OVER the place in Bayeux advertising D-Day tours. We opted for a private guide that we hired via www.toursbylocals.com He traveled with us in our rental car, gave directions, gave information, took us to places off the beaten path which we very much enjoyed.

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Thanks everyone for your responses so far. We have a tour booked already with a group recommended by several people here on the forums. I'm more wondering whether the town of Bayeux merits a day of sightseeing outside of the d- day tour and whether it's walkable or if we absolutely need a car. At most we can devote 1 day plus the d-day tour. Thanks!

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653 posts

" I'm more wondering whether the town of Bayeux merits a day of sightseeing outside of the d- day tour and whether it's walkable or if we absolutely need a car. At most we can devote 1 day plus the d-day tour. "

Yes, the town is very walkable and you don't want to miss the tapestry.

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