Normandy - Tour guide or on our own?

It is difficult to do in one day from Paris. The beach area is massive - 50 miles from east end to west end plus the points of interest behind the beaches. If you drove from Paris it would be a quick hit at a few key areas. A tour guide would make it more efficient.

We did it in one day with a tour guide. We took the train from Paris, met our guide at the station, did a good chunk of the beaches, the American cemetery, had lunch, and even had time to see the Bayeux tapestry at the end of the day before getting on a train back to Paris. Highly recommend!

Thanks, Frank. Do you have a guide you recommend? I appreciate your help!

Andrea, do you have a favorite guide you recommend? Thanks so much for your help.

We used Eva, below, but here is a list I got from a friend who went the year before. Bertrand at [email protected] Eva at [email protected] Christophe at [email protected] Lucie at [email protected]
Vanessa at [email protected]

Thanks so much, Andrea!

www.toursbylocals.com will provide you with several local guides who can meet you at the train station if you desire a quick one day tour from Paris. However, having done a quick tour like this and having no guide we missed a lot of facts and information and didn't really know what we were seeing other than the American Cemetery. Definitely get a guide. Several years later we went back to Paris for a few days and then trained to Bayeux and spent 3 nights there. That's where we hired our private guide from toursbylocals.com and learned so much more than when we were just on our own.

Thanks, Tim. I appreciate your input.