Loire Valley Tour: Explore Majestic French Chateaux

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Explore the scenic Loire Valley region. You’ll encounter three magnificent French Chateaux : Chambord, Chenonceau and Cheverny. Self-tour to completely appreciate the surroundings and dive into the regal French History and elegant architecture.

Duration: 13 hours, 45 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Chateau de Chambord - After driving through a gentle French Countryside with undulating hills, you will reach and explore the Impressive structure – finest example of Renaissance French Architecture: Chambord, The retreat for French Kings especially Louis XIV! Built by Francois I left his mark on the architectural and cultural achievements of his…

Chateau de Chambord - After driving through a gentle French Countryside with undulating hills, you will reach and explore the Impressive structure – finest example of Renaissance French Architecture: Chambord, The retreat for French Kings especially Louis XIV! Built by Francois I left his mark on the architectural and cultural achievements of his reign. He placed his symbols, the salamander and the letter F anywhere he could: ceiling, castle-door ways… The Castle has a famous double helix staircase inspired by Leonard da Vinci, a friend of the King.
Domaine National de Chambord - He placed his symbols, the salamander and the letter F anywhere he could: ceiling, castle-door ways… The Castle has a famous double helix staircase inspired by Leonard da Vinci, a friend of the King.
Office de Tourisme Amboise Val de Loire - Learn about its incredible past and be enchanted by its breathtaking riverside views. In winter, you’ll be served a traditional lunch and drink. Outside of this period, the tour escort will give you some fabulous tips on where to eat.
Office de Tourisme Autour de Chenonceaux - Drive through the French countryside before arriving to The Lady Castle spanning the River Cher.
Chateau de Chenonceau - Then you will visit Chenonceau at your leisure. Described as the Ladies Castle; the regal refuge that owes its very existence to a list of powerful ladies such as Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici (as well as others). You will be fascinated by Its Renaissance architecture and artwork by masters of the day. Its fine furniture, rare tapestries, and the ornate formal gardens will also captivate you. From Chenonceau, you will discover the Loire Wine Heritage through wine tastings.

An unforgettable Experience during the whole day.

Chenonceaux - After this visit of Chenonceau, you will have free time to stroll in the remarkable gardens along the Cher River and have lunch around the castle. Our guide will tell you where you can have lunch. You will be invited to meet the guide directly at the bus parking lot to leave for Cheverny.
Cheverny - In this seigniorial residence occupied by the same family for more than 600 years, you will discover the castle and its remarkable interior fittings. Outside, complete your visit with the park and its 6 thematic gardens including an orchard “le Jardin Sucré”. Also known for hunting with hounds, you will be able to see its rich kennel which shelters a hundred dogs.
The bus will leave around 5:00 pm for an expected arrival in Paris around 8:00 pm

What's Included

Admission to Chateaux de Chenonceau, Chambord, and Cheverny
Comfortable round-trip transport via air-conditioned coach

What's Not Included

Food and drinks
Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Gratuities

Additional Information

Meeting time 30 minutes prior to the departure from our central located agency
Please note that on Monday and Saturday during the summer period the visit of Chambord will be replaced by Amboise visit.

Location

Pullman Paris Centre - Bercy

Rue de Libourne

1 rue de Libourne, 75012 Paris Metro Station : Cour Saint Emilion - Line 14 (Exit N°1 - 2) BUS : N°24 + 111 + 109 Stop Terroirs de France Meet our representative with a Paris City Vision sign, outside the hotel (in front of the main entrance)

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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June_l

Jul 8, 2024

Hoghly recommended! - Highly recommend it! The most convenient and pleasant way to visit 3 castles in one day. The bus and its seats were huge enough and clean. Also, we had enough time (at least minimum to visit each castle entirely). I think we are lucky everyone was almost on time and there were less people considering the fact it is a peak period (it was sunday). I did self guided tour without any guided map, but still I could rely on the brochures from the castle, and most of all, whenever I asked something to the guides, they kindly responded to allof my questions. Thank you so much to the guides and the driver( Priscillar, if I remembered correctly and sorry for not remembering wonderful guides..). I would highly recommend this tour to those who havent enough time to visit castles for several days but want to visit them conveniently and all at once. Just one tip: if you are interested in hearing stories of the towns and castles, recommend to have a guide tour. However, for me who like to walk around and discover places, self guided tour was also a good choice.:)

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Marina_s

Jun 18, 2024

Best guides - Our guides, Joe and Liliya were amazing. It's hard keeping up with seven people asking questions, especially when four of them are kids, but they were great at balancing their attention. Our youngest kid was especially impressed with having his questions heard and answered as much as the adults'. They showed us many things I missed on my previous visit to the Louvre, told us a lot about the artworks, what they meant, hidden features, and how they got to the Louvre. They also had a number of good suggestions on other places to visit and when to visit these.

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Adam_b

Jan 8, 2024

Luxury - Excellent way to get out of the city and into the countryside. We visited 3 chateaus, of course chambord was the most beautiful and indulgent. It also allowed for the most wandering. The bus ride was easy. was able to sleep on the coach with no issue. We went into a village by one of the chateaus to have lunch... this was my wifes favorite thing we did in france. We didn't opt for the audio tour thing, we just did it all on our own. The guide knew her stuff and the driver was very professional.

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Pam_l

Jan 5, 2024

Well worth the time and money. - Our tour guide was knowledgeable and made the day enjoyable. She easily handled our tour in English and Spanish. We learned a lot from her during the bus ride even though we chose the self guided option while at the chateaus. If I only had time for one castle, I would choose Chateau de Chenonceau because of the decor.

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Maria_k

Oct 31, 2023

Very Nice !!! - It was Amazing trip !!! Tour guide very nice and helpful !!! All was good !!! We saw 3 castle in one day !!! Lovely experience !!!

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Sage_l

May 9, 2024

Positives: The castles... - Positives: The castles were beautiful and the views of the countryside were equally nice. We were lucky to have great weather. The bus was air-conditioned and comfortable. I think that being self-guided was the right choice for travelers like us, who prefer to take our time with areas that are more interesting to us. Negatives: Three chateaus was really a lot —probably too much—for one day. People were late to the bus both times and waiting for them cost us 25 minutes…for such a tight tour, this was a big loss. Just for context, we had about an hour and fifteen minutes at each chateau. At the last chateau, the line was so long to get in the house that we thought we would spend most of the hour in line, so we opted to spend time on the grounds instead. They decided to add 15 minutes on to make up for the time we lost waiting on late people—but because we were self guided and not part of the tour group, we were not informed of this, and arrived to the bus 20 minutes early. The second chateau also had very odd instruction. They said we all needed to go into the chateau together, but we ended up 50 people in a very tight space at the entrance. We ended up following one of the tour groups out of confusion before realizing we were probably supposed to make our own way after entering. I have a feeling some instruction may have been given to the people with headsets, but since we weren’t them, it wasn’t available. I didn’t expect guidance since we didn’t pay for it, but since they had given us instructions to follow, I would hope they’d follow up on them. In conclusion, I think it was a good way to see the chateaus, but certainly some bumps along the way.

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Riss_p

Oct 24, 2023

Not happy with the bus tour guide - We just did it on our own. Got the ear pieces. The female tour guide on the bus was just too cheap to share her commentaries on the bus. She just whispered on those who got the guided tour. Too bad, we are 9 BIG TIPPERS.. Huge mistake. HUGE!

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Stephen_s

Oct 9, 2023

Somewhat disappointed - The venues were good as expected. The bus driver was to be putting it nicely was scary! Texting while driving, no seatbelt, flashing lights at other drivers, not professional at all. We were disappointed that we didn’t have a guide that we thought we paid for, the description was misleading “multi lingual” guide was only to let us know when to get off the bus and when to be back. Suggestion would be to have extra audio guides available for purchase on the bus. That would help make the tour more enjoyable.

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Ernesto_s

Sep 23, 2024

WORST EXPERIENCE ERNESTO SOTA - I reserved a tour with your company and went to the meeting point 6:30 am, to receive the news that the tour was cancelled but Viator never notified me, and now one is responding for this terrible situacion. I expect a full refund and 100 euros extra to pay for my travel expenses that cost me from my apartment in rue lauriston 10 to the meeting point. It is incredible that a tour is canceled but they don’t notified their clients. I am never using this company again and do not recommend it to no one ever.

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William

Oct 23, 2023

Confusion over dates - I misread the voucher due to differences in how European dates are printed versus American, so I thought our tour was 10/ 23. The guide for another tour told us we missed yesterday's tour but we might be able to get a refund. When the reminder message was sent Saturday I was on the Eiffel tower so I could not read it, and forgot about it later. Very sad.

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