La Belle Seine featuring Paris and Normandy

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The culture, art, history, and romance of France sweeps you away on board a 7-night river cruise you’ll remember always.

Overview

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Lodging level
Premium - 4 star
Physical level
Moderate

Highlights

    • Visit a local distillery for a Calvados (apple brandy) tasting.
    • Celebrate your journey during a Captain’s Gala dinner.
    • Explore Normandy on a full day excursion.
    • View the Gros Horloge, Rouen’s astronomical clock.
    • Tour Auvers-sur-Oise, inspiration for many of Van Gogh’s paintings and masterpieces.
    • Tour Giverny, Monet’s home and gardens for more than 40 years.
    • Visit Honfluer, a remarkable maritime city.
    • Set out on a city tour of Paris.

What's this trip about?

    The culture, art, history, and romance of France sweeps you away on board a 7-night river cruise you’ll remember always.

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Day 1 Paris, France - Board Ship - Tour Begins

Your journey opens in Paris. Board your ship and unpack once for a relaxing 7-night river cruise. Your beautiful vessel offers the newest technology, panoramic deck, panorama bar, delicious cuisine including regional wines with every dinner, and outstanding service. Tonight, a cocktail is served in the Panorama Bar where you will meet your fellow travelers before a lovely welcome dinner.

Day 2 Conflans - Auvers-sur-Oise

This morning, arrive in Conflans, situated at the confluence of the Oise and Seine rivers. Visit the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, once home to several 19th-century painters including Paul Cézanne, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissaro, and perhaps most famously, Vinc...

Day 3 Rouen

Today your ship docks in Rouen, the historical capital of Normandy. Enjoy a guided walking tour of the medieval city, highlighting its many monuments and architectural treasures. Visit the cathedral and the Church of Joan of Arc before viewing the Gros Horloge astrono...

Day 4 Le Havre - Honfleur - Le Havre

This morning we dock in Le Havre, a city located on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine River. Perhaps you will join an optional morning sightseeing tour to Étretat, a town situated on the Normandy coast with stunning clifftop views and a charming fishing vi...

Day 8 Paris - Disembark Ship - Tour Ends

Your tour comes to a close today, leaving you with many pleasant memories of a wonderful adventure.

Day 5 Le Havre - Normandy Excursion - Caudebec-en-Caux

A full day of remembrance awaits, as we travel through Normandy to visit some of the significant D-Day Landing sites of World War II. Begin at Pointe du Hoc, a strategic German battery that defended Utah and Omaha beaches from the Allied invasion, where craters from c...

Day 7 Paris

This morning, take a splendid panoramic coach tour that features views of the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Les Invalides, the Louvre Museum, the famous Champs-Elysées and the Jardin des Tuileries. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure to continue exploring this great ...

Day 6 Les Andelys - Château Gaillard and Giverny

Begin your morning with a stop in Les Andelys to visit Château Gaillard, constructed in the 12th century by Richard the Lionheart. Admire the striking views of French countryside from the château’s vantage point on a promontory along the Seine. Next, continue to Giver...

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Lucille Fiola

Nov 2018

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Service rating : The tour was really great and the hotels were also very good. The Vivanta in Delhi is quite far from everything though. We did the Nepal extension a...

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Joyce Ripka

Oct 2018

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Service rating : I am the owner of 2 travel agencies and this was the first time I travelled with Collette. I found that it was really easy to work with them and the...

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Glyn Hollinshead

Apr 2018

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Service rating : I would have rated it 5 * but for the aggravation in regards the transport from our Delhi Hotel to the Airport at the end of the tour. The tour gui...

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Linda Leclair

Feb 2018

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Service rating : We have used Collette previously and were very satisfied and would definately use them again. Product : Pace of the tour was excellent, tour manager...

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Emilia Keller

Feb 2018

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Service rating : Sightseeing was superb, but the never-ending buffet of chicken, lentils and mutton which started on Air Canada plane (the same bone-dry-chicken in a...

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    • The land price does not include air travel, airline fees, airport or departure taxes, transfers, visas, customary end-of-trip gratuities for your Tour Manager, driver, local guides, hotel housekeepers, cruise ship waitstaff, and any incidental charges.

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