Categories 3, 4, and 5 refer primarily to varying degrees of excellence in rooms .

Land Price in U.S. $, with 1 Euro = $1.35, does not include air fair

Seasons: Low (11/1 - 12/26, 1/5 - 3/15); Medium (3/15 - 4/30, 10/1 - 10/31 ); High (5/1 - 9/30, 12/27 - 1/4)

Single, triple occupancy or families and groups, please inquire

*Basic Category 3 includes lodging with breakfast 7 nights; private transfers to and from airports; 3 day 1st class France rail pass and reserved seats Paris-Versailles- Paris, Paris - Strasbourg, and Strasbourg - Colmar - Strasbourg; trip pack including vouchers, detailed daily itinerary, maps,restaurant suggestions and guidebook; travel planning services. Full Land Package adds 3 day Paris transport pass, 2 day Paris museum pass, dinner at Eiffel Tower plus illumination cruise, and full day with private sedan and English speaking driver / guide to tour the highlights of the Alsace Wine Road and Germany's Black Forest.

• Meet and greet plus private sedan transfers from and to airports and to Paris train (and from Strasbourg train except Category 3).
• Seven hotel nights: choose 4 nights from our list in Paris and 3 nights in Alsace
• Continental breakfast daily
• Paris: 3 day transport, 2 day museum pass
• 3 day Rail France pass
• Reserved 1st class seats to the Palace of Versailles and Gardens and return by rail (pay admission on site).
• Eiffel Tower dinner and illumination cruise
• Paris fashion show (on Friday)
• 1st class reserved seats, Paris - Strasbourg high speed train. Map and itinerary for self-guided walking tour of Strasbourg., including Notre Dame Cathedral; the “Petite France” district; the ethnic Alsatian Museum
• Full day excursion with driver / guide and private sedan to see Black Forest and Alsace Wine Road, including to Riquewihr, Ribeauville, and Kayersburg plus Baden-Baden if you so choose.
• 1st class reserved seats, Strasbourg - Colmar and return.
• Map and detailed itinerary for self guided tour of  picturesque Colmar, including the Unterlinden Museum.
• Travel planning services including trip pack with vouchers, detailed daily itinerary, maps, and guide book and restaurant guide.

Chauffeur and larger car for any part of the trip you prefer not to drive
Water sports, fishing, golf, tennis, horseback riding, hiking or biking
Hot air balloon ride over Alsace and/or Germany’s Black Forest
Half day wine tasting excursion
Dinner reservations at fabulous French restaurants
Pre-paid reservations for symphony or opera in Paris
Excursion to EuroDisney near Paris
Visit the medieval château of Haut-Koenigsbourg and the Abbey of Ebersmunster
Extension to the Black Forest and the German wine regions
Christmas markets in Alsace and Germany
Comprehensive insurance coverage for trip cancellation or interruption, baggage, illness, and accident at special group rates
Round-trip air transportation from the United States

Tonight is your Eiffel Tower dinner and a Paris illumination cruise on the Seine. Paris, the culmination of French culture, reveals its Gothic, Renaissance, and modern faces from the banks of the River Seine, itself a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  From the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, and the Place de la Concorde, to the Grand and Petite Palais, the evolution of Paris unfolds before your eyes during this illumination cruise.

Return to your Paris hotel this evening. B

If you choose a morning tour of Versailles, you have time this afternoon to visit the Musee d' Orsay and/or Pont Neuf this afternoon and  the charming district of Saint Germaine this evening. B

Paris (Fashion Show, Parisian Markets, and Gourmet Shops)
Day 5
After a leisurely breakfast, attend a fashion show of some 60 silhouettes from the season’s latest haute couture apparel and accessories by leading couturiers. 

Your Paris travel experience would be not be complete without a tour of its famous markets displaying ingredients which are the basis of French cooking. This afternoon, walk down the steeply winding rue de Buci and rue de Seine, where small, domestic shops artistically display the freshest of produce just arrived during the night from the French provinces.  The lively interaction between buyer and seller is an important ingredient in the Parisian texture of culture.  

Then visit world-famous cheese shops where, collectively, more than 200 types of cheeses are displayed, and tour one of the fashionable delicatessens for which Paris in known.

Return to  your Paris hotel this evening. B  

This afternoon, consider touring the Ethnic Alsatian Museum, housed in three authentic sixteenth- and seventeenth-century houses, which introduces you to local life as it was years ago.Browse through the narrow, bustling streets of the Old City, lined with ancient buildings and inviting sidewalk cafés.B

On the return leg, morning drive along the Alsatian Wine Road, which winds its way between well-tended vineyards and through a number of picture-perfect “villages fleuris”. Wine tasting is available as frequently as you wish.  B

This morning, explore Alsace by rail. Take the train to Colmar, a colorful, harmonious city built around a charming central maze of cobbled streets where restored half-timbered dwellings dating from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance present brightly painted façades ornate with wooden sculptures.  Tour the home and Museum of Auguste Bartholdi, famous author and sculptor of our beloved Statue of Liberty.  At the Unterlinden Museum, view an outstanding collection of paintings from the Rhenan School and admire the spectacular, much-celebrated Issenheim altarpiece, which has long attracted visitors from around the globe.

This afternoon, travel back to Strasbourg by train and take a cruise on the canal system of this cosmopolitan city (pay 5 Euros per person at the dock). Visit the famous pink granite Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame, begun in 1176; a lacy, fragile-looking structure topped by a soaring, 466-foot-high spire and filled with radiant light from superb twelfth-to-fourteenth-century stained glass windows.  Wandering past old half-timbered houses bedecked with scarlet geraniums, explore the fairy-tale “Petite France” district, charmingly criss-crossed by narrow lanes, canals, and locks. B

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