We can spend days in the Louvre and still not see it all, or we can go in and see particular exhibitions. If we want to see something particular, we need to study the museum plan so we can make the best of our time there. I have visited Paris but not gone into the Louvre because I felt I did not have time to do it justice. I have blocked off half a day for us, but if we decide not to spend that much time there (or want more) we can adjust. If you are interested in seeing what the Louvre has to offer, please visit the link on the right of this page. If you find something that you must see, let me know so I can find a good walking map to get us to the areas in the museum that you'd like to visit. Honestly, it is like a city and we would need a map.
After visiting the Louvre we will head to Les Halles for a shopping trip. It is not only shopping, but a place of interest so it’s worth a visit. I suggest we begin by having lunch and resting a bit before our exploration here.
We can also visit the Place Vendome or the Royal Palace, if we want.
If we did not use all our time in the Louvre, we should head across the Seine, back to the 7th and visit the Musee d’Orsay. Here can can view Monets, Manets, Lautrecs and all sorts of other paintings by French artists. (We can skip this if we did explore inside the Louvre).Hopefully, it is now about 6 PM. At the Musee D'Orsay (or the nearest stop to our location), we get on the Batobus for a complete ride on the Seine using the 2 Day pass we bought the day before. Sunset will be around 8:15 so as we end our cruise it will be approaching dusk and the lights of Paris may be coming on. The boats stop running at 7 PM. Another choice is to buy a 1 Day Batobus pass and use a different service for an evening cruise. See **Alternate plan below.
**Alternate Plan
After visiting the Louvre in the morning, we make our way to the Bateaux Mouches Jetty near the Champs-Elysees. We purchase a lunch ticket and spend an hour and a half cruising the Seine, eating lunch, and seeing the sights. Price for lunch and cruise is € 50 per person. Should we decide on a meal cruise, we would only purchase a 1 Day Batobus ticket. After lunch we head to Les Halles and continue with the plan.
Or if we do a full morning Louvre visit, then Les Halles in the afternoon, we can head to the Bateaux Mouche Jetty and do a dinner cruise departing at 8:30 PM. Price for this is € 130 per person, but the bonus is the seeing Paris by night.
Bateaux Parisiens also offers a lunch cruise at 12:45 PM. The cost is € 80 for a good table view. They have dinner cruises, too. Theirs departs at 8:30 PM and costs € 188 for a good table. They offer "animation" during the cruise.
Bateaux Mouches has cruise only tours lasting half an hour and starting at 7:45, 8:30 or 9:00 PM. Price is €11 per person.
Bateaux Parisiens offers a € 12 per person cruise only evening trip, as well. The 8 or 9:15 PM would be nice ones to see Paris by night.
When you check the websites, make sure you have selected English and then you can explore the routes, menus, etc. using the link on the web page.
In any case, we'll have dinner and call it a day.
On our last day in Paris we will only have a few hours to explore. This will be the time to go back and see something again, or we can take the Metro up to the 18th Arrondissement and visit the Sacre Couer Basilica. It has the best views of all of Paris.
From here we wander the streets on Montmartre, walking in the footsteps of artists such as Matisse, Renoir, Lautrec, Modigliani and Picasso who lived and painted here.We have a good lunch and then head back to the hotel, grab our bags and head to the airport for our 5:40 PM flight to Düsseldorf.
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