Hello - staying in Paris 5 days and plan a one-day trip over to Normandy to see Omaha Beach, American Cemetery, Caen, etc. Looking for a reputable and good day-trip tour company. www.parishotels.com has a Normandy D-Day trip. If anyone has a comment on this or other services I would greatly appreciate the information.
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I am doing a 1-day trip on my own. I%26#39;ve heard the tours can rush you a bit.
I am planning on taking a train from Paris to Caen early in the morning, then going to Bayeux for the American Cemetary/Omaha Beach and then back to Paris that night.
2 train tickets will be around $150 US - rather than a LOT more with a tour group - and you can explore on your own...
I would still love advice, though, too, on this. We leave tomorrow for London.
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Two reputable tour agencies are ParisVision and Cityrama; both have tours to the Normandy beaches.
But it will be a loooong day. One tour leaves at 7:15 a.m. and returns 13 hours later; so you%26#39;ll be spending a lot of time on the bus. Boing to Bayeux by train and then taking a mini-bus tour would probably be much more pleasant.
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I would take the train to Caen and go to the Peace Museum there and then take their tour of the battlefields and cemeteries. They are not real expensive and are good.
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Itaylor, I wonder if you%26#39;ve gone on your trip and have any advice? Did you see Normandy on your own or with a tour? Still wrestling with which way to see Normandy .... (we have lots of books and research) or to just take a tour. I realize that in one day we have to cover a lot of ground on our own... but I like the flexibility of a car, but hope that we don%26#39;t spend a lot of wasted time trying to get around (I assume the areas are well signed and marked). Any thoughts?
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