Parisian Dreams: 5 Days in
Parisian Dreams: 5 Days in the City of Light
CDG Airport → Eiffel Tower → Louvre → Montmartre → Notre-Dame → Le Marais → CDG Airport
Iconic Landmarks & River Views
Welcome to France! Grab your bags and head to the city. I recommend taking a taxi or a pre-booked shuttle to your hotel to save your energy for the walking ahead.
Charles de Gaulle Airport
Welcome to France! Grab your bags and head to the city. I recommend taking a taxi or a pre-booked shuttle to your hotel to save your energy for the walking ahead.
Eiffel Tower
The 7th arrondissement is perhaps the most expensive area to live in Paris. The Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous tourist sites in the world, is here, as well as many government buildings (ministries, the National Assembly and so on). Many dignitaries and VIPs populate this arrondissement.
Trocadéro Gardens
Cross the Seine for the classic postcard view of the tower. It's usually buzzing with street performers and is the perfect spot for a quick crepe from a street vendor.
Arc de Triomphe
The 8th arrondissement of Paris is home to the Avenue des Champs Elysées, which ends up at the Arc de Triomphe. The executive branch of French government is also based here, as well as the embassies of certain nations.
Bateaux Parisiens
Bateaux Mouches are open, long, and often glass-covered excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the center of the city from along the river Seine. They also operate on Parisian canals such as Canal Saint-Martin, which is partially subterranean.
Artistic Masterpieces & Royal Gardens
Louvre Museum
Enter through the Carrousel du Louvre (the underground mall) to avoid the biggest pyramid lines. Focus on one wing—Denon is the most popular for the Mona Lisa and Winged Victory.
Tuileries Garden
The Tuileries Garden is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution. Since the 19th century, it has been a place for Parisians to celebrate, meet, stroll and relax.
Musée de l'Orangerie
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde, originally the Place Louis XV, and later the Place Louis XVI, is a public square in Paris. Measuring 7.6 ha in area, it is the largest square in the city. It is located in the 8th arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
Bohemian Heights & Village Vibes
Day 3｜Bohemian Heights & Village Vibes (6km, 0.4h drive)
Sacré-Cœur
Start at the highest point in the city. The interior is stunning, but the view from the front steps is the real draw.
Place du Tertre
The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Only a few streets away from the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile cabaret, it is near the summit of the city's elevated Montmartre quarter.
Le Mur des Je t'aime
Find the "I Love You" wall in a small garden near Abbesses metro. It features the phrase in over 250 languages—a quick but sweet photo op.
Palais Garnier
The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III.
The Soul of the Left Bank
Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.
Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.
Shakespeare and Company
The world's most famous English bookstore. It's cramped, smells like old paper, and is absolutely magical.
Panthéon
The Panthéon is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it.
The Marais & Departure
Spend your final morning in the oldest planned square in Paris. It’s perfectly symmetrical and surrounded by beautiful red-brick arcades.
Place des Vosges
The Place des Vosges, originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, just before the Place Dauphine. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements. It is an enclosed square, accessible via a main street on one of its four sides and two streets running beneath pavilions.
Le Marais
The Marais is a historic district in Paris, France. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the Seine. Having once been an aristocratic district, it is home to many buildings of historic and architectural importance. It lost its status as a fashionable district in the late 18th century, with only minor nobles calling the area home.
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
Charles de Gaulle Airport
Time to head back. Give yourself plenty of time for traffic—the A1 motorway can be unpredictable!
- 🛫 Route includes 0 flight + 1 rail segments. Map shows them as dashed lines (connection only, not real road).