Absolutely lovely and special bike tour with Pierre. We was so knowledgeable and kind and it was…read morequite safe. He was great leading us through the streets, including my 10 year old and me, with another kid on the bike of my bike. The kids loved the historical stories and I did too. We went to places we hadn't seen (Pierre modified the stops a bit to make sure we saw new things). It was a highlight for sure.

We did the night ride last summer. The kids said it was the highlight of their trip. Our tour guide…read moreVlad was great. Explained the bikes, the sites, the history. Really like that they go off the beaten path and even when it is a major site like the Louvre, they explain the secret side. Highly recommend them!

I am honored to leave the first review for City Wheels. If I could give 100 stars, I would…read more My husband and I were only in Paris for two days, and it was our first time visiting. We knew we wanted to do many things, but we kind of felt overwhelmed by all the possibilities in Paris. On the train ride in from London, I found a suggestion for taking a nighttime tour in a car. My husband reached out to the company, but of course everything was booked. I went on Yelp and found City Wheels. There weren't any reviews, so that made a little nervous. However, the booking was easy and a timeslot was available for the same day. We scheduled the tour for 10 AM on a Monday. Unfortunately, the time slot ended up not being available, but Laurent called and actually was able to fit us in for a more suitable time later that evening. Laurent was quick to respond to phone calls. We had a cooking class scheduled, and it ended at 5pm. Laurent showed up around 5:15, and my husband and I were giddy with glee. The car was impeccable. It was clean, shiny, and awesome. Laurent spent 10 minutes or so explaining how he was going to start the tour and he used a map to point out certain points and places in Paris. Our two hour tour was absolutely amazing. Laurent told us lots of French history, he took us to all the main touristy sites, and he actually took our pictures for us, too. He even used his iPhone editing skills for the photos! The tour was so personable and fantastic and my husband and I could not be more pleased. It was the highlight of our European vacation. We've tried hop on/hop off tours in other cities, and this tour was 100% better. Laurent was cheerful, personal, honest, and a great driver. I'd recommend City Wheels to anyone!

This trip was one of my favorite parts of our trip to Paris, by far. We were picked up by Abi, our…read moredriver, who gave us the option as to which areas of Paris we wanted to see on our two-hour nighttime vintage car tour, with champagne. Bundled in a blanket, under the lights of Paris, Abi drove us like the badass he is, and along the way gave us tips on where to eat, trivia about movie locations, and history you won't find in a tour book. My husband and I knew at some point that we were being treated to an experience that we wouldn't soon forget. Abi is cool dude who drives with a great respect for that beautiful car. Be prepared to be gawked at, and for gods sake get the champagne - it is delicious.

Incredibly helpful. Very responsive. They offered exactly what I wanted and I booked with them…read more Friends had similar experiences. That's first how I learned about them.

Absolutely the Best Paris Jewish quarter tour. She is a…read moremonument herself and should belong to the jewish heritage of Paris as one of the last and best Jewish tour guide , still in service, in Paris. Eventhough your tour is full of both : sad and happy stories of Paris and the jew's of France ... Flora knew how to make the tour pleasant and enjoyable. Flora was not cheap, but at least, one thousand times more knowledgeable and professional, beginning by exchanging emails, she answers quickly, she get you reservation at the Chabbad, seder ... anything you ask, she can do !

We booked a 2 hr private tour of The Louvre for kids with Meet The Locals. Our tour guide Justine…read morewas so knowledgeable & friendly. The kids loved it, and the adults learned new things too! I can't recommend this group enough, they did a stellar job & we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Our family of 5 (including 3 teens/tweens) loved our time with Sonia. On the first day, we did the…read moreLourve (fun interactive mystery activity), crepes for lunch and the Eiffel Tower (I spy competition). The second day was a chocolate and sweets tour with a bunch of stops for candy, macrons, chocolate and ice cream. Sonia had the right combo of history and fun and it was wonderful. Highly recommend!

We had a wonderful 16 day vacation in France (Paris, Normandy, Brittany), and could not have been…read morehappier with My Private Paris/France before and during our vacation. We worked with Valentine & Wendy to arrange all the details and itinerary. The tours, drivers and transfers were all first class. Every one of our guides was knowledgeable, pleasant and professional. Alain in particular stood out as he helped bring us to a remote area of Normandy so my wife could visit the home where one of her ancestors lived. Our guide and driver Corrine was also fantastic as she shared her local knowledge as we touted Brittany and Normandy. Do not hesitate to book with this team, whether for just a day visit to Paris or a multi-week adventure across France.

We signed up for the full-day Versailles Tour with transportation from our hotel in the 7th…read morearrondissement. Exactly at 0800 our guide, Quentin, arrived at our hotel with our driver in a new Porsche Panamera sedan for our trip to Versailles. Quentin was personable, friendly, and a wealth of information about Versailles. He handled all the arrangements and escorted us throughout virtually all of the accessible areas of the palace. He had also arranged for our lunch at Ducasse (yes, an Alain Ducasse restaurant located within the Versailles palace - see separate review of the restaurant, under Ore - Ducasse au Chateau de Versailles - spoiler - very, very good). Quentin had an amazing range of knowledge about the palace and about the furnishings and artwork throughout. He was highly informative without overloading us with too much detail, and where appropriate, he simply got us to another amazing location and let us look around for ourselves. His special guide permit allowed him (and us) to enter many of the rooms that require separate tickets to enter, and we bypassed some bunches of visitors through doors only accessible by licensed Versailles guides. We visited on a cold January day (high was 40F that day) and that kept the crowds away. Quentin kept exclaiming that he had never seen so few visitors in Versailles. That was great for us, as we never felt crowded and in fact were all by ourselves in some of the rooms of the palace. Following a great lunch, Quentin escorted us to the Petite Trianon and to the fantasy village built for Marie Antoinette. Quentin pointed out how the palace, the Parc de Versailles, the landscaping were all carefully designed to awe visitors. Most visitors would never know how the hill that leads from the palace down to the statute of Apollo is designed to trick the eye and make new surprising vistas appear as you progress. Or how the lake was designed to make it feel much longer and farther through subtle engineering. We also would never have known all the inside meta-symbology is spread throughout the palace and the art. All the associations with Apollo for Louis XIV (the "Sun King") hidden within the columns, wall and ceiling decorations mean a lot more when you know why they are designed that way. After a full day of Versailles palace, Petit Trianon, and Marie Antoinette's fantasy village, we were glad to see our driver waiting for us on a street right next to the fantasy village, so we didn't need to hike a mile back to the palace parking areas. We had a nice ride back to our hotel. Highly recommended - we had an exceptional time. Quentin was a wonderful tour guide, and we appreciated his excellent English and encyclopedic knowledge of Versailles and the history of the French aristocracy.

My 16 year old daughter and I did Paul's tour and just loved it. I've been to Paris 4-5 times but…read morenot in many many years. Paul's tour is an insider tour for the outsider. He's one of those people who knows thousands of things about Paris and seemed to custom his comments to people's interests and curiosities. He was friendly, professional, knowledgeable, and just an genuinely nice guy....everything you want in a tour guide. You could ask him anything. He starts at the origin of Paris and goes from there. Fascinating. I highly recommend you wear comfortable shoes, a bottle of water, etc. He does a snack break & bathroom stop, but I'd get a snack elsewhere. The food truck was tasty, but pricey.

Paul gave us the best tour ever! Personable and warm with a full grasp of the history of Paris. We…read morewere on a tight schedule to see what we could in the city and Paul gave us a full view of the history and sights to see. He gathered what we had seen so far and tuned the tour around it. Always entertaining in his reccounting of historical events and some insights into what was going on in Paris at the time too. He was like an old friend that you hadn't seen for some time, recounting some of his life in Paris as well as having interest in ours. Couldn't ask for a better tour guide. Even offered that he would be available for recommendations should we ever go back or venture out to other areas of the country. Paul made Paris seem even more like that place you would want to return to again and again.

Lorenzo was a great tour guide. He knows his history and presented a great story and vision of the…read moretime! It was a great way to learn about the details of Versailles, the gardens, the petit Trianon, and the Hamlet. I feel like I had a personal history lesson.

Monty was excellent, knowledgeable about Notre Dame, its history, the fire, and restoration. He…read morewas alo willing to share his knowledge about Paris, kings, the city and more We would be ecstatic to book with him again.

Very simple, easy and inexpesive. Only speaking english was no problem for me and the bikes were…read morequality.

Fantastic experience. Proprietor was wonderful. We rented bikes for seven of us, including kids…read moreand teens. They got us fitted quickly and efficiently and provided recommendations for routes with minimal traffic. Would definitely recommend and use them again!

Great concept of free or pay as you wish. I paid E15 per person and thought it was excellent value…read more Guide was knowledgeable, helpful and responsive. Actually the Marais was the second tour after Montmartre yesterday. I would recommend both wholeheartedly. I've lived in Paris but realized how little I know or how much more there is to know. Leonie our Montmartre guid also did an excellent interpretation of a Dalida song. Merci Leonie and Sara.

We've had a few successes with Viator so this is leaving me completely puzzled. On May 8, 2025, we…read morewere supposed to meet someone at the Henry IV statue at the Pont Neuf bridge at 3:15 to get our tickets for the 3:30 tour. We got there early enough to have lunch and walk around a bit. At 2:30 we went over to the statue and sat on a bench to enjoy the sights and wait for our tour. at 3:20, no one had showed up with tickets. We called the tour provider and they said they had notified Viator that this specific tour was oversold and that we were moved to the 3:00 tour. NO ONE ever told us. ON top of that, we were at the location at 2:45 (the time they said we needed to get the tickets at the statue) and NO ONE was there. We called Viator and they said we were considered "late" and they could not refund us, despite the fact that we were way early. at 3:37 pm, we received an email from Viator saying that our tour had changed to 3:00 pm and we needed to be at the statue at 2:45. nearly an HOUR after the time we were supposed to be there, they notified us. However, we WERE there. Viator still claims they cannot refund our tickets. I'll add, the email they sent us had a 3:00pm timed ticket to enter Notre Dame on our own, but we received it 37 minutes too late. This was a once in a lifetime trip, and to miss such a highlight as Notre Dame, after we've taken so much time to plan ahead, and pay nearly $200 for this unique experience.

April 11, Montmartre Pastry and Chocolate Food Tour, Paris…read more Our family of four with a son 9 and daughter 10 did a pastry and chocolate tour through Montmartre and it ended up being a really fun way to explore the area. Arrival and First Impressions The group was small, just our family and another family, which worked out well. The shops we visited were tiny so taking turns going in and out was part of the experience. Our guide was knowledgeable and walked us through side streets, small parks, and local spots we would never have found on our own. The Highlights We stopped at six different locations including chocolatiers, bakeries, and pastry shops. Highlights included a choux pastry, crepes, madeleines, artisan eclairs, and multiple chocolate tastings. The final stop for hot chocolate and macarons was excellent. The macarons were so good we ended up buying some to bring home. The tour was not just about food. We saw the Love Wall, hidden streets, and learned about the history of Montmartre including small details about the neighborhood that made it feel more personal. The Challenges The guide did not have a very loud voice so in a bigger group it might have been harder to follow, but with our small group it worked fine. Would We Return Yes, especially to try a different tour. It was a great mix of food and exploring. Final Thoughts This tour is a great way to experience Montmartre beyond just walking around. The combination of food, history, and hidden locations made it a memorable and worthwhile experience.

Their ticket purchasing process is misleading and unethical. You go about filling our information,…read morelike you do for many websites, but unlike any other website, you hit the "Next" button (for the third time) and suddenly you have purchased the ticket, without any opportunity to review your tour date, number of participants or even credit card info. All the previous "Next" buttons led to the next step in the process, as is implied by the word and as you would expect, but not this one - it is the final confirmation of purchase even though there is NO indication that this is about to happen. Then they tell you that there are no refunds under any circumstances and that the credit and ticketing laws do not apply to them. Perhaps this is because they are based in Cyprus, which I assume they have chosen precisely to evade regulations. Note that they say there are no refunds no matter what - even if your overall trip gets cancelled or the tour gets cancelled or the guide does not show up. Be very careful, or better yet, avoid these folks and do any of the other more legitimate tours out there for wherever you are travelling to.