My mom and I will be in Paris this November. It is her wish to visit Normandy for the day as she has always wanted to see the US landing beaches as well as the American Cemetary.
Has anyone ever taken the Cityrama tour bus from Paris to Normandy? If so, what were your thoughts?
I did look it up on their website and they are one of the only companies offering tours at that time of year so we will probably stick with them.
Thank you!
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we have 5 people going from paris to normandy (we hope) on monday nov 27 cityrama looks good but i would expect them to have a minimum number also found paristrip.com and panache tours, autoventure, but more expensive
also look into train to caen and tour pickup there
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I think Cityrama only runs on Tuesdays in the winter, you better check before you include Normandy on your Monday itinerary.
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Generally speaking the tour is OK.
Well organized, nice inteligent guides, good bus etc%26#39;.
I do have some reservations:
If you read about the D-day you realize that the information given is very partial (one can argue that people are tired of hearing the explanations all day long, and nothing can be compared to the book but still.)
The museum in Caen gives very partial information regarding the D-day
I wonder if the price is not too high (200$ per person!!, a bus of 76 passengers, 3 people on the crew - they have a good business)
I think you can enjoy Cityrama tour but if you do not hate military history staff, read the book before, than when you pass through the lovely French vilages you will be able do appreciate what happened on the D day in each one and have a better grip of the whole story
Prof U. Kramer
Tel Aviv
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manhattan1: Actually, Nov 27 is on a Tues --- I think sra849 just mis-typed.
Anyhoo, I have found another company which I have used 3 times now, and took their D-Day beach tour to Normandy just this past July (and, they seem to go during November, too --- at least according to their website). They%26#39;re called %26quot;France Tourisme%26quot; (www.francetourisme.fr), and their prices are substantially lower than Cityrama%26#39;s. You may want to check them out and compare for yourself.
By the way, we used them for our trips to Mont St. Michel, as well as to the %26quot;châteaux de la Loire%26quot;, and had excellent service on all.
Bonne route!
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