The vehicle for the day
An Executive Eco for up to 4 passengers or a Premium Van for up to 7, reserved for your group alone from pickup until you are dropped back.
Day Trips
The car and the chauffeur stay with you for the whole day. You are collected at your hotel or the airport, your bags stay in the boot, and the route is whatever you decide it should be. Day trips are quoted individually, so send us your plan and we will price it.
Instant price
Tell us where you are going and the price appears straight away. Nothing is charged online. A real person confirms your transfer in writing, usually within the hour.
Fixed price, agreed before you travel.Child seats, tolls, meet and greet and waiting time all included.
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The two words get used interchangeably on travel websites, and the difference matters enough to be worth a paragraph of plain English.
A transfer is a journey with two ends. We collect you, we drive you, we set you down, and the chauffeur then goes on to his next booking. It is the right thing to book when you are moving from an airport to a hotel, from a hotel to a château where you are staying the night, or from one city to another with your luggage. The price comes straight from the calculator above, because the only variable is the road distance.
A day trip is a different arrangement altogether. The vehicle and the chauffeur are reserved for you for the day rather than for a journey. That means the car does not disappear when you get out of it. It waits at the château while you walk the gardens. It waits outside the cellar while you taste. It carries your coats, your shopping and your suitcases from one stop to the next, and it takes you back to Paris, or on to an airport, whenever you are ready to go.
In practice the differences look like this once you are actually standing on the pavement with your family at nine in the morning:
None of that is unusual or special treatment. It is simply what happens when the car belongs to you for the day instead of to a timetable.
Everything below is part of a normal day trip. Anything that is not listed here, we will tell you about before you book rather than after.
An Executive Eco for up to 4 passengers or a Premium Van for up to 7, reserved for your group alone from pickup until you are dropped back.
The same driver all day, so there is no handover, no confusion and no explaining your plan twice.
From your address in Paris, from Versailles, or directly from CDG, Orly or Beauvais if the day trip is your arrival day.
Cases stay in the vehicle between stops, which is what makes a day trip work on a check-out day or before an evening flight.
The chauffeur stays with the car while you are inside a château, a cellar or a museum, and is there when you come out.
Motorway tolls and fuel are accounted for in the quote. You are not asked for cash at a toll booth halfway through the day.
We are not going to put a day-trip price on this page, because any number we printed would be wrong for most of the people reading it.
A one-way transfer has exactly one variable, the road distance, which is why the calculator above can price it instantly and honestly. A day trip has several. It depends on where you want to go, how many stops you want, how far apart they are, how long you want at each one, where you are being collected from and where you want to end up. A day in Champagne with two houses and a lunch is not the same day as a run to Mont-Saint-Michel and back, and pretending they cost the same would be dishonest in one direction or the other.
So day trips are quoted individually. Tell us your plan, or your rough idea of a plan, and we will come back with a price for that specific day.
If you do not have a plan yet, that is fine too. Send the date and a sentence about what interests you — wine, coastline, châteaux, history, gardens, somewhere the children will not mutiny — and we will suggest something realistic rather than something that looks good on paper and collapses by three in the afternoon.
Some trips that people describe as day trips are actually transfers with a stop or two. If you are going somewhere and staying there, or moving from Paris to a hotel in Normandy with a look at a cathedral on the way, book a long distance transfer instead and mention the stop. It is a simpler arrangement and the calculator will price it for you on the spot.
These are the days we are asked for most often. Every outline below is indicative and fully adaptable — treat it as a starting point to argue with, not as a fixed programme. Swap a stop, drop one, add lunch somewhere else, reverse the order.
Reims and Épernay, with the car handling the drive so that everyone in the group can taste.
Champagne →
Honfleur, Deauville and the cliffs at Étretat, in whichever combination the weather allows.
Honfleur →
Bayeux as your base, then the landing beaches, the cemeteries and the memorial sites.
D-Day beaches →
Chambord and Chenonceau, the two that most people want and that a car makes possible in one day.
Loire Valley →
Monet's garden in the morning and a Norman cathedral city in the afternoon, both on the road west.
Giverny →
The longest day on this list by a distance, and the one people are gladdest they did.
Mont-Saint-Michel →Each of these is a sketch of how the day usually falls, written to give you something concrete to react to. None of them is fixed. Tell us what you want changed and we will change it.
Collection from your hotel in the morning and out east. Reims first, for the cathedral where the kings of France were crowned, and one of the great houses whose cellars run under the city. Lunch in Reims or on the way south through the vineyards. Épernay in the afternoon for the Avenue de Champagne, or a smaller grower in one of the villages if you would rather see a family operation than a famous name. Back to Paris in the evening. Indicative and adaptable — if you want two houses instead of three stops, or one house and a long lunch, say so. Tastings and cellar visits normally need to be booked by you in advance, and we will build the day around the times you are given.
West towards the Seine estuary. Honfleur for the old harbour basin and the streets behind it, Deauville for the boardwalk and the beach huts, with Trouville a short hop across the river if you want a second, less polished seaside town. Étretat for the chalk cliffs and the arches, which is where the clifftop walk pays for the whole day. Indicative and adaptable — three coastal towns is a full day, so most people drop one. If the forecast is bad, tell us the night before and we will weight the day towards Honfleur and Rouen instead of clifftops.
The longest-standing request we get, and the one that most rewards having a car. Bayeux is the natural base, for the tapestry and the cathedral, and from there the landing beaches, the cemeteries and the memorial sites are spread along the coast in a way that no bus route usefully covers. A typical day takes in Bayeux and then two or three sites along the coast, with the chauffeur waiting at each while you take the time you need. Indicative and adaptable — if you are visiting a specific grave, a specific unit's landing point or a museum with a booked slot, tell us and the day is built around that instead.
South-west out of Paris. Chambord for the sheer scale of it and that roofline of turrets and chimneys, then across to Chenonceau, built out over the River Cher, with lunch somewhere between the two. Blois or Amboise can be added if you want a town as well as a château. Indicative and adaptable — two châteaux in a day is comfortable, three is possible but hurried, and four is a mistake we will gently talk you out of.
Monet's house and garden at Giverny, with the flower garden and the water lily pond, then on to Rouen for the timber-framed streets, the cathedral façade Monet painted repeatedly, and the Joan of Arc sites. Indicative and adaptable — the garden at Giverny opens seasonally, so check the dates before fixing your day, and go early if you can, because it fills up.
A long day and worth being honest about it: this is an early start and a late return, and it is mostly driving with one extraordinary destination in the middle. Vehicles stop on the mainland and a shuttle covers the last stretch across to the rock. Some people add Saint-Malo or a stop in Normandy on the way back. Indicative and adaptable — if a day feels too long, it also works very well as a one-way transfer with a night nearby, and we can collect you again the following day.
A gentler day for anyone who does not want hours in the car. Versailles in the morning for the palace, the gardens and the Trianon estate — remembering that the château is closed on Mondays — and then either Fontainebleau, a royal residence set in its forest, or Chantilly to the north with its château, art collection and great stables. Indicative and adaptable — if you would rather spend the entire day at Versailles and skip the second stop, that is a perfectly good day and we will simply wait.
Many sites now sell timed-entry tickets. Buy them yourself in advance and send us the times, and we will build the driving around your slots rather than hoping for the best on arrival.
Child seats and booster seats can be requested when you book. Tell us the ages so we bring the right ones, and remember that a day trip lets you keep everything the children need in the car.
A day trip can begin at CDG, Orly or Beauvais on your arrival day. Give us the flight number, we track the flight, and there is no airport supplement on the quote.
The Premium Van seats up to 8 with 7 large cases. Beyond that we can arrange more than one vehicle so the group travels together and arrives together.
Because it would be a made-up number. A day trip depends on the itinerary, the distances between the stops, how long you want at each one and where the day starts and finishes. We quote each one individually so the price matches the day you actually want. Send us your plan on WhatsApp and you will have a figure for it.
The calculator prices point-to-point transfers on road distance, so it is the right tool for a one-way journey. For a day with waiting time and several stops, message us instead and we will quote the day.
No. The chauffeur drives, times the day, waits at each stop and looks after the car and your luggage. You visit the sites yourselves. If you want someone to guide you inside a monument, you would need to arrange a licensed guide separately — see private tours for what we do and do not provide.
Within reason, yes, and it happens all the time. Dropping a stop, swapping the order or staying longer somewhere is usually straightforward. Adding a large detour that was not in the quote is worth discussing with the chauffeur first, since it changes the shape of the day.
Yes, and it is a good use of an awkward arrival. Give us your flight number, we track the flight, and your luggage stays in the car for the whole day before we take you to your hotel in the evening.
Separately, and that is normal. The chauffeur takes his break while you take yours and is back with the car when you are.
Yes. Plenty of day trips finish at an airport, at a hotel outside Paris or at a different city altogether. Tell us where you want to end up when you ask for the quote, because it affects the shape of the day.
As early as you reasonably can, particularly for weekends and for the summer months, since a day trip commits a vehicle and a chauffeur for the whole day. That said, we are contactable 24 hours a day, so it is always worth asking about a short-notice date.
Tell us the date, the number of passengers, where you are staying and the places you would like to see. We will come back with a price for that specific day, and with an honest opinion if the plan is too ambitious.