Calvados, Normandy
A private car and an English-speaking chauffeur from your Paris hotel or any of the three airports to Bayeux, the medieval town the war left standing and the best base on the D-Day coast.
From central Paris, one way: Executive Eco from €500 · Premium Van from €785 · tolls included
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Bayeux was the first town in France to be liberated after the landings, on 7 June 1944, and it was taken almost without a fight. That single piece of luck is why it looks the way it does. While Caen lost three quarters of its buildings that summer, Bayeux kept its cathedral, its timbered houses, its watermill and the little river running through the middle of it. Walking into the old centre is the closest you get in Normandy to seeing a medieval town that was never rebuilt.
The cathedral is the reason the town existed. Notre-Dame de Bayeux was consecrated in 1077 in the presence of William the Conqueror, and the crypt and the towers are still the Romanesque church he knew, with a Gothic nave built on top of them a century later. It was for this building that the Bayeux Tapestry was almost certainly made.
Just outside the ring road is the Bayeux War Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France, with 4,648 graves. Opposite it stands a memorial to the men with no known grave. Between the two, and the Battle of Normandy museum next door, Bayeux carries the story of the landings more quietly and more completely than anywhere else on the coast.
This is the single thing most visitors get wrong at the moment, so it is worth saying plainly.
The Bayeux Tapestry museum closed on 1 September 2025 for a thirty-eight million euro rebuild and is due to reopen in October 2027, timed for the thousandth anniversary of William the Conqueror's birth. The Tapestry itself is not in Normandy. It is on loan to the British Museum in London from 10 September 2026 until 11 July 2027, the first time it has been in England in nearly a thousand years, and tickets have been selling out in waves.
None of that makes Bayeux a wasted journey. The cathedral, the war cemetery, the Battle of Normandy museum and the MAHB art museum are all open, and the landing beaches are fifteen minutes away. But if you are coming to Normandy specifically to see the Tapestry, you want London rather than Bayeux until October 2027, and we can drive you there too.
Your chauffeur meets you where you are, at the time you choose. There is no queue, no shared shuttle and no meter running.
Any address in Paris or the suburbs. Your chauffeur is at the door at the agreed time and helps with the luggage.
Your chauffeur tracks the flight and adjusts to delays at no extra cost. Meet and greet in the arrivals hall with a name board, or kerbside if you prefer.
We collect from the Portsmouth ferry at Ouistreham and from the cruise berths at Le Havre and Cherbourg, both within an hour and a half of Bayeux.
Bayeux is about 265 km west of central Paris and takes roughly two hours fifty by road, west on the A13 past Rouen and Caen and then a short run on the N13.
The exact distance depends on your Paris address, so the calculator above works on the real road distance between your two addresses rather than a rounded number. Tolls, fuel and parking are already inside the price.
There is a direct train from Gare Saint-Lazare in about two hours twenty. It is a good train and for a couple staying two nights in Bayeux it makes sense. What it cannot do is take you along the coast afterwards. Arromanches, Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, the American cemetery at Colleville and the Canadian one at Beny-sur-Mer are strung out over eighty kilometres of quiet country road with almost no bus service between them, and that stretch is what people actually come for.
The old town is walkable in an hour. The coast around it is a full day on its own.
Consecrated in 1077 with William the Conqueror present. Romanesque crypt and towers, Gothic nave, and a treasury and chapter house that most visitors walk straight past.
The largest Commonwealth war cemetery in France, with 4,648 graves and a memorial opposite to the 1,800 men who have no known resting place. It is open, free and never crowded.
The clearest account anywhere of what happened between 6 June and 29 August 1944, with vehicles, maps and film. An hour and a half well spent before you go to the beaches.
The Baron Gerard art and history museum in the old bishop's palace, then the Rue Saint-Jean, the watermill on the Aure and the tanners' quarter. Bayeux is small and none of it is a walk.
The classic day from Paris is Bayeux in the morning, lunch in the old town, then Arromanches and the Mulberry harbour, Omaha Beach and the American cemetery in the afternoon. It is a long day but it works, and your chauffeur will keep an eye on the driving times so you are not rushing the cemetery at the end of it.
Nearly three hours each way is a real journey. It is worth getting the small things right.
Baby seats, toddler seats and boosters, fitted before you get in. Tell us the ages when you book and they will be in the car.
Three large cases in the Executive Eco, seven in the Premium Van. If you are moving on to a ferry or a cruise with full luggage, take the van.
Giverny, Rouen, Honfleur and Caen all sit on or just off the road. A short stop costs nothing but time, and the time is yours.
One fixed price per kilometre of real road distance. No surge, no night surcharge, no airport supplement.
At 265 km the fare is set by the distance rather than the minimum, so the calculator above gives you the real figure straight away. If you want the car and chauffeur to stay with you for the day along the landing beaches instead of simply dropping you in Bayeux, say so when you ask for a price and we will quote that separately and in writing before you book anything.
Not in Bayeux, not at the moment. The museum closed on 1 September 2025 for a rebuild and reopens in October 2027. The Tapestry is on loan to the British Museum in London from 10 September 2026 to 11 July 2027. Everything else in Bayeux is open as normal.
About two hours fifty for roughly 265 km, west on the A13 and then the N13. Leaving central Paris in the morning rush can add half an hour.
Yes, and this is what most of our Bayeux bookings are really for. Arromanches is fifteen minutes away, Omaha and the American cemetery at Colleville around thirty, Pointe du Hoc about forty-five. Tell us which sites matter and your chauffeur will plan the order.
For Bayeux town on its own, it is fine: Gare Saint-Lazare to Bayeux in about two hours twenty. The car is worth it as soon as you want the coast, because the beaches and cemeteries are spread over eighty kilometres with no useful public transport.
2.00 EUR per kilometre in the Executive Eco and 3.20 EUR per kilometre in the Premium Van, on the real road distance from your exact address. Put your pickup point into the calculator above and you will have the figure in seconds.
Yes. Your chauffeur waits in the arrivals hall with a name board, follows the flight and adjusts to delays without charging for the wait. Kerbside pickup is fine too if you prefer it.
Yes, at no extra cost. Baby seats, toddler seats and boosters, fitted before you arrive. Just tell us the ages of the children when you book.
Up to three passengers with three large cases in the Executive Eco, and up to seven passengers with seven large cases in the Premium Van. If you are close to the limit, take the van.
Tell us where you are staying and when you want to leave. You will have a fixed price in writing and an English-speaking chauffeur at the door.
