* Paris, Christmas Lights

A delight for all ages, December sees Paris transformed into a magical spectacle of colourful Christmas decorations and dazzling lights, not forgetting the traditional Christmas markets, full of tempting and original gift ideas.

3 days / 80 km - 1st to 19th December

Ref: 10B160

Dates

December

D1 Christmas Market in Paris (25 km)

Lunch in Paris. Sightseeing Tour taking in the city’s most famous landmarks. Free time to visit the Christmas Market on the Champs Elysees, with its 90 stalls offering a multitude of tempting foodstuffs and wares. Access to the rooftop terrace of the Arc de Triomphe for a fabulous view of the night time illuminations on the Champs Elysees is an optional extra. Dinner and overnight.

D2 Waxworks Museum and Christmas Window Displays (30 km)

Step back to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, or admire your favourite celebrities as you wander amidst the 300 waxwork figures of the musée Grévin (unaccompanied visit). After lunch, enjoy an afternoon of shopping, admire the big department stores’ elaborate window displays, each with a tale to tell, and stroll the boulevards with their fairytale Christmas illuminations. Dinner and overnight.

D3 Christmas Market at the Arch of La Défense (25 km)

Leave for the district of La Defense and its giant Arch. The square in front plays host to the biggest Christmas Market in the whole of the Paris, and region: some 250 festively decorated stalls selling all sorts of French and foreign handicrafts. Lunch.