Best tour company for a week in France?

Wanderer2010

I'm looking to spend a week or so in France later this year and was wondering do you know of any decent tour companies that organise the day tours and trips and hotels etc? I'm not fussy whether it's seven days in cities or in the county I would love to see any of France so if people have any recommendations I'd appreciate it thanks.

Eponymous

Personally I'd just book flights and accommodation then organise excursions for yourself once you get there. Guided trips can be really expensive.

For example, if you were to base yourself in Nice, you can visit Monaco in a morning and visit Eze on the way back using public buses and see a lot en route, plus you're not bound by the arrival/departure times of a tour bus. Similarly you could visit Cannes and Antibes in a day in the other direction. Trains will take you to Grasse in a couple of hours and you can visit Ventimiglia over the border in Italy by train in about an hour or so too. Likewise, you could organise a day trip up into the Alps as they're practically on your doorstep. I know you'd really only see one area of the country in this time, but in a week, you'd have covered it very well and got to enjoy a city that's blessed with some fantastic weather to boot.

Or you could start in one city and work your way along a route and depart France from another city. France is really easy to navigate, public transport is pretty good and not expensive, but shifting base like that over and over really wouldn't appeal to me, guided tour or not!

Strumms

That is a very good suggestion by Eponymous. However if you are still wanted to do the whole packing thing and have everything done for you look up a company called The Travel Department..