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PEF is like a garden, because its members are like flowers that have been chosen: This page gives you ideas for creating your own bouquet.
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Notice that fees go mainly to the "flowers"... |
• To guide or specialist: half-day 195€, full day 345€ • To driver: from 220€ half-day, 400€ full day (cost varies with car size) • PEF: Please add 15%
These fees are the minimum that the Association of guides, lecturers and interpreters recommends. They are at least 50% less than agencies'.
Time-lengths are officially four or eight hours, but the guide is "your man" for as long as the mission lasts.
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• Morning: how the past explains the present
° Find your way via trade routes and ramparts.
°Walk into history to perceive Monarchy's rise and decline, poetic "Covered passages", sex and money at the Opéra...
• Afternoon: a "privileged entry", such as...
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•Artists' studios (+50€ to artist) •The Louvre (+ entry fee) •Shopping that is unique to Paris
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•The auction house 95€ (before "déjeuner") •Life-drawing or portraiture lesson 100€ per person, min. 5 •Makeover 250€ •Cuisine with an actress turned chef 100€ per person, min. 6 |
- Another kind of beginning: "alternative" city tours
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"Paris in a sweep": our reply to the classic bus tour, 390€ half-day, 780€ full day, car and driver included (car cost can vary); full day includes a picnic lunch or, for 25€ per person all-inclusive, a specially-arranged three-course déjeuner in a refined restaurant near a favorite site.
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A photo-tour of the monuments from their most spectacular angles, as well as of much of the rest of the city. 690€ half-day or 1150€ full day, includes city-known photographer, assistant (who interprets if necessary and remains in the car during halts) and transportation by Espace Renault (seats assistant and six visitors). |
- Soirées (21h30 to about 1h30)
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•Paris after dark: The two tours just mentioned, with their dramatic lighting and the special atmosphere of night. 690€, a beer at stops included.
• A Cameroonian singer and queen takes us to a place where she performs. Europeans are welcome - but rarely know of this private bar where immigrants touch base. 280€, a beer included.
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Europe's capital of jazz: A trumpeteer proposes choices among the forty-odd possibilities that Europe's capital of jazz hosts each night. He brings his horn and may jam with the musicians, most of whom are friends. He can take three visitors in his car. 280€ most entry costs and a beer included. |
•Open house, Wednesdays and Sundays, 19:30-22:30 : An American opens her home to travelers and English-speaking Parisians. Evenings include a talk on a subject of interest plus networking, and on Sundays, a home-cooked supper: 15€ Wed., 20€ Sun.
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• Montmartre Sunday night: A mistress of ceremonies of interest, neighbors who come to sing, a remarkable young pianist ("X") who despite two CDs and media attention, stays modestly in the background... Montmartre remains a village, but outsiders rarely know how tap into it. This is a beginning - the resident-oriented evenings are so authentic that they cease during the holidays. Excellent café dinner, about 25€, or drink, 4€.
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- Mistress of ceremonies, pianist
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Open house / supplied by our hostess; Montmartre café / Susan Walker