Bus Tours in Paris
Paris bus tours can be an excellent way to get an overview of the city's top attractions when you're visiting for the first time, or help you get the most out of a short visit. Bus tours can also be ideal for elderly visitors, parents with young children, or visitors with disabilities or limited mobility, as the Paris metro system can involve a lot of walking and climbing stairs, and is not always very stroller-friendly. Paris' top bus tours are hop-on, hop-off services that shuttle passengers several times a day to most or all of the city's key places-- and while more expensive than the metro, these tours are generally much cheaper than traditional guided tours.
Les Cars Rouges is a hop-on, hop-off Paris bus tour that services nine important attractions, providing audio commentary and good views of the city thanks to an open deck. The full tour (not including stops) lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes, and covers the following sights:
* Eiffel Tower
* Champ de Mars
* Louvre Museum
* Notre Dame Cathedral
* Musée d'Orsay
* Opéra/Galeries Lafayette Department Store
* Champs-Elysées/Arc de Triomphe
* Grand Palais/Trocadero
Paris monuments in Open Top Bus
9:45pm every Friday and Saturday in June,
9:45pm evening from July 1st to September 30th, except July 14th
Another way to discover Paris: the “City of Lights”: from our open top bus.
An audio commentary will tell you the history of Paris and its illuminated monuments, streets and squares.
8 languages are available: French, English, Spanish, Italian, Deutsch, Japanese, Russian or Chinese-Mandarin.
SEE THE SIGHTS
Certain bus routes are particularly scenic and can be a cheap alternative to Paris bus tours.
Take a city bus for an inexpensive way to see the city. Avoid the
rush hours (8am to 9:30am and 4pm to 7pm) to get a good seat.
Bus 21 (until midnight) for a great night-tour, from the
Opéra Garnier, past Palais-Royal and the Comédie Fran-
çaise, the Louvre Museum, Ile de la Cité (Notre Dame),
St-Michel, the Jardins du Luxembourg and up toward the
Rue Mouffetard (get off at Berthollet-Vauquelin).
Bus 27 (until 8:30pm) does almost the same route, passing
through the Carrousel du Louvre, with a stop at the bottom of
Rue Mouffetard, “Monge-Claude Bernard.”
Bus 29 (Monday-Saturday until 8:30pm) from the Opéra
Garnier through the trendy shopping areas around Place des
Victoires, along Rue Etienne-Marcel, past the Pompidou
Center, into the Marais, and stop at the Place des Vosges or
the Place de la Bastille.
Bus 63 (until midnight) from the Jardin des Plantes, through
the Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés, past Les Inva-
lides and the Musée d’Orsay, fantastic night views of the Eif-
fel Tower from Trocadéro.
Bus 73 (Monday-Saturday until 8:30pm) from the Musée
d’Orsay to the Place de la Concorde, down the Avenue des
Champs-Elysées, around the Arc de Triomphe and all the
way to the Grande Arche de la Défense.
Bus 75 (Monday-Saturday until 8:30pm) from the Pont Neuf
to the Parc de la Villette, passing the Hôtel de Ville, Place de
la République, and the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont.
Bus 96 (Monday-Saturday until 8:30pm) from Montpar-
nasse or Place St-Michel and passing through Châtelet, the
Place des Vosges in the Marais, and up to Oberkampf, JP
Timbaud, Belleville and Ménilmontant.
