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From Paris: Private Full-Day Tour of the D-Day Beaches

By Normandy Day - Normandy Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is $2,199 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 11h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

For many Americans, a visit to the D-Day beaches is more than a day trip. It is a pilgrimage.

The men who landed here on June 6, 1944, came from towns across the United States. Their names are engraved on the Wall of the Missing at the American Cemetery above Omaha Beach. Every year, their families return to walk the same ground and honor their sacrifice.

This private tour takes you from your Paris hotel to Normandy's most significant D-Day sites and back in a single day, in a private vehicle with no group and no fixed itinerary.

Travel through the French countryside before visiting Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, the American Cemetery, and Arromanches, where the remains of the Mulberry Harbour still stand as a reminder of the Allied landings.

Your driver handles the route, timing, and return to Paris, so you can focus on the experience. Upgrade with a licensed historian guide for expert insight into Operation Overlord and the stories of the soldiers who changed history.

Activity location

  • Pointe du Hoc
    • 14450, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Pointe du Hoc
    • 14450, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France

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Private Driver Only – No Guide

  • Activity duration is 11 hours11h
    11h
  • English

Explore at your own pace: travel with a private driver to all key points of interest, without any guided commentary.
Pickup included

Price details
$2,199.00 x 1 Traveler$2,199.00
Total
Price is $2,199.00

Private Van + Expert Guide

  • Activity duration is 11 hours11h
    11h
  • English

Make your experience private with a private vehicle just for you and a personal guide, offering historical context.
Pickup included

Price details
$2,899.00 x 1 Traveler$2,899.00
Total
Price is $2,899.00

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Flexible itinerary — you set the pace
  • Inclusions
    Private round-trip transfer from your Paris hotel
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Bottled water
  • Inclusions
    Hotel pick-up and drop-off included
  • Inclusions
    On-board Wi-Fi
  • Exclusions
    Entrance fees to museums and memorial sites
  • Exclusions
    Meals and drinks
  • Exclusions
    Gratuities for your driver
  • Exclusions
    Licensed historian guide (available as a paid upgrade)

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Specialized infant seats are available
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Pointe du Hoc

  • 1h
On the morning of June 6, 1944, 225 U.S. Army Rangers were given what many considered a suicide mission: scale a 30-meter cliff face under withering enemy fire, and destroy a German gun battery that threatened both Omaha and Utah Beach. Of the 225 Rangers who began the assault, fewer than 90 were still standing two days later. Today, Pointe du Hoc is the most preserved D-Day battlefield in Normandy. The shell craters are still there. The concrete bunkers sit cracked open by Allied bombardment. The German gun emplacements still point toward the Channel. Nothing has been tidied up or landscaped. It looks, with uncomfortable accuracy, like a battlefield. There is no better place to begin.

Omaha Beach

  • 1h
Omaha was the killing ground of D-Day. The American forces who landed here — the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions — faced cliffs, open beach, and heavily fortified German positions with clear lines of fire down to the waterline. The losses in the first hours were catastrophic. By the end of June 6, approximately 2,000 Americans had been killed, wounded, or were missing on this beach alone. Today Omaha is wide and quiet, edged with dunes, the sea calm in the distance. The scale of the beach — nearly six kilometres of open sand — is the first thing that strikes you. The second is the silence. Your driver will give you time to walk it and feel the weight of that silence for yourself.

Cimetiere Americain de Colleville-sur-Mer

  • 1h
The cemetery sits on the bluff above Omaha Beach, looking west toward America. 9,387 graves. White marble crosses and Stars of David arranged in perfect rows across 70 acres of manicured lawn. Each one a name, a rank, a state, a date. The Wall of the Missing bears 1,557 more names — soldiers whose bodies were never recovered from the sea or the sand. The memorial chapel, the bronze statue of youth rising from the water, the overlook above the beach where everything becomes clear at once — this is one of the most moving places in the world. Allow the full hour. Do not rush it. The on-site museum is excellent and free with cemetery admission — allow extra time if you want to go through it properly.

Arromanches-les-Bains

  • 1h
Arromanches is the stop that surprises people most. On June 7, 1944 — the day after D-Day — Allied engineers began constructing two prefabricated artificial harbours off the Normandy coast. They were called Mulberry harbours, and they were one of the most audacious feats of military engineering in history: floating concrete caissons towed across the Channel and assembled into working port facilities that supplied the Allied forces for months. The American harbour at Omaha was destroyed in a storm two weeks after D-Day. The British harbour at Arromanches survived — and parts of it are still there today, visible from the beach at low tide, rising from the sea like the ruins of an ancient civilisation. The D-Day Museum in Arromanches tells the full story of the harbours and the Normandy campaign in exceptional detail.

Location

Activity location

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    Pointe du Hoc
    • 14450, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Pointe du Hoc
    • 14450, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France

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