france

France rewards travelers who plan past Paris. Most clients arrive thinking Eiffel Tower and Louvre—and leave talking about a vineyard lunch outside Beaune, or a market morning in Aix-en-Provence, or the drive between Cannes and Èze with the Mediterranean two hundred feet below the road. We design routes that pair the Paris everyone wants with the France most travelers miss.

Three decades of relationships with French hoteliers mean we book the boutique stays the big sites don't carry—converted châteaux in the Loire, family-run inns in Burgundy, and harbor-view rooms in Nice that don't show up until a phone call to a manager we've worked with for fifteen years.

• Private Louvre tour with skip-the-line entry
• Loire Valley château stay with vineyard tasting
• Day in Provence — Avignon, Aix, the lavender route
• Bordeaux first-growth wine tasting at the source
• High-speed rail between regions, no rental car needed
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France works in any season except August, when half the country is on holiday and so are the chefs you came to eat from. Shoulder season — May, June, September, October — is when France is at its sharpest.