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Express Louvre Highlights Including Mona Lisa: Skip-the-Line Access Tour
1h30
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Stop At: Louvre Museum, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France
Your guide will meet you outside the Louvre and lead you past the famously long lines into the museum – straight to the one piece you can’t afford to miss, the ‘Mona Lisa’. This enigmatic portrait must have been the subject of intense study by Da Vinci, who never considered it complete, and it resists easy interpretation even today. Your guide will tell you the painting’s background, but only you can decide how it makes you feel.
From here, you’ll visit the iconic ‘Venus de Milo’ and ‘Winged Victory of Samothrace’, followed by important examples from the history of painting and sculpture. Throughout the tour, your guide will tell the stories of the masterpieces and point out the subtle details most visitors miss.
Following the tour, you’re free to continue exploring the museum. Revisit the essential masterworks with your new knowledge in hand; embark on your own journey of discovery; or simply take the rest of the day to enjoy more of Paris.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Louvre Museum, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France
Your guide will meet you outside the Louvre and lead you past the famously long lines into the museum – straight to the one piece you can’t afford to miss, the ‘Mona Lisa’. This enigmatic portrait must have been the subject of intense study by Da Vinci, who never considered it complete, and it resists easy interpretation even today. Your guide will tell you the painting’s background, but only you can decide how it makes you feel.
From here, you’ll visit the iconic ‘Venus de Milo’ and ‘Winged Victory of Samothrace’, followed by important examples from the history of painting and sculpture. Throughout the tour, your guide will tell the stories of the masterpieces and point out the subtle details most visitors miss.
Following the tour, you’re free to continue exploring the museum. Revisit the essential masterworks with your new knowledge in hand; embark on your own journey of discovery; or simply take the rest of the day to enjoy more of Paris.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Included
- Headsets to hear the guide clearly
- Local guide
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- Entry/Admission - Louvre Museum
- Guaranteed to skip the lines
Not included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Please note that due to renovation work carried on inside the Louvre until mid-October 2019, we might not be able to cover some artworks such as the Mona Lisa.
- Near public transportation
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- Only small bag are allowed
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
85%
Original
20%
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From the very beginning this tour was so disorganized. The lady that was our tour guide could barely speak English and seemed in a hurry to go through the museum. And I was very disappointed that we didn't even get to see the Mona Lisa! That was my main purpose of taking this tour. Because the Mona Lisa had recently moved to a new room, there would now be a long wait for everyone to see her. Our tour guide gave us the option - spend 30 min in line to see the Mona Lisa or go to another part of the Museum and see other things. I could not understand why we couldn't see both. Very disappointing. The whole tour was a rush and a blur. Would not recommend you do this tour until they figure out the Mona Lisa line thing.
Nice guy but his French accent was too strong to understand in English. Got through the lines quickly.
I did not experience a good tour. The guide was so fast to complete his job and go. I am sorry to say that he was not a good guide.
Having a tour guide is a MUST at the Louvre. It is an amazing museum with so much to take in, but if it is your first time, you really need to have someone to give you the history of what you are looking at, as well as how to maneuver quickly to the hot spots so you don't miss anything. Our tour guide was Florence and she was very knowledgable and friendly. We ended up with only 6 people in our group so it was very personalized. The only disappointment for me was that we did not have headphones to listen to her and had to be super close to her while speaking or not be able to hear. It clearly stated on my confirmation details when purchased that audio headsets were included to hear the guide clearly, and we asked but were told they were not available. I was very disappointed in that, because it's nice to be able to walk away and look more closely at the art they are describing while they are talking but we couldn't do that because then we wouldn't be able to hear.
We booked this tour at the last moment, and thank goodness we did. The Louvre is HUGE, and if you really want to see the key pieces in an organized and efficient manner you need to book a tour. Our tour Guide, Z, was fantastic and so knowledgeable. Z is a Croatian Fine Arts major who spoke excellent English, and in addition to navigating us to the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Nike sculpture he provided expert commentary for all of these. And along the way we made many additional stops and at each he taught us about each of the pieces as well as the period of art we were looking at. I can't more highly recommend you take advantage of this tour.
My daughter and I booked a small group express tour of the Louvre and it was just perfect! Our guide was so very knowledgeable. We ended up with only three people in our group so we were able to learn about and cover a lot of treasures inside the Louvre. We started in the basement and worked our way up from there. I recommend this tour, and really any small group tour through Viator for the Louvre. In a small group you get the attention to detail and the ability to move about in a crowd with ease. When my husband and I come back we will definitely book a small group tour of the Louvre but he will want more time than the express tour because he will have many questions. I'll probably peal off and have a cup of tea at Angelina inside the Louvre and have him meet me when he is finished.