Avignon Private Tour – 4 hours
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Avignon Private Tour – 4 hours
Visit Avignon on a private half-day tour with your professional tour guide.
Meet your professional tour guide at your cruise ship, hotel or private residence.
Your personal guide invites you to discover the best of Avignon during 4 hours. This tour is private and your guide will be entirely committed to provide an unforgettable experience.
Booking your private tour in Avignon is the best opportunity to enjoy a complete discovery of all remarkable monuments and most beautiful panoramas that the city offers.
In Avignon you will also learn about local goods and taste specialties from Provence by the daily market. According to your wishes your private tour guide can also take you inside the Popes Palace.
Contact us to customize this tour at contact@provenceprivatetour.com
Avignon Private Tour :
Price per tour
4 hour tour in private vehicle adapted to the size of your group.
The tour starts where you wish: hotel, cruise ship, private residence…
Tour available from Arles, Saint-Rémy, Nîmes, and their surroundings.
You will receive the contact of your guide as soon as you book.
Have a nice tour in Avignon !
Additional information
| Number of persons | 1 to 3 persons, 4 to 8 persons, 9 to 16 persons, 17 to 30 persons, 31 to 50 persons |
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11 reviews for Avignon Private Tour – 4 hours
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Fantastic historic location –
We really enjoyed our visit to the Palais des Papes. The iPad supplied with the admission ticket provides an interactive guide to each room or area that you visit.
Great views of the city, river and Pont d Avignon from the top.
Well worth a visit.
John
Adelaide, Australia
Visite au palais des papes –
Un endroit magnifique où l’histoire des papes sont racontés travers d’une visite dans le palais.
La ville d’Avignon c’est fantastique.
Bernadete
Menton, France
Belle visite –
Magnifiques visites !
Très adapté en famille et surtout superbe visite guidée au pont du Gard! Avignon ville charmante à découvrir en se perdant dans le dédale de ses rues
Alexandre
Bella visuale sul Rodano e la cinta muraria –
Se si è ad Avignone non si può perdere la vista del Rodano da questo ponte. Con il biglietto di accesso (5 euro gli adulti, 4 euro i minori di 26 anni, ma costa meno il ticket cumulativo con l’ingersso al palazzo dei Papi) è compresa un’audio guida in tutte le lingue.
Grace Decker –
We were a family of 7 arriving in Marseille on The Oasis of the Seas in july. We met our guide Roman at the port. Roman was so knowledgeable about history. He knows Provence very well at the same time he was easy to talk and friendly. We loved Avignon.
It’s well worth going. The Popes Palace was absouletly masterpiece. We had enough time for lunch and shopping. The Old Port was lovely in Marseille and there were a lot of shops.We had colourful Marseille soaps and lavender oil. Women is women in everywhere 🙂
It was a great tour. Thank you and see you again.
Elizabeth Nelson –
Avignon is a fascinating city and Roman really did bring the history to life. I would highly recommend the tour and Roman.
Elizabeth Nelson
Richmond/Virginia
Romain gave my wife and me a private tour of Avignon… –
Romain gave my wife and me a private tour of Avignon.
Informative, great historical detail, and in every way what we were looking for.
Romain is personable and knowledgeable. Only wish we could have met him sooner.
Far superior compared to local guides that we engaged earlier in our visit to Provence.
Doug Brenner
Angelika –
We’re a family of 4. Our family is really history lover. We have visited many different countries, like Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt etc and this time we wanted to see the famous Pope’s Palace. We were quite curious about the palace and wanted to visit the palace knowing that it was the place where the pope lived for some centuries. But especially our guide Jean explained all the details about it very well. The extent of the place was incrediable. The size of the palace is gigantic and so impressive. Apart from that, Avignon is a beautiful city. It has a nice atmosphere. There are also nice shops that also sell local products. We enjoyed our day and recommend this tour.
Angelika,Erika,Elke,Manfred
Hamburg
Dancing Recommended –
Interesting historic remain with excellent views of Avignon and the Rhone. Site of the famous dance.
Only goes 2/3rd of the way across the river.
Glastonbury, United Kingdom
Avignon with Romain of Guide Provence –
This was the first of 4 exceptional private tours we took with tour guide Romain from Guide Provence. We had so much fun! We learned so much! This tour was worth every penny. I highly recommend Guide Provence and Romain for all of your private tour needs.
On our first full day in France, my adult son and I met Romain in front of Avignon’s Palais des Papes on a beautiful rainy Sunday. Our original plan was to tour the entire city with Romain, to include an overview of the Palais de Papes, but because of the rain we chose to mostly stay indoors and take a closer, more in-depth look at this fascinating UNESCO World Heritage Site (the Palais des Papes); followed by a brief walk through the 12th Century Avignon Cathedral; followed by climbing the hill up to the Jardin des Doms, which allowed for a wonderful overlook of the river and landscape below; followed by an informative walk along the Pont Saint-Benezet (Pont d’Avignon).
This was our first time meeting Romain, and we were in awe! He knew so much and spoke so articulately and so readily about all that he knew! We learned about French history, papal history, Roman history, French and Roman culture, the French language (in bits and pieces over the 4 days together); architecture, and art. I could not get enough!
I had read many reviews of the Palais des Papes while preparing for our trip to Provence. The reviews, on all different websites, were mixed. A lot of them raved about this can’t-miss historical site, but lots of others mentioned that there’s simply not much to see inside the palace (because it’s largely not furnished) … unless visitors use one of the computer tablets issued by the front desk … and the tablets themselves also received very mixed reviews, far more negative reviews than positive … in that they’re apparently difficult to operate AND in that visitors must then keep their nose in their tablets rather than looking around them to see the sights. Furthermore, many Palais de Papes reviews said that very little information inside was printed in English — and I (sadly) don’t read French. Another frequently stated negative was that the lines can be long and the crowds can be big.
For all of these reasons, many of the Palace of Popes reviews I read suggested that tourists limit their visits to just the outside of this impressive structure.
But my son and I were really interested in the inside and we wanted to learn more than the just the outside could provide. We also wanted to avoid long lines and crowds!
For those reasons, I chose to hire a private guide to take us around Avignon, the first of a series of private tours I ultimately chose for our 8 days in Provence.
Romain impressed the heck out of us! He was personable, polite, well-spoken, far more knowledgable than I ever expected from any tour guide — and knowledgable in so many different areas, too (culture, history, religion, language, art, architecture, etc). For us, there were no lines, thanks to Romain. Also, he strategically avoided all crowds as he showed us around the place. He made it all so fun and interesting!
While it was pouring rain outside, Romain took us through every nook and cranny of the Palais de Papes, regaling us with all kinds of interesting facts and vignettes that made the place come alive. (I cannot stress enough just how much he knows about everything there is to see there. What a joy!)
After touring the papal residence, we entered the 12th century Avignon Cathedral (Notre Dame des Doms d’Avignon) next door, which is crowned by a gilded statue of Virgin Mary.
After the cathedral, we went up the hill to the Jardin des Doms where, from our high vantage point, we looked out over a portion of old Avignon, the Rhone River, the truncated Pont Saint-Benezet, the medieval Philippe-le-Bel Tower which originally marked the terminus of the Pont Saint-Benezet, and the 14th century fortress Fort Saint-Andre. Of course, Romain filled us in on all the fascinating historical details about each site’s history and relevance, the history and significance of the Rhone, the geographical and climatological limitations and features of the Rhone, and more.
He then took us back down the hill to the Pont Saint-Benezet (which requires a separate ticket from the Palais de Papes) where we once again encountered no lines.
As we walked to the end of the ruins of this famous medieval bridge, Romain told us all about the bridge’s history, how it came to eventually end in the middle of the Rhone instead of at the Tour Philippe-le-Bel where it once ended, the history and lore of Saint Benezet, the bridge’s 2-story dedicated chapel, and more.
After exiting the bridge, we walked around the exterior of the old city wall as we learned even more about the city’s very interesting architecture — like how to guess in which century any given building was built.
Finally, as we wrapped up our awe-inspiring tour, Romain made a few suggestions for where we may want to have lunch. He was spot on with his recommendations. We had a wonderful iconically French lunch at a quaint little spot along a narrow cobble-stoned street on a cozy rainy day. Perfection!
This was an absolutely fabulous tour of the highlights of Avignon. I couldn’t have hoped for a better day.
We definitely got far more than our money’s worth on this expert-led tour, and we couldn’t wait to take the other 3 private tours we booked with this same incredible guide. Thank you for everything, Romain!
If interested, I also posted a general review of Guide Provence and Romain’s outstanding service here:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187253-d17733634-Reviews-Guide_Provence-Marseille_Bouches_du_Rhone_Provence_Alpes_Cote_d_Azur.html
Palace of Popes/Avignon –
This was one our favorite tours in France. The Palace of the Popes is full of history. Our guide was very knowledgeable, personable and full of information.
James