Textile Tour from Nice to Paris (17 days – €22,350)

Here is the 17-day trip from Nice to Paris of a group who booked a 50-seater executive coach with Toursud - Coach Hire in France.

  • The group was made up of 26 women coming from Australia and New Zealand
  • They stayed in Nice, Avignon, Clermont-Ferrand, Blois, Angers, Pontorson (Mont Saint-Michel) and ended at CDG airport
  • The trip lasted 17 days and costed 22,350 euro

Day 1

  • 13:30: your flight lands at Nice airport (flight EK77 from Dubai)
  • Transfer to Nice (Best Western Massena hotel)

Day 2

  • 9:00: departure from Nice (hotel)
    • Monaco
  • 13:30/14:00: departure from Monaco and return to Nice via the Grande Corniche (Drop-off in Nice hotel)

Day 3

  • 9:00: departure from Nice (hotel)
    • Villeneuve-Loubet (Mondial Tissus)
    • Grasse (lunch + musee provençal du Costume et du Bijoux + Fragonard perfumery)
  • 19:00: drop-off in Nice (hotel)

Day 4 

  • 9:00: departure from Nice (hotel)
    • Stop in Arles (drop-off and pick up at the coach park next to College Mistral: quai du 8 Mai 1945: the group walks to each visit)
  • 19:00: drop-off in Avignon (Avignon Grand Hotel: 34 boulevard Saint-Roch)

Day 5

  • 9:00: departure from Avignon (hotel)
    • Aix-en-Provence (drop-off and pick up 18 Boulevard Roi René: the group walks to each visit)
  • 19:00: drop-off in Avignon (hotel)

Day 6

  • 8:30: departure from Avignon (hotel)
    • Uzès (market + lunch)
    • Pont du Gard (left bank)
    • Nimes (musée de la Romanité -> drop-off and pick up next to the Arenes)
  • 18:30: drop-off in Avignon (hotel)

Day 7

  • 13:15: departure from Avignon (hotel)
    • Tarascon (musée Souleiado : drop-off/pick up Bld Victor Hugo near St Jean Gate)
  • 19:15: drop-off in Avignon (hotel)

Day 8

  • 9:00: departure from Avignon (hotel)
    • Transfer to Clermont-Ferrand, including a 2 hour stop for lunch en route (TBD)
  • Around 16:00/17:00: drop-off in Clermont-Ferrand (Holiday Inn Clermont-Ferrand Centre)

Day 9

  • 9:00: departure from Clermont-Ferrand (hotel)
    • Transfer to Blois, including a 30 minute break en route
  • Around 13:00: drop-off in Blois (Mercure hotel)

Day 10

  • 9:30: departure from Blois (hotel)
    • Chaumont-sur-Loire (Gardens festival + lunch)
    • Villandry gardens
  • 19:30: drop-off in Blois (Mercure hotel)

Day 11

  • 9:30: departure from Blois (hotel)
    • Blois (De Mailles en Tissus / NB Wool Knitting: 33 rue André Boulle)
    • La Chaussée-Saint-Victor (J’Imagine)
    • Lunch
    • Chenonceau castle
  • 19:30: drop-off in Blois (Mercure hotel)

Day 12

  • 9:15: departure from Blois (hotel)
    • Angers (castle)
  • 16:00: drop-off in Angers (Hotel de Champagne)

Day 13

  • 13:15: departure from Angers (hotel)
    • Angers (musée Jean Lurçat)
    • Angers (Papa Pique et Maman Coud : drop-off/pick up as close as possible)
  • 19:00: drop-off in Angers (hotel)

Day 14

  • 9:00: departure from Angers (hotel)
    • Rennes
  • 17:00: drop-off in Pontorson (BW hotel Montgomery)

Day 15

  • 9:00: transfer from Pontorson (hotel) to le Mont Saint-Michel P7 coach park
  • The group takes the free shuttle bus to access the Mont
  • 16:30: transfer from the P7 coach park Mont Saint-Michel to Pontorson (hotel)

Day 16

  • 9:00: departure from Pontorson (hotel)
    • Ouistreham (Atelier de la Souris)
  • 19:00: drop-off in Paris (Holiday Inn Paris Gare de Lyon Bastille)

Day 17

  • 7:00: transfer from Paris (Holiday Inn Paris Gare de Lyon Bastille) to CDG airport
  • Two drop-offs at CDG airport
    • Terminal 1 coach park for flight SQ335 to Singapore at 11:15
    • Terminal 2F coach park for flight EK72 at 11:25 to Dubai from Terminal 2C