Decision
Choosing a Paris Layover Tour
Driver or guide, per person or per group, four hours or twelve — the axes that actually separate these tours, laid out side by side.
Paris Layover Guides
Each guide below does a different job: deciding which tour, planning the hours, getting out of Charles de Gaulle, costing it and picking the month. For shorter answers to single questions, see the blog.
Itineraries
Paris Layover Itineraries by the Hour
What four, five, six, eight and twelve hours each buy you, as routes with the minutes written against every stop and the connection length each one really needs.
Getting out
Leaving CDG on a Paris Layover
A EUR 14 train ticket, a EUR 56 flat-fare taxi and a booked car out of Charles de Gaulle, compared honestly — including the readers the train suits better.
Money
What a Paris Layover Tour Costs
Per person against per group, what the fare leaves out, and the arithmetic that decides which is cheaper for your party.
Season
Paris Layovers Through the Year
Daylight, opening hours, closures and traffic, month by month, for a visit measured in hours rather than days, and the month that beats all the others.
Read enough?
Every departure compared by hours, price basis and departure airport, so you can match one to the connection on your ticket.
Still working out whether your connection is long enough? The timing rules have the arithmetic, and Paris Layover Tours has the tours.