Planning a Tailor-Made Trip to Paris
PARIS BY EMY offers high-quality, personalized travel experiences in Paris. Our services include tailor-made daily itineraries, private guided tours with hotel pick-up, chauffeured driving tours, continuous assistance throughout your stay, airport-to-hotel transfers, gourmet food tours, and reservations for major attractions such as the Louvre Museum. We also arrange day trips from Paris to destinations like Normandy, as well as leisure activities including cooking classes, wine tastings, and private riverboat cruises.
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- Much like a wedding planner, PARIS BY EMY designs fully personalized travel experiences—covering everything from accommodations and activities to dining and cultural outings.
- Your first visit to Paris is crafted to match your unique personality, interests, and budget, guided by our tailored recommendations.
- From the initial planning stage, every detail is carefully chosen to suit your individual travel style and specific needs.
- Keeping your budget in mind is a key part of this process. It ensures your experience not only fulfills your dreams but also stays within your financial comfort zone.
- A thoughtfully planned budget opens the door to meaningful choices, allowing you to enjoy a truly unique Parisian adventure that feels both enriching and accessible—no matter your price range.
How to Prepare for a Trip to Paris
Planning Your Paris Trip According to Your Budget
Your Paris adventure should reflect your personal interests—and fit comfortably within your budget. Whether you’re captivated by iconic landmarks, Paris local hidden gems, gourmet cuisine, or immersive cultural experiences, your budget plays a key role in shaping the perfect journey for you.
Planning a Trip to Paris Ahead
Research the best time to visit Paris based on weather, events, and crowds. Decide how long you’ll stay and outline the main attractions you want to see.
Create a Travel Itinerary Plan Paris Trip
Organize your days with a balance of sightseeing, relaxation, and local experiences. Consider booking skip-the-line tickets or guided tours for popular sites like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.
Book Accommodations Early
Choose a Paris hotel or rental in a central location for easy access to landmarks and transportation. Popular neighborhoods include Le Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and the Latin Quarter.
Prepare Your Travel Documents
Ensure your passport is valid for at least six months beyond your travel dates. Check if you need a visa depending on your nationality.
Learn Basic French Phrases
Knowing a few simple French words like “Bonjour,” “Merci,” and “Parlez-vous anglais?” can go a long way in making your trip smoother and more enjoyable.
Pack Smart while Planning a Trip to Paris
Bring comfortable walking shoes, weather-appropriate clothing, and a travel adapter for European outlets. Leave room for Paris souvenirs!
Plan for Transportation
Familiarize yourself with the Paris Metro system, and consider getting a travel pass. Taxis, ride-shares, and walking are also convenient options.
Make Reservations in Advance
Book Paris restaurants, tours, and tickets ahead of time, especially for popular spots. Paris is a busy city and many places fill up quickly.
Consider Travel Insurance
Protect your trip with insurance that covers health, cancellations, and lost luggage.
Stay Connected
Check with your mobile provider about international plans, or consider buying a local SIM card or portable Wi-Fi device.
With thoughtful planning, your Paris adventure will be smooth, enriching, and unforgettable. Bon voyage!
Top Tips from a Paris Travel Planner
Key Elements of Your Paris Journey
At PARIS BY EMY, we create customized Paris travel itineraries designed around your travel style, interests, preferences, and pace. Every trip is unique, ensuring an authentic and stress-free Parisian experience.
Tailored Itinerary
A carefully crafted schedule outlining day by day Paris travel itineraries, with private tours in Paris, leisure activities to do in Paris, and special experiences to help you make the most of your time in Paris.
Theme & Travel Style
Whether it’s a romantic getaway, family vacation, friends’ trip, solo adventure, or business journey, your itinerary will reflect your chosen theme and interests.
First-Time Visit or Returning to Paris
First time in the City of Lights? Or coming back for a new adventure? Your plan will be adjusted to offer fresh discoveries, unusual things to do in Paris, and experiences suited to your familiarity with Paris.
Personalized Focus Areas
Your journey can be centered on what excites you most—culture, history, gastronomy, shopping, art, fashion, spirituality, leisure, or adventure—customized to your preferences.
Seamless Transportation
Whether you prefer private car services, walking tours, or a mix of transport options, your itinerary will be designed for ease and comfort.
Balanced Duration & Activities
Enjoy the perfect mix of guided experiences, free time, and relaxation, ensuring an enriching yet stress-free trip in the Parisian lifestyle.
Traveler Profile Consideration
Your itinerary will be tailored based on your interests, age, physical condition, and travel style, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable experience.
Budget-Friendly Planning
A customized financial plan will align with your budget, covering accommodations, activities, and transportation, while maximizing your Parisian experience.
Planning a Realistic Trip to Paris
PARIS BY EMY provides customized travel planning with a private tour guide and optional chauffeur service, offering personalized packages designed to suit every budget, preference, and individual profile.
- Keeping a Manageable Paris Itinerary
- Embracing Spontaneous Discoveries
- Mixing Tourist Attractions with Local Experiences
- Considering Travel Distances
- Planning Adequate Time for Meals
With Paris by Emy, your trip is planned with care, ensuring a meaningful, personalized, and unforgettable journey in Paris. Let’s create your dream itinerary together!
1 to 2-hour Video Consultation for Planning Your Paris Experience
You have the opportunity to schedule a 1 to 2-hour video consultation to organize your stay in Paris and receive expert, personalized recommendations. Should you choose to book a custom-made Paris Travel Package, the consultation fee will be applied as a credit toward your total invoice.
Step-by-Step Guide to Planning a Trip from a Paris Travel planner
Ease the Planning of a Paris Trip with a Travel Planner
Planning a trip to Paris with your Paris Trip Planner allows you to be cosseted and to follow your heart. Your Paris Trip is tailor-made by a local company with its Parisian network and high standing services. We plan your trip according to your profile and budget.
- Listen to and assimilate the requests of each client
- Prepare a provisional budget with custom-made services
- Quote with transparency thanks to clear and precise fees
- Create your Paris Private tours according to your profile
- Offer personalized services trip upon your agreement
- Plan a schedule between the first arrival day to the last
- Look for solutions to last minute unforeseen events
Planning a trip involves numerous tasks, such as researching, booking, arranging… A planner can simplify this process by providing you with a comprehensive guide, saving you valuable time and effort. They can offer recommendations based on your preferences and budget, ensuring that every aspect of your trip is well thought out.
PARIS BY EMY Planning Process For a Trip to Paris
STEP 1 – EXCHANGE/QUOTATION BUILDING
First exchange on wishes of the customer by email, WhatsApp, phone or Skype, with approximate or immediate quotation, depending on client’s expectations and selected service(s). The first quotation will give you a precise idea about your budget orientation and your priorities regarding services you would like to have before and during your trip. Once you receive the first quotation, you may want to adjust it in terms of services and different options.
If necessary, other exchanges occur to finalize spending’s orientation or/and to quote particular requests that require a precise and thorough research. As we finalize these arrangements, we should also reach the final quotation.
STEP 2 – BOOKING & BILLING FINAL QUOTATION
If the final quote, sent by email, is accepted by the customer, billing and payments occur online, payment with a credit card or a bank-transfer. Several billing and payments can occur in the case of the customer needs to make a deposit and/or wants to add services. Deposits, booked skip the line tickets are not refundable. You might read our terms of use and conditions.
PARIS BY EMY has its insurance contract. Liability guarantees are intended to cover financial consequences of civil liability which may fall on PARIS BY EMY due to bodily, material and immaterial damage caused to third parties, attributable to PARIS BY EMY professional activity.
For payment by credit card, customers receive an e-mail. They only have to click on the payment link and pay as such. It’s simple, fast and secure. All bookings are processed in Euros (€). If your country’s currency is not Euros, your bank will automatically convert the price to your country’s currency when you are charged.
Your transactions and data from these transactions are encrypted using SSL and the AES algorithm. No data is stored and it is transferred to our system that comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), meeting the highest requirements in terms of bank security.
STEP 3 – EXCHANGE/TRAVEL SETTING
Third passage of detailed and meticulous exchanges with the client for the creation of the trip via email or WhatsApp, video. We may go together via interviews. It is a key moment to adjust your Dream Trip in Paris. We go, on one to one, through discussions into the PARIS BY EMY themes to clearly identify or refine your priorities and strong centers of interest.
We offers Paris private tour guide and full stay Paris travel itinerary via each client personality designed to take your Paris trip to life time memory. Each request has been carefully crafted by PARIS BY EMY and is led by a French local company, with expertise of Paris and living abroad. We find the best providers for your aspirations. We plan a schedule between the first arrival day to the last.
STEP 4 – PROPOSAL PLANNING TRIP TO PARIS
Full proposal for your trip to Paris by PARIS BY EMY sent by email for the trip (except for round trip transportation to Paris). This first proposal would be the result of step 3. We send you the final Roadmap/itinerary once we have your full approval.
STEP 5 – EXCHANGE/REFINEMENT SETTING TRIP TO PARIS
Refinement and exchanges around the first proposal via email, WhatsApp, … The goal is to refine your trip according to your expectations. We look into details and you may change your mind or want to add services, activities, tours…
STEP 6 – FINALIZATION PLANNING A TRIP TO PARIS
Finalization of the proposal such as lodging recommendations, The Paris travel itinerary and any other services, options requested, sent by email such as skip the line tickets… Your complete Roadmap will be dropped off at your hotel printed as well.
STEP 7 – ACCOMMODATION BOOKING FROM YOUR SIDE
PARIS BY EMY does not take any commission on your choice of Paris hotel recommendation and leaves you the responsibility of booking on the one hand and settling your accommodation on the other hand. Please, check the cancelation policy of the hotel you will choose.
You can cancel for FREE your hotel reservation if you cancel your reservation between 2 weeks to one day before your arrival date, depending on the hotel policy of your choice. Any late cancellation or no show at the hotel will be subject to an overnight stay, in certain case the full amount for the duration of your stay will be debited. Cancellation policy depends on each hotel.
In addition, you will have to pay for the tourist tax of 1.88 Euros per day and per person for the duration of your stay. Finally, if you take extra at your hotel, you will pay directly the hotel when you leave on your last day.
STEP 8 – FINALIZATION PROPOSAL
Possibility of refinement and exchanges around the final proposal if necessary. Your Paris Trip is set with itinerary and coordination between activities, booked services.
STEP 9 – PACKAGE OPTION ELEMENTS SENT
Sending by email each validated element of the selected package and options, if applicable, such as the “Roadmap”, skip the line tickets, … Note that a file with all necessary print documents will be deposit at your hotel before your arrival.
STEP 10 – PACKAGE OPTION FULLFILLMENT
Fulfillment of the packages and options chosen during the stay, in Paris and around. You can add or change activities, day and hour for each booking, as long as you notify us by email at least 48 hours before.
We are enough flexible to modify your tour/itinerary according to your mood, and your rhythm (also according to the weather). Entrance tickets are not changeable and refundable.
We help you for any requests or specific demands before and during your stay. Visit Paris unconstrained with hints, tips, real human assistance and persdonalized services. We also look for solutions to last minute unforeseen events.
How we set your Parisian Trip Upon Each Profile ?
Have a look at visiting Paris for the first time page if it is your case.
- Ongoing exchanges before and during your trip
- PARIS BY EMY has access to international calls
- We may exchange by email, phone, WhatsApp, Zoom…
PARIS BY EMY develops personalized Paris Tour Package, all inclusive
- You tell us about your aspirations, wishes and desires
- You explain us your spending orientations and constraints
- We create your custom-made Paris travel itinerary
- You know what to expect with our detailed quotation
- Genuine personalized trip according to your profile and budget
Planning a Trip to Paris, you choose what you really want to do with our support and expertise. Each trip is unique such as ours clients.
Custom-Made Trip to Paris
Planning a trip with PARIS BY EMY offers a unique, personalized approach to experiencing Paris. For a quick overview of PARIS BY EMY pricing, you can check the All inclusive Paris Vacation and Pricing page.