- Duration3 hours
- Group sizeMax 12 · from 1
- Guided inEnglish, French, German
- Physical levelModerate
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Tours & Sightseeing
Louvre Museum Skip-the-Line Guided Tour
Overview
Reserved entry and three hours with an art historian across the Louvre's essential rooms — Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory and the French crown jewels.
The Louvre is thirty-five thousand works over fourteen acres, and the single biggest failure mode for a visiting client is wandering it without a plan until their feet give out. Three hours with an art historian covers the works they came for and explains the building itself, which was a fortress and then a palace before it was a museum.
Entry is reserved and enters through a secondary door rather than the pyramid queue. The tour ends inside, so guests can stay on with the same ticket — most do, usually in the Egyptian wing.
Highlights
- Reserved entry away from the pyramid queue
- Art historian guides
- Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory
- The crown jewels and the medieval fortress foundations
- Stay inside after the tour ends
- Maximum twelve per guide
What happens, step by step
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09:30
Meet at Palais-Royal
Headsets issued and the plan of attack explained before entry.
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09:50
Reserved entry
Through the Porte des Lions or Carrousel entrance, avoiding the pyramid.
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10:10
Antiquities
Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Mesopotamian rooms.
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11:15
Italian painting
Through the Grande Galerie to the Mona Lisa, with the crowd handled properly.
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12:10
French crown jewels
The Apollo Gallery, then free time to continue alone.
What is and is not included
Included
- Skip-the-line Louvre admission
- Art historian guide for three hours
- Radio headset
- Reservation fee
Not included
- Hotel transfers
- Temporary exhibitions
- Gratuities
Where it starts
Meeting point
Place du Palais-Royal, beside the Métro entrance — your guide holds a red NNomadic sign.
Exact coordinates, the supplier’s on-the-day phone number and the driver or guide allocation are released with the booking voucher in the agent workspace.
Cancellation policy
Free cancellation up to 72 hours before the start time. Between 72 and 24 hours, 50% is refunded. Inside 24 hours the booking is non-refundable, and a no-show is charged in full.
Traveller reviews
Who operates this
Île-de-France Guides
Île-de-France Guides SASU · Paris, France
- Supplier rating
- 4.4 from 2,239 reviews
- Products in the catalogue
- 4
- Operating languages
- English, French, German
- Typical response
- Within 4 hours
- Contracted since
- April 2024
- Confirmation
- Instant
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