Loire Valley Chambord & Chenonceau Castles Day Trip with Lunch & Wine from Paris

My girlfriend and I wanted to book a day trip from Paris to visit some of the famous Chateaus in the Loire River Valley. This tour was exactly what we hand in mind. Our guide, Adeola, was very knowledgeable and entertaining with the stories of the chateaus and history overall, but gave flexibility for folks to enjoy things at their own pace. Would definitely recommend.

Adie from City Wonders Paris did an excellent job as our guide! She did a great job keeping the bus rides to and from our stops entertaining with stories about the history of France and the people who once lived in the Chateaus. Each of the three stops were great, lunch at the second stop was delicious, and there was plenty of wine available.

This tour is absolutely fantastic and worth every penny!! John and Addy, our tour guides, were absolutely phenomenal! They were very knowledgeable, engaging, and fun! The best part of the tour was lunch at Chateau de Nitray. The food was beyond excellent (and the wine plenty and strong!) and the owner of the castle was an absolutely joy. If you’re interested in buying wine in France, I recommend buying some here. I got 6 bottles for 41 euros. I cannot say enough good things about this tour!

My partner and I had a great time on the castle/wine tour. Our tour visited the impressive Chambord and Chenonceau castles while stopping for lunch and wine tasting at a lovely family owned castle in-between. Plenty of wine to be had through the trip and the food was lovely. We had Michelle as our tour guide and she was great! Super knowledgeable about French history and told us many interesting stories about the region. She also spent time after the tour answering everyones general questions about Paris. So helpful!

Fantastic tour of the Loire chateaux and superb lunch at chateau Nitray winery. Thank you Paris City Wonders for a great day. And our guide, Michelle, was wonderful. Couldn't recommend this tour highly enough. Do yourself a favour when you are Paris and book this tour.

Overall we enjoyed the tour, however, we got a little lost trying to get to the pick-up point and were scolded when we arrived late. Thank goodness the bus driver saw us! One of the tour guides took advantage of the wine tasting too much. I enjoyed the history lessons.

Marvellous tour. Have recommended to many friends. Ade (our guide) did an excellent job. Thanks a lot!

We booked this excursion as it went to 3 destinations and included lunch and wine tasting which we were excited about. The tour guides were both very kind and informative. Our first visit was to Chambord Castle which was very pretty and very enjoyable but didn't need much time here as the castle is mostly empty of any furnishings. The second stop was to Nitray which is where we had our lunch and first wine tasting. It was nice and the outside was beautiful. You don't actually go into the structures as they are lived in by the family who own/run the winery. The wine was so-so and the food was ok. During lunch, we were asked to bus/clean our own tables during the lunch and get our own food which seemed a bit strange for other experiences we have had with European hospitality. We spent far too much time at this stop (which felt more like a sales pitch) that by the time we got to the largest and most in depth castle (Chenonceaux) we literally had 45 minutes to go through a massive and beautiful castle, view the gardens and labyrinth and do the second wine tasting. We were so stressed out and irritated that we did not get to enjoy the castle at all. My personal recommendation would be to either eliminate Nitray or find a closer location to Chenenceaux. For the high price I feel like we overpaid considerably.

My husband and I did this tour at the end of October. It rained pretty much all day which was a bummer, but what can you do. We went to Chambord, then lunch and wine at Chateau de Nitray, then Chenonceaux, where there was another wine tasting before entering the Chateau. I will say that there was a LOT of driving on this tour. With evening rush hour traffic, it took us 3.5 hours to get back to Paris. When we arrived at both chateaus, we had free time the whole time to explore.

Had an amazing experience.. our guide was uptdated as regards her knowledge about the place. All in all it was a great experience.. One of the best from viator.