Paris is home to dozens of tourist attractions and historical sites, so it's easy to think of a list of things to do when you're there. The hard part is figuring out how to see everything you want to see in the limited time you have. Two of the tours I went on were extreamly good, and I'd recommend them both, so since a lot of people in London visit Paris as well, here's the details on them.
The FREE Walking Tour:
This tour runs daily, twice a day, and is completely free. We had a young, student guide named Kayla who, in less than four hours, showed us almost every single tourist site in Paris. The tour is through New Europe tours, and offered in many major European cities. We met Kayla in the Latin Quarter and walked the whole city in a group of around thirty people. I liked the tour because Kayla knew so much information about everything we saw, and was able to give us great backgrounds on each site. She also showed us a lot of things I hadn't thought to or planned on seeing, but really enjoyed, like the fountain in the middle of the Latin Quarter where students held riots in the 60s. Kayla also was great at answering questions and told us how to get where we wanted to go, when to see certain sites to get the cheapest deals, and where to go out at night. She even showed us the exact lampost that Big and Carrie meet at in the American Girl in Paris Sex and the City episode!! The tour took a lot out of us because we were walking around in the hot sun for so long, but I was happy to see everything quickly and feel like I could spend the rest of my time going back to sites I wanted to explore more at a slower pace. I'd recommend doing this tour early on in your trip (we went about 20minutes after we got into France) so that you have an idea of where everything is and can find your way back to things you really enjoyed.
The On-Off River Tour:
Originally, we were going to do a lunch cruise of the Seine River, but these tours are often expensive and a lot of them required us to book ahead. What we wound up doing was a 12 euro boat tour that lets you get on the boat wherever you'd like, but stops at around ten major sites (like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Notre Dame) and lets you get off if you like. Then you can use your ticket and get back on the tour when you're done. This was nice beacuse it cut down on how much we had to walk or take the tube, and let us relax on the river inbetween stops. You can get on and off all day, up until 7 p.m., so go early and let the tour double as your transportation for the day.
