Fat Tire Bike Tours - Paris

Paris Day Bike Tour

Tour Duration: 4 hours
Tour Description: Our Day Bike Tour is the perfect tour for both those new to the city and Parisian veterans. For the beginners, this tour will offer you a fantastic orientation and give you an opportunity to see virtually all of the sites you’ve read about. For the veterans, we’re positive you’ll learn new facts and stories about Paris that you’ve never heard. And we’re sure you’ll both agree that biking is the best way to see the ‘City of Light’.
Highlights of the tour include:
The Eiffel Tower
Napoleon's Tomb
The Louvre Museum
Tuileries Gardens
Musée D’Orsay
Also see the Ecole Militaire, Rodin Museum, Les Invalides, Alexander III Bridge, Grand and Petit Palais, Place de la Concorde, UNESCO and more!
Tour Times:
February 15 - March 31: everyday at 11am.
April 1 - October 15: everyday at both 11am and 3pm.
October 16 - November 30: everyday at 11am.
Meeting Point: We meet at the south leg ("pilier sud") of the Eiffel Tower. Look for our yellow sign at the meeting point.

Paris Night Bike Tour

Tour Duration: 4-5 hours
Tour Description: Our Night Bike Tour is the way to experience the 'City of Light' at it’s best. We’ll cruise through town as the city lights up around us and see Paris from both bike and boat (free wine is included on our boat cruise). Make no mistake! This is not a substitute for the comprehensive Day Tour - rather a perfect complement and great evening activity! We do not stop for dinner on the Night Tour so either eat before or bring a snack with you.
Highlights of the tour include:
Notre Dame
The Boat Cruise
The Louvre Museum
Berthillon Ice Cream
Also see the Eiffel Tower, the Cité and St. Louis islands, St. Chapelle, the Latin Quarter, Academie Francaise, the Pont des Arts, the Champs-Elysées, Princess Di's Flame, the Arc de Triomphe and much more!
Tour Times:
February 15 - March 14: Tu, Th, Sat and Sun at 7pm.
March 15 - October 31*: everyday at 7pm.
November 1 - November 30: Tu, Th, Sat and Sun at 7pm.
Meeting Point: We meet at the south leg ("pilier sud") of the Eiffel Tower. Look for our yellow sign at the meeting point.

Chateau of Versailles Bike Tour

Tour Price: (includes guide, bicycle, transportation to and from Versailles, Chateau entrance
and audio guide).
Tour Duration: 8 hours
Tour Description: Le Chateau de Versailles awaits you in all its grandeur as you return to the time period of the most famous French kings and queens. Allow us to bring you the most famous "house" in the world as few others have experienced it. Meeting at our Paris office we'll ride our bicycles to the nearest RER station for the quick trip to Versailles.
Once at Versailles, we'll first visit the village market to buy baguettes, cheese, ham, wine or whatever you desire for our picnic later in the Chateau's gardens. We will spend most of our day riding through the tree-lined gardens and the average Versailles tourist doesn't realize that they can only visit a small fraction of the gardens on foot. We’ll see it all!
Highlights of the tour include:
The Versailles Gardens
The Hall of Mirrors
The King’s State Apartments
The Versailles Food Market
The Picnic
Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet
Grand and Petit Trianons
Tour Times:
March 1 - March 31: Tu, Th, Sat and Sun at 9:00am.
April 1 - October 15*: everyday (except Mon) at 9:00am.
October 16 - November 15: Tu, Th, Sat and Sun at 9:00am.

Reservations Required
Meeting Point: We meet at our offices at 2 4, rue Edgar Faure, 75015 Paris

Monet's Gardens Bike Tour

(includes guide, bicycle, transportation to and from Paris and entrance to
Monet's house and gardens).
Tour Duration: 7 hours
Tour Description: An excellent excursion outside of Paris is to Claude Monet's breathtaking gardens in Normandy. His unique house, the quaint villages of Vernon & Giverny and our fabulous bicycle ride along the Seine are a welcome change from the hustle-bustle of Paris. Allow us to make the out-of-town trip an easy and enjoyable one for you.
We'll go by rail through the beautiful wheat & sunflower fields of Normandy to the village of Vernon. There we’ll collect our bikes, head to the market for picnic supplies and then to lunch along the river in a beautiful park. Finally we’ll pedal down our private path to Monet’s gardens where we’ll spend the afternoon inside the most gorgeous landscape in Normandy.

Highlights of the tour include:
Monet’s Gardens
Monet’s House
Vernon Farmer’s
Monet’s Grave

Tour Times:
April 1 - May 15: Wed and Sat (various morning departure times).
May 16 - September 30: Tu, Wed and Sat (various morning departure times).
October 1 - October 31: Wed and Sat (various morning departure times).
Reservations Required
Meeting Point: We meet at the front of platform #22 inside the St. Lazare train station (Gare St. Lazare) in Paris at the appropriate times. Metro lines 3, 12 and 13 all run to the station.