A Day in Provence Small Group Tour from Marseille

karen_T, Dec 2024

the guide did not give much information . the locations were good. the guide do not speak fluent english

zhengyuanmun, Dec 2024

It was a great experience. Very balanced itinerary and a lot of time given to explore at the most interesting places. Laurent was great! Very knowledgeable and attentive.

lulu, Dec 2024

Very reasonable route! Very satisfied with our guide Laurent. He is very pleasant. Avignon and Pont du Gard, amazing!

Patricia_D, Dec 2024

Our guide, Morgane was fabulous! She was informative…polite…a joy to be with. She explained everything in detail and answered our many questions. We say sites that we would have never seen if it wasn’t for this tour. Well worth the cost and time!

A151CLdanielk, Dec 2024

The tour was offered by Provence Tours. We took another tour that was also offered by Provence Tours and really enjoyed both tours.

Our driver/tour guide was Laurent. Laurent was very knowledgeable, friendly, funny, excellent driver and also was available to take those priceless photos.

The van was comfortable and the air conditioning worked well. In both instances in which we took tours with Provence Tours, we found the vans to be first class, clean, comfortable and the air conditioning worked well.

The highlight of the tour for us was number one wine tasting in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape region and a visit to Les Baux. We have previously the roman aqueducts in other countries so the Pont du Gard was what we expected and we were actually a bit underwhelmed by Avignon, perhaps from the poor lunch experience we had there.

Anyhow the red wines at the winery we visited were amazing. Based on visiting several wineries in Europe and drinking a lot of rose during this vacation, we have a new found appreciation of European wines and seek them out when we go to our local wine stores in the U.S.

Les Baux was an amazingly cool little town from a distance. Unfortunately, but perhaps not unexpected, upon walking through the town, it is clear that shops predominately occupy the cool little stone houses/structures so it lost a bit of its charm, at least for us.

The second stop was Pont du Gard. We had ample time to walk on the old roman bridge/under the aqueduct, something we probably couldn't do in the U.S. The bridge goes over a small river and in the distance a castle is visible. Definitely a good experience.

Avignon was a pretty cool experience and we had 3 hours to explore. Unfortunately for us, we really picked a lemon for a restaurant (Le Venaissin). It is partially our fault as we didn't properly vet the restaurant via proper searches and relied/let our guard down after seeing all the people eating at the restaurant. Our order was very basic but it literally took 45-50 minutes for the food to arrive. As time was a bit of the essence, losing 50 minutes waiting for our food to be served was a costly mistake. Additionally, when the food arrived it was just o.k. Definitely the worst meal we had during our vacation in Provence. Anyhow, after finishing our lunch, which took about 5 minutes, we headed out and tried to explore the town as fast as we could. We liked the town, at least what we could see within about 2 hours but didn't love the town. We also came away with the impression that we were fortunate to have chosen Aix-en-Provence for our place to stay as we had strongly considered staying at Avignon as well.