Coronavirus – Updated: March 31st 2020
Our website launch has been delayed by the global pandemic, which has also on a personal & profesional level had a huge impact. This is being felt all over France, and worldwide.
Our site WILL move forward as soon as we have dates with which to pre-programme our booking system and that availability will depend upon the French Authorities. For the time being, it is unfortunately a waiting game for the entire global tourism industry.
NB: You can expect to see us back online around mid-April: We have taken pre-reservations for late April, May, June etc already via email and have agreed to postpone tours pre-booked and paid to a later date should the need arise. In any event, your money will be held in escrow until your tour date comes around, regardless of whether you have purchased our Cancellation Insurance or not. Your payment is safe and your tour guaranteed regardless of when you finally get here.
NormandyONtour.com
Overlord-Neptune
D-Day Tours, Sightseeing Visits, Transport Solutions, Chauffeur Services, Motorcycle Tours
A selection of our reviews can be found online at: Facebook, Google Business & Trip Advisor
Email: admin@normandyontour.com
*Tours and services are available as a daytrip from Paris by train.
We’re still working hard on getting the website back online with our secure reservation system!
However, we are currently still open for tours and services.
Anyone who’s ever designed a website from scratch – with NO prior experience – will tell you it’s a huge task. 18 months down the line and we are currently around 2 – 3 weeks away from the launch of our stunning website (March 15th). *Note: The launch date will be as close to March 15th as possible – perhaps before.
(Image: Out & About: Starting the company and filing official paperwork in 2018 (upper-left), and 2019 publicity event for Bayeux & Caen Tourist Board)
Our website is packed with:
→ D-Day Tours (led by professional Guides & conducted using stunning visual materials);
→ Sightseeing & Cultural Visits: Cidre & Cheese Tasting; Le Mont Saint-Michel; St. Malo, Giverny, Honfleur, La Loire & more;
→ Our luxury Chauffeur Services on board a Mercedes Tourer: Leather interior, carpeted floor, tinted windows, reclining seats, comfy neck rests, drinks holders, USB charging ports front & rear; WiFi on board; A/C and heating front & rear; clear audio throughout via headset and – last but not least – hot coffee, tea and chilled juices, sodas & water;
→ Our Motorcycle Private Tours: 1 pillion passenger on board our luxury Honda Goldwing Classic (for any of the above services) or Small (1-8) or large (9-20) D-Day Group Moto-Tours, led by our Moto-Guide, for bikers riding on their own two wheels.
→ We also have hundreds of hi-rez pics, travel info, links to train tickets, museums & visitor centres, taxi & airport tips, weather info, Bayeux Hotel info & links and so much more…
We are very mindful that we also still need to update our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest accounts from 2019! We have SO many great stories and images from the massive 75th Anniversary. We will get around to that just as soon as the site has gone live. Plus, we have actually been out & about ONTour throughout the Winter, which slows things down a little bit.
But, it’s SO SO good to get out and meet folks (not merely because it breaks the monotony of daily 15-hr PC marathon sessions BUT because TOURING is what we do best – the strenuous IT hours are merely a means-to-an-end and that end is meeting YOU for your special day here in unforgettable Normandy).
So, whether it be guided Private or Group Tours to the Allied Landing Beaches; a shuttle to Le Mont Saint-Michel via Colleville US Cemetery or its stunning new {June 2019} Visitor Centre; a Paris CDG early morning pick-up; a trip up the Cheese & Calvados Cidre Routes in Le Pays d’Auge (or as was the case in late Dec 2019, with one family’s experience of all 3 of the aforementioned, spread over 3 days) – and regardless how simple or complex your itinerary – we have got you covered.
All of our Group Tours are conducted in English. However at checkout, Private Tour & Chauffeur-Service clients can also choose any private service in one of the following languages: French, Spanish, German and *Japanese (*Le Mont Saint-Michel only).
We also have the lowest Private Tour prices in Normandy; tours which clients can modify and/or customize simply by adding a selection of optional ‘extras’ to their order within our booking system. By ‘pre-booking’ (with a optional €1 deposit), you can then proceed with complete confidence with the design of your own customized tour, planning – over days or weeks – with or without our input and feedback via email, until you are fully satisfied with your itinerary and the smallest details. By doing so you will ensure 100% satisfaction on the day – before you pay. If satisfied with any of our fixed itinerary tours ‘out-of-the-box’, clients can also pay straight away in full.
We also offer flexible payment options with our own Cancellation Insurance, which for a small fee, covers client reservations right up until your tour departure (see T&Cs). At checkout choose between two global giants, Paypal and Stripe (secure card processing), or opt to pay merely a part deposit, with the remainder paid on-the-day in cash or by card (*We have secure card processing on board all of our vehicles).
About Us – Some General Info
We opened shop in 2019 with fresh ideas for well-paced, enjoyable Private D-Day Tours and sightseeing trips, for people of all ages and backgrounds, riding comfortably in a luxury 9-seat Mercedes Tourer – leather interiors, tinted windows, reclining seats, wifi, usb connections front and rear, drinks holders, with coffee & chilled beverages & snacks on board too. From March 2021 we will be adding competitively-priced Group Tours to our list of services. Among these will be our Mont Sain-Michel ‘special’ shuttle via Colleville American Cemetery (with options to visit Omaha Beach, The Overlord Museum or spend time in The Cemetery Visitor Centre)
Last year in 2019, in addition to our international tourists, we guided: Well-schooled D-Day enthusiasts, hobbyists, international student-groups, as well as active US Rangers (!), active and retired pilots and tank commanders and of course veterans too. So, regardless of your background, we have something to suit all knowledge levels, tastes, and requirements.
We also provide high-end Chauffeur Services (with/without a ‘guide’), for hotel and airport transfers (including Paris CDG, Caen-Carpiquet) and again, these are tailor-made to suit. Whether travelling in style from Normandy to Paris, or Paris to Le Pays d’Auge, we can assist.
Tip: Scroll down to see our American Beaches 2020 Private Tour (customizable).
From Paris by train [Mon-Fri, 09:16 pick-up at Bayeux Train Station] or central Bayeux / Caen, or hotel pick-up [08:45 to 09:45, Mon – Sun].
General info:
Private Tours (from €480): Luxury Mercedes, 1-8 clients, and tours are led by a native English-speaker guide.
NEWS: 2021 Group Tours (€110): spacious vehicles, 1-8 clients, and all tours will be led by professional fluent English-speaker guides.
A full day Day Tour of the American landing zones and D-Day Beaches typically includes:
- Angoville-au-Plain (a little church transformed into a field hospital by 2 American paratroopers)
- Ste. Marie-du-Mont (101st US Airborne)
- Utah Beach (4th US Division). On the way from Utah, we will stop at the monument dedicated to Richard Winters, hero of the series “Band of Brothers”
- Sainte-Mère-Eglise (where the famous American 82nd US Airborne paratrooper J. Steele got snagged on top of the church. This is our lunch stop too)
- Mission Impossible: La Pointe-du-Hoc (2nd US Rangers)
- Omaha Beach: Vierville (29th ID, National Guard Monument)
- The Normandy Colleville American Cemetery.
These are the stops but there will also be a lot of monuments, bunkers and sites to see from the vehicle on the way.
There’s enough time to visit the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Eglise (at lunchtime) and free-time at stops to explore on your own and take photos. Plenty of rest stops and restroom facilities enroute.
For fixed schedule full-day Private Tours We can provide a Mon-Fri Bayeux station pick up (at 09.16) or Mon-Sun 09:45 Bayeux/Caen Hotel pick up with a full day D-Day tour and drop off at 17:45 (in plenty of time to catch the 18.35 back to Paris). Flexible 08:45 ‘Early-Bird’ options available too.
*Tours & Services also from cruise ship ports of Cherbourg/Honfleur/St. Malo/Le Havre. Half-Day D-Day Tours from Paris hotels for onward transfers to Normandy too.
*Note: Group Tours available from April 2021.
We look forward to welcoming you on board…
Iain (Owner) with Veteran Joan De Val, Pegasus 2017.
