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French Links Paris Shopping Tours

Rachel Kaplan, author of Best Buys to French Chic: The Insider's Savvy Shopping Guide to Paris, has designed a series of customized shopping tours ranging from discount designer fashion shopping tours to high-end luxury tours for the discerning customer. With Rachel or one of her guides, you will discover hot new designers for fashion, accessories, pocketbooks and shoes, as well as for home furnishings. That is why Lucky Magazine chose us in 2005 and 2006 to organize their Lucky Shops Paris tours.

Thanks to Rachel Kaplan's new blog http://www.chicparisienne.com/, you can pre-order your shopping guide to Paris and prepare your trip, either for the twice-yearly sales or for other times of the year. every tour that you book can be customized to your specific shopping needs, whether it is shopping for the family, a wedding dress or an entire wardrobe. This year alone our guests opted for our "Pretty Woman" shopping tour and our "Paris Makeover" shopping tour with a personal stylist and hair salon. read on to learn more about our other customized shopping tours which have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Geographhic Traveler and Harper's Bazaar.

Reserve your Shopping Tour with French Links Tours today.

Our Guides

We work only with trained, experienced guides, who are either university-educated native English speakers or French national guides who speak flawless English. Both have the people skills to make Americans and other English-speakers feel at home in France. Our multilingual guides also have fluency in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German and Chinese, both Mandarin and Cantonese.

What's Special about French Links Shopping Tours:

  • You discover unique shopping districts that are mainly known to Parisians.

  • You learn how to maximize your spending power with expert guides who will direct you to shops that offer excellent value for your money. Shopping Tour, Paris

  • If you do two or more shopping tours, you get a complimentary paperback guidebook, Best Buys to French Chic, The Insider’s Savvy Shopping Guide to Paris.

  • Our shopping tours emphasize outstanding local and exclusive products that you cannot purchase back home.

  • French Links Tours provides discount shopping coupons to major department stores and other specialty stores. It is currently working on developing other attractive discounts for its guests.

  • You learn how to fill out the detaxe forms, enabling you to save up to 20% percent on the purchase price of your goods when you spend 175 euros or more.

  • Our expertise and advice is totally objective because we take no commissions from the shops.

    For further information, contact kaplan@club-internet.fr or rachel.kaplan@orange.fr

    French Links Discount Designer Shopping Tour

    Shopping Tour, Paris With one of our expert shopping guides, you will discover the secret addresses for finding elegant shoes, designer clothing, and even accessories at discount prices that are at least 30 to 50 percent less than those in the high-street shops. In addition, you will receive 10% percent discount shopping cards from the Paris' leading department stores, and vital assistance with the value-added tax refund, which can save you between 10 and 19.6 percent on your purchases when you spend 175 euros at a single retail outlet. This tour proves that you don't have to spend a fortune to be chic!

    See Fees to book your tours.

    French Links Art de Vivre Shopping Tour

    Art de Vivre With one of our expert shopping guides, you will discover French Links secret addresses that make the French art de vivre a way of life - whether it's fine linens and lovely Provencal fabrics, elegant china and silver, exquisite glassware and crystal, or room fragrances and scented candles. We will take you to the neighborhoods where you find a broad array of stock at the most attractive prices, and assist you in making choices that are both lasting and beautiful. Our aim on this tour is to show you the best that France has to offer, whether it's country French or elegant Sèvres porcelain and Baccarat crystal.

    See Fees to book your tours.

    French Links Food and Wine Shopping Tour

    With one of our expert shopping guides, you will discover French Links best finds for cooking and fine dining, including where to find the finest foie gras and truffles, the most memorable wines and champagnes, as well as the latest set of cooking utensils and gadgets. If you are seeking the latest Le Creuset cookware or the most ingenious wine accessories, you will discover them on this tour. Ditto for fine cutlery, crystal and quiche pans. Worried about shipping your hoard home? French Links' shipper solves that problem as well giving you a choice of air or sea, depending on your needs and budget.

    See Fees to book your tours.

    Decorators, Designers and Buyers Shopping Tour

    Decorators, Designers and Buyers Shopping Tour Looking to discover and/or import the latest and greatest from Paris? Looking for divine inspiration for your next line of jewelry, cosmetics, home furnishings or clothing? Then you will want to structure a private tour with French Links, which will take you to those places you would never get to see or know, where you will find intriguing packaging, unusual display fixtures, and the latest creations and designs, that are about to become "the next big thing."

    So if you need a savvy, bilingual design and buying scout in Paris, you've come to the right place. Best of all, if you are keen to learn more about exporting French goods abroad, we can tell you all about the ins-and-outs of doing so.

    French Links Tours has outfitted out-end boutiques in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Melbourne, Australia, for example, and we want to help your business, too.

    Best Buys to French Chic – The Insider's Savvy Shopping Guide to Paris

    Best Buys to French Chic in Paris by Rachel Kaplan Rachel Kaplan is the Internet maven to fine shopping.

    Electronic Version

    You can purchase the electronic version of her Paris shopping guide which will be sent to you immediately as a Word or PDF file.

    Order your copy of the electronic edition here:
    Best Buys to French Chic in Paris - Electronic Version
    19 euros for one guide

    Paperback Print Version

    For an autographed print version of the 152-page paperback edition of Best Buys to French Chic – The Insider's Savvy Shopping Guide to Paris

    Book orders delivered in Europe and outside of Europe

  • 19 euros, plus 3 shipping

    Order your copy of the paperback edition here:
    http://www.frenchlinks.com/

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    Events & Company – Special events, corporate incentives, customized team building, weddings, private tours for VIP guests

    Contact details at our offices in Paris, France:

    Phone/Fax: 01 45 77 01 63
    Mobile Phone: 06 64 35 87 63
    Email Addresses: kaplan@club-internet.fr or rachel.kaplan@orange.fr

    For all queries when calling from outside of France contact:

    Rachel Kaplan at: +331 45 77 01 63
    Mobile phone at: +336 64 35 87 63

    The best way to reach Rachel Kaplan outside office hours is by email:
    kaplan@club-internet.fr or rachel.kaplan@orange.fr

    We answer all queries in English and in French.

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    75008 Paris France

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