Leave the Gameboys at home and come join us for your first discovery tour of Paris. Don't worry about the crowds or the waits on line—you'll have none of these when you work with French Links Tours. Instead, you will enjoy a Behind the Scenes visit of the Eiffel Tower, going to places closed to the general public, an interactive Treasure Hunt at the Louvre, a fun-filled bicycle tour at Versailles, a chocolate truffle and cake-baking class, and an after-dark tour of the city in a traction vehicle. Naturally, we will help you to book family-friendly restaurants where service starts at 7:30 pm, tickets to soccer and tennis matches, as well as teen-oriented shopping tours. (We can also help you booking a family-oriented hotel or even a furnished apartment in central Paris).

Every October since 1973, Paris welcomes the FIAC—the International Contemporary Art Fair under the dome of the Grand Palais as well as other sites around Paris. This is a great opportunity to not only visit 200 galleries dedicated to modern art and photography, but also to discover new avant-garde galleries in the Marais, and other parts of the city including the Left Bank, Belleville and Menilmontant. With French Links Tours, you will be able to stay at cutting-edge boutique hotels created by such designers as Lacroix and Alaia, and revel in new exhibitions at the Pinacotheque of Paris and Cartier Foundation of Contemporary Art, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou and the new Quai Branly Museum and Maison Rouge collection. In four days, with the assistance of our local art experts, you can get up to speed on the latest developments in the current art scene. A must for both art-lovers and collectors. (We will also be happy to arrange for a suitably arty hotel and book a number of cutting-edge restaurants and clubs).

If you thought that Paris was just for snobs and high-brows, think again. Paris is filled with attractions for the fun-loving visitor in search of magical whimsy. Head for the Museum of NaÏve Art in Montmartre, the Dali Museum or the Musée Grévin whose wax figures include everyone from the Pope to Michael Jackson and Céline Dion. Then it's off to The Chocolate Museum where you can learn about the history of your favorite food, and enjoy both demonstrations and samples! To top off your weekend, we can arrange a VIP visit to Disneyland Paris—where you can enjoy all the rides and attractions without a wait on line…(We will also be happy to book a family-friendly hotel in the center of Paris).

Want to learn about Paris fashion behind closed doors? Want to discover up and coming dress and accessory designers? Want to scoop up the best vintage clothing that you will find no place else? Or purchase haute couture fabrics, buttons and trim for either your wardrobe or your home? Then you have come to the right company: French Links Tours will take you to the oldest notions and fabric stores in Paris that sell to French and Italian designers, as well as to unique designers of hand bags, watch straps, costume jewelry, and clothing. (We will also be happy to arrange for a chic boutique hotel, and book a number of restaurants that have eye-candy and fashionista appeal).

Want to visit the bakery that makes the best baguette in Paris including for the French president? Want to meet the bakers who have been making bread the same way since the French Revolution? Want to see how the world's largest food market—Rungis—operates and supplies the EU with the freshest and finest seafood, meats, vegetables, fruits and cheeses, as well as flowers? Want to learn how French cheese is aged like wine, or discover cellars holding cognac that is older than Napoleon? Nor is that all. On this tour, you will learn how to make chocolate truffles and macaroons, prepare a French lunch or dinner with one of the city's top chefs, and enjoy dinner in a private Parisian home. (We will also be happy to arrange a chic boutique hotel, and book a number of the hottest new restaurants for your dining pleasure).

Looking for that romantic breakaway from the pressures of work and car pool? We have just the ticket that starts with a VIP welcome at the airport that whisks you away from the lines at customs, followed by a transfer to an elegant boutique hotel via chauffeured limousine. Once you have settled into your hotel, you will enjoy a private "Midnight in Paris" tour in a traction vehicle, similar to one used in the Woody Allen movie. Other highlights on the program including off-the-beaten track walking tours, including in Montmartre and the Left Bank, a private champagne cruise on the Seine, night-time champagne tasting, and dinner on the most beautiful terrace in Paris. (We can even hire a photographer to capture your unforgettable time in the City of Light).

On the heels of Adam Gopnik's new book "The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food," French Links Tours invites serious foodies of all kinds to join us in an adventure around the dinner table. You will visit the oldest café in Paris, the first American bar, the oldest patisserie that once baked delights for the royal table, the bakery that still makes bread much as it was made before the French Revolution, as well as the chocolatier to Marie-Antoinette. In addition, you will discover the crystal produced for the crowned heads and embassies at the Baccarat Museum, as well as learn about the history of French wine production. Note: The tour can be completed by a tour on Food and Wine in Art at the Louvre—showing silverware and dining beds from Pompeii to still-life paintings of food by the masterful Baptiste-Simeon Chardin.

Not only is Paris the first major European capital to be run by an openly gay mayor—Bertrand Delanoe—but it also pays tribute to many of the brilliant statesmen, designers, artists, and writers that have flocked to and dwelled in the city, often changing it forever. On this tour, you will travel in the footsteps of Colette, Nathalie Barney, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genêt, and George Sand. You will enjoy a tour of the Père Lachaise Cemetery, discover the hotel where Oscar Wilde died, the home that keeps many of the personal belongings of George Sand…you will also see the cork-lined bedroom of Marcel Proust, and discover the places where he dwelled and entertained...

Paris has definitely always been known as a writer"s city—Villon, Rabelais, Balzac, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Hemingway, Stein, St. Exupéry, are just some of the luminaries who have made their mark on the city. With French Links Tours, you will visit the homes of Balzac and Victor Hugo, where they wrote their greatest masterpieces, and spend time marveling over the treasures of the Museum of Manuscripts and Belles-Lettres. We can even arrange for you to stay in the hotel of Oscar Wilde, or a new boutique hotel totally dedicated to literature.