2-day Private Mont Saint-Michel, Omaha, Utah Landing Beaches Trip
2 days (ID: 167771)
2-day Private Live-guided trip from Paris to Mont Saint-Michel and most significant Normandy’s Omaha and Utah D-Day Landing Beaches including: Normandy American Cemetery, Overlord Museum, Omaha Beach Memorial, Caen Memorial and Museum, Utah Beach Landing Museum, Pointe du Hoc, Airborne Museum and more.
Tiered Pricing. Hotel Pick up & Drop off. Guaranteed departures. Double Room accommodation with breakfast for one night at a 3*+/4* Hotel. Mercedes E220 business class car or Mercedes Minivan.
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DAY 1: Paris - Memorial de Caen - 360 Circular Cinema - Normandy American Cemetery - Overlord Museum - Omaha Beach - Pointe du Hoc - Mont Saint-Michel
07:30 Pick up and Departure to Caen
07:30 Pick up from Your hotel in Paris and departure destination Caen by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes E220 business-class car by 2 people or by Mercedes minivan from 3 participants. It takes about 3 hours (240 km) to reach the Memorial of Caen. One stop at the rest area will be made. This trip is Live guided.
10:30 - 12:00 Visit of The Caen Memorial and Museum
10:30 - 12:00 Visit of The Caen Memorial and Museum, located in the British Sword Beach sector. Caen Museum is the best World War II museum in France. You will get an overview of the Battle of Normandy as well the sense of the personal lives of the people who took part in it. An excellent 19-minute film documents this battle with original historic footage.
12:00 Departure to Arromanches-les-Bains. It takes about 0,5 hour (30 km) on the national roads crossing beautiful countryside and small villages.
12:40 - 13:30 Lunch break in Arromanches-les-Bains
12:40 - 13:30 Lunch break and visit of Arromanches-les-Bains town. Arromanches is a small seaside town famous for its former artificial Mulberry Harbour. Located in the center of the British Gold Beach landing zone it played an invaluable role in the D-Day landings. The Allies built here an artificial temporary harbour for unloading of vehicles, materials, and people. Mulberry Harbour had, by June 12, 1944, helped bring 300,000 men, 54,000 vehicles, and 104,000 tons of supplies to Europe.
13:30 - 14:15 "360 Circular Cinema" visit
13:30 - 14:15 "360* Circular Cinema" visit. It is located on the top of the hill with the best Viewpoint over the bay of the former artificial harbour. You will watch a very impressive documentary bout 100 days of the Battle of Normandy learning in details Operation Overlord.
14:15 Departure to the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center. It is just half an hour drive (20 km).
15:00 - 16:00 Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center in Colleville-sur-Mer
15:00 - 16:00 Arrival and Visit of the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center, located in Colleville-sur-Mer and overlooking Omaha Beach. It contains 9,387 U.S. soldiers, most of whom were killed during the Normandy Landings and the Wall of the Missing with the names of 1,557 soldiers missing in action. The cliffs leading down to the beaches contain the remnants of the German defences, including concrete casemates with memorials to the soldiers.
At Normandy American Cemetery you’ll see as well the semicircular memorial colonnade with the sculpture “Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves” and large maps of military operations; and the most beautiful, idyllic spot on Planet Earth. At the Visitors Center You will find a very nice small Museum with a lot of informations about Battle of Normandy.
16:00 Departure to the close located Overlord Museum.
16:10 - 16:50 Overlord Museum visit.
16:10 - 16:50 Overlord Museum visit. Located just few hundred meters away from the Normandy American Cemetery this museum contains many WW2 artefacts and installations like tanks, weapons, guns, many military vehicles, V-1 missile, personal belongings and more. It gives You a personal feeling about D-Day.
16:50 Departure to Omaha Beaches. It takes just 5 to 10 minutes (5 km).
17:00 - 17:20 Omaha Beach Signal Monument
17:00 - 17:20 Arrival at Omaha Beaches Signal Monument. Learn about the huge sacrifice made by the 34 000 men who landed here on D-Day. Omaha Beach is the most popular travellers destination of the D-Day Beaches.
17:20 Departure to Pointe du Hoc. I takes 15 minutes (10 km).
17:30 - 18:15 Pointe du Hoc
17:30 - 18:15 Arrival at Pointe du Hoc, a prominent cliff between Utah and Omaha Beach. This point was important because it was the highest land between Omaha and Utah beaches and could thus fire upon both of them. The site was a gun battery, fortified with concrete casemates and gun pits, forming part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defences. Visiting the Pointe du Hoc You will learn about the 2nd Ranger battalion sacrifice to take this crucial gun battery on the cliffs of Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944. Many of the original fortifications and bunkers remain on the site and are open to the public, including the fire control casemate, on top of which there is a monument to the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
18:15 Departure to Mont Saint-Michel. It takes about 1,5 hours (140 km).
19:45 Arrival in Mont Saint-Michel
19:45 Arrival in Mont Saint-Michel. Overnight at a 3*+ or 4* Hotel (see the options).
DAY 2: Mont Saint-Michel - Sainte-Mere-Eglise - Airborne Museum - Utah Beach - Utah Beach Landing Museum - Paris
09:00 - 11:30 Mont Saint-Michel. Abbey visit
Our guide-driver bring you up the narrow streets of the medieval village toward the top to the Abbey. On the top of the Island, you can admire panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and bay. First settled by man in the year 709 it contains Medieval village & beautiful Abbey fortress dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. The construction of the Benedictine Abbey started in the 700’s and continued through the 1200s. It remains practically the same since the Middle Ages as it was the goal of pilgrims from all over the world. Mont Saint Michel remains the most visited site in France.
11:30 Departure from Mont Saint-Michel to Sainte-Mère-Église. It takes 1,5 hours (135 km).
13:00 - 14:00 Stop in Sainte-Mère-Église. Milestone of Freedom. Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break in Sainte-Mère-Église in front of the Airborne Museum. Short stop in Sainte-Mère-Église in front of the Airborne Museum.
Sainte-Mère-Église is a small town in Normandy which played a significant part in the WW2 because of its position. In the early morning of 6 June 1944, mixed units of the U.S.82nd and U.S.101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Mission Boston, making it one of the first towns liberated in the invasion.
14:00 - 15:00 Airborne Museum visit
15:00 - 15:30 D-Day Experience Night Jumps of a C-47 aircraft at Airborne Museum
15:45 - 16:00 Utah Beach and its Monuments
15:45 - 16:00 Arrival at Utah Beach. Free time for learning on Utah Beach. Utah Beach is the next to Omaha Beach and the westernmost of the Five Normandy D-Day Beaches containing nowadays many museums, memorials and monuments. Utah Beach was the first beach to be stormed by 23,000 American soldiers on 6 June 1944 in order to capture the town of Cherbourg and its deep water port. Utah Beach casualties were relatively light with 197 (including 60 missing). The units that landed on Utah Beach include: 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, VII Corps, 4th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Division, 4th Cavalry Regiment and 70th Tank Battalion.
Near the UTAH BEACH Landing Museum You can discover many important monuments. Normandy’s Utah Beaches are wide and clear and make it easy to imagine the events of 1944. You can spend here some time strolling the beach, thinking about the events of WW2. In the same general area at the Landing Museum you’ll find a collection of monuments:
1. Higgins Boat Monument. On D-Day, Americans landed in amphibious crafts used for all ladings and known as Higgins Boats, named for its inventor.
2. U.S. Navy Monument, the only outside the US consisting of three figures meant to represent: leadership, sailors, and combat units. Inscribed on the base of this statue are the names of the American ships that participated in Operation Overlord.
3. 90th Infantry Division Monument. After landing on Utah Beach, the 90th continued inland through Northern France, then onto Belgium, the Ardennes and helped liberating the Nazi concentration camp at Flossenbürg in Bavaria.
16:00 - 17:00 Utah Beach Landing Museum visit
20:30 Coming back to Paris
20:30 Coming back to Paris. Drop off at Your hotel
- Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Signal Monument
- Caen Memorial, Overlord museum
- Utah Beach Landing Museum, German Gun Battery, Pointe Du Hoc
- Mont Saint-Michel with entrance tickets to the Abbey and audioguide
- Hotel accommodation in Double Rooms for one night 3*+/4*
- Mercedes E220 or Mercedes Minivan
- Live Guided, Hotel Pick up & Drop off
- All Fees and Taxes, Bottled water
We had an awesome tour!!! If you want a great experience with the best tour guide ask for Cyrus his knowledge of history was amazing . Mont St Michel is something not to miss. The small towns were beautiful and a nice addition to the tour. Cyrus timed our Normandy tour so we could see the lowering of the flag at the American Cemetery. There are no words to describe that. Don’t miss this tour. Thank you Cyrus!!
10 October 2024
It was an amazing experience
Cyrus is a very knowledgeable & well informed person he made our trip
Interesting & exciting
His driving is safe & he gave us more information on France & its heritage
Definately the person to book with
Highly recommend 💯 %
13 March 2024
The drive thru Loire Valley was was lovely and the Chateaus exceeded my expectations. Our guide and driver were friendly, organized and competent. MSM was especially wonderful and we enjoyed having our guide be able to join us on that tour. Hotel was immaculate with a great breakfast, would love to have been able to preorder dinner at the hotel. Well worth the money though the brandy tasting was clearly a 'commercial' stop. Be nice if that could be adjusted for the smaller groups.
6 November 2023