I've long considered Paris boat tours to be an excellent way for first-time visitors to see the city. The good, the bad and the ugly: readers of About.com Paris Travel have submitted their reviews of Paris boat tours here to help you decide what companies to trust or avoid, best times to take a tour, whether to opt for a dinner cruise, and more.
Batobus is Great
Great little boat service. Clean, runs on time every 15 minutes and the get on, get-off service is just great. There is no annoying announcer and the boat has a glass shield to keep out the wind but …
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Bateaux Parisiens: A Less Expensive Option
Very nice tour with multilingual help and easy to use handsets describing the sites. Compares very well to more expensive boat lines we used a few years ago. Also, a discount is available if you have…
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Batobus: Hop-On, Hop-Off Boat Tours
I was visiting Paris for 12 days, so I bought a month-long pass on Batobus. I was staying in the Bastille (11th arrondissement) and so I would head west for the Louvre, Musee d' Orsay, Champs d' Elys…
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