France: The Most Visited Country on Earth
The tower that sparkles on the hour, castles on a gentle river, lavender to the horizon, and a coastline where the film stars spend their summers. The world's favourite country is waiting for your version of it.
Everything the World Loves, in One Country.
More people holiday in France than in any other nation on earth, and the reasons stack up fast. Paris alone carries the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre with its Mona Lisa, and evening cruises down the Seine, with the golden Hall of Mirrors at Versailles half an hour away and Europe's only Disneyland just beyond. Then the country unfolds: fairy-tale castles along the Loire, lavender running purple to the horizon in Provence, and the blue sweep of the Riviera where Nice melts into Cannes and Monaco. It is the romance capital of the world and a family favourite in the same breath, a republic that counts its cheeses in the hundreds, and its fast trains put the Mediterranean an afternoon from Paris. A single Gulf connection from Kochi lands you there, one Schengen visa opens France and its neighbours, and we plan every step of it.
The Regions That Fill a France Trip.
Most journeys open in Paris and run south with the sun. These are the pieces.
Paris and the Île-de-France
The City of Light itself
The Eiffel Tower by day and sparkling by night, the Louvre and its Mona Lisa, a Seine cruise beneath the bridges, Montmartre's climbing lanes, the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, and Disneyland Paris waiting for the children.
The Loire Valley
France's garden of castles
Where Chambord raises its famous double-spiral staircase, Chenonceau arches clean across its river, and vineyards and cycling lanes fill the gentle country between one château and the next.
Provence and the Lavender South
Purple fields running to the horizon around Valensole in high summer
Hilltop villages like Gordes stacked in golden stone, the papal palace of Avignon, and markets that smell of herbs, honey, and olives.
The French Riviera
Nice's Promenade des Anglais
Cannes' red-carpet seafront, the perfume capital of Grasse in the hills behind, the eagle's-nest village of Èze above the sea, and an easy stroll across into Monaco's yacht-filled harbour.
France, in brief.
One country holding the world's most famous city, its prettiest countryside, and its most glamorous coastline. The essentials first.
Evening Beneath the Eiffel
Twenty Thousand Lights, Five Minutes, Every Hour
The Eiffel Tower was built for a fair in 1889 and was meant to come down twenty years later. It stayed, and became the most recognised silhouette on earth: three hundred metres of iron lace above the Seine, with viewing decks that stack Paris at your feet and the lawns of the Champ de Mars spread below for the world's most photographed picnics. Then the sun sets, and the tower puts on its real show. At dusk it glows gold, and on every hour after dark, twenty thousand bulbs erupt into a shimmer that lasts five minutes and silences the whole riverbank. We position you for it properly: on the Trocadéro steps with the tower filling the sky, or aboard an evening Seine cruise timed to slide beneath the sparkle at its peak. That is the moment the whole trip is remembered by, and it is exactly how we schedule it.
The Only Disneyland in Europe.
Disneyland Paris sits forty minutes from the city centre by train, and it is the only Disney kingdom on the continent: two parks side by side, the pink Sleeping Beauty Castle at the heart of one and the film-studio magic of the other, with parades, fireworks, and the full cast in residence. For Kerala families it turns a Europe trip into the children's favourite story, and in December the park wraps itself in Christmas. Tickets are dated and the popular seasons sell far ahead, so we hold yours with the itinerary and pace the day to the youngest member of the family.
A Week for Paris and a Palace, Ten Days for the South.
France plans open in Paris, and the capital fills four days without repeating itself: the tower and the Louvre, Versailles' golden halls, an evening cruise, and a Disneyland day for the family. Then the fast train takes over. A week adds the Loire's castles or a straight run south; ten days does it properly, two nights among Provence's lavender and hill villages and two more on the Riviera, so the trip ends with the Mediterranean glittering below Èze. The same visa opens Switzerland by rail and Italy beyond the coast, while London joins by Eurostar on a separate UK visa, and we manage both files. Send your dates and your party, and the full plan comes back, flights from Kerala included, shaped until it fits.
The World's Favourite Deserves a Personal Plan.
20 Years of Experience
Two decades of journeys from Kerala, with Europe among our most planned and most loved.
Routes That Time the Light
Lavender in bloom, the tower at sparkle hour, harvest gold in the wine country, and the Riviera in its warm shoulder months.
Tables That Taste of Home
Indian dinners arranged in Paris and Nice, with vegetarian options mapped through Provence and the Loire.
One Booking, Door to Door
Flights, visa file, hotels, fast-train seats, and palace or park tickets held together by a single Fortune team.
Paris features on all four of our Europe group tours.
If the full France trip is more than you need this year, Paris is built into every fixed Europe departure we run. What changes between them is how long you get, how you arrive, and what the city sits between.
Grand Europe
15 DAYS | KOCHI TO KOCHI · 9 COUNTRIES
EXPERIENCES:
Emirates Flights | Eurostar London to Paris | UK and Schengen Visas | 4 Star Hotels | All Meals The only route that arrives by train. You board the Eurostar at St Pancras and come up in Gare du Nord · straight into an evening illumination tour of the lit city. The next full day covers the Louvre · the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe · the Eiffel Tower to the third level and a Seine cruise. Two nights in Paris · and the trip carries on to Rome. Note this route needs a UK visa alongside the Schengen · and Fortune handles both files.
Excellent Europe
13 DAYS | KOCHI TO KOCHI · 8 COUNTRIES
EXPERIENCES:
Oman Air Flights | Schengen Visa | 4 Star Hotels | All Meals France closes this one. After ten days working up from Rome · you reach Paris and stay two nights. The Eiffel Tower comes first thing on the full day · up to the third level · then a city tour and a Seine cruise in the evening. The Louvre is kept for the last morning before the airport · so the trip ends in front of the Mona Lisa.
Dream Europe
9 DAYS | KOCHI TO KOCHI · 5 COUNTRIES
EXPERIENCES:
Emirates Flights | Schengen Visa | 4 Star Hotels | All Meals | Lindt Home of Chocolate Paris opens this route. You land there directly from Kochi and stay two nights right at the start · so the city gets you fresh rather than at the end of a fortnight. The Louvre fills the morning · the Eiffel Tower third level the afternoon · and the Seine cruise runs as the lights come on. The trip then heads north and finishes in the Swiss Alps.
Wonders of Europe
9 DAYS | TRIVANDRUM TO TRIVANDRUM · 5 COUNTRIES
EXPERIENCES:
Emirates Flights | Schengen Visa | All Meals | Malayalee Tour Manager The Trivandrum departure · and the one that ends in Paris. Two nights here after crossing from Brussels · with a city tour · the Eiffel Tower to the second level and an evening on the Seine. The route runs the opposite way to Dream Europe · opening in Zurich and closing in France.
FAQ
Questions with useful answers
A single smooth Gulf connection takes you from Kochi or Trivandrum to Paris, usually landing the same day. We book the routing that keeps the connection shortest for your dates and fares.
Yes, a Schengen visa, and the same visa covers Switzerland, Italy, and the rest of the zone on a combined trip. Fortune prepares the complete file, forms, appointments, hotel proofs, and insurance; start 45 to 60 days before travel and the process stays unhurried.
April to June and September to October are the generous seasons, with spring blossom in Paris and harvest gold in the wine country. Lavender peaks from late June through July in Provence, and December wraps Paris and Disneyland in lights.
Completely. It is Europe's only Disneyland, two parks in one place, and we build one or two dated-ticket days into the plan at the children's pace, with the rest of Paris arranged around them.
It practically invented the genre. Paris evenings under the sparkling tower, a Seine dinner cruise, lavender fields in season, and the Riviera's blue coastline make the classic route, and we shape the pace for two.
It is; Paris features on all four of our fixed Europe departures, with the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Seine cruise included. This customised trip is for the France beyond those two days: Versailles in full, Disneyland at the children's pace, the lavender south, and the Riviera on your own clock.