Overview:
A Parisian Makeover is a luxury eight-day escorted tour of Paris designed with a French stylist around fashion, beauty, shopping and fine dining. Group attendance is limited to eight (8) adult ladies (21 years or older), with a minimum of six (6) for tour viability.
This tour will start on a Sunday morning, with group welcome by a GBT tour director in Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, followed by transfer in a private chauffeured-minvan to a deluxe hotel in the St.-Germain-des- Prés area. A bilingual (English/French) tour director will be available during all sheduled activities and a French fashion stylist will provide individual assistance for shopping and during a beauty makeover session in a premier salon. The group is served by private transportation during all scheduled activities.
Tour ends on the following Sunday, with transfer from hotel to CDG airport for departures.
Prices:
$6,710 per person double occupancy; $7,725 single occupancy
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
For more information please contact GBT:
by phone: (914) 576-5687
by e-mail: bea@goldenbeetours.com
Or see Frequently Asked Questions page (FAQ's) for details
Registration & payments
To sign up for this tour, please call 914 576-5687 between 10 am and 5 pm Eastern time, Monday - Friday, or fill out and mail to GBT the Registration form below. A reservation deposit of $1,000 per person is required to secure your booking, of which $ 500 is non-refundable. Deposits are by check only.
Guests are required to provide a signed Risk Release form (see below) to join this tour; please fill it out and mail it with your Registration form and deposit check to:
Golden Bee Tours
523 Fifth Ave.
Pelham, NY 10803
Tour is guaranteed to run once six (6) or more guests register.
The balance of payment for your booked tour must be received no later than 40 days prior to the tour date; at this time, the full reservation deposit becomes non-refundable. Balances may be paid by check, Paypal or credit card (Visa, American Express, Mastercard).
Registration is limited to eight (8) guests chosen on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of the deposit. The first eight people to tender the deposit will have priority to join the tour until 40 days prior to tour date, when payment in full must be received. If your deposit is received after the first eight people have registered, but before they have paid the balance, you may choose to be put on a waiting list in the order in which your deposit was received; should one of the original eight people cancel or fail to make payment in full 40 days prior to tour date, you will be notified that a space has become available and will be asked to pay the balance of the tour cost within 48 hours. If no space becomes available - or if you decide not to join the group for any reason - you will have your deposit returned in full.
Click here for a Registration form
Click here for a Risk Release form
For this tour we ask you to fill out a Beauty & Style form with information that will help our stylist help you when you shop in Paris.
Cancellations/refunds/transfers
If you have to cancel your booking, the following refund policy applies:
40 days or more before the tour date: you will receive a refund of $500 (half the deposit)
between 40 and 30 days of tour date: the $1,000 deposit becomes non-refundable; all other payments made will be refunded
30 days or less of tour date: we regret that we cannot offer any refunds.
You may also choose to transfer your payments to another tour at a later date, with credit according to the payments you have made. Transfers are not accepted within 30 days of tour date.
No refunds will be made to those who fail to join a tour without due cancellation, nor for accommodations or services not used or for a partially completed tour.
All cancellations must be requested in writing.
If GBT cancels a tour:
We may be forced to cancel a tour if circumstances beyond our control - weather conditions, strikes, war, political turmoil, terrorism or civil unrest - may deem travel unsafe at the tour's destination. In such cases you may choose between A - receiving a full refund of your deposit and all other payments made or B - transfering your payments to another GBT tour at a later date.
Price includes:
- Private transportation transfers from CDG Airport to deluxe hotel on the Left Bank of Paris on arrival and from hotel to airport on departure
- Eight days, seven nights in deluxe hotel in Paris
- All breakfasts, three dinnners (wine and water included)
- Private transportation during all scheduled activities
- Individual assistance of fashion stylist with shopping and salon treatments
- Individual evaluation of 'Beauty & Style' form
- One exclusie burlesque show
- One tea party at traditional Parisian maison de thé (tea salon)
- Company of bilingual tour director and French stylist in all scheduled activities
- Suggestions and addresses for your free time
- Assistance with VAT (sales tax) refunds at CDG Airport on departure
Price does not include:
- Airfare to France; tour starts and ends at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
- Passport or visa fees
- Trip cancellation insurance
- Excess baggage charges
- Personal purchases
- Tips for driver or hotel services
- Transportation, company of tour director or fashion stylist during free time, or on any deviation from tour schedule
- Cost of salon treatments (haircut/color, makeup lesson, etc)
- No features or benefits beyond those specifically mentioned in the 'Price Includes' section above
Trip cancellation insurance
We recommend that you purchase a trip insurance package with benefits designed to protect both you and your investment in the event you have to cancel this tour. These policies also cover trip interruption/emergency medical or dental care, emergency medical evacuation, baggage coverage, travel delay and travel accidents on all types of tours, whatever their duration, and are available through your airline or travel agency, with costs based on your age and on the the price, duration and destination of your trip.
Diet restrictions
Due to the nature of this tour, and the fact that it includes meals in French restaurants, we are not able to accommodate restricted diets or the specific needs of people with food allergies. Vegetarian (but not vegan) meals will usually be available in Paris.
Smoking policy
To ensure the safety and comfort of all tour members, smoking is not permitted during group activities or in the places we visit.
