A Review From Peter

Peter and Carlos were terrific clients, and I greatly appreciate them taking the time to write one of the best  reviews I've ever had:

"Outstanding tour of the Château Royal d’Amboise, the town of Amboise and the Église Saint-Denis. Susan is a wonderful guide - knowledgeable, entertaining, charming and kind. She is the best!"

They were greatly taken by this beautiful blowsy rose in the grounds of the Chateau Royal d'Amboise. That's Peter in the background taking a photo of one of the other plants of it.

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

Instagrammer Watching in the Loire Valley

Instagrammers are a strange young breed apart as far as most of our clients are concerned. They are mostly old enough to be the Instagrammer's grandparents, and find their behaviour a bit vulgar. Happily, the Loire Valley is not infested with extreme Instagrammers posing ludicrously and pushing ordinary visitors out of the way. So when we encounter one we can treat it as part of the entertainment and enjoy the show. Like others in the room we proceeded to take our own doubtless inadequate photos of the proceedings for later posting on social media. This young woman had sensibly timed her arrival at Chenonceau on a busy day in May for the very late afternoon, when most visitors have gone home. Despite having a team of photographer, director, and a bloke we dubbed 'The Handbag Wrangler', she did not cause a scene or any inconvenience to anyone else. She was also wearing a classier outfit than a lot of them that we've seen. Properly professional we'd say.

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

Staying in a Chateau in the Loire Valley

Lots of people want to stay in a chateau when they visit the Loire Valley and one of the newest options and the most luxurious is Chateau Louise (de la Vallière), at Reugny, near Amboise. It has been restored and converted into a hotel with the utmost good taste and sympathy for the historic building. Hidden away (genuinely not straightforward to find) it provides the most tranquille and comfortable location for a break imaginable. You will need a car though, or to book a tour with us if you don't want to drive to explore the surrounding UNESCO World Heritage area.

Claudette, leaving Chateau Louise after a happy day touring with a Franco-American family.

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

 

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Chateau Louise's website: https://www.chateaulouise.com/en/

 

Other chateau hotels in the Touraine Loire Valley -- Domaine de la Tortinière, Chateau des Arpentis, Chateau de Pray, Chateau de Perreux, Chateau d'Artigny, Chateau de Noizay.

Lunch with France of a Lifetime

We work with France of a Lifetime tours [link] to provide customised experiences for our mutual clients. Naturally every now and then it makes sense for us to get together to share ideas and nuture our relationship. Lunch in Loches is a good way to do that, and to familiarise Mallory and Ben with one of the restaurants we use with clients (in this case, Le George). 

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel.