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Travel Planning Services - Personalised Itineraries

There is so much to see and do in Provence that you could spend weeks here and still miss some of the best.

We can help you. Whether this is your "First Sight" visit or your "Second Time Around", you're sure to get everything you want, and more, out of your trip to Provence with one of our itineraries/tours.

First, we will get to know you through our detailed questionnaires. Then, we will steer you to the places that will interest you the most. This way, you won't waste time and you'll be more relaxed. And you'll get even more out of your trip.

For more details, see below or go to our sister website at www.the-heart-of-provence.com. There you'll find lots of information about our travel services (including personalised itineraries, booking services and guide books).

The "Heart of Provence" Tours

Whether this is your first or second visit to Provence, our customized tour package will give easy-to-follow, informative guide books, a Personalized Travel Itinerary based on your choices and tastes.

This includes recommendations for restaurants, bistrots, wine-estates, plus a list of gourmet food shops, and other must-do addresses. To establish this personalized list, we start by sending you a detailed questionnaire to learn about your tastes, interests and budget. With this we build your itinerary. The recipe for a holiday of a lifetime ! Contact us for more details at inquiries@the-heart-of-provence.com

Special 2011 Prices from 140 Euros (including 2 Guide books)

The "Heart of Provence" Grand Tour

Using a second, more detailed questionnaire, and a follow-up telephone/Skype conversation we build a full seven-day "Grand Tour" for you. With this, we make all the necessary restaurant and touring reservations, and recommend additional sight-seeing and shopping opportunities. Plus, we provide daytime phone assistance during your entire stay, in case you need advice or information when you're out on the road. And, if you don't have a cell phone with you, we lend you a local pay-as-you-go French one.

Also, if you want something special - for example, a Chateauneuf wine-tasting appointment, a guided tour of Arles or Saint-Rémy, or a day's horse-riding in the Camargue, we can make all the arrangements for you. Contact us for more details at inquiries@the-heart-of-provence.com

Prices starting at 190 Euros (including 2 Guide books)

Independent touring for Olivettes and the Heart of Provence clients If you have booked into one of our rental apartments in Lourmarin and you choose one of the "Heart of Provence" packages, we can of course, help you plan even better. Before you arrive, we mail you our two personalized guide books, and start helping you to develop practical touring and sight seeing itineraries for each day of your stay.

Then when you arrive we meet with you, and , if you'd like, we'll be happy to go over the plan with you on the spot. Of course, not everybody likes to leap out of bed at eight o'clock when they're on vacation. These people may want to leave some things out completely. Others may wish to add on extra side trips - we can help with suggestions for that too. For our "Grand Tour" guests, the cell phone is particularly helpful and reassuring if you get lost driving during the day, or if you need our assistance with translations etc, etc ... Contact us at inquiries@the-heart-of-provence.com for more information.

SOME IDEAS

Here are some of the day-trip destinations that we suggest in our detailed itineraries. Some you can swap around according to your fancy, some are based on markets that are only held on certain days :

The Heart of Provence, its markets, villages and country towns:

Isle sur la Sorgue to Gordes . A visit to the internationally known antique & flea market of this gem-like Provençal country town, built on an island in the jade-green Sorgues river. Then visit more of the Heart of Provence – the cascading Fontaine de Vaucluse, the spectacular village of Gordes, the working Cistercian abbey of Sénanque. All close by. We can give you the key recommendations that will make your visit more successful, more enjoyable.

Saint-Rémy, Arles, Les Baux de Provence. Everybody loves the market in St Rémy, the town that reminds us how Aix-en-Provence was 30 years ago. Then visit the Roman coliseum and amphitheatre in Arles, and the astonishing medieval cathedral. In the afternoon you can take in the medieval fortified village of Les Baux de Provence and a few of the other pretty small towns of the Alpilles

Lourmarin food & craft market. A sophisticated regional market like the one in St Rémy, but bigger and better, and you don’t have to find a parking space; you can stagger back to Les Olivettes with your purchases.

The Luberon Villages : Spectacular scenery; visits to the hill-top villages of Bonnieux, Roussillon, and Menerbes.

Avignon and Châteauneuf-du Pape : Visit the Popes Palace, one of the finest medieval monuments in Provence, and go on to Chateauneuf du Pape.

Aix en Provence & Cassis : Morning & lunch in Aix then drive to the picturesque fishing village of Cassis. Here you can tour the fjord-like 'Calanques' in a boat or on foot. Why not taste some wine too?

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