Normandy Tours from London
Take a Normandy tour from London, offering unique ways to see the D-Day landing sites. Our private tours of the Normandy D-Day landing sites depart from London with a knowledgeable guide. See many of the locations that were part of the D-Day invasion. Choose from an overnight tour from London including Eurostar train tickets or see the D-Day landing sites on a 1-day tour by private plane.
Normandy Overnight Tour from London
Batterie de Longues
This private Normandy overnight tour from London is fully customizable according to your interests. On the first day travel from London to Paris on the Eurostar train, crossing the English channel. The rest of your first day is spent exploring Paris at your leisure, or we can arrange for a private tour of the city. We can also organize your hotel stay in Paris.
On the second day, your private tour guide will pick you up from your hotel. Your Normandy day tour includes:
- Drive through the countryside to the village of Ranville. This was the first French village liberated on D-Day. It is also where the famous Pegasus Bridge is located
- See Longues, the site of the only German artillery battery to retain all its original guns
- See Arromanches, where a portable harbour (nicknamed Mulberry Harbour) was tugged over from southern England. It became known as Port Winston, named after Winston Churchill who was closely involved in its conception. 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles and 4 million tonnes of supplies arrived via Port Winston
- Visit Bayeux, the first city to be liberated in June 1944. See the Bayeux Tapestry, the world-renowned work from the middle ages that recounts the Conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. The tapestry is listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register. The nearby Bayeux Cathedral is a gem of Norman architecture
- See Omaha Beach, site of the invasion’s most intense battles. Closeby is the largest of the wartime cemeteries, The Normandy American Cemetry. It featured in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan
- Following your Normandy tour, we will return to Paris Gard du Nord station for your return Eurostar train to London
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Normandy Tour from London by Private Plane
Pointe du Hoc cliffs from air
Take a once-in-a-lifetime trip with this Normandy tour from London by private plane and car. You’ll get to see the D-Day beaches and key locations from the air, as well as a driving tour on land through the Normandy countryside. This exclusive private tour is subject to availability and can be fully customized according to your interests.
- Your guide will meet you at your hotel in London, and drive you to Fairoaks airfield in Surrey
- Take off from Fairoaks in a twin-engine aircraft, flying over Southern England and crossing the English channel
- During the 1-hour flight, your guide will explain, with the help of charts, some of the background to the D-Day landings, including the strategic situation and tactical dilemmas
- Land at Cherbourg Airport for an overland tour of the Normandy beaches
- Visit Omaha Beach, site of the invasion’s most intense battles. See the Normandy American Cemetery, the final resting place for nearly 10,000 Americans who died on the nearby beaches. See the Pointe du Hoc cliffs, where US Army Rangers scaled 100-foot cliffs under fire in one of D-Day’s most dangerous missions
- Stop for lunch at a local fishing port
- Visit St. Mere Eglise which was the first town liberated by the Allies. It featured in the film The Longest Day
- Continue the day with an aerial tour of the D-Day landing sites.
- Circle St Mere Eglise, and fly low over Utah Beach where over 23,000 men of the US 4th Infantry Division landed. See views of the wreck of Mulberry Harbour (tide permitting).
- Fly over Gold Beach where nearly 25,000 men of the British 50th Division landed on D-Day
- Pass Juno & Sword Beaches where the 3rd British and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions came ashore.
- Pass Pegasus Bridge, and fly over the Merville Battery and landing grounds for the 6th British Airborne Division.
- Fly over the English Channel, over Arundel Castle and through Sussex and Surrey
- Land back at Fairoaks airfield at around 6pm. You will then be driven back to London
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