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Deauville: Étretat & Honfleur Private Tour with Cider Tasting 1
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Deauville: Étretat & Honfleur Private Tour with Cider Tasting 3
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By Normandy Day - Normandy Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is $999 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • You are already in Normandy. Étretat's spectacular cliffs are just an hour away, with Honfleur and a tasting of authentic Norman cider and calvados along the way.

    Your private driver collects you from your Deauville hotel for a relaxing day exploring two of Normandy's most iconic destinations, without the stress of driving.

    First, Étretat. Its dramatic white cliffs, natural arches, and famous sea needle inspired Monet, Courbet, and Maupassant. Walk the cliff paths and admire breathtaking coastal views.

    Next, stop at a local producer in Normandy's apple country to sample traditional cider, pommeau, and calvados.

    Continue to Honfleur, one of France's most picturesque harbour towns. Stroll around the Vieux Bassin, admire the slate-fronted houses, browse art galleries, or relax at a waterfront café.

    This private tour is fully flexible. Your driver handles the route, parking, and timing while you enjoy the day at your own pace before returning to your hotel.

Activity location

  • Etretat
    • Etretat, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Etretat
    • Etretat, France

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Driver Only - No Guide

  • Earn $29.97
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
$999.00 x 1 Traveler$999.00
Total
Price is $999.00

Private Driver + Expert Guide

  • Earn $53.70
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Enhance your experience with an expert guide offering historical context, fascinating stories, and unique insights all day.
Pickup included

Price details
$1,790.00 x 1 Traveler$1,790.00
Total
Price is $1,790.00

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Flexible itinerary — you set the pace
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Bottled water
  • Inclusions
    Hotel pick-up and drop-off included
  • Inclusions
    Private round-trip transfer from your Deauville hotel
  • Inclusions
    Norman cider and calvados tasting at a local producer
  • Exclusions
    Meals and drinks (beyond the included tasting)
  • Exclusions
    Gratuities for your driver

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Specialized infant seats are available
    • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Etretat

  • 2h
The cliffs of Étretat come as a surprise even when you know what to expect. The Porte d'Aval — the great western arch — frames the Aiguille needle beyond it in a composition so perfect it looks constructed. To the east, the Porte d'Amont arch rises from the other end of the beach, smaller but no less dramatic. The cliff path above the western arch is the essential walk — twenty minutes from the village, rewarded with the view that Monet returned to again and again. Below, the pebble beach and the village offer a different pace entirely: a covered market, a handful of restaurants, the Jardins d'Étretat on the hill with the arch as its permanent backdrop. From Deauville, Étretat is an hour north along the Alabaster Coast — one of the more beautiful drives in Normandy in its own right.

Normandy

  • 45m
Between Étretat and Honfleur, the Norman bocage takes over — a landscape of hedged fields, apple orchards, and farmhouses that has looked roughly the same for several centuries. Your tasting stop visits a local producer in this countryside for an introduction to the drinks that Normandy has been making since the Middle Ages. Dry cider, sweet cider, pommeau (a blend of fresh apple juice and calvados), and calvados itself — aged in oak barrels, smooth, complex, and completely unlike anything labelled "apple brandy" elsewhere. This is not a tourist attraction. It is a working farm producing the real thing, and the tasting reflects that. Allow 45 minutes and leave with a bottle.

Honfleur

  • 2h
Honfleur sits at the mouth of the Seine where it meets the Channel — a position that made it one of the great ports of medieval France and later one of the most painted harbours in Europe. The Vieux Bassin is the heart of it: a small rectangular harbour ringed by the tall, narrow slate-fronted houses that give Honfleur its singular silhouette. Eugène Boudin was born here. He taught Monet here. The light that made both of them is still the same. Walk the quayside. Climb to the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Grâce above the town for views across the Seine estuary. Find the Église Sainte-Catherine — the largest timber church in France, built by shipwrights after the Hundred Years War because there was no stone and no time. Then find a table at the harbour and order whatever the boats brought in that morning.

Location

Activity location

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    Etretat
    • Etretat, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Etretat
    • Etretat, France

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