Omaha Beach
- Admission:Free
Nature & Wildlife, Off-the-Beaten Path, Religious Experience, Beach, Monument - Historical, Monument - Military, Statue / Monument
Omaha Beach Reviews
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An excellent experience!
Super fun and thorough tour for only 2 days. Really saw a lot, nice hotel, excellent tour guide. Very cool!
We enjoyed this tour a lot. Our guide had good English skills and was very knowledgeable and personable. She gave us the time we needed at all the sites we visited and was able to answer all our questions about the history and the area we were seeing. Our only complaint was about parking; when I booked, I was told there was parking behind the Churchill Hotel, but it was packed. We needed to know about the nearby public parking as well. Be sure customers have that information.
Our guide was fantastic, extremely well versed. Had pictures of before and after battles and photos of men who fought there. A great learning experience.
Viator made it very easy to book our tour to the beaches. The tour itself was comprehensive, gave us a deeper appreciation for the D Day operation and our tour guide was charming, gracious and above all, knowledgeable.
This was a great tour I can highly recommend it. Lots of good information.
It was a very good tour, and the tour guide was very very good
An absolutely fabulous half-day tour. Our guide was a very personable local with excellent English who made the history of the region light up with impressive knowledge of the specifics of battles and the people involved. The tour hit all the important sights (especially for those familiar with the American landing points) and ended at a reasonable time. Would suggest a more well-defined meeting point other than "outside the train station", but otherwise this was a near-perfect tour. Thank you!
Guide was excellent and the tour was fascinating. I would recommend this tour to anyone.
Carol and I thought the tour from Bayeux of the WWII sites was terrific. Our guide Sylvain was excellent a real student of the war and area. Highly recommend! Don
The tour was worth every penny. Our guide Lucy was very knowledgable and spoke very good english. I would recomment this to anyone who wants an indepth view of Normandy invasion from an American view point. The only critizim I would have is to reverse the order of the tour as by the time we reached Omha Beach and the American Cemetary it was late in the day which did not leave a lot of time for those sites which in my opionon are the most important part of the tour if you are an American.
If you only have a limited time to see Normandy, this is the way to go. Our guide picked us up at our BnB as scheduled and gave a wonderful overview of the D-Day operations. The stop at the American Cemetary is particularly moving. His recommendation to be at the flag pole when taps was played and the flag was lowered was great. Early April weather was a little cold, but the trip was a wonderful experience.
Very interesting and informative. It was sad to visit the Americal cemetary but it is a must-see.. It was a little difficult to hear the guide's descriptions on occasion from the back seat of the minibus.
We loved our trip to Normandy with our guide. He was fun and his WW2 knowledge was great. We took a train from Bayeux to Paris, very easy. We rode the train back with our new "tour group" friends and had a blast drinking wine and eating local breads and cheeses in our train compartment.
After recently taking my family (parents, wife and our 3 small children) on a Viator American tour, I was disappointed. Upon reflection, well, I am downright angry. I guess in some ways I should have expected it, but was hoping for the best. After planning a few days for our group to be in Normandy, I contacted many local tour guides (all which had great reviews on review sites) but all were already booked. I then checked Viator and they gladly took my money. Below are my grievances with the ensuing tour: 1) We agreed to meet at the Bayeux train station. Upon arrival to the station, it was obvious that the train station was being renovated and currently not in use. I asked him where I should park and after looking around, he said it “was complicated” and then instructed me to park my car somewhere in the construction area. I asked him if I would get towed - he said probably. Point #1: don’t tell me to park somewhere if you think I’ll probably get towed. Think about it ahead of time and instruct me to meet you somewhere other than a no-parking zone. 2) Inaccurate in his information during the tour in that: (i) every US Navy ship was referred to as a “cruiser”, (ii) he didn’t know what a draw was, and (iii) he was unaware that when he first took us to Omaha, he had taken us to the Vierville draw. More importantly, I felt that he had no sense of personal attachment to the sites. It was just facts he had memorized from a Viator guidebook. He arrogantly spit them out, showed us some pictures from his book and then gave us time to look around. Point #2: I can live with a tour guide that doesn’t know everything. However, to have the guide doesn’t treat the information with respect is unforgiveable. 3) There was an anti-America slant to his tour. The guide insinuated that America should have agreed to bury Germans in our cemetery like the British did. Really? He also managed to get a jab in that there were few minorities buried in the American cemetery due to the rampant racism in America at that time. Really?? Finally, he also used time to point our Gordon Brown’s “Obama Beach” gaffe. Really??? Point #3: when your tour consists of 8 Americans paying you money to give you the facts about D-Day, don’t use it as your chance to take political jabs. Be thankful that the Allied forces succeeded in liberating Europe. There were some other things (e.g., he drove like a madman and in so many words called someone on the tour fat), but you get my point. As Americans we are very proud of what our boys did in Normandy. To have this once in a lifetime tour hijacked by a Frenchman with a chip on his shoulder was disappointing. I hope that Viator has higher standards in how their guides conduct tours and this was an anomaly. I certainly won’t ever choose to use a company to give me a guide. I’ll stick with locals or do it myself.
