Things to do in  Avignon

Loved our tour guide, loved the tour. Visited some towns that we wouldn’t have otherwise. Loved St. Remy, so glad we got to see that. Really got an understanding of Avignon. So glad we did this!

It was an amazing excursion. Florence is interesting and very knowledgeable guide. My husband and I had a wonderful time in Avignon and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. I highly recommend this excursion for people who want to visit Avignon and learn/taste great wines of Chateauneuf-du-Pape in one day.

Loved our private tour with Gordana! She is a lovely woman with tons of information and great English! Loved the itenerary though we missed one thing due to the park being closed, she made adjustments and it worked out well. She also made an amazing recommendation for dinner in Avignon! Super tour

Our guide was exceptionally knowledgable and it's smart to skip the line. What made this trip were the stories about previous figures and landmarks and it's a terrific way to see Avignon (as it's quite small). Well worth it and there's not much walking to be honest!

Our guide Julien was very helpful, nice, funny and knowledgeable of the area. He took us to the best looking lavender fields, and even made a photo stop in Gordes even though it wasn't on his list. He was also very helpful in giving tips about other places to visit in Avignon and the tour was very agreeable.

Anais was our tour guide and driver. She did an excellent job. She communicates well in both English and French. On our trip back to Avignon, my cousins and her played a "guess who" game that keep us awake and it was fun as everyone tried to guess who it was. We miss you, Anais!

Great scenery, great guide. A chance to see a Provence village, take great photos, enjoy a market stop all in one day. Comfortable van and accommodating service in Avignon.

The tour is wonderful. Our guide Nicolas was very knowledgable. The highlight of this tour is defintely the lavender fields. We had a chance to visit a private field and we had entire field to just 4 persons. IT was perfect. We also visited Saint Abbeye which was good, then Gordes (not a huge fan of this city ), then we had a lunch break at Rousillon and had enough time to visit the lovely trail of ocres. We ended our tour at a museum where we had a chance to understand the process of producing essential oils from lavender. Nicolas also suggested us places from where we should buy souvenirs and where it can be expensive. He also suggested some nice restaurants in Rousillon. We loved this tour and would defintely recommend it to future travellers to Avignon and Provence

Our tour guide Gordana was lovely and full of knowledge. We had a wonderful day learning about Provence and Gard history. The car was comfortable. Gordana went out of her way to accomodate our needs and make our trip as enjoyable as possible. This is a wonderful half-day trip from Avignon with adequate time to see the sites and towns. We would highly recommend this day trip. Good value for money as well!

This was an excellent day tour out of Avignon. Our guide, Nicolas, was informative, professional and comfortable to be with for the day. He spoke English so we had not communication issues. Nicolas obviously is passionate about his country, his region and his job!. The tour included four tastings and lunch at a picturesque Chateau. The lunch was excellent. You will see amazing scenery and a lot of vineyards. We truly enjoyed this tour.

The guide was very friendly and on the way to the fields he spoke about the history of Avignon. When we got to the valley he spoke about the start of the farming community that lives there. We had more than enough time to wander around the lavender factory and then we went to the fields. Not once were we rushed and the tour guide even offered to help take our photos. It was raining on and off so we finished the fields quickly voluntarily and headed to the town of Sault. He gave us the option to stay in the town longer or to go to another field after the town, which was super nice. Thankfully it wasn't raining when we went to another field that he found so we were all able to get our pictures! Late July maybe wasn't the best time to go as much of the lavender was harvested but the guide made sure we still got to see great fields.

We had a great one day tour hosted by Nico (ProVans Tours). Tour showed up in time and we had a comfortable, clean van with air conditioning for the day which was very pleasant. Nico's English was very good and his narration throughout was friendly and informative and he was happy to answer any questions. This tour was their Violet tour which was a route of 175kms, The pacing was great and we had enough time at all the scheduled stops the museum, Senanque, Gordes, Rousillion and Sault. We are a bit early for the lavender to be in full bloom but Nico managed to find us some fields which were close and made excellent photos. Gordes was lovely and the restaurant recommendations were fab, Rousillion was also lovely and the hike around the ochre path was spectacular. All in all this was a great tour which we highly recommend and can't thank Nico and Veronica enough for making this such a great trip. The restaurant recommendations and places to see in Avignon were also very helpful and added to our enjoyment of the town. Merci beaucoup!

What a full and exciting day! Anne with Tour 4 Provence picked us up at 9 am and we spent the day touring Fountaine-de-Vaucluse, Gordes, Senanque Abbey, Roussillon, St. Remy-de-Provence, Les Baux de Provence and last but not least Pont du Gard. We has plenty of time to wander around ourselves to explore, with the exception of St. Remy, where Anne took us on a walking tour and of Gordes and the Abbey, which were beautiful photo ops. Anne was a lot of fun and happy to share all kinds of information about the Provence area, having grown up in Avignon. She purposely planned to arrive at Pont du Gard late in the day to catch the best light - an amazing sight. We arrived back in Avignon at 7 pm and really felt we had a wonderful experience. PS. - Anne's English was excellent - so easy to talk with her.

Our guide was very knowledgeable, enjoyable and offered great tips for how to spend our personal time allowed for exploring the different areas. This tour truly was the highlight of our stay in Avignon. The selected stops were rich in history and stunning to see. Time spent at each stop was well balanced with maximizing a generous number of sites and towns to see on the tour.

My son and I booked a tour with Giordana during the Christmas holiday from Avignon and we could not have asked for a more friendly and knowledgeable guide. SInce it was pretty cold in December, we were fortunate enough to be the only ones on the tour so Giordana individualized it to our liking. Instead of visiting the city of Arles, she took us to a perched village in the hills and it was quite beautiful. We had some time to walk around and explore the sights on our own. We were then off to the Camargue where we viewed the vast marshlands and did get to see some white horses and flamingos. We did not get to view all that many animals as you would in the spring and summer, but nevertheless it was a study in nature. We then visited the village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer which was pretty deserted that time of year so we had the whole village to ourselves and saw the Statue of Saint Sarah also known as the Black Madonna. We did manage to find one restaurant open where we had some sandwiches and cappuccino. Giordana successfully combined a tour that was both informative but left room for self exploration. Thank you for a wonderful tour Giordana.

This tour was excellent. It is nicely planned so we can see the highlights of Provence in a day in relaxing manner, and it was all done through great transportation and guide - adding that much more comfort to a hot summer day! I'd also like to mention that our guide Nicolas was very kind. In the morning, he picked up/dropped me off at where I stay outside of Avignon, and that saved me time from riding bus to/from the city. Highly recommended.

The tour was completely as advertised. We had the right amount of time in Orange and the wine tour was great for a first-time wine tasting. It was a relaxing afternoon but we also saw a great deal. Our guide was very knowledgeable both about the items on the tour and more generally in answering our questions about the Avignon area. She used perfect English and also was very patient in letting us practice our French.

This was a wonderful tour. Our guide, Jacque, was extremely knowledgable about Avignon, the surrounding areas, wine, and the wine-making process. His English was perfect, he was very personable, and we enjoyed his company. The restaurant he selected for lunch was a beautiful chateau on the top of a hill. The food and ambiance were wonderful. He took us to a number of wineries in small villages which I could not possibly have found by myself. It was wonderful to drink wine without having to worry about driving through the narrow village streets, or finding my way back to our hotel in Avignon. My wife and I highly recommend this tour.

Marie-Laure was a great guide, very informative, kind, and patient as we had a slow/disabled walker with us. She went to the extra trouble of bringing us into a bookstore when one of our party was writing down a lot of information on a particular topic she pointed out a book on that topic for him which he ended up buying. Avignon was a very charming town to visit.

Due to the festival it was not possible for us to be picked up at our hotel, Hotel de l'Horloge, so we had to walk down to the Hotel Bristol to be collected this would have been fine if we hadn't been kept waiting for 20 minutes in the intense heat we had been told to be there 15 minutes before the set time! The actual tour was really enjoyable and our guide was extremely knowledgeable about the wine and the area and as we had not hired a car during our stay in Avignon, this tour gave us the opportunity to see some of the countryside on the other side of the Rhone. The drive through the vineyards seeing the different types of soil that the grapes are grown on was really interesting. The wine tasting at Tavel was very enjoyable and we learned a lot. The wine tasting and tour of the Chateauneuf du Pape winery, including the cellars and seeing the range of oak barrels, was also really interesting and we were so glad we had booked this tour. It was just a shame that at the Chateauneuf du Pape vineyard a large party of Chinese tourists objected to our small group of 6 being given a tour by one of the winery representatives they clearly thought that they had exclusive rights to the vineyard and all of its staff and they reduced their tour guide to tears over it - what an unpleasant and unnecessary situation!!!