Bistro-Style Seine River Dinner Cruise
Overview
- 75-minute Seine River cruise with dinner
- See Paris’ illuminated waterfront sights in a casual setting
- Depart from Ile de la Cité and glide past Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower
- Enjoy a 3-course dinner at your window-facing table
- Upgrade to include wine or Champagne with your meal
From
$48.74 USD
Pass some of Paris' main attractions on the cruise, including the Louvre Museum, Musée d’Orsay, Hôtel de Ville, Place de la Concorde, Notre Dame Cathedral and the iconic Eiffel Tower. Admire these landmarks illuminated against the night sky.
During the cruise, enjoy a 3-course meal including a foie gras starter, a main course of fish and a pair of desserts. Upgrade your dinner experience to include wine or Champagne.
Your dinner cruise lasts 75 minutes, after which you'll be brought back to the starting point at Ile de la Cité where you'll disembark and continue your evening in Paris.
Please note: The cruise route changes from November to April because of high water levels on the river. During this time, the cruise begins and ends near the Eiffel Tower and passes fewer attractions.
Itinerary
Menus Summers 2018 (menus are subject to change)
Paris en Scene Menu
Starter
- Tomato, mozzarella and pesto
Main courses
- Sliced duck with crushed potatoes
OR
- Salmon pavé with italian spices
Dessert
- Tartelette aux fruits de saison Seasonal fruits pie
Vegan Menu (reservation only)
Starter
- Lentil salad, girolles, artichoke hearts and old-fashioned vegetable soup
Main Course
- Polenta and wild mushroom cake, seasonal vegetable fricassee, saffron pepper coulis
Dessert
- Pineapple carpaccio
Children Menu
Main course
- Salmon fillet, saffron cream sauce, rice pilaf with seasonal vegetables
- Chicken supreme, mushroom sauce, rice pilaf with seasonal vegetabless
- Duo of desserts
Drinks
- Water for all menus
Reviews
Viator Traveler's Reviews
This is a nice dinner cruise to take. We booked the 8:00pm dinner. We were in Paris in August. It is only 1 hour long. If you take the 8:00pm dinner, you do miss out on seeing the buildings lite up at night, especially during the summer. Something to keep in mind.
The views are great no matter where you sit on the boat. Most tables face the windows and accommodate even number tables. If you have 3 people, you are placed on the upper level, however, you still get a really nice view.
The food was good, not spectacular, but it is a Bistro-Style dinner, so it's casual, not fancy. We dressed up, but there were many passengers who wore sight seeing attire.
Our meal was 2 vegetarian options and 1 regular option. The salmon had a dill sauce on it, and it was amazing. For vegetarians, you receive a plate of polenta with assorted vegetables. Again, very tasty.
Bottled water, is very expensive on the boat. 1 bottle of water small was 6 or 8 Euro.
You can book a bottle of wine or champagne with your meal. We had the Champagne. Small bottle provided 4 to 5 half filled glasses.
The service was rushed and fast. The servers were aimed to get the services done as quickly as possible. They were accommodating to requests, but they weren't stopping to chit chat with the customers.
The trip takes you along the Siene to the Statue of Liberty and all the way to past the Notre Dame Cathedral.
You pick the boat up on the right side of the Siene, beside the Pont Michel.
Would recommend this Dinner Cruise for anyone looking for a quick and casual trip on the Siene.
We enjoyed our experience and do recommend.
This dinner cruise was really terrible, starting with the service on the boat. The server was not very friendly and very slow in service too. The food was really below standard and that's a shame, considering were in Paris with great food everywhere here. So if you are going on this cruise for these things, DON'T!!! The only good thing I can say is that the scenery was nice.
Poor customer service at the dock. The boat was half an hour late and there was no one at the dock from the company nor any signs of any kind. Several people tried calling the number given on their bookings but no one picked up the phone. So people were waiting around but not sure if the boat was even going to show up. One of the tourists said for the earlier dinnertime of 6pm the boat never showed up. Once the boat tour left the dock the service for dinner was quick and the whole tour lasts about 1.5 hours.
We boarded easily, and were quickly served. Wait staff were attentive, and the view from the windows was quite nice. We have done other Seine dinner cruises, and this one felt a bit more limited because we sat looking out the side of the ship instead of at an angle, which afforded a better perspective for the bridges and Ile de la Cite. Our companions went topside and to the bow, and enjoyed the beautiful views from other perspectives. Overall, we felt we had a tasty meal, with great service, and a range of views of the city. I would definitely recommend this to someone looking for a quick dinner trip -- it lasted less than two hours. No need to dress up, and other drink options were available, at an additional fee. We had a nice evening.
Showing up early doesn't guarantee you a seat in the front row nearest the windows - it seemed to me the seating was quite random. However the food was good and vegetarian friendly. The windows of the boat are a bit reflective in the early evening and our original late night cruise was cancelled so they put us on an earlier boat so the last minute change was a bit annoying, but it was still a nice dinner overall.
We selected the 8 O’clock dinner cruise with wine. It was delightfully relaxing and the round trip course from Notre Dame to passed the Eiffel Tower gave you a great opportunity to see a neat area of Paris from a unique perspective. Food was very good and the small bottle of wine was adequate. After a busy day walking all around Paris it was an ideal choice. Recommended!