Paris as you please day
My wife and I have been booked for the July 8, 2017 tour since they announced the dates in January of 2016. You might say we are a little excited.
On day 13 of this trip the online itinerary says there will be a morning guided tour and then the rest of the day as you please with included admission to your choice of museums. The green booklet they sent us says the morning is only for the art museums without mentioning any guided tour. I know that Tauck has trouble with Paris and Venice and London because they have travelers in a group who have been there ten times already and others who have never been there before. I have noticed that they tend to leave the itinerary wide open "as you please" for the most part. I imagine some of the more seasoned travelers would roll their eyes at the thought of going to the Eiffel Tower "again."
For those who have done this or similar tours, what is included in the Paris morning guided tour? When you choose your museum do they give you a Paris Museum Pass good at all the other museums for two days or just one specific pass for that museum that day? Is the museum tour at all guided or just a ticket?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT
Now that I have gone and just returned I can answer my own question to those who may read this. On the northbound trip you arrive in Paris in the early afternoon from Lyon by train and take a bus around the city for a few hours where they drive by some of the sights and a local guide tells you about them. You get out at the Eiffel tower for 10 minutes to take pictures and also at a cafe across from Invalides for a bathroom break and a quick drink. We got to the hotel at just before 5 pm, so most of the museums were closed. We decided to go for it and ran up to Sacred Heart in the north of the city as it was going to be light for another 5 hours. The next day is the "Paris as you please day" and they gave us the opportunity to go to either the Louvre, the Orsay or the Orangerie. These visits were happening simultaneously so you could only do one of the three. They drove us to the Louvre with a local guide who took us through the group entrance skipping the line and gave a quick but nice overview of the museum's history and took us through the major works there while explaining quite a few details. It was about two hours, then they collected our listening devices and let us out on our own. We could continue there and spend as much time in the museum as we wanted or go to other sites in the city. Paris has a Museum Pass where once you buy it and activate it you can get into several dozen museums for the one time fee. The trip to the Louvre did not have the option of upgrading to this pass so we had to just buy it separately.
