The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Honfleur, the bucket-list move is Honfleur: Private Guided Tour by Vintage Sidecar. Below: 4 bucket-list things to do on a Honfleur port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Glide through Honfleur's cobbled lanes and hilltop heights aboard a polished vintage sidecar with a private expert guide. An utterly cinematic, deeply personal way to absorb the town's Norman soul — from the Vieux Bassin to the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Grâce — at your own pace.
Book itVisit Honfleur by sidecar 1.5 to 3.5 hour tour along the coast€125 per person (about $145)
Stand on Omaha Beach, descend into the Pointe du Hoc craters, and move through the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer with a dedicated private historian-guide. One of the most profoundly moving days Europe can offer — and Honfleur is the ideal launching point.
Book itPrivate Tour D-Day Beaches of Normandy from Honfleur€1,500 per person (about $1,752)
Explore the UNESCO-lauded Vieux Bassin, the extraordinary timber-built Église Sainte-Catherine, and the Impressionist legacy of Boudin and Monet with a private local guide who knows every story behind every façade. The definitive way to understand Honfleur in a morning.
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Walk the water-lily garden and the iconic Japanese bridge that Monet painted obsessively for 30 years — visiting the artist's actual home and studio in the village of Giverny. Among the most beautiful gardens in the world, made even richer with an expert art-history guide.
Book itRouen & Monet's Giverny Private Tour from Honfleur I Guide Option€1,329 per person (about $1,499)
Step behind the scenes at a family-run Calvados estate and a working Camembert and Livarot fromagerie in the Pays d'Auge hills above Honfleur. This is the taste of Normandy in its purest, most honest form — cider orchards, copper pot stills, and wheels of aged cheese.
Book itPrivate Normandy: Rouen-Honfleur-Étretat & Calvados Tasting$799 per person
Cross the breathtaking Pont de Normandie — one of the world's great cable-stayed bridges, spanning the Seine estuary in a single elegant arc — then ascend to the Panorama Mont-Joli for an unbroken view over Honfleur's rooftops, the estuary and the open Channel. Pure Norman grandeur.
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Your day in HonfleurNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
