How we pick Louvre tours

The bar

Louvre tour rating rules

A tour needs an average of 4.5 stars from at least 30 reviews on the site that sells it. For tours on Viator the count adds reviews left on Viator and on Tripadvisor; each tour page shows the two separately.

The tour has to enter the Louvre. A walk around the palace or a ticket without a guide is not listed as a tour, and an option that leaves the museum out is dropped even when the rest of its tour stays.

The option

Louvre tour options and prices

One listing often sells several things under one name: a group of twelve at one price and a group of six at another, a tour with the entry ticket and the same tour without it. We compare options, not names. The price, the group size, the language and the start times on a card all belong to one option, and the page names it.

The price is for one adult in a party of two. It is the lowest price that option is sold at on at least 14 of the next 180 days, so a discount that lasts a day or two never becomes the price on the page. The booking page shows the price for your date.

Each option says whether the entry ticket is in the price. The official ticket costs €32, and every tour price on the site is set next to it.

The lists

Louvre tour selections

A selection is a rule about an option: private, a group of eight at most, a start at 17:00 or later, a guide who speaks Spanish. Every tour with an option that meets the rule is a candidate, and the page leads with a short list of six to eight of them: no more than two from one company, each with what it is for and its catch.

One tour is placed by the editor rather than by the rule. The guided tour sold on Tiqets comes first in the selections it fits. Why, and what it earns the site, is on the affiliate disclosure page.

The limits

Louvre tour comparison limits

We have not taken these tours. What a page says about a route, a meeting point or a guide comes from the seller's own listing, and the page says so.

A rating belongs to the whole listing, not to one option. Sellers change prices, start times and rules; each page carries the day its data was read.

You book and pay on the seller's site. We add no fee.