Afternoon is the sweet spot for visiting the Louvre, and this small-group, timed-entry tour is the way to do it. Spots are limited and sell out quickly, so we recommend booking as soon as your Paris plans are set. With your expert guide, you’ll enter through a dedicated entrance (bypassing the long ticket lines) and head straight to icons like the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Michelangelo Gallery. Fewer crowds mean more time and space to truly take it all in. Don’t let your spot slip away!
What's included
Enjoy the Louvre with lighter crowds
Expert English-speaking guide
Timed entry to the Louvre
Guided tour of Louvre masterpieces
Mona Lisa viewing
See Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace
Fascinating storytelling throughout
Curated route through the museum
Guide tips
Itinerary
Your tour begins near the Louvre
Meet your guide near the Louvre. Look for the exact location on your booking voucher. Here, you’ll get a quick orientation before heading through security together.
Skip the lines and enter the Louvre
While other visitors queue at the main entrance, you'll breeze through a separate door reserved for small groups. After security, you're inside the world's largest art museum, ready to explore its treasures.
Guided tour of the Louvre
Your guide shares how this building started as a medieval fortress in the 1100s, then became a royal palace before transforming into a public museum. The walls themselves tell centuries of French history.
Meet the Mona Lisa
Now it's time for the star attraction. Leonardo da Vinci's tiny painting draws the biggest crowds, but visiting late afternoon means you'll actually get close enough to see her famous smile and maybe snap a photo.
Marvel at the Winged Victory and Venus de Milo
Moving from paintings to statues, you'll encounter the headless Winged Victory at the top of a grand staircase and the armless Venus de Milo in the Greek halls. These ancient works are just as captivating as the paintings.
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Perfect Highlight Tour
Toby W.
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April 30, 2026
Tour guide Z was very knowledgeable and kept the tour interesting and efficient with time.
Great time at The Louvre
Carol G.
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April 22, 2026
We got to see so many wonderful pieces, our Guide was very knowledgeable. It was really nice to see other paintings by Michelangelo to compare to the Mona Lisa, which we were lucky enough to get quite close to. Samothrace and Venus De Milo were great to see up close. Louvre is so big, it is definately worth doing a guided tour, or you would get lost.
nice tour
Gregg K.
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April 16, 2026
Sid, the tour guide was great. He was funny and engaging and made a HUGE museum manageable.
Amy D.
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March 26, 2026
Avi was a great guide. He was charming, funny, informative, everything you want in a tour guide. I highly recommend him
Outstanding
Layne W.
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March 25, 2026
Covered a lot of ground quickly and efficiently. Much smaller crowds late in the day.
A perfect experience
Shaelene K.
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March 15, 2026
Seemless, funny and great tour! From avoiding lines and crowds as we navigated the Louvre, lower wait restrooms, group access to great lockers, no better way to do it. Our guide provided the best introduction to the Mona Lisa before entering the room that I was actually suprised how big it was! We had to leave our tour a little early and it took a bit just to figure out how to get out, so very thankful for our guides ease of navigation.
Deanette P.
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January 05, 2026
Jodi W.
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December 24, 2025
Wonderful experience!
Isabella S.
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December 16, 2025
We are frequent travelers, and do a lot of tour through various agencies. This was our first experience with The Travel Guy, but it certainly won’t be our last. Our evening tour of the Louvre was amazing! Our guide, Felix, was very knowledgeable, engaging, funny and interesting. He had great crowd control skills (The Louvre was much more crowded at night than we expected.) and kept our group nicely together and in front of the work he was describing. The use of the whisper, or whatever system he used, was very helpful.
I highly recommend this tour, and if you’re fortunate enough to get Felix as your guide, you’re in for a real treat!
Krista B.
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November 27, 2025
Jared G.
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November 10, 2025
The Louvre was incredible, as expected! We got to see the Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, and the Monna Lisa and the Wedding Feast- absolute highlights! Louis XIV’s golden room is still closed after the jewel theft.
Our guide was very knowledgable, and gave us a lot of great information about the French history, which was great. Would have liked a lot less pausing and talking, and a lot more art. We paused excessively to talk about pictures of the crown jewels and french politics, to the point i had to walk away from the group to examine the paintings. We were shown very, very little actual art outside of the three great ladies of the Louvre, for a tour hour tour. Overall, would recommend- very impressed with the Louvre, but i would have liked to move faster and see a few more rooms.
Jennifer T.
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October 31, 2025
stephen Z.
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October 24, 2025
Excellent and Informative Tour
Brian D.
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October 07, 2025
We had a wonderful tour guide who was extremely knowledgeable and able to show us the major highlights of the Louvre in just a couple hours. We highly recommend booking with the tour guy. You won't regret it!
Mandi W.
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October 01, 2025
Louvre tour
Michael M.
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September 27, 2025
Tour was awesome and well worth going later in the day.
Nadia H.
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September 12, 2025
Good overview of Louvre for teenagers and kids
Luke C.
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August 20, 2025
This is a very good tour for families with kids. Louvre can be overwhelming for kids due to number of visitors and the rush of crowds. Often the highlights are missed and Anna our tour guide did a great job getting to the history and high lights that gave quick overview to kids. They learned a lot and had a great time in Louvre.
Excellent Tour - DON'T DO WEDNESDAY
Kevin R.
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August 10, 2025
The tour itself was excellent. Our guide was knowledgeable. personable and knew her way around the museum. She even provided directions to my daughter to get back to something that wasn't covered on the tour.
My only issue is that on Wednesday the Louvre stays open later so this tour is not really at closing time, so there will still be a lot of people there, especially around the Mona Lisa.
Kristi L.
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August 07, 2025
This was a great and informative tour. It’s the right amount of highlights to seeing the Louvre and you learn so much about the different time periods of art history. Highly recommend this tour.
Duc P.
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August 07, 2025
Really enjoyed this tour
Nicole G.
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August 04, 2025
This was a great way to see the main attractions at the Louvre. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and easy to understand. At this time of day the Louvre did feel a lot less crowded. The Mona Lisa still had a big audience but not like it does earlier in the day.
Sid made art fun
Jennifer S.
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July 31, 2025
What a great time we had with Sid! He made art history come alive. We were all tired from a long day of touring and he kept us interested (even my teenage children!). I recommend him highly!
Best way to enjoy Louvre
Flavia C.
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July 26, 2025
I don’t think I would have appreciated Louvre Museum so much if it hadn’t been for this tour! We followed our guide Anastasia among the many different parts of the building, so we didn’t have to worry about getting lost and wasting time. She did a great job sharing a lot of information and keeping us interested all the time, always with a smile on! Great experience overall!
