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Enjoy the most exciting family introduction tour of Parisian highlights and finish atop the Eiffel Tower to overlook the city.
- 3.5 hours
- From € 760
Private
What’s Included:
This playful Paris chocolate tour is a unique combination of history and French sweet tastings in the elegant district of Saint-Germain-des-Près. During this two-hour stroll, your “Mary Poppins” guide will share thrilling anecdotes while your kids will need to find answers to (easy) riddles about the places you will be visiting for your yummy tastings.
Your starting point is by the Saint Germain Church where your kid-friendly guide will offer you a first tasting: a chouquette. This French specialty, a baked and fluffy pastry, consists of small-sized dough sprinkled with pearl sugar…. simple but delicious!
You will then visit a 200-year-old chocolate factory that specializes in high-quality chocolates. Taste what Napoleon and Queen Marie-Antoinette savored, as they were loyal clients for this brand formed in 1779!
Let’s now visit the paradise of macarons. This cookie made of almonds was born in Italy and traveled to France with the chef of Catherine de Medicis. Since then, this pastry has become one of the most famous French pastries in the world. You can find it in many flavors, but it always keeps its round form.
It’s toffee time! But not just any toffee. Get ready to taste the award-winning best caramel in France. From there, let’s go to the temple of choux à la crème! We guarantee you will love this place that looks more like a jewelry store than a pastry shop. Their lovely cream puffs are displayed like precious jewels. Choosing the flavor will be the most difficult task.
Your next boutique is one that dates back to 1830 and has kept its delicate recipe of “calissons”: a crushed mixture of candied melons and almonds from Provence placed on a sheet of unleavened bread and covered with a thin layer of royal frosting.
Time now to travel to Brittany and taste the “kouign amann,” which means “butter cake” in Breton. The recipe becomes evident at your first bite. For Bretons, this dessert can come head-to-head with crêpes. The next tasting of this sweet and chocolate family tour will be at a Chocolate Mousse Bar offering mousses made with chocolates from all over the world. This is the perfect occasion to experience a new chocolate texture while learning all about cocoa in general!
How about finishing this yummy tour by getting a personalized chocolate bar? Your first decision will be the base flavor: milk, dark, white or cherry… the choice is yours to make. Then another hard choice awaits you. You will have to choose three toppings among 23 ingredients! Ready to design your dream chocolate bar?
And if you look for a chocolate-making experience, have a look at our Luxury Chocolate Family Tour & Workshop!
This tour is for kids of all ages! Even though it offers the highest standards of sweet tastings, your children will absolutely love this tour! They will even be rewarded their own customized chocolate bar at the end of the tour!
The chocolate we provide along the tour will be nut-free. You will be able to order a drink without any nuts. However, be aware that there could be traces of nuts as all products are processed in the same workshop.
Absolutely! We would be delighted to prepare a special surprise for him/her and will make sure to give them a memorable experience.
Just advise our superhero squad in your request form about the number of people in your party, as well as their category (adult or child).
2
Size of Party
€400
Total Price
3
Size of Party
€400
Total Price
4
Size of Party
€400
Total Price
5
Size of Party
€435
Total Price
6
Size of Party
€470
Total Price
What if we have more than 6 people?? Or we want to customize our trip?? Oh no! Just kidding, no problem is too big for us!
Leave us a message on our contact page, and a member of our superhero team will work some magic to make your dreams come true!
*The Eiffel Tower and the Catacombs activities are not refundable
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Caroline B. –
Romain was kind and entertaining for our 10 and 13 year old sons. We loved eating the various sweets and
hearing the history of the shops. A great afternoon in St. Germaine!
Julie S. –
This was my family’s first trip to Paris and it was stunning at Christmas time. The decorations, lights, trees, shopping and multiple Christmas markets that we visited exceeded our expectations. Each arrondissement had a unique style from quaint (Montmartre) to flashy (Champs-Elysees.) Our illuminations tour was a fabulous way to kick off our arrival in Paris, and we ended our trip 6 days later with the chocolate tasting tour in Saint Germain. Cindy with Bonjour Meet the Locals was our fabulous guide for the entire week, and we appreciated her knowledge and flexibility guiding our family throughout Paris’ top attractions.
Susan E. –
We booked 3 tours with “Meet the Locals”. One was the Christmas Illuminations & Christmas market walking tour, one was Montmartre Safari, and one was the Sweet and Chocolate Family Treasure Hunt. All were headed up by Natalie as our guide and she was wonderful, very attentive to our 11 year old daughter to keep her involved and focused. My favorite of the 3 was this walking sweets tour – I highly recommend it. Not only are you walking thru a very lovely neighborhood, you are being educated with all the history of the buildings and events that took place there over the decades. PLUS, all the treats you get to try are amazing! Natalie was a wealth of information about not only the things on our tour, but also any questions we had about restaurants or museums or shopping. In fact – Before we even arrived in Paris, Liz and Dominique from Meet the Locals were emailing us to assist us in making sure we knew where to be and when. They were so extremely helpful that I ended up asking them about some other tours they offer and booked an additional tour straight thru them.
I have already recommended them to friends who are traveling to Paris in the spring, and if we were to go to Paris again, they would be the only ones I call to book any tours.
Eva C. –
We managed to do 3 private tours with Meet the Locals plus all our airport transfers – Treasure Hunt at the Louvre, Chocolate Walking Tour and Christmas Market & Illuminations. From the moment I started communicating with Dominique till the end – she was very warm, friendly, accommodating and couldn’t do enough for us. We really felt looked after especially because my husband and I travelled with 2 kids during the busiest time (over Christmas and New Year) not to mention with very limited Fench. The highlight for the kids (and adults) were the Chocolate Walking tour at St Germain with Amandine, she was so engaging and had the kids captivated with all the sweets and yummy treats! The Treasure Hunt at The Louvre with Yaelle was also another highlight – she was warm and very good with our kids. Highly recommend and have already given Dominique’s details to a friend going over with kids soon 🙂 Merci beaucoup from all of us
Melissa Y. –
Our family had a great time walking the streets of Paris and sampling the fine fare with Tim.
We enjoyed everything we tasted and the knowledge of the history of neighborhoods and the stores themselves.
His food recommendations were all fantastic and the way he engaged with our daughter (8yo) was great!
Would highly recommend this tour.
Sue P. –
The sweet and chocolate tour with Laurine was the highlight of our first trip to Paris! She was the perfect guide for our daughters (8 yo). We sampled the most delicious sweets and culminated in the kids making their own chocolate bars. Delicious & fun! Laurine kept all of us entertained and filled us in on local history and gave us tips on what to do during the rest of our trip. The kids are excited to go back to Paris and go on this tour again! Thank you Laurine!
Sophie M. –
We really enjoyed our tours with Meet the Locals in Paris and our guides, Sebastian and Charlotte, were fantastic. Excellent english and they really tried to engage with our two boys aged 9 and 12. We did several customised tours which were all great but of the activities, the kids enjoyed the chocolate walking tour and Louvre treasure hunt the best. Sebastian was very knowledgeable about the Louvre and worked hard at telling the kids about art pieces they would be interested in. Charlotte was awesome on the chocolate tour. Definitely a great experience.
Christine L. –
We (a family of 5 including a teenager and two 11-year-olds) were very happy with both of our tours with Nathalie! Our Sweet & Chocolate Tour just so happened to take place on the record-breaking hottest temperature day in Paris. As luck would have it, we couldn’t have planned the day better. It was so comfortable being with Nathalie and the kids were very engaged. Walking into the shops (all with air conditioning) was a respite from the heat and delicious as well. I loved the selection of shops and myself and the two youngest children even went back and revisited some of them a few days later.
Susan M. –
How fantastic our sweet and chocolate walking tour was. We experienced stores we wouldn’t have visited if we were on our own. Marie was so welcoming, fun and interesting – made our 12 year old daughter feel so at ease. We thoroughly enjoyed it and the tour has been one of our highlights in Paris!
Michael F. –
Cindy and Tim were fantastic. Very personable and informative.
Both were great with kids as well. They were able to keep our two girls (3 and 5) entertained and engaged, and accommodated their needs (ie ice cream) when they started to get “cranky. I would highly recommend this tour for anyone traveling to Paris, especially those traveling with kids. We completed three tours in all with this company;
Louvre, Food and Chocolate Tours. We completed the Louvre and the food tour back to back with Cindy which was brilliant as our kids were ready for lunch at the end of the Louvre tour. The Chocolate tour ended with the kids having the opportunity to make their own chocolate bar, HUGE hit with our kids. Two thumbs up for these guys!!! Thank you.
William F. –
Meet the Locals group was incredible with our family while in Paris. We had a Louvre Tour with fun experiences/information for our kids and interesting historical details for the adults. We also used MtL for a Chocolate Tour around St. Germains which was as enjoyable as it sounds. Best part of all was the guides who were extremely patient, well informed, and gracious with their time. When one store on the chocolate tour was closed for 15 minutes, she independently ran back at the end of the tour to bring back the mousse for the group. We also mentioned to her that we would be going to a neighboring city in France and she provided a detailed email that night about the city sights before our arrival there. Such a generous, helpful person and it helped set the tone for our experience in Paris.
Christine E. –
Everything with this company has been perfect from the very beginning. I worked with Thomas to set up all of our tours, and let me tell you, working with two large families and the million questions we had was not an easy task. He answered all of them with the utmost patience and was so thorough. We booked the Family Louvre treasure hunt, Tuk Tuk ride, and Notre Dame tour along with the Family Versailles tour, and the Paris Chocolate Tour. We had two guides for the Louvre Treasure Hunt because I had to change up the day last minute and so happy it worked out that way because Laurine was assigned to the children (6, 6 and 3) along with the moms and Christelle to the other adults (4 adults). Laurine was EXCELLENT with the girls and Christelle was was just as great with the other group as well. Kept the children engaged while the adults could actually enjoy the museum and ask the questions we needed and see what needed to be seen. Christelle was then assigned to the remaining tours and we could not have been more pleased. She answered literally every single questions we had, and there were a lot. We were blown away with her knowledge and she could not have been sweeter or more kind. It was actually sad that it was all over and hope to stay in touch after we get home. I would recommend this company to anyone going to Paris. It is a MUST DO!
Thomson F. –
Our family of 6 (kids ages 10 and 12 and grandparents too) discovered this AMAZING company!! Our flight was delayed so we did not have enough time for the treasure hunt part. But the CHOCOLATE!!! All 6 of us had a wonderful introduction to Paris from our guide, Nathalie. She was kind and knowledgeable and outstanding with the kids. Both kids got to make their own custom chocolate bar, which they thought was amazing!! We all loved getting to choose a treat at each stop. We liked it so much that we went back to several of the stops later to purchase more treats! We also have recommended this company and this tour in particular to friends and family directly! Such a fun experience!!