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Private Normandy Tour D-Day American Landing Beaches

By Destination Normandy - Dominique Fiquet
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Price is €1,088 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

This private tour covers the main operations and objectives of the American troops on D-Day.

A guided tour of the D-Day beaches in Normandy becomes something far more powerful than just visiting historic sites when it’s led by a local expert guide.

What makes it truly unique is the human depth they bring to the landscape.

Instead of simply standing on Omaha Beach or Utah Beach and hearing dates and troop numbers, your guide connects you to the individual stories behind the events—young soldiers, impossible decisions, moments of courage and fear.

Your guide doesn’t just know the history—they know the land. They explain how the terrain shaped the battle at places like Pointe du Hoc, and how villages and civilians experienced the invasion. This creates a richer understanding that you simply can’t get from books alone.

In short, what makes your guided D-Day tour unique isn’t just where you go—it’s how the storey is told, and how it stays with you long after you leave the beaches.

Activity location

  • Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Bayeux
    • 14400, Bayeux, Normandy, France

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Private Normandy Tour Landing Beaches from Bayeux or Caen

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 09:00
Price details
€1,088.00 x 1 Traveller€1,088.00
Total
Price is €1,088.00

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Bottled water
  • Inclusions
    Personally guided private tour by local and experienced guide in comfortable vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Lunch stop on your own.
  • Exclusions
    Museum
  • Exclusions
    Service charge

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Specialised infant seats are available
    • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Omaha Beach

  • 45m
The beaches of Omaha were a real trap for the troops of the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions. We will have one or two stops on Omaha Beach, and understand the landings of the American troops on June 6th, 1944.

Normandy American Cemetery

  • 1h
The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of more than 9,380 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing, in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial, are inscribed 1,557 names.

Pointe du Hoc

  • 1h 30m
The World War II Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument is located on a cliff eight miles west of Normandy American Cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach, France. It was erected by the French to honour elements of the American Second Ranger Battalion under the command of Lt. Col. James E. Rudder. During the American assault of Omaha and Utah beaches on June 6, 1944, these US Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot cliffs and seized the German artillery pieces that could have fired on the American landing troops at Omaha and Utah beaches. At a high cost of life, they successfully defended against determined German counterattacks.

Utah Beach

  • 45m
The most westerly landing sector on D-Day, Utah Beach lies on the Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, and it was in fact in order to help take the vital port of Cherbourg rapidly that the Allied commanders of Operation Overlord, Eisenhower and Montgomery, decided that this further Landing Beach was required. We will have a stop to understand this often understated beach, much more complex than it first seems.

Sainte-Mere-Eglise

  • 1h
Quaint, quiet Sainte-Mère-Eglise became involved in one of the greatest exploits in military history in the night of 5 to 6 June 1944, as D-Day began. American parachutists were being dropped all around the area, and in the village itself. We will allow time to understand the importance of the parachutings and not only the missions that were to be done, but what actually happened and why.

Location

Activity location

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    Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Bayeux
    • 14400, Bayeux, Normandy, France
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Caen
    • 14000, Caen, Normandy, France

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