Paris and Montmartre 2CV Tour by Night with Champagne
Per carChampagnePickup offered
Champagne in an open-top vintage car, charged per car rather than per seat, with pickup from your own address.
From $336 per group of up to 3
Paris Night Tours for Couples
Short answer. Three of these evenings are built for two people: the 2CV with champagne, the Seine dinner cruise and the Moulin Rouge. The 2CV is charged per car, so a couple pays once. And the light you actually want is the blue hour, which is the twenty minutes after sunset rather than full dark.
Is Paris at night worth it for two?
It is the thing the city is best at. Three hundred buildings and bridges are lit every night, the crowds thin out after eight, and the temperature drops enough to make an overcoat feel like part of the evening rather than a nuisance. The only real decision is which two hours you spend where.
The mistake couples make is booking too early in the day. In May and June an evening tour that starts at 7pm runs almost entirely in daylight, and the thing you came for happens after you get back. Check the sunset time for your dates before you choose a departure.
The three that are actually built for two
| Evening | Why it works for two | From |
|---|---|---|
| Vintage 2CV with champagne | Charged per car for up to three, so a couple pays once. Champagne on board and a driver-guide who stops for photographs. | $336 per car |
| Seine dinner cruise | A table of your own, three courses, wine and a live singer, with the lit monuments past the window for two hours. | $147 per person |
| Moulin Rouge dinner and show | Dinner from 19:00 and the Féerie revue at 21:00, with a drop-off in central Paris afterwards. | $352 per person |
The 2CV is the one to look at twice. At $336 for the car it reads as the most expensive thing on the list until you notice it is not per person, at which point it becomes competitive with a dinner cruise for two and cheaper than one for three.
✅ Useful Tip Ask the 2CV operator for a 9pm or 10pm departure between May and August. It is written into their own listing, and it is the difference between champagne under a lit Eiffel Tower and champagne in a bright evening.
The light you actually want
Not full dark. The twenty to forty minutes right after sunset, when there is still colour in the sky and the floodlighting is already on, is the best light of the evening for photographs and for the way the city looks. Photographers call it the blue hour and at this latitude it is considerably shorter than an hour.
If you are choosing between two departure times, take the earlier one in that window. Trocadéro during the blue hour, with the Eiffel Tower lit and the sky still deep blue behind it, is the photograph most people are hoping for when they book any of this.
Where to be, and when
- Trocadéro — the blue hour, for the tower square-on from an elevated terrace.
- Pont Alexandre III — any time after dark, for the gilded lamps and the reflection in the water.
- The steps below Sacré-Cœur — before 22:30, looking south over the whole city.
- Square Jean XXIII — behind Notre-Dame, for the apse lit from below and almost nobody there.
- The quays of the Île Saint-Louis — the quietest part of central Paris after dark.
Our landmark-by-landmark page has the vantage point for each, and the meeting points page tells you which departures start nearby.
What to wear when it is the two of you
Two of these evenings have a dress code and it is worth knowing which. The Moulin Rouge requires smart dress and turns away shorts, sportswear and sports shoes at the door; the dinner cruise asks for smart casual. The 2CV has no code at all, but the roof is down and it gets cold, so dress for the car rather than the restaurant.
Beyond that: a layer more than you think, and shoes you can stand in. The what to expect page covers the rest.
⚠ Important The Bateaux-Mouches lights cruise and the restored-car tour called Paris by Night are both sold non-refundable. If your dates are not fixed, book something that refunds instead: the 2CV tour with champagne and the Seine dinner cruise both cancel free up to 24 hours ahead.
Making an evening of it rather than a tour
The strongest version of this is not one booking. It is the blue hour at Trocadéro, then a booked departure that covers the ground you cannot walk, then somewhere to eat afterwards in the quarter where it drops you.
The Moulin Rouge drops near the Opéra, the Arc de Triomphe, Montparnasse or Bastille, all of which have somewhere open late. The 2CV takes you back to your own address. The dinner cruise has already fed you. Our one-night itinerary assembles the whole thing with times against it.
Two evenings that cost almost nothing
Not every romantic evening in Paris needs a booking, and it is worth saying so on a page funded by commission. Two of the best things you can do after dark are free.
The first is Sacré-Cœur, open until 22:30 every single day of the year with no admission charge, and the steps below it looking south over the whole city. The second is the Eiffel Tower sparkle, watched from the Trocadéro terrace on the hour. Between them that is an evening, and it costs two métro tickets.
What a booked departure adds is the ground in between. Walking from Montmartre to Trocadéro takes over an hour; a car does it in fifteen minutes and stops at Pont Alexandre III on the way. Our guide to whether you need a tour at all works that trade through properly.
If one of you would rather not be cold
This is the practical fault line, and it is worth settling before you book rather than at 10pm on a bridge in February. Three of these evenings are warm throughout: the dinner cruise, the shorter lights cruise and any of the private cars. Everything else has you outdoors, moving, for one to three hours.
The 2CV sits in between. The roof folds back, which is the whole point, and the operator carries blankets, which tells you what they expect. From November to March, take it with a coat you would wear to stand still in, or take the cruise instead and keep the car for May.
Booking, honestly
The small formats fill: a 2CV takes three people and the walking tours cap at eight. The cruises and the bus rarely sell out. If the evening matters, book the small one early and use the free cancellation as insurance rather than leaving it late.
All of them, with the price basis stated so you can see which are per car, sit on Paris Night Tours.
The three evenings built for two
Bateaux Parisiens Seine River Gourmet Dinner & Sightseeing Cruise
Dinner2 hours 30 minutes
A table of your own, three courses and a live singer, with the monuments past the window for two hours.
From $147 per person
Paris Moulin Rouge 3-Courses Dinner with Wine and Show
Dinner & show4 hours 30 minutes
Dinner from seven and the Féerie revue at nine, finishing with a drop-off in central Paris.
From $352 per person
If you want the light rather than the itinerary, the sunset and blue-hour times for your month are the place to start.