Last year we took a tour of the Louvre and it was excellent, so I knew we needed toengage their services for a tour of the D'Orsay. Cristiana was an excellent guide, so energetic and knowledgeable. The museum was quite busy even in February as the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays (something to consider when booking), but she was able to navigate the museum flawlessly. We had three adults and three children age 10, 12, and 12. So worth it to have a private guide to share their knowledge of the art in this amazing building.

Our tour of the D’Orsay with Paloma was better suited to adults than kids. There was nothing child-friendly about the tour Paloma gave us. She was knowledgeable, but dove deep into details that had the kids (ages 7, 9, 11 & 12) lost pretty quick. I found it odd that she spent more than 1/2 the tour on the sculptures/furniture/objet in the museum instead of the world-famous Impressionist paintings. Paloma made no effort to keep her information entertaining - it was more like a college-level art history class than a kids tour. There were no games, no activities, and zero fun...just high level artistic information that was often mentioned with zero frame of reference. It was frustrating to pay for a kids tour that we expected to be high energy - instead we got someone who only bored the kids and left them frustrated by tour’s end. A big fail for our family.

Tatiana provided a very informative and engaging tour for us and our two children -- we learned so much about the artwork!