Choosing a Somme Battlefields Tour: Australian, Canadian or the Whole Front
Whose story the day follows, where it starts, shared or private, half or full day, and which fares pay for a museum or lunch.
These are the long reads for the choices you make before you book. Whose story should your day follow? How does a day from Paris run, stop by stop? Can you go without a guide, what does each fare pay for, and which month suits you? When you are ready to choose, compare the Somme Battlefields guided tours side by side.
Start with choosing a Somme battlefields tour if you have not yet picked between an Australian, a Canadian and a whole-front day. Start with the prices guide if your budget is fixed. The blog answers single questions in fewer words, and the FAQs answer the quick ones.
Whose story the day follows, where it starts, shared or private, half or full day, and which fares pay for a museum or lunch.
What time you leave, how long the drive is, where lunch happens and when you are back, stop by stop on three different days.
What is free, what charges, the hours to plan around, the free guiding on the ground, and what a guide still does better.
Every fare side by side: per person or per group, what two, three or four of you pay, the museum tickets, lunch and the extras.
The anniversaries, the winter closures, the student-guide season, Mondays, and the weather, season by season.
The days that start in Paris are on Somme battlefield tours from Paris, the days for your party alone on private Somme Battlefields tours, and every tour on Somme Battlefields Tours.