Mont-Saint-Michel private tour

A private tour of Mont-Saint-Michel is above all about choosing your own timing. No coach to wait for, no group to follow: your driver collects you from your hotel, villa or the station, takes you to the shuttle departure point and meets you on your return, whenever you decide.

You travel in a prestige saloon or, for a family, in a Mercedes-Benz van for up to 7 passengers. All our drivers speak English, and the day is prepared with you in advance: departure time, visit, lunch, stops on the way back.

• Pick-up at the address of your choice: hotel, villa, station, cruise port
• Mercedes-Benz S-Class or BMW i7, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, van for up to 7 passengers
• Abbey tickets and a licensed guide booked on request
• Child seats on request, chilled water on board

Mont-Saint-Michel is about an hour from Rennes, and three quarters of an hour to an hour from Saint-Malo and Dinard. These three towns are the best bases for the visit: stay there the night before and reach the Mount ahead of the crowds.

Coming from Paris? The high-speed train links Paris-Montparnasse to Rennes in about an hour and a half. Your driver meets you off the train, and you are at the Mount an hour later, with no car to hire and no connection to chase. In the evening, he takes you back to the station for your train, or to your hotel on the coast.

Most visitors arrive in the middle of the day. For a quieter Mount, aim for early morning or late afternoon, when the light falls across the bay. Your driver times the departure accordingly.

Cars stop on the mainland; the Mount is then reached by a free shuttle or on foot, across the footbridge. During the highest tides, the sea surrounds the rock for a while: a rare sight that we can build into the day if the dates allow.

The Mount takes half a day. The rest is up to you: oysters for lunch in Cancale, overlooking the bay; the ramparts of Saint-Malo in the late afternoon; or Dinan and its half-timbered houses.

For history lovers, the D-Day beaches in Normandy are only an hour and a half from the Mount: the two visits can be linked over two days, with the same driver.

Your driver knows the bay, its roads and its best hours, but he is not a licensed tour guide. For a guided visit of the abbey, in English or in French, we book an accredited guide for you, along with your entrance tickets.