Your cruise begins at Port de la Bourdonnais, right at the base of the Eiffel Tower, where Bateaux Parisiens glass-canopy boats wait at pontoon 5 or 7. Step aboard, find your table center-of-boat or window seat, depending on your package and settle in as a server brings your welcome kir.
As the boat eases away from the dock, the tower falls behind you and the rest of Paris opens up. The Seine’s riverbanks here are a UNESCO World Heritage Site and for good reason: within the first thirty minutes, you’ll pass Pont Alexandre III, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Louvre, before curving around Île de la Cité to catch Notre-Dame Cathedral from the water.
Course by course, the meal is timed to the cruise, not rushed to fit it. Live piano and violin carry through the dining space as plates change and the skyline keeps shifting outside the glass.