With what will be a record turn out of visitors to France this year; of course on everyones list is a visit to the Eiffel Tower. In order to visit the tower, you must stand in line and purchase your tickets and then wait for your appointed hour to take the elevator up to either the 1st, 2nd or 3rd platform. During the summer months, especially, there may be long waits, just to get into a line to buy your tickets. You can avoid the long queues at the Eiffel Tower by buying your tickets in advance for a guided tour behind the scenes of the France s most famous monument. You will be taken inside the Eiffel Tower without queueing and have a personal tour of the Tower with a qualified English-speaking guide in a group of no more than 15 people.
The tour is available on Wednesdays and Saturdays only at 10 am and 5:30 pm. It lasts approximately 90 minutes. Your guide will take you to the machinery room which still controls the lifts and explain this fascinating system which is still in working order today. Then to the old military bunker under the Champ de Mars where the fascinating history of the Eiffel tower will be told from the first building plans to to its new mission to provide telecommunications. Then you will go on to the technical gallery situated under the first floor from where you will be able to admire the spectacular view over the square 57 metres below.You will then be free to roam around the 1st floor and if you wish to buy further tickets to go up to the second and top floors of the Eiffel Tower you can get them from a vending machine on the first floor. The cost is about $30.00 per person.
The good new is at the end of this year, you'll be able to go online and pruchase individual tickets ( right now it is only for groups) and name your time.
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