Paris itinerary: 5 days for a first trip
Five days in Paris for a first trip, grouped by neighborhood: the Eiffel Tower and Rue Cler; the Louvre, the Tuileries and the Palais Royal; Sainte-Chapelle, Notre-Dame and the Latin Quarter; Montmartre; then the Musée d'Orsay, the Luxembourg Gardens and an evening in the Marais.
It's one of the sample trips inside the Wanderjoy app, so you can open this exact plan on your iPhone with code TRIP and change anything.
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Day by day
Day 1Champ de Mars · Rue Cler · Place du Trocadéro
Eiffel Tower Summit9:30 AM
Rue Cler Market Lunch1:00 PM
A pedestrian market street 10 minutes from the tower.
Trocadéro Sunset View7:30 PM
Day 2Rue de Rivoli · Jardin des Tuileries · Place du Palais Royal
Louvre Museum9:00 AM
Head to the Denon wing first and work backwards.
Tuileries Garden Walk1:30 PM
A 15-minute reset between the Louvre and the shops.
Palais Royal Courtyard4:00 PM
The arcaded garden behind is one of the calmest corners in central Paris.
Day 3Boulevard du Palais · Île de la Cité · Rue Mouffetard
Sainte-Chapelle9:30 AM
Notre-Dame Exterior11:30 AM
The view from Square Jean XXIII behind shows the flying buttresses with no crowd.
Latin Quarter Dinner7:00 PM
Walk past the tourist-menu strip near Rue de la Huchette and go up Rue Mouffetard instead.
Day 4Montmartre · Place du Tertre · Rue Cortot
Sacré-Cœur Basilica9:00 AM
Place du Tertre & Backstreets11:00 AM
The square itself is a tourist trap, but two streets down Rue de l'Abreuvoir and Rue Saint-Rustique are the Montmartre people picture.
Musée de Montmartre Gardens2:00 PM
The most underrated stop on the hill and almost never busy.
Day 5Rue de la Légion d'Honneur · Jardin du Luxembourg · Place des Vosges
Musée d'Orsay9:30 AM
Go straight to level 5 on arrival — everyone else starts on the ground floor and works up.
Luxembourg Gardens1:00 PM
The city's best park for doing nothing.
Le Marais Evening Walk5:30 PM
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Questions
- How do I open this Paris plan in Wanderjoy?
- Install Wanderjoy, then import trip code TRIP. The same 5-day plan opens in the app with every stop on the map, and you can change it from there.
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- Yes. Add, edit or reorder stops, switch days around, and keep trip notes next to the plan.
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