# What $34,000 Gets You at the Louvre in Paris > An exclusive, crowd-free Louvre tour and a Seine cruise for €30,000. Here is exactly what guests get on the priciest tour in Paris. - URL: https://langandtrip.com.ua/en/article/chto-mozhno-kupyt-v-luvre-v-paryzhe-za-34-000-dollarov/ - Language: en - Published: 2025-03-01 - Categories: Culture, Historic Sites, Museums, Tours, France, Events --- Picture yourself standing in the Louvre, the largest and most visited museum on the planet, with not a single other tourist in sight. Instead of being one of the 10.2 million people a year jostling for a head-on look at Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," the museum's most famous painting and arguably the most famous in the world. Spend enough money, and that fantasy can become your reality. Roughly 23,000 people visit the Louvre every day, and according to a recent BBC report, the Beyoncé and Jay-Z music video shot inside the museum pushed its 2018 numbers up by about two million over the already staggering 8.1 million it drew in 2017. In fact, the Paris museum is France's most visited attraction after Disneyland Paris, though right now there is no way to arrange a private tour of Disneyland. ## The Price of Exclusivity Experiencing the Louvre in this unprecedented way will run you a full 30,000 euros (around 34,000 dollars) for a group of up to four people. Set against the affordable 15 euros per person for a standard visit, that is a serious, jaw-dropping outlay. The 90-minute tour is offered by Family Twist, a Paris travel company that specializes in luxury trips around Europe. ![](/storage/image/prev/september-article-image-98-1-2024.jpg) Family Twist's founder, Magali Deschelette, began offering the private Louvre tour three years ago, after a client from Shanghai told her that his cherished dream was to have the Louvre all to himself. "He had been to the museum many times and absolutely loved it, and he asked whether I could arrange a private visit," Deschelette says. "It took me a few months to set it up, but I managed to make it happen." Related article: How the Louvre Abu Dhabi built a 'night sky' out of visitor data ## A Ticketed "Show" The evening she created from that conversation feels more like a performance than a typical tour: guests are collected from their hotel at exactly 6:30 p.m. A Tesla glides through the streets of Paris, delivering guests to the Louvre's main entrance, instantly recognizable by the glass-and-metal pyramid designed by I.M. Pei. This exclusive experience can only take place on the four evenings a week when the museum closes at 6 p.m., which allows the crowds of visitors to clear out. ![](/storage/image/prev/september-article-image-98-2-2024.jpg) Deschelette, who has been inside the Louvre more times than she can count and acts as host throughout, greets the guests and leads them to the medieval section, the former dungeon of a 12th-century castle that became a museum in 1793. There the group meets its art-historian guide, who kicks off the tour by handing each guest a set of envelopes. Inside each one is an image of a detail from one of the masterpieces on display (the eye of the "Mona Lisa," or the cat from Paolo Veronese's "The Wedding Feast at Cana") somewhere across nearly 3.9 million square feet of space. For an added bit of fun, guests are challenged to match the picture to the corresponding work, which they will spot at some point during their journey. The Louvre's collection includes more than half a million works of art, 38,000 of which are on display, but this evening, lasting just 90 minutes, is devoted to savoring a small handful of the main highlights, such as the ancient Greek statue "Venus de Milo" and "The Coronation of Napoleon" by Jacques-Louis David, who served as the official painter to the emperor of the same name. ![](/storage/image/prev/september-article-image-98-3-2024.jpg) But there are a few surprises along the way, including a ballerina dancing on the staircase that leads up to the "Winged Victory of Samothrace." This marble Greek statue, dating to the 2nd century B.C., is considered one of the greatest sculptures in existence today. Related article: 42,000 dollars for a way to visit the Accademia Gallery art museum in Florence ## The Grand Finale Like any great show, this one has a grand finale, and in this case, no surprise, it is the "Mona Lisa." Guests can take their time gazing at the most famous woman in the world while the guide explains the inspiration Leonardo da Vinci drew on for this landmark work of art. And then the afterparty begins: once the visit wraps up, a ten-minute stroll leads to the Pont des Arts bridge, where guests board a private riverboat for an hour-long cruise along the Seine with Champagne, cheese, caviar, and Paris shimmering in the background. Deschelette says she has booked several private Louvre visits since that first one three years ago. The guests have made up a varied cast from all over the world, including Dallas and Dubai. "They have all been to the Louvre before and now want to have this incredible experience there," she says. As for her client from Shanghai, he enjoyed his private visit so much, according to Deschelette, that he is eager to do it a second time whenever his travels bring him back to Paris. Shivani Vora is a New York-based writer who travels as often as she can, whether it is a walking safari in Tanzania, a mother-daughter trip to Istanbul with her ten-year-old, or surfing in northern Portugal.