About Us

On that first madcap week in Paris as a starving college sudent in 1974, I was instantly captivated by the City of Light. Half a century and 50 return visits later, Paris continues to hold me in her spell.

Shortly after that first intoxicating visit, Fate placed me in Western Europe for four years as a professional basketball player - four years to extend my college athletic career, and to build upon my academic major - European History. This experience provided lots of time to knock around the Continent in castles, cathedrals and museums, as well as cafes, pubs, wineries and street markets. It was during this time that I became hopelessly smitten wth the travel bug. Wanderlust is an incurable condtion; a condition I nursed for three and a half decades in corporate America until retirement allowed me the chance to pursue my real dream of hosting friends and soon-to-be-friends on custom tours of Paris and the Continent. From this dream PARISPLUS was born.

The goal of PARISPLUS is to share the Paris experience in print and in person. This website is the “print” portion of that undertaking. To share it “in person,” we host several events each year. We invite you to join us in Paris to actually see the sights, sit in the cafés, stroll the boulevards, and soak up the charm and romance that this city exudes. Each visit is designed as a luxurious weeklong escape, providing you with upscale accommodation and an arsenal of travel tools to facilitate and maximize your experience. The choices are yours each day, and we remain available to act as your personal concierge, providing tips and recommendations, and to act as city tour guides.

You won't earn a graduate degree from Harvard by simply walking across its campus, and you won't come to know Paris by simply ascending  the Eiffel Tower and spending a few hours in the Louvre. We have spent decades distilling the essance of Paris into a weeklong  deep-dive into the history, culture, food, fashion, and beauty of this magical place. And we have made the whole experience FUN. You'll come away from our tour with a mini-masters degree in the most wondeful and captivating ciy in the world and know the meaing of the phrase "Joie-de-Vivre".