3-Course-Dinner Cruise on the Seine with live music
★ 4.7 · 8 505 reviews
- 2.5 hours, Three courses and live music
- Two and a half hours on the water
- Likely to sell out
- Free cancellation
A Paris Dinner cruise gives you dinner and river views. We compared 14 cruises from $68, with free cancellation and a 4.7-rated top tour from 8,505 reviews. You get an à la carte dinner on board as the boat follows the Seine past illuminated monuments.
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14 cruises$68
Today's lowest dinner cruise across all 14 cruises
Average rating
All 14 cruises44
52,461 verified reviews across 14 cruises
Time on the water
Shortest to longest75–150min
Shortest: 3-Course Gourmet Dinner
Longest: 3-Course-Dinner Cruise
Everything you can book here
Fourteen listings, all of them on the Seine, most boarding at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. What separates them is the table and the clock: three bistro courses over two hours from $68, two and a half hours à la carte with a live singer at $132, or the highest table on the page at $190.
★ 4.7 · 8 505 reviews
★ 4.3 · 11 893 reviews
★ 4.3 · 5 915 reviews
★ 4.2 · 5 732 reviews
★ 4.8 · 5 268 reviews
★ 4.5 · 4 267 reviews
★ 4.4 · 2 978 reviews
★ 4.3 · 2 377 reviews
★ 4.4 · 1 567 reviews
★ 4.4 · 1 525 reviews
★ 4.2 · 941 reviews
★ 4.6 · 496 reviews
★ 4.4 · 405 reviews
★ 4.5 · 592 reviews
Two questions
Seen the fourteen above and still torn? They run the same river past the same city, so the decision is not the route: it is what is on the table and how long the boat stays out. Seventy-five minutes at the short end, two and a half hours at the long one, $68 to $190. Pick the evening you had in mind and we will point at one sailing.
See it before you pay for it
These boats put your table on the Seine and carry it past the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre-Dame while you eat. What differs is what arrives at that table and how long you sit at it: two bistro hours, two and a half hours à la carte with a singer, or 75 minutes with three courses.
Side by side
People book these interchangeably and then find they bought different evenings. At $68 the bistronomic cruise gives two hours and three courses from the Pont Alexandre III; at $132 the most-booked boat runs two and a half hours à la carte with a singer; at $190 you get a guaranteed window seat. Decide the table first.
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| Seine River Panoramic Views Dinner Cruise | TOP PICK3-Course-Dinner Cruise on the Seine with live music | Maxim's Dinner Cruise on the Seine with Live Music | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per person | $75 | $132 | $190 |
| Time on the water | 1 hour 45 minutes | 2 hours 30 minutes | 75 minutes |
| What the fare covers | Dinner on board, panoramic windows | A three-course dinner and live entertainment | The Maxim's dinner service, with live music |
| Live music on board | Not on this sailing | Yes, a singer on board | Yes, live music on board |
| Group size | Sold as a small group | A full dinner boat | A full dinner boat |
| Reviews behind it | 11,893 reviews | 8,505 reviews | 592 reviews |
| Rating | 4.3 across 11,893 reviews | 4.7 across 8,505 reviews | 4.5 across 592 reviews |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation | Free cancellation | Free cancellation |
| Check dates | Book this one→ | Check dates |
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Verdict
It is the one that gives you the whole evening: two and a half hours on the Seine, boarding at the Eiffel Tower, a three-course dinner served while the boat works the river and a singer on board. Rated 4.7 across 8,505 reviews. If the fare decides it, the bistronomic cruise runs two hours for $68.
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Every cruise here runs the same stretch of the Seine through the middle of Paris, so comparing routes gets you nowhere. What differs is how long the boat stays out and what arrives at the table while it does. Seventy-five minutes is a dinner with the city going past; two and a half hours is an evening. Fares run from $68 to $190.
Two-minute check
Three things decide it: what is served, how much of the evening the boat gets, and whether there is live music on board. Answer them below and we will name one of the fourteen.
How much of the evening does the boat get?Sailings run from seventy-five minutes to two and a half hours
How do you feel about the table itself?Fixed sittings: you board, you are seated, and the boat leaves on time
What do you want most out of it?Every boat here runs the same river, so this is the part that differs
You’ll get the sailing that fits the evening you described, and the one thing on its listing that would catch you out.
Six ways to eat on the river
Fourteen sailings carry 52,461 reviews between them, as published by the operators on GetYourGuide. These six cover the range: our top pick, the lowest fare, the most reviewed, the best rated, the oldest name on the river, and the highest table.
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All fourteen Paris dinner cruises on this page, rated on GetYourGuide.
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From $132 · 8,505 reviews
★★★★★
The longest kind of evening on this page, boarding at the Eiffel Tower, with a three-course dinner and live entertainment while the boat works the river.
Seine River Panoramic Views Dinner Cruise
From $75 · 11,893 reviews
★★★★☆
One hour forty-five on the Seine with dinner under panoramic windows, sold as a small group — more reviewed than any other listing on this page.
Seine River Bistronomic Dinner Cruise
From $68 · 5,732 reviews
★★★★☆
Two hours on the water with the bistronomic dinner menu, at $68 — the lowest fare on this page, and an outdoor terrace with it.
Lunch Cruise with 3-course menu from the Eiffel Tower
From $91 · 5,268 reviews
★★★★★
Two hours from the Eiffel Tower with a three-course lunch, and the highest rating on this page at 4.8. Same river, same quays, seen in daylight instead of lights.
Bateaux Mouches® Dinner Cruise on the Seine River
From $132 · 4,267 reviews
★★★★★
Bateaux Mouches runs its own dinner service from its own pier, which is the one thing on this page that does not start at the Eiffel Tower. Two and a half hours at the table.
Maxim's Dinner Cruise on the Seine with Live Music
From $190 · 592 reviews
★★★★★
Maxim's puts its dinner service on the water with live music, at $190 — the highest fare on this page, with a window seat held for you.
What it really costs
Prices are per person and cover the cruise, the seat and the meal. What moves the figure is the kitchen and the clock: $68 buys two bistro hours with three set courses, $132 two and a half hours à la carte with a singer, $190 the highest table here.
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| Which cruise | Price | What that buys | Cancellation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seine River Bistronomic Dinner Cruise | $68 | Two hours, three courses, panoramic boat with an outdoor terrace, 4.2 from 5,732 reviews | Free cancellation |
| Seine River Panoramic Views Dinner Cruise | $75 | 1 hour 45 minutes, small group, most reviewed here, 4.3 from 11,893 reviews | Free cancellation |
| 3-Course-Dinner Cruise on the Seine with live music | $132 | Two and a half hours à la carte, live singer, 4.7 from 8,505 reviews | Free cancellation |
| Maxim’s Dinner Cruise on the Seine with Live Music | $190 | From 75 minutes, window seating, wine and coffee included, 4.5 from 592 reviews | Free cancellation |
The honest answer
The monuments that make Paris famous stand along one river, and the Seine passes the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre-Dame in a single line. From a table on the water you get that sequence in order, lit for the night, without walking between any of it.
The evening, hour by hour
Seventy-five minutes or two and a half hours, with a band on board or without one — that choice decides more about the evening than the fare does. Free cancellation runs on the listings here.
Most of these sailings board by the Eiffel Tower; the Bateaux Mouches service leaves from its own pier. The listing names the meeting point, and the boarding time is earlier than the departure time.
You are shown to a table and seated there for the sitting. Which table you get is the part people write about afterwards, so read what each listing says about seating.
The boat pulls out into the river and the quays start moving past the window. The service usually starts once the boat is under way.
The Seine runs through the middle of Paris, so the bridges and the buildings along the quays arrive one after another while you are sitting still.
Several of these boats carry live entertainment. On the ones that do, it runs while the dinner service does, and it is the reason those listings cost what they cost.
Seventy-five minutes if you took a short sitting, two and a half hours on the longest ones, and you step off where you got on.
Which sitting to take
Most of these operators run more than one sitting, and the listing tells you which times it sells. The earlier services tend to be quieter and the easiest to get at short notice; the later ones are what people book first. The other half of the choice is length. A seventy-five-minute sitting is a dinner with a view out of the window. Two and a half hours is an evening: the boat is out long enough that the city coming past becomes the room you are in. They cost differently because they are different lengths of evening.
On the water
A glass-roofed dinner boat working the river after dark.
What the fare buys: a seat, a sitting, and the river on the other side of the glass.
Most of these sailings board by the tower and pass it from the water.
The bridges and the buildings along the river arrive one after another.
What it's like
The Seine runs through the middle of Paris, and everything on this page is a boat that serves dinner while it works that stretch of river. Most of them board by the Eiffel Tower. The Bateaux Mouches service leaves from its own pier. Either way the route is the city itself: the quays, the bridges and the buildings along them arrive at the window one after another while you are sitting still.
Fourteen sailings are bookable here, and between them they carry 52,461 reviews. It is worth saying plainly what they show: ratings on this river sit between 4.2 and 4.8, not at 4.9. These are big boats serving a lot of covers in one sitting, and people review the table they got as much as the view they came for.
So the question is not where you are going. It is what is on the table and how long the boat stays out. Seventy-five minutes at the short end, two and a half hours at the long one, and fares from $68 to $190.
Our pick is the three-course dinner cruise with live music at $132. It runs two and a half hours, boards at the Eiffel Tower, and carries a singer on board while the dinner service runs. It holds 8,505 reviews at 4.7 — the strongest combination of length, music and weight of opinion here.
The most reviewed listing on the river is a different evening: the panoramic dinner cruise at $75, one hour forty-five under panoramic windows, sold as a small group, with 11,893 reviews at 4.3. It is the one the largest number of people have actually been on.
If the fare is the deciding part, the bistronomic dinner cruise is $68 for two hours on the water and carries 5,732 reviews at 4.2. At the other end, Maxim’s puts its dinner service on the water with live music at $190 for seventy-five minutes, rated 4.5 across 592 reviews.
Live music is the second thread running through these listings. Several boats carry it and several do not, and the ones that do say so in their titles. It changes the evening more than the length of the menu does, which is why the listings that have it are grouped together on this page.
The other thing worth knowing is that the same boats run at lunchtime. The lunch cruise from the Eiffel Tower is $91 for two hours and is the best rated sailing here at 4.8 across 5,268 reviews — the same river and the same quays, in daylight. Free cancellation runs on the listings on this page.
If the evening is yours
Seventy-five minutes is a dinner. Two and a half hours is an evening, and these three are the longest sittings on this page: the Bateaux Mouches service from its own pier, a gourmet dinner with live music, and a sightseeing hour followed by a bistro dinner. Same river, twice the time at the table.
2.5 hours · ★ 4.5 (4 267)
$132See dates
2.5 hours · ★ 4.4 (2 978)
$77See dates
2.5 hours · ★ 4.4 (1 525)
$76See datesPractical
Four things decide how it goes: how many hours you can give the river, whether you want live music or a quiet deck, which quay you board from, and how early you hold the date — the most-booked sailings go first, and that is what free cancellation is for.
Our top pick: the longest kind of evening here, 8,505 reviews at 4.7.
The most reviewed listing on the river, at $75.
The lowest fare on this page, at $68.
Its own pier and its own dinner service, at $132.
Gourmet, early-evening, wine and Maxim’s services, all in seventy-five minutes.
The same river in daylight, from $80.
You board at a set time and stay at one table for the whole sailing.
The listing gives a boarding time earlier than the time the boat leaves.
The courses come while the boat is under way, not before it casts off.
Which table you get is what people write about afterwards, so read the seating notes.
The sailings that carry it name it in the title; the ones that do not, do not.
Every listing here carries hundreds or thousands of them, enough to show what the operator is like.
Seventy-five minutes and two and a half hours are different evenings, not two prices for one.
The number of courses and what comes with them changes from listing to listing.
Holding a date early costs you nothing, and the good evenings go first.
Several of these listings set a minimum booking time ahead of the sitting.
Most board by the Eiffel Tower; Bateaux Mouches uses its own.
If the evening is spoken for, the daylight sailings run the same water.
Which makes the meeting point somewhere you were going to stand anyway.
The one listing on this page that does not start at the tower.
The Seine runs through the middle of the city, so the boat passes it rather than leaves it.
Boarding is before departure, and the boat does not wait.
Paris puts its piers in the middle of town rather than out at a port.
The listings name it, and the piers along this stretch are close together.
Best time
The boats run all year and the route never changes, so the season decides the light on the water, how much time you will want on the open terrace, and how far ahead the tables go — more than it decides what you see.
Mar & Apr
Spring fills the quays again without filling the boats: most sailings have room a few days out. Evenings on the water are still cool, so the glass-enclosed boats are the comfortable pick.
May & June
Long light and mild evenings, every one of the fourteen listings running, and the terraces genuinely usable through dinner. Book a week or two ahead for the $132 sailing with live music, and keep free cancellation behind it.
July & Aug
The busiest weeks in Paris and the warmest on deck. The most-booked boats and the Maxim’s table at $190 go first, so hold a date early; the shorter 75-minute sailings are the easiest to slot into a full day.
Sept & Oct
The crowd thins and the city switches its floodlights on earlier, so an early-evening departure already gives you the lit version of the route. Check your boarding time, which shifts as the light shortens.
Worth knowing
The length is the decision. Seventy-five minutes and two and a half hours are two different evenings on the same river, and the fare does not tell you which is which. Read the duration first.
The most reviewed sailing is not the most expensive one. The panoramic dinner cruise at $75 carries 11,893 reviews — more than any other listing here, and 3,388 more than our top pick.
Ratings on this river run 4.2 to 4.8. That is lower than you see on small boat trips, and it is what happens when a boat serves hundreds of covers in one sitting. The numbers behind them are enormous, which is what makes them useful.
Live music is named in the title or it is not there. The operators that carry it say so on the listing, and the ones that do not, do not mention it at all.
Boarding time is not departure time. These listings give a boarding window before the sailing leaves, and the boat does not wait on the quay for late tables.
The same boats run at lunchtime. The lunch cruise from the Eiffel Tower is the best rated listing on this page at 4.8 across 5,268 reviews, for $91 and two hours in daylight.
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Common questions
Fares on this page run from $68 to $190. The bistronomic dinner cruise is the lowest at $68 for two hours; the panoramic sailing, which has more reviews than anything else here, is $75 for one hour forty-five. Our top pick, the three-course dinner with live music, is $132 for two and a half hours, and the Maxim’s service is $190 for seventy-five minutes.
Our pick is the three-course dinner cruise with live music at $132: two and a half hours, boarding at the Eiffel Tower, a singer on board, and 8,505 reviews at 4.7 behind it. If you want the listing the largest number of people have been on, that is the panoramic dinner cruise at $75, with 11,893 reviews at 4.3.
Seventy-five minutes at the short end and two and a half hours at the long one. The gourmet, early-evening, wine and Maxim’s services all run seventy-five minutes; the bistronomic, romantic and champagne sailings run two hours; the panoramic cruise is one hour forty-five; and the longest sittings — live music, Bateaux Mouches, gourmet with music and the bistro dinner — are two and a half hours.
Most of the sailings on this page board by the Eiffel Tower, which is why so many listings name it in the title. The Bateaux Mouches dinner cruise leaves from its own pier instead. Every listing gives its exact meeting point and a boarding time that is earlier than the departure time, so read both before the day.
Several do, and they say so in the title: the three-course dinner cruise with live music, the gourmet dinner cruise with live music, the champagne dinner cruise and the Maxim’s service all carry it. It runs while the dinner service does. The listings that do not name music do not carry it.
The ratings here run from 4.2 to 4.8, lower than you see on small boat trips: these boats serve a lot of covers in one sitting and people review the plate as well as the view. What the listings do tell you exactly is how many courses come with each fare and what is included alongside them.
The fourteen sailings here carry 52,461 reviews between them at an average of 4.4. What the fare buys is a table on the river that runs through the middle of Paris: you sit still and the quays, the bridges and the buildings come past the window, with a dinner service and, on several boats, live music.
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Which sailings carry live music, how long each one stays out, what each fare covers, where every boat boards, and which listings ask for notice before the sitting. Built from the operators’ own listings and the same live prices as this page.
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Why trust this page
Durations, boarding points, what each fare covers and which sailings carry live music come from the live listings for each cruise. Prices and ratings are read off the same listings and updated with the page.
Fourteen dinner cruises bookable on the Seine, ordered so the one we would book first comes first. Nobody pays to be featured.
Seventy-five minutes and two and a half hours are different evenings at the same table. Every card and every table on this page says how long the boat is out.
Scores on this river run from 4.2 to 4.8, and we print them. What carries the weight here is the number behind each one: 52,461 reviews across the fourteen listings on this page.
The answer
Every cruise on this page runs the same river through the middle of the same city. What separates them is how long the boat stays out, what arrives at the table while it does, and whether there is a band playing. Sittings start at $68, the boats run through the year, and free cancellation runs on the listings here.
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All fourteen cruises with times, menus and what each fare covers, the seventy-five-minute sittings against the two-and-a-half-hour ones, which boats carry live music, and where every one of them boards — in the order we would book them.
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