Full-Day Private Normandy D-Day Tour for 2: Key American Landing Sites from Bayeux

Exclusive Full-Day Private D-Day Tour for Two

Experience a full-day private Normandy D-Day tour for two, discovering key American landing sites and historic villages with an expert English-speaking guide. Designed for both first-time visitors and well-read enthusiasts, this itinerary blends clear storytelling with the option for deeper tactical and historical insights.

Your Full-Day Private D-Day Experience

Your guide meets you at your hotel, accommodation, or Bayeux train station, so your D-Day journey begins the moment you step outside. Travel in a private, air-conditioned Mercedes minivan with an onboard sound system, allowing you to listen comfortably, ask questions, and tailor the level of detail to your interests. As you cross the Normandy countryside, your guide sets the scene, explaining the goals of Operation Overlord, the role of the American airborne forces, and how Utah and Omaha Beaches fit into the broader Allied plan.

Utah Beach & Sainte-Mère-Église

The morning usually starts on the western flank at Utah Beach, where American forces landed on the Cotentin Peninsula. On the sand and dunes, you explore how tides, currents, and last-minute decisions influenced the landings, why casualties here were lighter than at Omaha, and how the beachhead expanded inland. Newcomers enjoy a clear, chronological overview of D-Day morning, while more knowledgeable guests can dive into unit-level actions, defensive strongpoints, and the contribution of naval and airborne support.

From the shoreline, continue to Sainte-Mère-Église, one of the first French towns liberated on 6 June 1944 and a symbol of American airborne operations. Around the church square and village streets, you trace the night drops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, the famous story of the paratrooper caught on the steeple, and the intense fighting that followed. Depending on your interests, the visit can highlight personal stories of paratroopers, the strategic value of this crossroads, or how the town remembers its liberation today.

Pointe du Hoc and Its Alternatives

Next, your guide leads you to Pointe du Hoc, the dramatic cliff-top position between Utah and Omaha Beaches where U.S. Rangers carried out one of the most daring assaults of D-Day. Here you can walk among bomb craters and damaged bunkers while learning how this strongpoint threatened the invasion fleet and why its capture became legendary. 

⚠️ Please note: Due to road and construction works at Pointe du Hoc, access to the site may be limited in 2026 and 2027. In the event of closure, your visit will be replaced by another historically significant location such as Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Angoville, or Carentan, ensuring the same depth of historical insight and experience.

Omaha Beach & Normandy American Cemetery

In the afternoon, the focus shifts to Omaha Beach, the most challenging of the American landing sectors. Walking the tidal flats, shingle, and bluffs, you see how the German defenses were arranged and why terrain, visibility, and misdrops made the first waves so costly. Your guide adapts the explanation to your background, offering a clear introduction for less experienced visitors or a more technical discussion of defenses, units, timings, and debates among historians for specialists.

A short drive then brings you to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking the eastern end of Omaha. Among the rows of white headstones, memorials, and maps, you connect names and units to the ground you have just explored. Some guests prefer a broad overview of how the cemetery fits into the wider Normandy campaign; others focus on particular regiments, decorations, or individual stories that bring the scale of sacrifice into sharper focus. There is time for reflection, photographs, and independent wandering if you wish. 

Comfort, Privacy and Depth

Throughout the day, this tour remains entirely private – just you, your travel companion, and your English-speaking guide. The pace is flexible: you can linger longer at a viewpoint or memorial, shorten or extend a stop, and adjust the balance between big-picture narrative and detailed analysis to match your interests and energy levels. 

Between sites, the comfortable minivan offers a quiet space for questions, whether you want to clarify the basics of D-Day or explore advanced topics such as doctrine, logistics, command decisions, and recent historical research. 

This full-day private experience gives you the time to absorb the terrain at Utah and Omaha, understand the role of Sainte-Mère-Église and Pointe du Hoc (or its alternatives), and reflect deeply on the legacy of the Normandy campaign.