Rick Steves' France
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Updates since the 2012 edition:
Paris and Nearby
See updates for our Paris guidebook.
Provence
Arles, Avignon, Pont du Gar, Les Baux, Orange, Côtes du Rhône, Luberon, and Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
See updates for our Provence & the French Riviera guidebook.
The French Riviera
Nice, Villefrance-sur-Mer, the Three Corniches, Monaco, Antibes, and Inland Riviera
See updates for our Provence & the French Riviera guidebook.
Updates for those still traveling with the 2011 edition:
The French national tourism office in the US no longer accepts travel-related phone calls; if you can't find the information you need on their website, email info.us@franceguide.com.
Paris and Nearby
See updates for our Paris guidebook.
Loire
The correct phone number for Marc Brédif winery, near Amboise, is 02 47 52 50 07.
Chaumont-sur-Loire has a new telephone number for general information: 02 54 20 99 22.
The public bus running between Amboise and the town of Chenonceaux now makes an additional stop right at its famous château, Chenonceau.
Fortresse Royale de Chinon has new hours: daily May–Aug 9:30–19:00, April and Sept 9:30–18:00, Oct–March 9:30–17:00.
Château du Rivau has new hours: daily April–Sept 10:00–18:00, Oct–mid-Nov 10:00–12:30 & 14:00–18:00, closed mid-Nov–March.
Dordogne
Sarlat
La Maison du Notaire Royal has a new email address: contact@toulemon.com.
Le Petit Manoir no longer closes in March and Nov.
Beynac
Hôtel du Château has a new website: www.hotel-beynac-dordogne.com, and new owners (Isabelle and Olivier).
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac
English-language tours of the Grotte de Font-de-Gaume now run June–Aug at 13:00 (in addition to Sept–May at 11:00 and 15:00).
St. Emilion
The correct email address for Château Meylet is chateau.meylet@free.fr.
Basque Country
Spanish Basque Country
San Sebastián
Travelers taking the bus from Bilbao Airport to San Sebastián can buy a ticket from the driver; for the return trip to the airport, you must purchase a ticket from the Pesa office in San Sebastián at Avenida de Sancho el Sabio 33 (toll tel. 902-101-210, www.pesa.net).
Provence
Arles, Avignon, Pont du Gar, Les Baux, Orange, Côtes du Rhône, Luberon, and Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
See updates for our Provence & the French Riviera guidebook.
The French Riviera
Nice, Villefrance-sur-Mer, the Three Corniches, Monaco, Antibes, and Inland Riviera
See updates for our Provence & the French Riviera guidebook.
Burgundy
Abbey of Fontenay
The abbey is now open daily mid–April–mid-Nov 10:00–18:00, until 19:00 July–Aug, mid-Nov–mid-April 10:00–12:00 & 14:00–17:00.
Alps
Chamonix
The Parc de Loisirs des Planards, which features a luge ride, has new hours: daily July–Aug 10:00–19:00, May–June and Sept–Oct weekends and some Wed and Thu 14:00–17:30.
Alsace
Colmar
The TI has moved to a spot behind the Monoprix store, near City Hall. (It'll stay there until moving to its new home in the Unterlinden Museum in fall 2013.)
Eguisheim
Alexandre Freudenreich no longer rus a chambre d'hôte.
We no longer recommend the rooms run by Madame Bannwarth.