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"WOMEN ONLY" EDUCATIONAL TOURS
Many women enjoy travelling with other women which provides a more comfortable environment (body and mind) and a great way to have fun.
To satisfy its client’s requirements, Lifestyle Vacations has designed women-only tours which are escorted by female staff only. It offers a chance to female participants to be on vacation and a time to be free of the responsibilities of home, work, and caregiving. These tours appeal equally to women travelling solo, and to groups of family members and friends. It is also a wonderful opportunity for grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and daughters to renew relationships, and a pleasant way to celebrate a special occasion. In addition to that, women-only tours give the opportunity to meet new people, exchange ideas, and improve one’s knowledge in specific topics, such as wine explorations, cooking classes, fragrance workshops, etc.
Please visit our new programs :
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Wine exploration & Spa in the Bordeaux region
• Thailand, cooking at the Thai house
• Parisian lovely macaroons
• Paris, cooking vacation in the City of Lights
OUR PROGRAMS
“Flavours & Scents of Provence”
Avignon, Chateauneuf-du-Pape & the Lavender Route
Flavours & Scents of Provence is the perfect program for the food, wine and nature lovers. Designed and escorted by Corinne Preteur, owner and director of Lifestyle Vacation, this exclusive tour includes hands-on cooking classes to experience the Provencale cuisine, excursion to Chateauneuf du Pape to enhance your understanding in the Cotes du Rhone wines, excursion to the Lavender Route to discover the beautiful perched villages and landscapes nearby, wine tastings, the Avignon guided tour, etc. Accomodation in a luxury private house in Avignon, walking distance to the Popes' Palace and the shopping district.
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PARIS - HITTING THE SALES
January & June Shopping Tours
Lifestyle Vacations organizes an exclusive VIP shopping tour in Paris dedicated to bargain-lovers and fashion victims. Our four-day tour includes the acommodation, the transfers from/to the airport, the private shopping tours (each is to limited to 6 participants), a welcome drink and dinner, a tea break with a delicious Parisian pastry, a listing of our favorite restaurants and shops to visit when you have time free.
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PARIS - MY FOUR DAYS IN PARIS™
Personal coaching and Shopping Getaway
My Four Days in Paris™ is one-of-a-kind vacation you need to experience at least one time in your life. And if you travel with your childhood best friend or with your husband or boy-friend, it will be simply fantastic!
Within just few days, you will become someone new, in giving a better image of yourself with a new haircut, and a new style as well, thanks to the full service of a personal coach and fashion specialist. From Tuesday to Friday, you will pamper yourself from head to toe, and make an unforgettable shopping in Paris, the international fashion capital, while discovering the beauty of the City-of-Lights. This program is exclusive to Lifestyle Vacations
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Paris - one day cooking class
MACAROONS CLASS AT “LE GRENIER A PAINS” IN SEVRES, NEARBY PARIS

Once upon a time… here could begin the story of the macaroons, those little almond cookies which took part of gourmet celebrations all over Europe centuries ago. The history begun at the Renaissance in Northern Italy before spreading through Europe. This is a period which hardly influenced painting, sculpture, architecture, and cooking as well. But at the Millenium, a new macaroon created a huge revolution in the culinary traditions : a cute, lovely and colorfull “mini-hamburger”, crispy outside and creamy in the middle which brings “Que du plaisir”… I mean : only pleasure !
Whatever the macaroon is, the recipe for the biscuit is always the same: egg whites, almond powder and sugar, then you add the flavor you like (coffee, chocolate, vanilla, etc.) If you prefer the Parisian macaroons, you make a ganache or a pastry cream or a fruits jelly that you put between the two shells. Easy to tell, but more delicate to make… that the reason why a class is helpful and the chef will explain his secrets to success in the technique.
Class is scheduled on a three-hour basis and is geared towards beginners or advanced amateurs. You learn how to make the dough and bake the shells, while choosing the flavor you prefer. Basically, macaroons are with chocolate, vanilla and coffee. But macaroons can be more creative in combining subtle flavors such as: coffee/mascarpone, lime/strawberry jelly, passion fruits/chocolate, salty-buttered caramel, cinnamon/apple jelly, rose/rasberry cream, pistachio/chocolate, chocolate/orange blossom, and more. What a delightful program !
Macaroons classes take place at the boulangerie/patisserie “Le Grenier à Pains” in Sevres, located west to Paris, linked from Paris by metro (ligne 9 to Pont de Sevres). From the terminus, it takes 10mn by walking to get there.
Classes are limited to 6 participants, and taught in English
Program price: $210 per person
Duration: 3 hours, scheduled from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Classes available year-round and 6 days a week, from Tuesday through Saturday.
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PARIS - COOKING ADVENTURE IN THE CITY OF LIGHTS
This unique and customized journey, created by Corinne Preteur, is exclusive to Lifestyle Vacations. It will give you the opportunity to experience both classic and modern, simple and elaborate cooking in intimate hands-on classes all along the Regions of France. Besides, you will enjoy Paris’ vibrant city “off the beaten tracks”, and live there like a true Parisian.
You will be accomodated at the elegant and luxurious four-star hotel Pavillon de la Reine, on the royale Place des Vosges dating back from the early 17th century. This unique hotel is an authentic “home away from home” with a soul that inspires peace and harmony, in the spirit of the “art de vivre à la Française”.
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PROVENCE - AT HOME WITH GINA
Organic Wine & Diet Cooking Experience in Carpentras
With its mesmerizing colours, scents, and sunny-filled days, Provence is a heavenly destination for the gourmets. Gina’s newest cooking school and luxury private villa located in Carpentras is perfect if you prefer a central location for making your free shopping by walking, without depending on any transportation. A short drive further afield takes you to Avignon and the Cotes-du-Rhones vineyards. Gina’s special gift for cooking reveals the secrets of the organic and diet provencale cuisine in a relaxing, friendly and warm atmosphere. Daily walks, well-balanced meals that you take the time to enjoy, a relaxing time in a peaceful place, are the keys of a healthy life that begins here…
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