Luxury France Tour Review: Normandy, Bayeux, St. Malo, Monet's Garden, Bike Ride, Local Cuisine, 2-Week Vacation

First, I did not plan for weather as cool as it was, so I would've packed a lightweight wool layer which I did not have. I also now understand why a scarf is essential! Live and learn.
Things we would change if we did it again:
In general I think we would add more time just to wander.
We wished we had had more time in Paris. In hind sight, we would have shortened our time in Amboise to two days and added those days back into the Paris section of the trip.
If we go back to Paris we would do a dinner cruise on the Seine. We really did not have the opportunity to see the City of Lights lit up at night because sunset was so late and we were tired and already back in our room. We were able to see the tippy top of the Eiffel Tower lit up from our hotel window if we opened the window and leaned out :)
The day we drove to Honfleur with our guide was rather long. We had done cider and calvados tasting on our bike ride the previous day and have visited a similar dairy in the U.S. to see how cheese is made, so it felt a little redundant. Also, the little village where we were going to have lunch at a creperie was basically deserted the day we were there; everything was closed including the restaurant our guide was going to take us to. We ended up eating at what we would call a "truck stop" in the U.S. and then ended up having to pay for the guide's lunch for some reason, which seemed odd and not typical of our other experiences. Honfleur was a sweet little city, we would have preferred to just grab lunch there--perhaps a half day drive to Honfleur and back would have been more enjoyable without the other stops, but it's not like it was a bad day, just a long sort of boring day, some of those factors out of everyone's control. That said, we did really like Honfleur and fell in love with a little art gallery there.
IF we ever went back to the Loire Valley we would rent bikes there. The biking looked wonderful and I know that was an option for us that we didn't take advantage of. We could've still arranged this on our own but we decided not to. The chateaux were great but they also start to get rather redundant after a few.