Explore the Eiffel Tower with one of these top-rated tours. The best options include a nighttime tour, an Eiffel Tower and Seine River combo tour and more.

Best of all, if you head to the Eiffel Tower after 8 p.m., lines are likely to be significantly shorter than in the morning or afternoon. Ready to discover more hidden gems and expert travel tips?

Viator sells several Eiffel Tower experiences such as this one, which combines a ticket to the tower with a boat tour on the Seine, and includes a guide. We rounded up all the best Eiffel Tower ...

I've visited Paris 20 times and stayed in famous places like Hôtel Lutetia and Hotel de Sers. I think Paris' top hotels have the best Eiffel Tower views — aside from standing in front of it.

With the Eiffel Tower being one of the top 5 attractions in Paris, allow yourself at least thirty minutes to enter the ground ...

The Eiffel Tower has a magnetism that few other sites can match. If you exit at Bir-Hakeim metro station and turn right along the Quai Branly, it reveals itself slowly, rising above a line of trees.

The Eiffel Tower opened in 1889, built by Gustave Eiffel for the World's Fair in Paris. It was an engineering marvel at the time of its construction and still is to this day.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Some tourists walked away unimpressed, brushing off the Eiffel Tower as “just a tower.” But when it opened in 1889, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world.