Tour Paris Promenade

Paris Promenade is a race course in the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It is an expanded and combined version of Paris Promenade, Paris Promenade 2, and Paris Promenade 3 from Mario Kart Tour. It appears as the first course of the Golden Dash Cup.

Paris Promenade is one of three courses to originate in Mario Kart Tour to appear in the first wave of the DLC, alongside and Ninja Hideaway.

Course layout
The first two laps of Paris Promenade combine elements and pathways of Paris Promenade and Paris Promenade 3 from Mario Kart Tour. The course begins at a road facing the Arc de Triomphe, where the player is able to go around it from either the left like in Paris Promenade, the right like in Paris Promenade 3, or go through the Arc as a shortcut by breaking through two Piranha Plant wooden cutouts, like in both versions. After a gradual left, the player encounters a Glide Ramp that sends them over the and towards the Eiffel Tower, like in Paris Promenade. Because of the Glide Ramp, the Jardins du Trocadéro cannot be driven on normally like in Paris Promenade 3, unless the player is hit with an item while gliding, such as a Red Shell or Lightning, which will throw them onto it and allow them to drive through to the tower. Afterwards, the player is given two routes they can choose from: underneath the Eiffel Tower like in Paris Promenade, which is followed by a sharp left afterwards, or a sharp left just before the tower, like in Paris Promenade 3, which is followed by a sharp right turn at the to a short path covered in pipes. Both paths lead to a roundabout with a Big Piranha Plant in the center, after which the track continues north, with the remainder of the lap following the path of Paris Promenade 3, passing through a part of the Louvre, giving players a view of in the background, as well as  and  along the large left turn. Afterwards, the player will make another left turn, followed by a right turn at the Luxor Obelisk, leading back to the starting line.

In the third lap, the players are forced to turn right by an arrow field that blocks off the Arc de Triomphe to a path only taken in Paris Promenade 2, passing the in the process and then traversing the course backwards, similarly to the R variants of the Paris Promenade courses. Because of this, it is possible to pass by racers still on a previous lap driving in the opposite direction, similarly to. The race ends on the opposite side of the start/finish line that the race started on. All of the aforementioned alternate pathways remain the same. However, if the player is thrown into the Jardins du Trocadéro by an item during this lap, Lakitu will pick up the player and forcibly move them back to the track.

The minimap has been rotated 90 degrees compared to the equivalent Paris Promenade minimaps in Tour. While the Big Piranha Plant at the roundabout remains, the pipes and Goombas under the Eiffel Tower have been replaced by a Dash Panel.

Trivia

 * In a trailer posted to promote the release of Wave 1 of the Booster Course Pass, the glide ramp before the Eiffel Tower is visually missing, instead appearing as the generic ramp from Paris Promenade 3, but it still functions like a glide ramp.