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Giverny Monet House and Gardens Skip the line Walking tour
Giverny, France
From $60.95
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Free cancellation
Up to 24 hours in advance.
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- 2 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
Overview
Walk through the gardens and village that inspired some of Monet’s most celebrated paintings on a skip-the-line tour of the artist’s house in Giverny. Begin with a walking tour of the charming village where Monet lived for decades, and then bypass the entrance lines at Monet’s house. See quality replicas of famous paintings and learn about Monet's life before strolling through the Japanese-style gardens and lily ponds captured in his Impressionist masterpieces.
- Visit the house in Giverny where Claude Monet lived and worked
- Includes a walking tour of Giverny village and a visit to Monet's famous gardens
- Save time by skipping the line at Monet's house
- An essential stop for fans of modern and Impressionist art
What's Included
- Local tour guide
- Entrance fees to Monet’s house and its gardens
- Pick–up and drop off
- Tips
- Food / Drink
Meeting And Pickup
Meeting point
- La Capucine80 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, France
Meet your guide outside "La Capucine"/Botanic Café, 80 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- The tour will start promptly at the scheduled departure time. Latecomers run the risk of missing the tour. Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the scheduled time.
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- The gardens are wheelchair and stroller accessible, but the house is not.
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Traveler Tips
It does get crowded as the day progresses so I would go as early as possible in the morning.
A must do tour if you enjoy art an impressionists in particular.
Reviews
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Highly recommend Viator's "Skip the Line Private Tours"
Jacqueline_P, Jul 2022
I highly recommend this tour and highly recommend private tours throughout Viator's numerous destinations. I have used Viator a number of times and have always had great experiences. Their guides are highly knowledgeable and always on time.
Tour guide didn’t show
theresa9199, Jul 2022
Our tour guide never showed up. We were there 10 minutes before scheduled tour start and also waited for 30 minutes after tour started. Spoke to another guide who was there but her tour was in French.
Perfect
sara_d, Jul 2022
Perfect Perfect!!!! Loved it so much will be back again. The gardens are great and the stories was good. Thank you
Our Visit to Giverny
Eileen_C, Jul 2022
We were exceedingly blessed to have a knowledgeable and charming guide and only one other couple to form our group. Our guide had many pictures to supplement her talk and was able to answer all of our questions. Since she was uable to accompany us into Monet's home she gave us excellent information about the home before we entered so that we had a very good sense of what we were looking at while we toure the house. I am so glad we had a tour.It enriched the experience beyond measure.
A morning with Monet
ReneeandDavid_S, Jun 2022
Our guide Jessie was informative , knowledgeable and friendly. We enjoyed the tour very much and learned a lot. We recommend the tour and our tour guide.
Bad tour guide Jesse
Jeanine_E, Jun 2022
We were late. Our fault for sure. Got a little lost, thought the tour was 30 minutes later than it was. I apologized numerous times. They contacted our tour guide, Jesse, who left the tour to retrieve us. I apologized again and she told me 4 times then that normally she would cancel us, and to prove to her that the tour started 30 minutes later, I just apologized again and asked what we should do, Jesse said if we can catch up them we can finish the tour. We thanked, hurried to catch the group that was all in French. We had signed up for English, I do speak French so I was able to hear the rude French ladies talking about how rude we are to have got lost! God forbid we made a mistake! Jesse continued another three times to tell us that normally she would have canceled us. Finally I had had enough. I told her we understood her the first four times she had told us but we are hear now and would like to finish the tour. Jesse did not want this neither did the rude French ladies so finally my husband said fine we will go on our own and we left. Such a horrible experience for such a beautiful place. I was so looking forward to taking my children to see it. Thankfully I have been before and was able to guide us ourselves. I have always enjoyed our tours before I think if we had stayed away from Jesse it would have been a whole different experience.
Cancelled tour on us last minute
Edward_O, Jun 2022
We are experienced and well traveled and in fact have lived as expats in Europe so we feel we are very objective.
We booked our tour online and received confirmation along with the cancellation fee policy if within 24 hours you cancel NO REFUND as well as a “warning” that you must be 15 min early.
Our tour was to begin at 10am. After driving from Paris to ensure we’d be on time, we stood at the meeting point and only one other couple was there. No tour guide to be seen. At 10:01, we received a phone call saying so sorry but the tour guide had to go to hospital so they need to cancel. Those are the facts.
We understand things happen…just seemed very odd that we were told to be there 9:45 and yet didn’t get a call to cancel til 1 minute after tour was supposed to start. We were told we’d get a refund. The only ones who lost out was us the tourists and the operator was not even willing to give us entrance tickets gratis for our troubles. To be quite frank it seemed obvious to us, that there were not enough ppl signed up for the tour so they waited to last minute to cancel.
We bought our own tickets and toured on our own. It’s a lovely area for sure but our experience with this operator was miserable. The tour operator told us on the phone they would send an email with refund confirmation. We received nothing from them of the sort. We had to contact Viator directly to ensure credit for their cancellation.
Must see tour
Edward_S, May 2022
The gardens were very beautiful. Guide was knowledgeable and helpful. Best to go on a weekday to avoid large groups.
The guide was perfect, we...
Victor_F, May 2022
The guide was perfect, we paid for a English tuor, but our friends did not speak english and the other couple only french, so the guide start speaking french and spanish (she was not confortable with portuguese, although she knows how to speak) and we could understand everything.
The garden is perfect, but is a crowded tuor
Wonderful guide and tour
William_D, May 2022
Jessie (the guide) showed up punctually at the location indicated on the voucher. The tour was wonderful and she started with giving us a background of the little town with a quick walk before we entered the gardens through a special entrance for groups/guides. Jessie was Knowledgeable and had a great personality. Really friendly and open to questions. I would recommend this tour and especially Jessie.
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