Giverny Versailles Private Tour from Paris in a comfortable minivan

Visit Giverny and Versailles constraint-free ! We offer you an excursion with a specialised guide driver and an air conditioned vehicule during 10h00 to discover the beauty of the Giverny place and the Versailles Palace.

• You decide the departure time and our guide driver will pick you up anywhere in Paris.
• You can change the itinerary or avoid stops ? your excursion is flexible and our driver guide is specialized on Giverny and Versailles at your exclusive service.
• Once arrived Giverny, our guide will help you to enjoy your discovery of the Monet House and its gardens.
• After the visit of Giverny we transfer you to the Versailles Palace
• Once arrived in Versailles, our guide will help you to enjoy your discovery of the Castle and will give your tickets with priority access.
• At the end of the excursion we will drop you off where you wish in Paris.

For a better excursion and visit, we recommend you departures at 8:00 a.m.

MONET HOUSE AND GARDENS

Located in the south of Paris, Giverny is a very charming village. Claude Monet decided to move in this place in order to develop his passions such as painting, gardening and photography. In 1966, the gardens and Monet's House were passed by his son Michel to the Academy of Arts.

During the tour, you could see the Monet's House restored as before, the workshop's painter and stroll through the wonderful garden.

Inside the Monet's house where he lived from 1883 to 1926, you could visit:

• on the ground floor : the 'blue lounge' (room for reading), the groceries, the workshop, the dining room with the famous collection of Japanese drawings on the wall, and the kitchen well decorated.
• on the first floor : the private apartments with the Monet's bedroom (specific period furniture), the Alice's bedroom and the toilets. In front of the house, you will be charmed by the famous Monet's gardens which are majestic and represent one of the master piece of the painter.

You could visit the house and gardens as you like and our guide will give you all information to enjoy your free time.

>> After your visit of Giverny we will transfer you to the Versailles palace

VERSAILLES CASTLE VISIT

Thanks to the tour, you could discover on your own, fabulous rooms of the palace such as:

• the King's Grand Apartment, this prestigious seven-room enfilade was meant to serve as a parade apartment, that is, as a venue for the sovereign's official acts. Therefore it was sumptuously decorated according to the model of former Italian palaces.
• the Hall of Mirrors or "the Grande Galerie", as it was called in the 17th century, was used daily as a place of passage, and a waiting and meeting space for the courtiers and the visiting public.
• the Queen's chamber, the chamber is the main room of the apartment, the one where the Queen spent most of her time. She slept here, often joined by the King.

MUSICAL GARDENS

From April to October, the fountains come to life and you can watch the fabulous spectacle of the great waters set to baroque music. The "Grandes Eaux de Versailles" show takes place on Saturdays and Sundays, the "Jardins Musicaux de Versailles" takes place from Tuesday to Friday.

THE GARDENS OF VERSAILLES

If you have free time you will stroll through the amazing gardens. Versailles is the model of the typical French garden laid out between 1661 and 1700 by le Nôtre who levelled off the land, drained it and landscaped the views, groves, canals, and flowers bed. The gardens are adorned with more than 400 marble, bronze and led statues and fountains by water features.