Paris City Vision is a leading sightseeing company based in Paris. They offer a complete range of full & small group “seat on coach” tours of Paris and the surrounding regions. Fully escorted tours with experienced live guides are available alongside various audio-guided options for the more budget conscious.
GVP8 – Private Full Day Tour
Highlights
Enjoy a tasty country lunch in a rural setting
Full-day small group excursion to Giverny and the Palace of Versailles (maximum eight people) with a driver-guide
Priority entrance to Versailles including an audio guide tour of the Hall of Mirrors and the Royal Apartments
Explore Monet’s studio and house
Transport to and from your residence in Paris
Free time to visit the Gardens of Versailles designed by André Le Nôtre and the lush gardens at Giverny
Excursion available in private tour in english, spanish,french or portuguese.
In a warm and friendly atmosphere in a small group of 7, you will discover two essential places in France. We dedicate the morning to a guided tour of Claude Monet’s superb gardens located in Giverny. You will also explore the house and studio of this renowned painter. After a pleasant lunch, you will visit the majestic Palace of Versailles, led by an expert guide who is passionate about the history of France.
Set off at 8:15 am from your place of residence in Paris. The journey to Giverny by luxury air-conditioned coach will take approximately one hour and 30 minutes. Soak up the world of the painter, Claude Monet, famous for painting different corners of his garden, such as the “Water Lilies” or the “Japanese Bridge.” The painter Claude Monet lived at Giverny with his wife and eight children for 43 years, from 1883 until his death in 1926. Passionate about gardening and nature’s changing colors, he designed his flower and water gardens as if they were works of art. During your visit of Monet’s garden at Giverny, admire the multicolored flower beds, the Clos Normand Flower Garden with its many Eastern plants, and the lush water garden, famous for its water lilies and Japanese bridge.
Then take advantage of your free time to visit Claude Monet’s pink-plastered house, where he lived and worked (guided tours of the interior are not permitted due to the lack of space). Explore the reading room, leading into the larder and the artist’s studio. In addition to those of his private apartments, these rooms have been reconstructed with Monet’s original furniture. Visit the bright yellow dining room, which has been reconstructed down to the very last detail, with earthenware dishes and a blue-tiled kitchen. In the dining room, marvel at one of the world’s most important collections of Japanese prints. At the end of your visit, explore the village and treat yourself to some souvenir shopping in the gift and book shop, which was once used as a studio for Monet’s Water Lilies; it offers a wide range of products inspired by the artist’s work.After visiting Giverny, enjoy a tasty lunch at the Moulin de Fourges restaurant just ten minutes away, where you can sample local food with a twist.
EXAMPLE OF MENU (subject to change)
Appetizer : Kir Normand with cider.
Starters : Lobster cooked in court-bouillon, celery remoulade and lobster bisque
Or Fried foie gras, creamy lentils and crispy bacon
Or Norman beef tartar, parsley aspic, avruga, Pata Negra ham
Or Haddock tartar, royal of fennel flavored with orange
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Main dishes : Low temperature cod, cauliflower declension
Or Confit veal breast, forgotten vegetables and meat juice
Or Snacked scallops, skimmed leeks and rosette of potatoes
Or Pigeon breast roasted on a trunk, stuffed legs, creamy peanut polenta, grape juice
Or Gratin with three cauliflowers
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Desserts : Floating island and poached pear
Or Brownie and its mandarin cream, mint lime jelly
Or Pineapple coriander dome, coconut dacquoise and pineapple caramel coulis
Or Black forest revisited with Amarena
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White wine – Red wine
Still and sparkling water
Coffee – tea
In the afternoon, explore the Palace and Gardens of Versailles. Covering more than 721,000 square feet, the Palace has over 700 rooms. Follow your guide to the front of the line to see the most impressive rooms: the King’s Apartments, with seven salons each dedicated to a different god, and the Queen’s Apartments. Also visit the majestic Hall of Mirrors, a reception room in which to see and be seen, dreamt up by the famous architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Almost 240 feet-long, it was designed to astonish visitors of the Sun King Louis XIV; it is lit by 17 windows and 350 mirrors, and overlooks the palace’s splendid gardens, the second part of your visit. Take advantage of your free time to visit the gardens of Versailles and its works of art, fountains, ponds, flower beds and groves of trees. Return to Paris scheduled for around 6:00 pm.
Please note:
Flat shoes are strongly recommended (Versailles has parquet floors in its rooms and cobblestones in its courtyard)
Depending on the option chosen (private visit), the visit of the gardens at Versailles will not be guided
Strollers are not permitted inside the palace
The skip-the-line access is subject to the Versailles Palace procedures: The Vigipirate plan, the security control or an unforeseen crowd can slow down the entrance
On-site visit duration: 6h15
The price includes:
Lunch at the Moulin de Fourges restaurant
Pick-up and drop-off at your place of residence in Paris
Priority access ticket for the Palace of Versailles and its gardens
Entrance ticket at Giverny for Claude Monet’s house and gardens
Services of our driver-guide
The price does not include:
Museum of Impressionism
Pick up & Drop off: from your Hotel in Paris (zip code 75)
Duration 9.5 hours
SCHEDULE:
Tour departs every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY at 08.15 hours.
