Question 1

Getting to Giverny

Accepted Answer

A shuttle bus, the Navette Giverny, runs from Vernon-Giverny railway station to the village of Giverny from April to November. The shuttle was €5 one way and €10 return in October 2026; check before you go. Boarding depends on the seats available. The shuttle also stops in Vernon at the Vernon and Albuféra stops, for the Old Mill and the town museum. A cycle route links Vernon and Giverny, and bikes can be rented at the exit of Vernon station. Ask your cruise line whether your excursion includes the transfer to Giverny.

Question 2

What to Eat

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Noyau de Vernon is a local liqueur, found in some of the town's traditional restaurants. The restaurant Les Nymphéas, opposite Monet's house in Giverny, is open every day from April 1 to November 1 in 2026. Picnics are not allowed in Monet's gardens.

Question 3

Tipping and Currency

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Restaurant prices in France almost always include tax and a 15 percent service charge. For an especially good meal, an extra 2 to 3 percent or the coins from your change is the custom. Tour guides and bus drivers are generally tipped after an excursion. France uses the euro.

Question 4

Monet's Giverny and Vernon's Museum

Accepted Answer

Monet's house and gardens are in the village of Giverny, not in Vernon. The visit takes in the house, the Clos Normand garden and the water garden with its lily pond. Adult admission was €13 in October 2026, and a combined ticket with the Musée des Impressionnismes in Giverny €25; check before you go. Combined tickets are sold on site only. Painting and drawing are not allowed in the gardens. Vernon's Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet shows Seine valley landscapes by the Hoschedé-Monet family and by the foreign artists who settled at Giverny, along with animal art that includes works by Rembrandt Bugatti and François Pompon. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, closes for lunch from 12:30 to 2 pm, and full-price admission was €5.50. In the town, the collegiate church of Notre-Dame was reworked between the 12th and 16th centuries, and the half-timbered Maison du Temps Jadis dates from the 15th century.

Question 5

History

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Vernon's military role ended in 1204, the year Normandy passed to the French crown. King Philip II Augustus then let one of his followers put a watermill on Vernon's bridge, and six mills were grinding wheat there in the 18th century. A dam completed downstream in October 1849 stopped the four watermills that were left. The bridge that carried the Old Mill was destroyed during the Second World War, and the mill still straddles two of its piers. Claude Monet made Giverny his home from 1883 to 1926. The house and gardens were restored in the late 1970s. Vernon's museum was founded in 1862 with a gift of some 2,000 stuffed birds, moved into a former private mansion in the old center in 1983 and took the name Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in 2024.

Question 6

Traveling with Family

Accepted Answer

Children under 7 enter Monet's house and gardens free. Admission for ages 7 to 17 was €7 in October 2026; check before you go. Pets are not allowed at Monet's house and gardens, there is no luggage storage, and bags larger than cabin size are refused. Vernon's museum is free for visitors under 26, and for everyone on the first Sunday of the month.

Question 7

Accessibility

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Visitors with reduced mobility can get around Monet's gardens, but a wheelchair cannot enter the house. Visitors with a disability card have priority access at the group entrance on Sente Leroy. Admission for a visitor with disabilities was €6 in October 2026, with a companion paying the full rate; check before you go. Vernon's museum gives a reduced rate to visitors who show a disability card.

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