Where to stay in Giverny comes down to three bases: the village itself, Vernon across the Seine, or Paris. The village puts you at the gate at opening time. Vernon has the station. Paris has the tours, and most Giverny booking start there.
Choose by how you want to arrive at the gate, not by the room alone. The table sets each base against the way you reach the gardens.
| Base | How you reach the gardens | What is there | It suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giverny village | On foot | A hotel-restaurant, rooms in village houses and self-catering cottages | Walking in at 10 am; a quiet evening on the street |
| Vernon | Shuttle from the station, or 5 km by bike or on foot | The station, the tourist office, bike hire, a town museum | Train travellers with no car |
| Paris | A tour from your hotel or a meeting point; or the train from Saint-Lazare | Nearly every tour's start | A day trip, with Paris for the rest of your stay |
| A cruise ship at Le Havre | A private shore day from the port | Your cabin | Cruise passengers with one day ashore |
If you have one day, stay in Paris and take a tour. If you have two, sleep in the village or in Vernon and see the gardens first thing.
Few beds sit in Giverny itself, and they fill in the season. Le Jardin des Plumes is a hotel-restaurant in a 1913 house in its own park, with rooms and suites. Its chef, David Gallienne, runs the kitchen. Nearby, Ô Plum’ART lets six rooms in a house with blue shutters.
The tourist office in Vernon lists more: cottages and rooms in and around the village. Search its list for Giverny, and book as soon as you have your date.
A night here gives you what no tour can: the street before the coaches, and the evening after the gates shut. Be at the gate for the 10 am opening. Dine at the Ancien Hôtel Baudy, which serves until last orders at 9 pm on its evening service. Its own page lists the days.
Vernon is the town across the Seine, with the station for trains from Paris Saint-Lazare, Rouen and Le Havre. The tourist office is at 36 rue Carnot. It lists places to stay in and around Vernon, one of them a cottage near the station.
From Vernon you reach the gardens by the seasonal shuttle, €5 each way, or along the 5 km cycle path. Givernon hires bikes at the station exit. Check the shuttle timetable at the station for the last run back.
Vernon suits you if you come by train and want a town round you in the evening. It has its own museum with a round Water Lilies by Monet, and its old mill on the river.
If Giverny is one day of a Paris trip, stay put. The coach days meet at Porte Maillot, the small-group minivans on avenue de Wagram or at your hotel in western Paris. Every private day collects you at your Paris hotel.
A hotel in the west of Paris puts you near most meeting points. Before you book, check that the tour you want picks up in your district: some pickups leave out parts of the city.
Compare the Giverny tours that collect you at your hotel, and the ones that meet at a café or a square.
If you arrive by sea, your ship is your hotel. A private shore day collects you at the Le Havre cruise port and has you back before sailing. It gives you about an hour at Monet’s house and gardens, with Honfleur or Rouen as your second stop.
The gardens open only from 1 April to 1 November. Check your port date falls inside the season before you book.
The hotel and rooms are described from their own site, and the other places to stay from the tourist office’s list, checked 28 September 2026. We name only what those sources name. Meeting points come from each tour’s own listing.
Already in Giverny? A private guide meets you next to the car park by the house for two hours inside and out, entrance tickets paid. No transport is included.
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Five to seven hours with pickup and drop-off at your Paris hotel, an air-conditioned car, bottled water, and the entrance to the house and gardens paid.
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A private car from your Paris hotel for up to three: two hours at Monet's house and gardens, then a stop in a second village on the Seine on the way back.
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