Giverny tour..your advice?
karen
in the Eiffel Tower area. We plan to take a couple of day trips,
and wonder what your experiences have been booking a tour with a
local (Paris) tour operator vs. not booking at all and just trekking
out on our own. Also, is a day trip to Chartres doable? We have
been to Versailles gardens and plan to tour the palace. Feedback
re. guided tours vs. the self guided variety in all 3 places??
Thanks...... krs
ROSE KUHN
about an hour or just over. When you walk out of the train station, you
can see the cathedral, so just head for that. Sign up inside for the
Malcolm
Miller tour (12:00 & 2:00 or 1/2 hr after). Later, take a walk thru the
pedestrian
area, and down by the river to see the wash houses. Very easy to do in a
day.
We went to Giverny as a part of an escorted tour of France, so can't speak
on
the day-trip one. Understand you take the train, and then a bus to the
garden
if going on your own. At Versailles, go to the back of the property and see
the
two Trianons and Marie's hamlet (there will be less trees due to 1999
storm).
Buy ticket for the tram behind the palace, over to the side of the
courtyards
(not the Orangerie side). If you are buying a Carte Musee, that will cover
the
inside palace; take the RER line C to Versailles-Rive Gauche(RG) and the
palace is walking distance from that station.
louisa
<CAS...@ix.netNOSPAMcom.com> wrote:
it is a lot more fun to trek on one's own -- from Paris you can easily do
Giverny, Chartres, Chantilly and Versailles among others. A tour might be
useful for the Loire -- but with two, I'd rent a car and do it that way
for a day or two.
Chartres is a wonderful day trip from Paris.
Allison Williams
karen wrote:
We did daytrips to Chartres and Giverny in August.(on separate days)
We took an early train to Giverny so we would be in the first group to
get into the gardens. Also make sure you go to the American
Impressionist Museum--a beautiful building and a lovely collection.
In Chartres by all means take a Malcolm Miller tour. He gave 2 a
day in the summer with a different focus each time. I don't know what
his schedule will be in April, but he is worth planning your visit of
the cathedral to accommodate his performance. (and a performance is the
name for it!)
In my opinion an organized tour would add little to either
excursion, and in fact would spoil the spontaneity of sauntering
through these lovely historic spots.
--
Allison Williams
Richmond, VA
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--Samuel Johnson
Carole Allen
the gardens. I agree you want to experience the gardens and the house
at your own pace.
Jack
For a personal tour, check the "Daytrips from Paris "section of my web
site. All bout how to go to Giverny, when and how to visit
Jack
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Ludovic Dias
convenient for the train station is not so close.
For Chartres I would definitely advise a TO such as Touringscope.
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hamilton
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> As for Giverny, going there by yourselves is possible though not really
> convenient for the train station is not so close.
> For Chartres I would definitely advise a TO such as Touringscope.
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> L.Dias
why -- Chartres is easy to visit, easy to tour alone and the cathedral has
tours one can join -- what advantage to being herded about at someone
else's base?
Jack
wrote:
>In article <B69DC2EF.3BC0%ld...@networkcouncil.com>, Ludovic Dias
><ld...@networkcouncil.com> wrote:
>
>> As for Giverny, going there by yourselves is possible though not really
>> convenient for the train station is not so close.
>> For Chartres I would definitely advise a TO such as Touringscope.
>> --
>> L.Dias
>
>why -- Chartres is easy to visit, easy to tour alone and the cathedral has
>tours one can join -- what advantage to being herded about at someone
>else's base?
That's entirely true. I'm glad someone else has the same opinion. I
principally leave the asker full choice of his decision, but really,
nor Chartres, neither Giverny needs an organized tour. Be a little bit
resourceful and you need no tour for these two destinations . Of
course, take a few prints of my articles from my web site.(Daytrips
from Paris)
Jack
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Paul Tauger
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A day trip to Chartre is very doable -- in fact, one day is all you need.
We did this in April. As I recall, we departed from the Gare de Lyon. The
train ride was about an hour. Old Chartre, which is the part around the
cathedral and the area in which you will be interested is an easy 5-10
minute walk from the train station.
As a general rule, my wife and ABHOR group tours and avoid them like plague.
Chartre is easily and comforably explored on one's own plus, if you time it
right, you'll be able to walk down ancient, cobble-stone streets by
yourself, visualizing yourself back in the middle-ages, without the
distraction of a group of noisy tourists and a tour guide saying, in 4
languages, "on your right is a cafe selling real French croy-sants."
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About 45 minutes or so to Vernon, then taxi to garden. Then taxi back
to station. This is probably one of the easiest days trips, because
most of your time will be spent at the gardens, and having lunch in one
of the nearby restaurants.
Nina
David Gascon
I think there's also supposed to be a bus from the train station to
Monet's place, but you can spend half the day waiting for it, & it
probably won't even cost much less, especially if you end up sharing the
taxi with some other pilgrims you run into, as I did. Coming back, there
wasn't even a cab to be found, so I ended up tagging along with some
young hitchhikers & getting a free lift from a pleasant local women.
(This was a few years ago.)