Monet's House Tickets: Prices, Booking And Queue Rules

Tickets are where a Giverny visit is won or lost. The house itself costs less than a Paris museum, but the rules around the e-ticket, the on-site quota and the short season catch out thousands of visitors each year. This page sets out every price the official site publishes, the refund terms in plain language, and the tours that bundle entry into the fare. Once the prices are clear, the next question is timing, and our guide to booking Monet's garden in advance explains when reserving ahead actually matters and how the no-refund e-ticket rule should shape your decision.

The adult ticket is 13 euros. Children aged 7 to 17 pay 7 euros, under 7s are free, students pay 7 euros, and disabled visitors pay 6 euros with the companion paying the standard rate. Those figures come straight from the official practical information page, which also sells a skip-the-line e-ticket online and recommends booking ahead for weekends and public holidays. So a fast track does exist, but it is the official e-ticket itself, and tour operators offering skip-the-line Giverny access are reselling or including that same arrangement rather than a separate privilege.

How Much Do Tickets To Monet's Garden Cost?

An adult ticket to Monet's house and gardens costs 13 euros, and that single ticket covers both the house and the two gardens, the Clos Normand and the water garden. Children aged 7 to 17 pay 7 euros, under 7s enter free, students pay 7 euros, and disabled visitors pay 6 euros while the companion pays. Groups of 20 or more pay 12 euros per adult through the groups desk. If you're curious about who can walk in without paying anything at all, our guide to free entry at Monet's garden spells out every category that qualifies.

The recommended visit length is 1h30 to 2h, and entry is unguided: you walk the house, the studio and the gardens on your own at whatever pace you choose. The official practical information page is where every price in the table below is published. Booking is "not compulsory but recommended" on weekends and public holidays, in the site's own wording, and tickets are also sold on site every day from 9:30.

One detail that trips people up: the free and reduced categories are granted on site with proof, not online. If you qualify for a free category, you do not buy an e-ticket at all, you bring your documentation to the entrance. Full details of ticket types and planning trade-offs are in the homepage tour comparison and in the dedicated Giverny tour prices guide.

Should You Buy Giverny Tickets Online Or At The Gate?

Buy online if you are visiting on a weekend, a public holiday or a July or August day, because those are the days the official site warns about. On a weekday outside peak summer, buying at the gate is a reasonable choice: tickets are sold on site daily from 9:30. Once the online quota is reached, the site states plainly, heavy crowds and a long wait are expected on site.

That quota warning is the single most important sentence on the official page, and it is the reason the booking question has a real answer rather than a shrug. The site's own crowd indicator has shown "fluid" levels in late October, which tells you how different a shoulder-season Tuesday is from a Saturday in wisteria season. The pattern across the season is well documented in the Giverny crowds and queues guide.

The catch with buying online is the refund rule, covered in full below: e-tickets are non-refundable, and from 1 May 2026 they are also final, with no modification. So the online purchase trades flexibility for certainty of entry. If your Paris plans are still loose, a weekday on-site purchase keeps your options open. If your date is locked and it falls on a busy day, book.

There is a third route that removes the decision entirely: a tour that includes the entry ticket in its price.

Which Tours To Giverny Include The Entry Ticket?

Most Paris-to-Giverny tours include the entry ticket in the listed price, but check each listing's inclusions before assuming it. The coach trip from $66 per person includes entrance; the guided minibus day trip from $145 includes entry to the gardens and the house; the small-group minivan tour from $154 includes entrance. Local guided tours in Giverny village also include the ticket. If you are unsure whether a guide adds enough to justify the higher tour prices, our comparison of guided and self-guided visits to Monet's house explains what each option gets you.

Because entry is only 13 euros, the tour price is really buying transport and guidance, but the inclusion still matters: a tour that covers entry spares you the non-refundable e-ticket decision and the quota risk on peak days. The half-day coach trip with audio guide, from $66 per person, rated 4.2 from 3,032 reviews, includes the entrance ticket and transport from a central Paris meeting point. The most reviewed listing on this site, the Giverny, Monet's Home & Gardens half-day trip, from $66 per person and rated 4.5 from 3,546 reviews, also includes entry fees, with a multilingual guide on the coach.

For travelers who want a guide on the ground rather than just on the bus, the Giverny: Monet's House and Gardens guided tour, from $66 per person and rated 4.8 from 794 reviews, meets in the village, includes the entrance tickets and adds a licensed local guide for two hours. That is this site's featured pick for ticket searchers: it costs about the same as the official adult ticket plus a small premium, and the guide meets you at Restaurant Les Nympheas on rue Claude Monet, in front of the house.

What Combined Tickets Can You Buy At Monet's House?

Combined tickets exist for the Musee des Impressionnismes Giverny (25 euros adult combined), the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris (27 euros) and the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris (25.50 euros), and they are sold on site only, for individuals, never online. Each pairs the 13-euro Giverny entry with the partner museum at a small saving over separate tickets.

The Impressionnismes pairing is the practical one. The museum sits a few minutes' walk from Monet's house in Giverny itself, costs 12 euros on its own, and carries the 2026 exhibition "Invitation to Daniel Buren, Plantations", running 17 July to 1 November, with under 18s admitted free. The combined 25-euro ticket saves nothing against buying separately at 2026 prices but is simply convenient. The two Paris pairings, Marmottan Monet and the Orangerie, only make sense if those museums are already on your Paris list; the Orangerie holds the Water Lilies panoramas, and the trade-offs are laid out in the Orangerie or Giverny comparison.

One pairing that is often requested but does not exist as a ticket: Versailles. There is no Giverny-Versailles combined admission, because they are separate institutions about 75 km apart with different operators. The Giverny and Versailles tour guide covers how the day-trip listings handle both stops in one 9-to-11-hour outing instead.

Why Are Giverny E-Tickets Non-Refundable?

E-tickets to Monet's house and gardens are not refundable in any circumstance, per the official terms. They were modifiable under conditions until 30 April 2026, but from 1 May 2026 they are final and non-changeable as well. If your plans might move, buy at the gate on a quiet weekday instead, or choose a tour with free cancellation.

The hardening of the terms on 1 May 2026 matters because that date lands at the start of the peak season, exactly when people are most likely to book ahead. Under the current terms an online ticket is a firm commitment to a date and, in practice, an arrival window shaped by your transport. E-tickets are non-refundable, which makes the purchase date-sensitive in a way most Paris museum tickets are not.

Tours invert this trade. Nearly every listing on this site states free cancellation, which means the all-in price of a $66 or $148 per person tour can be less rigid than a 13-euro direct ticket. That is worth weighing before you buy: flexibility is sometimes worth more than the price gap between a direct ticket and a bundled one.

Do Children And Students Pay Less At Monet's House?

Yes. Children aged 7 to 17 pay 7 euros, students pay 7 euros with art and art-history students excluded from the reduction, and children under 7 enter free. Disabled visitors pay 6 euros and the companion pays the standard rate. Reduced and free categories are granted on site with proof, so do not buy those tickets online.

Bring the documentation: a passport or ID for age, a student card for the reduction. The under-7 free entry makes Giverny one of the more affordable major sights in the Paris region for families, and the practicalities of a visit with children, including which tour listings state age limits, are gathered in the Giverny with kids guide.

On the tour side, note that the listings state their own terms. The small-group minivan with hotel pickup, from $154 per person, states a minimum age of 3 and that each participant must be declared at booking; another Versailles-and-Giverny listing states a minimum age of 6. For any listing that does not print a child price, check the listing rather than assuming the museum's 7-euro child rate carries over to the tour fare.

What Are The Queue And Entry Rules At Monet's Garden?

Exit is final, so you cannot leave and re-enter. Monet's house sells a skip-the-line e-ticket online and tickets on site daily from 9:30 (last admission 17:30); e-tickets are non-refundable, and once the online quota is reached a long wait on site is expected, so booking ahead is recommended at peak times. No picnics, no painting or drawing, no animals except assistance dogs, and no large luggage, with bag checks at the entrance.

The no-painting rule surprises art students who arrive with sketchbooks, and it is enforced. There is no cloakroom, so anything too large to carry through the house stays outside; the ban is explicit. Photography for personal use is normal, but wedding photo shoots are specifically prohibited. The gardens are accessible to reduced-mobility visitors, while the house itself is not wheelchair accessible, a distinction the official page makes clearly.

The quietest visits follow a consistent pattern: weekdays rather than weekends, and either the 10:00 opening or the late afternoon from around 16:00. The crowd season peaks around May and June when the wisteria, irises and peonies draw the largest numbers, and again through July and August. October can be a sleeper pick: the season runs to 1 November, and the late-season garden holds dahlias, asters, chrysanthemums and the last water lilies alongside autumn foliage.

The chart below summarizes what an adult actually pays under each buying route, direct ticket versus the tour listings that include entry.

Is A Tour With Entry Included Better Value Than A Direct Ticket?

For most visitors from Paris, yes, because transport is the real cost of reaching Giverny: the adult ticket is 13 euros, but the train and shuttle run about 6 to 24 euros and 5 to 10 euros more, while tours from $66 per person include entry, transport and, on many listings, a guide. Travelers already staying near Vernon can buy direct tickets and save.

Run the arithmetic for a Paris-based adult. Direct: 13 euros entry, a train fare in the 6-to-24-euro band depending on when and how you book, and the SN'go! shuttle at 5 euros one way or 10 euros return between Vernon-Giverny station and the village. That is a floor of roughly 24 euros and a ceiling around 47 euros, plus the effort of matching a train to the shuttle, which runs April to November with seats subject to availability. The train versus tour guide walks through that comparison in detail.

Against that, the from-$66 coach listings include entry, and the small-group options add a driver-guide. The guided day trip to Monet's garden from Paris, from $145 per person and rated 4.7 from 896 reviews, runs by minibus with entry included and a guide aboard. The small-group minivan with hotel pickup or meeting point, from $154 per person and rated 4.7 from 769 reviews, adds hotel collection from western Paris to the same bundle. Neither price is close to the direct-ticket floor, but neither is it far off the direct ceiling, and both state free cancellation where the e-ticket offers none.

When Do Giverny Tickets Go On Sale And When Does The Season End?

The 2026 season runs daily from 1 April to 1 November, 10:00 to 18:00, last admission 17:30, and the house is closed from 2 November to 31 March. The reopening date for the following season has not been published, so check the official page before planning a spring visit. Outside the season the village remains walkable, but the house and gardens are shut.

The reopening question is the one this site gets most often in autumn, and the only safe answer is that the 2027 date has not been announced. What is known: the season is stable year to year, early April to the start of November, and the shuttle from Vernon station follows the same April-to-November window. Restaurant Les Nympheas, directly in front of the house, opens daily for the same season, so the village's whole visitor economy switches on and off with the house.

If your trip falls outside the season, the alternatives are real: the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris shows the Water Lilies cycle year-round for 12.50 euros online or 11 euros at the museum, closed Tuesdays, and the Musee Marmottan Monet holds a major Monet collection at 14 euros. Neither substitutes for the garden, but both carry Monet's Giverny work into the closed months.

What Happens If The Online Quota Is Sold Out?

On-site tickets are still sold daily from 9:30, but the official page warns that once the online quota is reached, heavy crowds and a long wait are expected at the gate. Your practical alternatives are a weekday, a late-afternoon arrival, or a tour that includes entry, since operators hold their own admission allocations for scheduled visit times.

The quota is not a sellout of the garden; it is a sellout of advance e-tickets for that day. The gate keeps selling until closing approaches, but the wait is the price. Two mitigations work reliably. First, shift your arrival: weekday mornings at opening or after 16:00 are the calm windows. Second, let an operator carry the allocation: the listings that include entry describe scheduled admission, and the guided village walking tour combined with garden entry, from $73 per person, is the mid-priced way to secure both a ticket and a local guide's hour of context before you walk in.

That walking tour is worth a closer look for ticket searchers who are already in Normandy or arriving by train. It meets at 80 rue Claude Monet, includes the entrance ticket, and is rated 3.7 from 728 reviews, with the guide covering the village and Monet's story outside the walls; you then explore the house and gardens on your own. It does not include transport to Giverny, which is stated plainly on the listing.

Common Questions About Monet's House Tickets

Whether you buy the 13-euro ticket directly or let a tour bundle it, the same three rules govern the day: book ahead on busy days, remember the e-ticket is final from 1 May, and never count on re-entering once you leave.