Fat Tire tours Paris

We did this tour a few years ago and would recommend it. We met our guide at a train station in Paris and traveled to Vernon. It was market day so we bought picnic supplies then walked a short distance to pick up the bikes. We rode a few miles then stopped for lunch. Biked a few more miles to Giverny. The guide distributed tickets to Monet’s house and garden which we toured on our own. We rode back to Vernon then took the train to Paris. It rained the day we took the tour but it was still enjoyable. Have fun!

I also recommend Fat Tire tours and the tour to Giverny. For our tour they bussed us to Vernon and had a garage there for the bikes.
Very organized company and great guides.

You definitely will enjoy their tour.

As an avid cyclist, I would probably love a bike tour, but I would be concerned about biking in a large city, which may not be safe.

Do such tours have bike trails that are separate from auto traffic.

Vernon is a small town. You can walk or bike everywhere. There is a bike trail that follows the river Seine all the way to Giverny. We did it on foot. It's a nice walk.
You can go all the way from Paris to Le Havre I believe.

Yes, those tours don't bike all the way from Paris, that is beyond the reach of a casual cyclist. They bike from Vernon to Giverny, and there is a 'greenway' so it's very safe. The distance is short, it's definitely less than 15k round trip.

For anyone that wants to do this on their own just take a train from Gare Saint-Lazare to Vernon and across the street from the train station in Vernon is a place where you can rent bikes, scooters, etc. It is 5km from the train station to the front door of Monet's house and it's easy to follow the bike trail through the center of Vernon and over the bridge across the Seine where you pick up the bike trail (an old rail line converted to a bike trail) to the beginning of the village and then cycle the last 1km through the lovely village and park/lock your bike in the designated bike parking area across from the main entrance.

https://location-velo-vernon.fr/

Buy your tickets on-line before visiting if going on your own or else you may stand in a long ticket line. Those with pre-purchased tickets get right in through a separate door. The Monet website has all the info you need to plan your own visit:

http://fondation-monet.com/en/