Enjoy a 3-hour guided tour of the Château of Versailles and its gardens. Marvel at the glimmering Hall of Mirrors and the lavish state apartments.

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Duration 4.5 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
Skip the line through a separate entrance
Live tour guide: English

Highlights

Skip the long lines with a reserved entry time at the Palace of Versailles
Marvel at the Musical Gardens or Fountains Show
Enjoy escorted round-trip train travel between Paris and Versailles

Full description

Visit the Château de Versailles, the royal residence of Louis XIV. See the Hall of Mirrors and the lavish state apartments, where the royals received the elite. Your English-speaking guide will make life at Versailles come alive. Meet the guide in central Paris and travel to Versailles by train. At the Château, skip the lines and begin a 3-hour journey through time in the Château and its gardens. Hear how the royal family recaptured France’s preeminence in fashion and art. Hear about the lavish lifestyle of Marie Antoinette. Tour the magnificent gardens with your guide, and enjoy either the beautiful Musical Gardens or the Fountain Show (depending on the day of the week). After your tour, your guide will be happy to provide you with return train tickets and instructions for the easy journey back to Paris on the train.

Includes

Reserved admission time and entrance fees to the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
Tickets for the Musical Gardens or Fountains Show (if option selected)
Escorted round-trip transportation between central Paris and Versailles by RER train
Accredited local guide
Headsets when appropriate so you can always hear your guide

Hotel pick-up and drop off
Optional gratuities

Not suitable for

Wheelchair users

Meeting point

The meeting point is at the metro entrance/exit for Javel André Citroen (line 10), opposite the Café Regalia, 1 rue de la Convention. Meet your guide outside the entrance/exit. There are 2 metro exits, be sure to take the one with the stairs. At street level, you will be across from the Café Regalia. The guide will be waiting for you by the metro exit.

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Important information

Know before you go

This tour involves a moderate amount of walking, so comfortable shoes are advised
Due to ongoing restoration works inside the palace, some rooms may not be open to visitors. If this occurs, your guide will take you to see other rooms so that your experience is complete

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Overall rating

4.9 /5

based on 57 reviews

Review summary

Guide
4.9/5
Transportation
4.8/5
Value for money
4.7/5
Safety
4.8/5

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Incredible palace, beautiful to see. Met a tour guide in Paris who guided us to a guide at Versaille. The guide there was very informative. Only drawback and not the guides fault was that it was very busy and crowded. In the palace people are confined to small places, so makes it hot and uncomfortable. A must see once.

July 23, 2022

Very well organized trip from Paris to Versailles and then a very good tour with the guide. We were one adult and two kids (12, 16 yrs). A morning tour in the park when hardly anyone else is there is amazing. The guide made us see all the essentials of the park and the castle and was very engaged and knowledgeable. The only thing (and that was not the fault of the guide) was that we were planning to stay in the garden to have lunch but we couldnt, so we had to pat a full garden fee to re-enter to the park. Either this information could be added to the description of the tour, or even better, included in the tour. Thanks!

April 18, 2022

Super good guide! Very interesting stories.

July 24, 2022

Skip-the-Line Versailles Palace Tour by Train from Paris

Skip-the-Line Versailles Palace Tour by Train from Paris

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