🏨 Versailles Palace and Gardens Tour by Train from Paris with Skip-the-Line Activity

Versailles Palace and Gardens Tour by Train from Paris with Skip-the-Line

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 4 hours

Departs: Paris, Paris

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Join this half-day tour to the prestigious Palace of Versailles and Gardens. Walk in the footsteps of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. See the Hall of Mirrors, lavish staterooms, and beautiful gardens. Your English-speaking guide will lend their expertise to enhancing the experience with historical facts and interesting anecdotes. Take the RER train from Paris and enjoy skip-the-line access, a real time-saver.

What's Included

All reservations and entrance fees to the Palace of Versailles, with skip the line timed entance.

Fully accredited English-speaking guides

Fully guided visit to the Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette’s hamlet (if option selected)

Headsets when appropriate so you can always hear your guide

Musical Gardens or Fountain Show (operates on weekend from April through October

Round-trip transportation from central Paris to Versailles by RER train

What's Not Included

Fully guided visit to the Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette’s hamlet (unless option selected)

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 3
CHILD: Age: 4 - 10
YOUTH: Age: 11 - 17
ADULT: Age: 18 - 99

Additional Info

Our skip-the-line privilege does not extend to the security checkpoint
Please note: You will need to wear a mask when on the train to and from Versailles.
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Our skip-the-line privilege does not extend to the security checkpoint
Please note: You will need to wear a mask when on the train to and from Versailles.
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Palace of Versailles

Meet your guide in central Paris and enjoy a short, escorted train ride to Versailles. On arrival, take a journey in the footsteps of the Kings and Queens of France. During the reign of Louis XIV - the Sun King - Versailles was the place to be and to be seen. Nowadays visitors from all over the world still come to Versailles to marvel at the splendours of this incredible palace. Our skip the line access allows you to bypass the long lines that form each day, and our friendly local guides will steer you expertly through the crowds, bringing the famous figures who once inhabited this palace back to life.

Learn how the Kings and Queens lived out their lavish lives in public, how they kept the gossiping courtiers under their thumb, and made Versailles the artistic center of Europe. Discover a typical day in the life of Marie Antoinette; you’ll quickly understand why she hated the palace so much! Her opulent lifestyle here would lead to her tragic demise under the French Revolution.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

The Hall of Mirrors

See the dazzling Hall of Mirrors, and learn the secrets of how it came to be, and the fascinating goings on at the time of the royal court.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Jardins du Chateau de Versailles

After visiting the royal apartments inside the palace, your guide will lead you through the spectacular gardens, once the setting of balls, parties and elaborate firework displays. On fountain show days you will discover the amazing waterworks, still running today as they did in the times of Kings and Queens. The fountains run to a very precise schedule, and your guide will ensure you are in the right places at exactly the right time!

At the end of your tour you are free to return to Paris with your guide or to remain in Versailles at your leisure. Your guide will be happy to give you advice on further places to visit or where to enjoy a great meal in this beautiful royal city.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Le Petit Trianon

For those who have selected the option to visit the Petit Trianon, your guide will escort you there after a break for lunch. The Petit Trianon offers a unique insight into the private life of the royals at the Palace of Versailles. Hear how King Louis XVI presented a key encrusted in diamonds to his beloved wife, Marie Antoinette and admire the English-style gardens, as well as her beautiful private Hamlet, complete with vegetable gardens and thatched cottages, commissioned by the queen to replicate a Normandy village. Learn how she surrounded herself with farm animals so she could escape the court and play shepherdess, a far cry from her public persona. At the end of the tour, we will take the 'Petit Train' back to the palace, from where it's a short walk to the train station to return to Paris. Please note taking this option will turn your tour into a full day tour.

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

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