Choosing The Best Versailles Guided Tour

Elevate your Versailles visit with expert-led tours that bring stories to life while ensuring you see all the must-visit highlights.

• Everything you get: Skip-the-ticket-line and enter through a separate entrance with your expert multilingual guide. As you walk through the Palace and its iconic spaces, learn about its history and architecture.
• After, stroll through the French-style gardens designed by André Le Nôtre or the expansive Park featuring the Grand Canal and the Lake of the Swiss Guards.
• Why choose this: A deeper dive into the Versailles Palace's history, architecture, and role in World War I and the French Revolution, brought to life with expert storytelling.
• Upgrades: Explore beyond the main palace by upgrading to a passport ticket, granting access to the Trianon Estate—the royals’ private residences set apart as a retreat from Versailles’ grandeur, offering a glimpse into their lives beyond official duties.
• Visiting between April and October? Catch a fountain or musical show in the Gardens, a stunning choreography of Baroque music and water displays.
• Extend your experience with an exclusive guided tour of the King's Private Apartments, designed for intimate use and accessible only with a guide. Here, Louis XVI welcomed Benjamin Franklin in 1778, and Mozart performed a private concert in 1763.

Inclusions

• 90-minute guided tour of the palace

• 90-minute guided tour of the estate (as per option selected)

• 90-minute guided tour of the King's private apartment (as per option selected)

• Professional English/French/Italian-speaking guide

• Access to the gardens with the Fountain or Musical show (Apr to Oct only) (as per the option selected)

Exclusions

• Transportation

Elevate your estate visit with exclusive access to the private chambers of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

• Everything you get: Led by a multilingual expert guide, step inside the otherwise restricted King's Private Apartments, an intimate space featuring a suite of rooms belonging to the last two kings of Versailles. Depending on the tour day, you can either visit the Royal Chapel or the Royal Opera (decided by your guide), each a grand construction from the early 18th century.

• Post the tour, enjoy a self-guided visit to the palace.

• Why choose this: Most tours don't include access to the King's Private Apartments—this one does. Step beyond the grand halls for a rare look at royal life behind closed doors.

Inclusions

• Skip-the-line passport tickets
• 90-minute guided tour of the King's private apartment
• Official Versailles multilingual guide
• Exclusive access to either the Royal Opera or the Royal Chapel
• Small group tour of 20 or fewer

Exclusions

• Guided tour of the Versailles Palace

Easy transfers from Paris & explore Versailles your way—self or guided.

• Everything you get: Travel comfortably in an air-conditioned coach from Paris to Versailles and enter the Palace with timed entry tickets.

• Explore the grandeur of Versailles—from the iconic Hall of Mirrors to the lavish Grand King's Apartment, and ongoing exhibitions.

• Enjoy complimentary access to the French formal Gardens between November and March, and wander through the sprawling verdant Park—perfect for a picnic.

• Why choose this: Skip planning the travel logistics and only focus on crafting the perfect itinerary!

• Upgrades: Enhance your visit with a guided tour of the Palace, covering key sights with expert insights.

• Choose a small group tour (15 guests) for a more intimate, interactive experience.

Inclusions

• Skip-the-line entry to the palace

• Round-trip bus transfers from the Eiffel Tower

• English-speaking professional guide (as per option selected)

• Access to the entire estate (as per option selected)

• Small-group guided tour (as per option selected)

10 Parisian sights & a round-trip to the Palace of Versailles in one cost-saving combo.

• See top sights in Paris with a hop-on hop-off pass and dive into the history of Versailles Palace with this super-saver combo.
• Get a 1/2/3-day unlimited hop-on hop-off pass and explore 10 top attractions flexibly, as buses arrive every 10 to 15 minutes.
• Learn more about Parisian history from a 10-language audio guide. Your kids also get access to bilingual, child-friendly audio commentary.
• Set off on a round-trip shuttle to the Palace of Versailles, and wander through lush gardens, portrait halls, and centuries of French royal history.
• Make use of an interactive map & a multilingual audio guide to make your way through the 2,000 rooms of the palace.

Inclusions Paris Hop-on Hop-off

• 1/2/3-day unlimited hop-on hop-off tour

• Access to Blue Route

• Audio guide in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Brazilian, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic

• Children’s audio guide in English and French

• Free Wi-Fi and complimentary headphones

• Mobile app with a detailed map and live bus tracking

Versailles Palace

• Entry to the Palace of Versailles

• Round-trip shuttle to Versailles

• Access to the Palace, the Park, the Gardens, and the estate of Trianon

• Audio guide in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Korean

Paris Hop-on Hop-off Please click here for a detailed route map and its boarding points. You can join the tour at any stop and hop on and off for the duration of your ticket.

City Highlights Tour (Blue Route) Flexibly explore major attractions in Paris, like the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum, over 1/2/3 days on this hop-on hop-off tour. Popular stops: Opéra Garnier, Notre Dame Cathedral, Champs Elysées

Versailles Palace Shuttle Service

• Departure to Versailles: 12:30pm from Stop 1 (Printemps/Galerie Lafayette)
• Departure to Paris: 5:30pm from Stop 1 (Printemps/Galerie Lafayette)

Guests are requested to arrive 15 minutes before the departure time. The shuttle service does not operate on Mondays.

Paris Hop-on Hop-off

• The buses are wheelchair and pram/stroller accessible.
• Your guide dogs are welcome on the buses.

Versailles Palace

• The palace is wheelchair and pram/stroller accessible. However, the shuttle service between Paris & Versailles is not wheelchair accessible.

A complete Versailles experience—estate and meal included.

• Everything you get: Step into the opulence of the Versailles estate with a timed entry ticket to the palace and explore the iconic Hall of Mirrors and the lavish Grand King's Apartments. Continue your visit to the Trianon Estate, once a private royal retreat from court life, and take a stroll through the gardens and attend the musical gardens/fountain shows (as per schedule), if ongoing. With a full-day itinerary, take a break at La Flottille—a gourmet spot in the Gardens overlooking the Grand Canal. Choose between a €40 sit-down meal or a €20 takeaway snack for a picnic in the vast Park, with soft drinks included.
• Why choose this: Including a meal with a full-day itinerary means you stay well-fed and avoid rushing through your estate visit.
• Upgrades: Choose between a €40 lunch voucher and a €20 takeaway-snack voucher—with your Versailles estate visit, which includes the palace, Trianon Estate, and the gardens.

Inclusions

• Timed entry to the palace
• Access to the Trianon Estate
• Access to the gardens
• Access to the Fountain or Musical show (Apr to Oct only)
• €40 voucher for lunch (as per option selected)
• €20 voucher for snacks (as per option selected)
• Soft drinks at the restaurant

Versailles Palace

• Re-entry upon leaving the Palace and Garden premises is not allowed.

• Animals are not permitted in the palace, gardens, and Trianon Estate.

• Avoid carrying weapons and sharp objects.

• Valuable items and clothing cannot be deposited in left luggage.

• For information on the Musical Fountains Show and Musical Gardens, click here.

• Left luggage items should be collected at the end of the visit, before 6pm in the high season (April to October) and until 5pm in the low season (November to March).

La Flottille

• Access to the restaurant is via the Park, which is free and open daily.
• The toilets are accessible to people with reduced mobility and are free of charge.
• The restaurant's opening hours vary by season: April to October, from 9am—6:30pm, and November to March, from 9am—5pm.

Inclusions

• Entry to day/night Musical Fountains Show at the Palace of Versailles (as per the option selected)

• Entry to Musical Gardens Show (as per the option selected)

• Dedicated car parking (as per the option selected)

• Direct access via Neptune Gate (as per the option selected)

• Glass of champagne (as per the option selected)

Exclusions

• Entry to the Palace of Versailles & the King's Grand Apartments

• Access to the Hall of Mirrors & temporary exhibits

Get priority access to explore Versailles’ private royal retreats, beyond the Palace.

• Everything you get: Skip the wait with priority access tickets and follow the audio guide/interactive map on the official Versailles app, Chateau de Versailles, to explore the Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon, the Queen's Hamlet, and the gardens.

• Why choose this: Visiting the Trianon Estate reveals the royals’ private world beyond their official duties—their daily lives, personal interests, and leisure spaces like the billiards room, games room, and farm.

Inclusions

• Skip-the-line tickets to the Trianon Estate, after noon

• Temporary exhibitions held in the Grand Trianon

• The Coach Gallery, from 12:30pm

Exclusions

• Access to the Versailles Palace

• Shows at the Palace's garden

Step into Marie-Antoinette's fairytale world of rustic cottages and luxuriant gardens.

• Everything you get: Skip the ticket line and step into the grand Versailles Palace for an expert-led guided tour; listen to stories of what makes the Hall of Mirrors iconic beyond its interiors and how Versailles lost its seat of power during the French Revolution.

• Head towards the Queen's quarters for a guided tour of the Petit Trianon, Queen's Hamlet and the surrounding ornamental gardens. These spaces were the queen's getaway, built to her liking—rural architecture, a fully functional farm with a lake.

• Why choose this: A closer look at Marie Antoinette’s life—her pursuit of a simple life despite being the Queen of France.

Inclusions

• Timed entry tickets to the Palace with skip-the-line access
• Expert English-speaking guide
• Round-trip transfers from central Paris in an air-conditioned vehicle
• Access to the Gardens during the fountain and musical shows
• Self-guided visit to the Trianon Estate

Exclusions

• Hotel pick up and drop-off