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

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Duration:4 hours (approx.)
Location: Paris, Île-de-France

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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.

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1. 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. 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.
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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.
4. 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.

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Posted By : Alecia_B
Matthew was a knowledgeable guide and we were lucky to see Versailles on such a beautiful day! The tour was informative and very interesting. Unfortunately they were getting ready for the olympics and some of the gardens and buildings were under renovation and inside was quite crowded.
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Posted On : 2024-05-11 04:11:24

Posted By : Candice_G
Had an excellent tour! The entire group concluded that our guide Humberto was phenomenal— he knew everything there was to know about Versailles and that made the trip so rich with fun facts that you’d never know about.
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Posted On : 2024-05-10 18:09:46

Posted By : Angeliak180
There was a LOT of walking, but that’s ok. The guide was very efficient and respectful. He knew a lot of facts and provided them to us with stories & humor, making it much more interesting
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Posted On : 2024-05-10 16:20:03

Posted By : Laurie G
Cecile was a wonderful guide. She was extremely knowledgeable and made the tour very enjoyable. The best part was that we didn't have to wait in the long lines to get in. I would highly recommend this tour
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Posted On : 2024-05-10 10:40:35

Posted By : John T
The trip out by train was smooth and our guide for this portion of the day was engaging and funny. Once at Versailles, we met our guide for the rest of the day , Matthew. He was excellent, and certainly added colour and history to both the tour of the Palace and of the gardens. A visit to Versailles with a guide as competent as Matthew is an absolute must, in order to understand the context of what you are seeing. The tour was fabulous. The only downside was the approximate 45 minute wait past our scheduled time to enter. The delay was caused by a lack of security staff as there is only one checkpoint for guided tours. Not the fault of the tour company.
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Posted On : 2024-05-03 05:00:00

Posted By : K_B
The tour was very nice. Our tour guide was great and very knowledgeable. She was attentive to an elderly couple that could not keep up with the pace of the tour and slowed down her pace to ensure she accommodated them which was good. Altogether I would recommend this tour.
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Posted On : 2024-04-29 17:51:21

Posted By : Melissa P
This was a highlight of our trip. The palace is stunning but so are the gardens. We probably could have gotten here on our own but our tour guide Miriam was fantastic. And having a guide and tickets ahead of time helps you skip some lines and monitor through the crowds as it’s a lot to see. I also recommend the add on to the full day tour to see Trianon. We are lunch at Chez La Filles and it was delicious as well. The salad was so delicious as were the profiteroles!
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Posted On : 2024-04-28 17:24:44

Posted By : Roger_C
I loved this tour so much & we had an amazing tour guide who taught us so much & made it so interesting!
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Posted On : 2024-04-28 16:26:47

Posted By : Brooke_H
This trip was quite amazing and it was so nice that there was a guide who helped us get from Paris to Versailles. The palace was amazing and the guide was very knowledgeable and kind. It was obvious she was passionate about the topics and not like a robot rattling off facts. I give this tour a ten out of ten even with the weather which was cloudy and pretty chilly about 11 Celsius. The only thing is (which didn’t bother me or my partner and our friends) is that Viator claims this activity ends back where it started but there is no guide to help you back. The trains are pretty simple this is just me calling out the false advertisement. Also Versailles itself was running behind and our guide did a great job of being like ‘hello it’s almost eleven and we were supposed to go at 10:30. Make sure we’re the next group’ Just be prepared that there might not be things that even your guides have control over and that it’s a bunch of standing. Versailles was also quite crowded.
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Posted On : 2024-04-27 04:10:44

Posted By : Stuart_W
The tour was great!, very well informed and funny with Matteo. From The Aussies. The tour is chock a block full with other groups, Matteo did a great job keeping us together and entertained. Great job 10/10
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Posted On : 2024-04-26 14:57:34