From Paris : Palace of Versailles and Gardens by Bus
Description
Start by meeting at a central point in Paris and transfer by bus to Versailles. Enjoy a relaxing and comfortable transportation. Upon arrival, get a stress-free access to the palace at a schedule time entrance. Then, discover the opulence, beauty, and history of the palace on a self-tour with an audio-guided app. After your visit of the palace, take some free time to stroll around the beautiful French Gardens. After some time exploring the gardens, and the Marie-Antoinette's Estate (if Fullday optiuon is selected) by yourself, hop back on the bus for your journey back to central Paris.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Explore the Palace of Versailles with its ornate apartments, sweeping gardens, and revolutionary history. Avoid navigating the metro system on your own and arrive relaxed with easy roundtrip transportation.
Discover the Hall of Mirrors during a self tour of the Versailles Palace
After your visit of the Versailles Palace, take a stroll in the lovely gardens of Versailles
If the option Fullday is selected, you will access the Marie-Antoinette's Estate
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- For safety reasons, children under 6 years old are NOT permitted on this activity. Please do not show up with children under 6 years old on the day of the tour, as we won't be able to accept them.
- If the bus transfer cannot be operated due to reasons beyond our control, the transfer will be conducted via public transport with a GetYourGuide host.
- Please check-in at the time indicated on your voucher.
- In case of late arrival for check-in or missing the bus, we cannot guarantee access to the palace. Fees will apply if another time slot is available for rescheduling.
- The palace gardens are free from November to March, so no tickets are required during this period. (Prices are adjusted accordingly) There are no musical or fountain shows during these months.
- Gardens close at 5:30 PM from November to March and every Saturday between June 7 and September 20, also on May 24, August 15, and from October 26 and 31.
Reviews(15)
All you are getting is a bus ride and ticket! You may think you're getting a tour guide, but as mentioned before don't be surprised.
Thank you for your feedback. Please note that you booked an experience that's self‑guided and does not include a guided tour inside the Palace. It includes round‑trip bus transport, tickets, and an audio guide, with a host who accompanies you from Paris to Versailles and to the entrance of the Palace. We appreciate your comment and will use it to improve future tours.
Misleading advertising. In the title of the tour they promote it says: From Paris: Palace and gardens of Versailles with transport Palace and Gardens Half Day Trip Duration: 5.5 a.m. English With the unpleasant surprise that when we arrived at the offices of get your guide we found out that in the small print it said that the tour was with audio guide. That is, for 3 people I paid for a transport, entrance to the palace of Versailles and access to an audio guide application. Basically it was an entrance without any guide, with an audio guide that did not match the numbers of each gallery. Definitely that fee is high, not worth it, it would have been the same to arrive on our own, even better, accessing an audio guide of the palace itself where the numbers of the galleries if it matches. The experience becomes worse, because when you return to the meeting point, at the agreed time: 2pm, we had to wait a few minutes, the group manager, a woman who identified herself as Salome told my father that it was disrespectful because he asked that because we were waiting for people who had not arrived on time. Which I find rather disrespectful to people who did arrive early having to wait for those irresponsible who arrived later. Finally Mrs. Salome, at 2:05pm, leads the group to the bus, and says to my father (an elderly gentleman): Let's go crazy guy! Even more disrespectful. I definitely do not recommend this agency to get your guide.
We’re sorry to hear that your experience didn’t meet expectations. All tour details and meeting-point information are provided in the product description, so we kindly encourage guests to read them carefully before booking. Regarding departure, we may wait up to 5 minutes for delayed guests to arrive at the bus, but we then need to continue to keep the schedule for everyone. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review—hearing your perspective is important to us and helps us improve our services.
Palace and gardens well worth the visit. As far as the experience it was just a ride out there with little to no information.
Thank you for your feedback. You booked the non-guided option, which includes transportation only and no commentary during the visit. For a more informative experience, we also offer live guided tours. We’re glad you found Versailles worth visiting and hope to welcome you again in the future.
Great way to visit Versailles !! Bus was clean and on time, host was super nice. Palace is so huge and beautiful! Loved it !
Great way to get to Versailles. Would recommend renting an audio tour from the Palace, as the app from the tour operator was very amateur. The points of interest were not numbered on the map so was very awkward to use.
Thank you for your feedback. We’re glad you enjoyed the trip to Versailles and we’re sorry that the app and map made the audio tour difficult to use. Your comments are very helpful, and we’ll share them with our team to improve the experience for future visitors.
Lots of walking. Take a water bottle with you. If it was crowded in May, I wouldn’t go in July or August.
Great time the place is amazing . The times they posted to leave were wrong. They said 8:25 a.m. we had to walk 3 minutes to our busses location we didn't leave till 9:00 a.m.
The gardens were spectacular. Take the full day enjoy it all. The bus was late. Delayed the museum was beautiful
Very good experience Good service Good prices Very interesting place Service was great Bathrooms were clean
Versailles is amazing! It shows the grandeur of the Royals with the 100s of paintings and portraits. The gardens are spectacular. I do believe we could have easily done the tour without purchasing the “guide”. This tour is basically an expensive bus ride (which was late) to/from. That being said, arrive at opening time for tix or purchase in advance. It gets quite busy after that!
