Versailles Small Group Guided Tour with Tranportation from Paris

Excellent tour. Only problem was with accessing the meeting point on the site. Every time we tried to access that information it would take us to book another tour.

Isabel at Paris Trip to Versailles was amazing and informative! Great conversation and we learned so much.

This was our absolute favorite tour while we were in Paris. It was well-organized, the bus was comfortable, and everything ran smoothly. Versailles was more vast and beautiful than we could have imagined. But the best part of the tour was our guide, Ricardo. He was extremely knowledgeable and provided information and insight about Paris and Versailles. He wove all the facts about the kings, history and the palace together in a very interesting way. He was the best tour guide we had. Would highly recommend it!

Excellent tour of Versailles! Saw everything we wanted in the time provided. So happy we went. Ricardo was an excellent tour guide who provided much detail about the structure and the history of the kings. He was terrific! Well worth the money. Pick up was easy to find and I was very grateful to have the ride. I would never want to drive in Paris!!

It’s an amazing experience. It’s best to get the earliest ticket possible and check your time schedule. You want to have time to explore everything.

Great tour, well worth the money. Our guide Ricardo was excellent.

Our guide for our small group tour drove the second vehicle with another seven people in addition to the five in our van. Did not feel like a small group tour. We had some mixup getting into Versailles and there was an altercation between our guide and the entry staff. Our guide Wasted too much time in crowded rooms of the palace. At least three large groups passed ours. He was excited to mention Thomas Jefferson’s black wife and the children more than once. Half of the time, our guide was in a different room from at least six people in our group so we had difficulty hearing him, even with the whisper ear devices. The two other people that had been in our van taking the ride to Versailles left the tour while we were in the Palace. After the Palace, we were told we had 50 minutes to be back at the parking lot. I told our guide to leave if we were not there. We were looking forward to experiencing the musical fountains. I was not sure we could do the fountains, and return to the parking lot in time. So, I told our guide, twice, that if we didn’t return the parking by the time he gave us that they should return without us. We would get a cab for our return. I still received two texts about the rendezvous time. Overall, a little disappointing. It felt like our guide was determined to do this experience his way, and he had no interest in anyone else’s experience. The whole experience was hard to follow. Drama is not an activity I enjoy on vacation. I would not recommend this guide. The Palace is certainly the star. But the musical fountains are not to be missed. Our guide was a solid 2.0 on a 5.0 scale.

We were looking forward to this tour but the other couple that arrived the day before had an issue that made it impossible for us to participate in this tour. When this issue occurred we were inside of their 24 hour cancellation policy for refunds. We tried unsuccessfully to contact the tour operator by phone and by message to reschedule with no response. I asked the tour operator if they would refund my money as a good faith gesture. They decided to keep my money and deny my request - not very helpful and poor business practice. I guess that the tour would have been good but their lack of contact coupled with their poor business practices makes this tour less than acceptable. Pay attention to the Terms And Conditions!!!

Our guide Gilbert was impeccable. Kind, communicative, and clear throughout the tour. He was so knowledgeable about the history of the palace, the Kings Louis/Marie Antoinette, and the era. I left with such a deeper appreciation for the history of this place and the people of it and France than I expected. I’ve been on probably 100s of castle/palace tours, and to be honest I wasn’t exactly ecstatic about the idea of the tour before we went, but I was just so impressed by it all. That feeling was in no small part because of this tour. Given the crowd sizes as Versailles, I also highly recommend this tour as a it’s a small group tour with 8 people maximum. First, the transit to/from the grounds is very comfortable. Next, you have many chances to ask questions and dive deeper into different areas of the tour. And third, the small group also gives you more time on your own to explore a few areas and take incredible pictures. My only suggestion for how to make the tour better would be to add additional time and include an option for an included golf cart rental so that we can see more of the gardens. They were so incredible, but with only about 30 minutes of time on our own for them, there’s not much we could see in person. Overall though, I wouldn’t change anything about the actual palace tour itself. Oh and also, the tour office (where you meet your guide for the transport) has a very well maintained restroom you can use before and after the tour. Definitely a bonus!

Go see the gardens immediately after the palace or you won’t have enough time! We loved the tour and our guide - we just wish we’d had an extra hour!