Versailles Palace Family 5hour Discovery from Paris
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This 5-hour Versailles family tour has been specifically designed to provide a hassle-free train trip from Paris and a playful, educational tour for the kids. You will be accompanied from Paris by a kid-friendly expert guide who knows how to engage children, taking them on an entertaining, historical time travel adventure. With the help of an activity booklet and our wonderful storyteller, the whole family will learn fascinating stories and anecdotes about French history and Louis XIV’s incredible life. After the Palace marvels, you’ll have the opportunity to stretch your legs in the Sun King’s gardens before heading back to Paris with memorable souvenirs.
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HIGHLIGHTS • Benefit from the royal treatment with skip-the-line tickets • A guaranteed hassle-free experience to get the best of Versailles • A fun and interactive way to discover Versailles thanks to our kid-designed activity booklets • At your disposal, a Versailles expert whose best friend is... Louis XVI! You will meet your guide at the Champ de Mars RER metro station to board a train to Versailles. During the 45-min train ride, your kids will receive an activity booklet, giving them a taste of the Sun King’s Palace through questions and riddles. After a short walk through the city of Versailles, where you will spot an old-style fresh food market, you’ll arrive at the Palace and will enter without standing in line, thanks to our skip-the-line tickets. Along the Palace official lounges – or Great Apartment – you’ll see the dwellings where King and Court lived. The decorations are exceptional. Marble, gold, statues, painted ceilings: they all witnessed the colorful crowd of passing courtiers, waiting for the sovereign to beg for favors. The most magnificent places are certainly the Royal Chapel, because the King of was the Catholic Church protector, and the Hall of Mirrors, a testimony to the Sun King’s military glory. In Louis XIV’s bedchamber, your guide will amaze your children with details about the incredible ceremony the King subjected himself to. In the gardens, quick additional riddles will enthrall your children’s interest. They can caper at their ease on the Orangery Lawn and stand breathless upon discovering the endless viewpoints through the formal gardens. This 5-hour Versailles tour will end at Saint Lazare station, after a memorable moment spent in the most beautiful palace of the world – no less!
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- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- A moderate amount of walking is involved (around 4km on flat ground)
Reviews(22)
Our tour guide from Meet the Locals knew all of the highlights at Versailles and how to navigate us through the crowds. I especially appreciated her traveling with us to Versailles on the train. If we had to get there on our own, my family would surely have gotten lost and been fighting by the time we arrived. Our tour guide made the trip so smooth and was delightful to chat with on the train rides for our two teens and us parents. She was knowledgeable about French history and culture and was SO normal in the best sense of the word! She gave us great tips aboiut places we planned to visit on our own, too. Meet the Locals was a top notch company from the initial communication while planning, to the organized itinerary to the tour guide we used for three different tours while in Paris. Everything was perfection and we would definitely use them again.
Thank for this feedback Dana, we're thrilled to see that you had a great experience with us and already look forward to seeing you soon back to France, UK or Italy to experience many more of our activities. Your Meet the Locals team :=)
We had a wonderful tour with our guide, Nathalie. We have two teenagers and an 11 year old. She read the ages of the children and kept them engaged the entire time. This is a beautiful palace and you could easily spend days there, but she hit the main spots, gave us freedom to explore and was very knowledgeable. We were slightly late due to a mishap, and also stayed after to watch the fireworks. She helped us buy our return train ticket, showed us where to go, accommodated our late arrival, and made sure to navigate everything with a high level of service. I highly recommend this team and Nathalie. Great visit!
Sonia was absolutely fantastic. She was kind and very engaging. She was good at tailoring the tour based on our kids' interests. We had a really great time on the tour and learned a ton! I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone with kids. Without this tour, we would have been overwhelmed and the kids would probably have been bored and complained a lot!
Bonjour Kimberly, Thank you so much for this feedback, we're so happy that you enjoyed your tour with Sonia! Thank you for recommending us and we hope to see you soon back to Paris, London or Edinburgh, to experience many more of our awesome activities! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
Booking our tour was so easy and accommodating. By taking the tour with Doina I feel we recall a lot more of the magic of Versailles and this period in history. Doina’s knowledge of Versailles and French history meant our questions could be answered and the handy workbook for the kids meant they took home a special memento of their visit. Thanks to having a dedicated guide we have some very special family photos to remember the visit. We visited on a Sunday and the lines weren’t too bad but still very handy to be able to skip these on a hot day with little people.
Thank you so much for this feedback, we're thrilled to see that you enjoyed your versailles kids tour with Doina. Another thanks for recommending us and we hope to see you soon back to Paris, London or Edinburgh, to experience many more of our awesome activities! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
Three generations of my family enjoyed a wonderful trip from Paris to Versailles under the guidance of Yaëlle from Meet the Locals for Families. Her knowledge of local history, combined with her love of sharing that history, made for a wonderful afternoon. She did not rush her tour, and customized the timeline to accommodate feedings, breaks for the kids, and coffee for Grampa. The tour started on the train, utilizing the time to educate the adults on the timelines for Versailles and to entertain the children with activity books. We are still talking about it 3 weeks later. I would highly recommend Yaëlle as she did a wonderful job.
Bonjour Kathy, Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us. We're thrilled to see how much you enjoyed your Versailles Family Tour with Yaëlle, and so she was after reading this review. We look forward to seeing you back for more adventures Your Meet the Locals team :=)
Our guide, Sebastian, was wonderful. He made it very fun for everyone and very informative! We’d highly recommend this tour!
We have used Meet the locals several times over the last few years, including the Versailles Tour, the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, and the Tower of London. This latest trip, we did the Tour of London with Manuella, and Versailles with Laurine. Both tours (And our guides) were amazing. Manuella and Laurine made the entire experience fun and educational for our girls (Who are 8 and 10) (And the parents!) - they were just incredible. Every single experience we have had with Tour by Locals has been phenomenal. They are absolutely the best! If you are traveling to London or Paris you absolutely need to book a tour with Meet the Locals!
Bonjour, thank you so much for this review, we're thrilled to see you had a great time with us each time you used our services, it is always a real pleasure for all the team to have you around! Thank you for recommending us and we hope to see you soon back to Paris or London to experience many more of our activities! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
Prior to our arrival, our communication from Thomas was so friendly, organised and prompt. Can highly recommend Laurine who took us on all our multiple tours. She was always prompt, engaging, helpful and really put us all at ease. The kids listened attentively to everything she had to share with them versus being completely deaf when I told them anything of interest! Each tour had a little booklet with activities they had to complete to reinforce their learning. Despite learning so much, they were having fun the entire time. Can highly recommend the trip out to Giverny and Monet’s Garden. This was a highlight of our trip. Visited this in the morning and Versailles in the afternoon. Laurine would accompany us for everything, but left us for lunch after walking us to wherever we chose to go. This was nice to have some family time on our own as well. Thanks Meet the Families and in particular Laurine, for a wonderful time!
Thank you so much for this super feedback, it made our day :=) We're glad to see that you enjoyed your time in Paris with Laurine. It was a real pleasure for all the team to have you in Paris and to have made it a special moment! We definitely look forward to seeing you soon back to Paris or London to experience many more tours! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
Can't say enough good things about Christelle and our tour of Versailles. Just wonderful. Made the whole experience so much better having her to guide and inform us, and she did great with our 10 year old son, keeping him entertained and learning on the RER and during the visit. It was a highlight of our time in France.
Bonjour Alan, Thank you so much for this review, we're thrilled to see that you had a wonderful time with Christelle ! It was a real pleasure for all the team and her to have made it a special moment for your family :=) We hope to see you soon again for more highlights to remember! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
What a great day this was! Our communication in booking and with all of my questions was super easy and they responded immediately. We took our family of 3 on the Versailles Palace tour and we had the most amazing guide, Laurine. She is a local and had such a great rapport with our almost 7-year-old boy. She was kind, engaging, and knowledgeable. Laurine answered our questions and kept the tour interesting from the train ride until the very end. Laurine also kept it fun for my husband and me. She used supplemental materials to help us understand the history and stories she told. She knows so much about Versailles and she was most impressive. We felt like we were talking to a friend. Not stuffy and she was incredibly easy to understand (accents can be tricky on other tours). I would, without a doubt, use this company again.
Bonjour Jordan, Thank you for your super kind review, we're really happy to know that you had a wonderful day with Laurine, and it made her day when we send her your feedback :=) We definitely look forward to seeing you back to Paris or London to experience many more of our awesome activities! Your Meet the Locals team :=)
