Skip-the-Line Versailles Palace Family 5-hour Discovery from Paris
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18 Ratings
Paris
Embark on a 5-hour skip-the-line tour of Versailles Palace with your family. Enjoy a hassle-free train trip from Paris and engage in a playful, educational adventure with a kid-friendly guide. Learn fascinating stories about French history and explore the Sun King's gardens.
Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 3 days learn more
Highlights
  • Palace of Versailles - 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!

  • Meet The Locals for Families - Please let our team know if you have any questions or concerns!
What's Included
  • An activity booklet for each child
  • Professional kid-friendly guide
  • Skip the line tickets
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food, snacks and alcoholic beverages
Additional Information

This specially curated 5-hour family excursion to Versailles, which includes priority entry tickets, ensures a stress-free train journey from Paris coupled with a fun, educational exploration for the kids.

A child-friendly specialist guide from Paris will accompany you, equipped with the knowledge to captivate young minds, transforming the tour into a delightful, historical escapade. With an engaging activity booklet and our captivating storyteller’s help, the whole family will soak up intriguing tales and tidbits about French history and the remarkable life of Louis XIV.

Following the splendors of the Palace, there will be a chance for you to take a stroll in the Sun King’s swish gardens before you return to Paris, bringing back precious keepsakes.

  • A moderate amount of walking is involved (around 4km on flat ground)
Location
Champ de Mars Eiffel Tower
Quai Jacques Chirac
By the entrance of Champ de Mars RER metro station that is located in front of la Maison de la Culture du Japon – 101 bis Quai Branly, 75015 Closest metro station: Champ de Mars (RER C); Bir-Hakeim (line 6).
Cancellation Policy

If you cancel at least 4 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.

Customer Ratings
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Kathyju4637gh
Mar 20, 2024
Yaëlle was a wonderful guide - 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.
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Amy_d
Oct 7, 2023
Our guide, Sebastian, was... - Our guide, Sebastian, was wonderful. He made it very fun for everyone and very informative! We’d highly recommend this tour!
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Tw2atl
May 19, 2023
Incredible experience in London and Paris - 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!
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Mauif88
Aug 10, 2022
Highly recommended! Thanks Laurine! - 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!
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Alan
Jun 16, 2022
Loved our tour - 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.
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Jordancf6900wq
May 19, 2022
1000% recommend! Lucky if you get Laurine! - 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.
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Rana_d
Apr 11, 2022
Great experience - Marcela was a great tour guide. She entertained the kids on the train ride from Paris. We appreciated her meeting us at the train station located very close to where we were staying. Marcela’s tour was interesting and entertaining for the 4 adults and 2 tweens.
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A4ypclaireb
Oct 25, 2021
Great Versailles tour for the family! - We had a wonderful time. Yaelle was so great with the kids and they were SO engaged. The Louvre was our first stop on our trip and it was so nice to learn as we went and see the most interesting things. The kids had a blast filling out the booklets. Someone even stopped us and asked where we got them! The day of our Versailles trip we were all a bit tired but Yaelle did a great job engaging the kids. I loved relearning French history and seeing all the beautiful rooms. I loved hearing a different perspective on Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Yaelle gave us some great recommendations for pastry shops and other little things to do around Paris. I would definitely recommend Meet the Locals to anyone traveling to Paris.
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Josephvr6112ew
Sep 6, 2021
Fantastic Tour - Great experience, Yaëlle was a very knowledgeable guide and very good with the kids. I would definitely recommend, and highly recommend booking multiple excursions with them as they’ll help put a more comprehensive plan together and single tour guide throughout makes the experience better.
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Mazesmazes
Aug 22, 2021
Amazing company and experience! - I can honestly say that using Meet the Locals was one of the best decisions we made for our three days in Paris! Dominique was a pleasure to work with and she came up with a plan for a fabulous, no stress way for us to experience the highlights. She was so calm and reassuring when we were all trying to figure out how to work with the ever changing restrictions. Yaelle was our tour guide and she was so lovely and charming and my family adored her! She was so engaging and informative and my kids learned and retained so much from her. The best part was how seamlessly she fit in with our family and we all felt so comfortable with her. We can’t recommend Yaelle and Meet the Locals enough and would absolutely use them again in a heartbeat!
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