Versailles Palace & Marie-Antoinette Estate Private Tour with Lunch

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Duration8h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · RU +2

PickupAt your hotel

The Palace Gets Crowded. This Tour Skips the Lines & Adds Lunch.

You get picked up at your hotel and driven straight into Versailles Palace with a licensed guide who skips the entry lines. You walk the State Apartments and Hall of Mirrors, then have free time in the 55-fountain gardens. Lunch with wine is included at a restaurant on the Grand Canal. After that, your guide takes you to Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon, and Marie-Antoinette's Hamlet. Hotel drop-off closes the day.

Step-by-step itinerary

Versailles Palace and Marie-Antoinette Estate

Visit State Apartments of Louis XIV
Admire the Hall of Mirrors
Explore French style gardens and fountains
Enjoy 3-course lunch at La Flotille
Tour the Grand Trianon palace
Visit the Petit Trianon palace
Discover the Queen’s Hamlet

The Experience

Most visitors to Versailles spend half the day waiting in entry queues and the other half figuring out where to go next. This private tour trades that for a licensed guide who meets you at your hotel, drives you straight to the Palace of Versailles in an air-conditioned Mercedes minivan, and walks you through the State Apartments and Hall of Mirrors while the crowds are still forming outside. You're not rushing—your guide has time to explain why Louis XIV needed those 357 mirrors and what they actually meant—but you're also not standing still.

After the palace, you get free time in the gardens with 55 fountains spread across the grounds, which sounds like a lot until you realize you can actually choose which ones to see instead of following a crowd. Then comes lunch at La Flotille, a restaurant right at the foot of the Grand Canal—starter, main course, wine, dessert, coffee included—and you're eating where the estate itself is the view. It's the kind of break that makes the afternoon feel like a separate trip, not an extension of the morning.

The second half takes you to Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon, the smaller palaces Louis XIV and Marie-Antoinette used to escape the main court. Grand Trianon is built from pastel-pink marble and feels less like a museum and more like a place someone actually lived. Petit Trianon leads to the Queen's Hamlet, a fake Norman village Marie-Antoinette had built so she could pretend to be a farmer with her closest friends—which is either charming or absurd depending on how you feel about 18th-century royalty. Your guide walks you through both, so you're not reading plaques or guessing at context.

The whole day runs around eight hours with hotel pickup and drop-off included. The guide speaks multiple languages and is used to working with small groups, which means the pace adjusts to questions instead of sticking to a script. If you've got infants or small children, car seats are available, and the minivan has WiFi if anyone needs to check in during the drive.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off in a private air-conditioned Mercedes minivan with WiFi.
Your licensed, multilingual guide leads you through the State Apartments and Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace, then gives you free time in the gardens with 55 fountains.
A three-course lunch with wine, dessert, and coffee is included at La Flotille restaurant on the Grand Canal.
After lunch, your guide takes you to Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon, and Marie-Antoinette's Hamlet.
All entry fees and taxes are included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Parismatic Tour

Is this one for you?Book this if you want the main Versailles sights without arranging tickets, transport, or timing yourself—the private guide and included lunch are what turn a palace visit into an actual day instead of a logistics puzzle.