The palace is the small part. The estate runs to eight hundred hectares and the walk from the Hall of Mirrors to Marie-Antoinette's hamlet is three kilometres each way, which is why the four highest-rated products on this page are bike tours and why a half-day visit sees the state apartments and nothing else. Prices start at €58 for a guided palace visit with garden access, with a €134 median across the twenty-three tours compared here, and the ranking orders them on traveller rating weighted by review volume. Versailles is closed on Mondays.
23 tickets and tours compared from €58 refreshed August 30, 2026
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14 of 23 products naming Versailles make the list: anything fewer than 250 reviews is held back until enough travellers have rated it, and no kind of ticket takes more than 4 rows. For the rest of the city, see every tour and ticket in Paris.
4 compared from €109 typically 8h 4.88 average
The highest-rated way to see Versailles, from €109 with a €145 median and ratings from 4.81 to 4.98. The shape is always the same: the covered market in the town for a picnic, then the Grand Canal and the hamlet on two wheels, then the palace in the afternoon when the morning coaches have gone. Eight hours. It solves the problem every other format has, which is that the estate is too big to walk.
6 compared from €134 typically 9h30 4.35 average
From €134, median €320, and the most expensive group here because most of it is private cars. Ten to eleven hours for Monet's garden in the morning and the palace after lunch, or the reverse. It rates below either site visited alone, which is the usual verdict on two-in-one days. Giverny is open April to November only, so the pairing exists for half the year.
5 compared from €99 typically 8h 4.28 average
From €99, median €121, for eight to nine hours that include the two Trianon palaces and the hamlet, the mock village Marie-Antoinette had built to escape the court. It is the part of the estate most day visitors never reach, and the part reviewers describe as the reason to come back. The Trianon opens at noon, so the morning goes to the palace whichever way you plan it.
8 compared from €58 typically 4h 4.28 average
The standard visit, from €58 with a €115 median, four to nine hours depending on whether transport is included. The RER C from central Paris takes forty minutes and the station is a ten-minute walk from the gates, so a ticket without transport is not the inconvenience it sounds. Ratings in this group split on group size at the Hall of Mirrors, which is the one room where sixty people behind a guide stops working.
€134 median price, from €58
A €134 median, from €58 for a guided palace visit to €320 for a private day that adds Giverny. The palace's own passport ticket, which covers the estate and the Trianon, costs well under the floor here; what these products add is transport, a guide and a timed slot on a Saturday in June when the official calendar is empty. Bike tours from €109 include the rental, the market picnic and palace entry. Every product in this catalogue offers free cancellation.
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Eight hours is the median, and the useful split is four: a half day sees the state apartments and the formal gardens, a full day reaches the Trianon and the hamlet. Closed Mondays. The palace is at its worst between eleven and two and at its best in the last two hours before closing. The musical fountain shows run at weekends from April to October and are ticketed separately, and the gardens are free on the days they do not.
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From €58 for a guided palace visit with garden access, with a €134 median across the twenty-three tours compared here. Bike tours of the estate start at €109, full days including the Trianon at €99, and the Giverny combinations at €134. Figures come from the latest data refresh.
The RER C runs from Saint-Michel, Musée d'Orsay and Champ de Mars to Versailles Château Rive Gauche in about forty minutes, and the station is a ten-minute walk from the gates. That makes a ticket without transport perfectly workable, and it is why the guided visits from €58 without transfers are the cheapest bracket here.
They are the best-rated products on this page, between 4.81 and 4.98 from hundreds to thousands of reviews, from €109. The reason is practical: the estate is eight hundred hectares and the hamlet is three kilometres from the palace, so walking it costs you the afternoon. The day usually includes the town market and a picnic by the Grand Canal.
Four hours for the palace and the formal gardens, eight if you want the Trianon and Marie-Antoinette's hamlet as well. The median booking here is a full day for that reason. Add forty minutes each way for the train from central Paris.
The last two hours before closing, and any day except Tuesday. It is closed on Mondays, so Tuesday absorbs everyone who arrived to find the gates shut. Mornings between eleven and two are the worst, especially in the Hall of Mirrors. Weekends from April to October add the fountain shows, which fill the gardens and are ticketed separately.
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