Versailles Palace & Gardens Full day Guided Tour, Private, from Versailles

Spend a full day exploring the wonders of the Palace of Versailles in depth. This private tour will take you in the footsteps of Kings, Queens and courtiers, as you marvel at the splendors of this incredible chateau. Then dive deeper into the private world of Queen Marie-Antoinette, as you visit her lovely private estate and home at the Petit Trianon, including a replica farm made just for her.

Our skip the line access to the palace allows you to bypass the long lines that form each day, and our expert local guides will steer you expertly through the crowds, bringing the famous figures that once inhabited this palace back to life. Walk the glittering Hall of Mirrors as Kings, Queens and courtiers used to. Explore the lavish state apartments and learn how the glory of the Sun King shone throughout the world. Hear how the Kings and Queens lived out their lavish lives in public and how they kept the gossiping courtiers under their thumb. Discover a typical day in the life of Marie Antoinette. Her opulent lifestyle here would ultimately lead to her tragic demise during the French Revolution; she left Versailles in 1789 never to return.

After visiting the palace, your guide will lead you through the spectacular gardens. Explore hidden groves, once the setting of balls, parties and elaborate firework displays. Depending on the day of your visit, you may see the gorgeous fountain show, still running today as it did in the time of Kings and Queens, or visit the gardens with music. Don't hesitate to ask at the time of your booking and we can inform you of what is happening in the gardens on the days you'd like to visit.

After a break for lunch, it's time to explore the hidden world of Marie-Antoinette. Distance the crowds and access areas reserved for the private lives and loves of the royalty. With a diamond-encrusted key, Louis XVI offered his beloved wife Marie Antoinette an escape from the ritualized public life in the Palace that she found so suffocating. The small palace of the Petit Trianon was her private world and the place where she was happiest. See her English gardens and the place she called home, furnished today as it was then. Stroll through her gardens to her replica rustic village, evoking Normandy with its thatched cottages and dairy farm. Far from the elaborate life and rituals of the palace, she would play at being a shepherdess surrounded by her closest friends and confidantes.

No visit to Versailles is complete without seeing the secluded charm of the Petit Trianon! Join us for a full day excursion into the lives of French Royalty.

Note: You will meet your guide in Versailles. If you wish, your guide can meet you in central Paris and escort you to Versailles in a taxi. You will be able to add this option on during the booking process.