Versailles Half-Day Tour from Paris : Skip the Line Entrance and Privileged Access to Kings Apartmen
Paris, France
Trip Type: Skip-the-Line Tours
Duration: 4 hours 15 minutes
On this exclusively designed, behind the scenes tour you’ll have the incredible honor of exploring rooms of Versailles that seem frozen in time on this very special Skip the Line: VIP Secret Rooms of Versailles Tour. This VIP visit to the Château de Versailles includes reserved entrance to hidden rooms closed off to the general public. The visit will also include either a visit into the Royal Chapel or the Opera House, both closed to the general public.
Special Offer!
Book by August 31st, 2016 and travel before October 31st, 2016 and save 10% off our previously offered price! - Book Now!
Book by August 31st, 2016 and travel before October 31st, 2016 and save 10% off our previously offered price! - Book Now!
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On this exclusively designed, behind the scenes tour you’ll have the incredible honor of exploring rooms of Versailles that seem frozen in time on this very special Skip the Line: VIP Secret Rooms of Versailles Tour. This VIP visit to the Château de Versailles includes reserved entrance to hidden rooms closed off to the general public. The visit will also include either a visit into the Royal Chapel or the Opera House, both closed to the general public.
Your guide will meet you in central Paris where your experience will begin with a swift, escorted train ride to Versailles. We’ll arrive in no time and meet our expert local guide at the entrance. Your privileged group of 20 people or fewer will be the only one allowed into each these rooms at a time with this highly regulated access.
The trademark Skip the Line access will takes you straight past the famously long lines and through a reserved entrance, from where you will take your first steps into this hidden world, as you suddenly find yourself standing in the King’s private apartments. You’ll feel miles away from the throngs of tourists visiting Versailles outside these walls, almost completely unaware of the existence of these concealed rooms.
Here Kings Louis XV and XVI and their queens (and mistresses!) would escape from the long rituals and prying eyes of the court of Versailles.
With the precious insights and fascinating stories of your local Versailles guide, you’ll discover how the royalty went about their daily lives when nobody was watching. Learn how the King would go to bed in public, then wait for everyone to leave, before retiring to his private apartments to really sleep, making sure of course to return to the public bedroom before sunrise so that the court could watch him wake up! With such restricted access today, and none of the crowds of the main rooms, these apartments remain as lavishly furnished as they would have been in the King’s time. You’ll encounter family portraits, personal furniture and art collections.
Access is so restricted that the itinerary will adapt and change each time, to include either the stunning Opera House or the private Chapel, both closed to the public. At the end of your visit you will reappear through a hidden door into the public apartments to find the crowds there again, just as the Kings and Queens would have in their day!
This unique and carefully designed itinerary also includes access to the main apartments of the Château, including the spectacular Hall of Mirrors. Of course, no visit would be complete without a guided stroll in the magnificent gardens. Your guide will of course accompany you, as the gardens were equally as important as the palace in the days of the royal court, and then at the end of the visit you will be free to wander as long as you like. Your return train ticket is included and you’ll be able to return to Paris at your leisure. As the train chugs along, you’ll have time to reflect on a day of pure indulgence and to slowly drag yourself back through the centuries to modern-day Paris.
In Versailles’ time you could only enter these private apartments with the permission of the King. Courtiers would do almost anything for an invite! Luckily, all you need to do is book your Skip the Line: VIP Secret Rooms of Versailles Tour.
Special Offer - Book by August 31st, 2016 and travel before October 31st, 2016 and save 10% off our previously offered price! - Book Now!
Your guide will meet you in central Paris where your experience will begin with a swift, escorted train ride to Versailles. We’ll arrive in no time and meet our expert local guide at the entrance. Your privileged group of 20 people or fewer will be the only one allowed into each these rooms at a time with this highly regulated access.
The trademark Skip the Line access will takes you straight past the famously long lines and through a reserved entrance, from where you will take your first steps into this hidden world, as you suddenly find yourself standing in the King’s private apartments. You’ll feel miles away from the throngs of tourists visiting Versailles outside these walls, almost completely unaware of the existence of these concealed rooms.
Here Kings Louis XV and XVI and their queens (and mistresses!) would escape from the long rituals and prying eyes of the court of Versailles.
With the precious insights and fascinating stories of your local Versailles guide, you’ll discover how the royalty went about their daily lives when nobody was watching. Learn how the King would go to bed in public, then wait for everyone to leave, before retiring to his private apartments to really sleep, making sure of course to return to the public bedroom before sunrise so that the court could watch him wake up! With such restricted access today, and none of the crowds of the main rooms, these apartments remain as lavishly furnished as they would have been in the King’s time. You’ll encounter family portraits, personal furniture and art collections.
Access is so restricted that the itinerary will adapt and change each time, to include either the stunning Opera House or the private Chapel, both closed to the public. At the end of your visit you will reappear through a hidden door into the public apartments to find the crowds there again, just as the Kings and Queens would have in their day!
This unique and carefully designed itinerary also includes access to the main apartments of the Château, including the spectacular Hall of Mirrors. Of course, no visit would be complete without a guided stroll in the magnificent gardens. Your guide will of course accompany you, as the gardens were equally as important as the palace in the days of the royal court, and then at the end of the visit you will be free to wander as long as you like. Your return train ticket is included and you’ll be able to return to Paris at your leisure. As the train chugs along, you’ll have time to reflect on a day of pure indulgence and to slowly drag yourself back through the centuries to modern-day Paris.
In Versailles’ time you could only enter these private apartments with the permission of the King. Courtiers would do almost anything for an invite! Luckily, all you need to do is book your Skip the Line: VIP Secret Rooms of Versailles Tour.
Special Offer - Book by August 31st, 2016 and travel before October 31st, 2016 and save 10% off our previously offered price! - Book Now!
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