Day 3 in Paris: Chateau de Versailles | Espinosa on Board

📷

Chateu de Versailles is one of the most popular to visit in France and it’s arguably the best gardens in the World. But going to Chateau Versailles is not quite as easy as it looks like since it’s located about 12 miles away from the center of the Paris. Before going to Chateau make sure you have all the information as needed and requires a little extra effort. And if you’re visiting the palace, it would take at least half a day for you to mildly experience most of it.

But before anything else, check my FYI’s for those who travels in Chateau de Versailles.

Important notes for the travelers:

Entrance fees to Palace of Versailles: 18 Euros for Adults. You can buy your tickets from their official website – Tickets and prices | Chateau de VersaillesOpening hours for Palace of Versailles: Everyday except Mondays, 12 – 5.30pm with last admission at 5pm (November 1 – March 31), Everyday except Mondays, 9am – 6.30pm with last admission at 6pm (April 1 – October 31) – Opening hours for Palace of Versailles: Everyday, 8am – 6pm (November 1 – March 31), Everyday, 8am – 8.30pm (April 1 – October 31)For those who need a map wherever you go around Paris, Save this MAP to your phone for the guide in Metros, Tramways, RER stations.If you’re planning to visit the Chateau de Versailles, save this MAP for your travel guide around the palace.Baby strollers are strictly not allowed inside the Palace. You must hand it over to the baggage counter and claim it when you’re on your way to the Garden palace.The Palace is open and no entrance fee to visitors on the first Sunday of the month from November to March.Don’t forget to subscribe on my Blog and enjoy my post! 📷

How to buy Train tickets:

Just go to your nearest Metro station, and buy your tickets to Versailles-Château – Rive Gauche. The tickets will be good for the métro and the RER by whatever combination of métro or RER lines is the quickest route. You can use a machine or queue up for a booth. All machines work in English. A round trip to Versailles by train cost 7,1€ per person. Keep in mind that the machine will print you 2 tickets per person.One ticket by way. So keep the second ticket for your return from Versailles to Paris.

How to get there:

The easiest way to get to Versailles is by Paris RER Train. It’s a bit trickier than the Paris metro so I’ve compiled a step by step guide for getting from Paris to Chateau de Versailles:

Step one: Take Metro Line 6 or any metro that connects to Gare Montparnasse. Drop off at the Gare Montparnasse then take the exit 1 (Porte Oceane). You can use Google map for make it more easier.

📷

Step two: Once you arrived at the Metro, exit the Metro station (but not outside of the station) and follow the sign to the platform for Transilien N: Gare de Versailles Gauche.

📷

Step three: This is the train going to Chateau de Versailles and it has two levels so there’s a lot of chairs to occupy. It will take you between 1 hour to 1 hour & 30 mins. to get the castle by the public transport.

📷

Step four: Finally arrived at the Gare De Versailles Chantiers station.

📷

Step five: Chateau de Versailles is only a 13-minutes walk away from the train station. Follow the signs to the Chateau de Versailles.

📷

📷

Outside of the station, cross the street at the pedestrian crossing and turn left between the café and the green metal/glass kiosk.

📷

📷

Final step: Arrived in Chateau de Versailles. We did it!

📷

We went here on weekdays because we thought that it will be too crowded on weekend, but still there’s a lot of people coming over day by day. So make sure you arrive here 1 hour before the opening. We’re just so lucky to get enter so quickly because they prioritize the people who have children 2 years old below, senior citizens and with special needs. Raf is our lucky charm! 📷

📷

You can buy your tickets direct here situated on the left in the main courtyard in the south ministers’ wing. You can also buy your tickets online in any ticketing website and make sure you printed the ticket before heading to the palace.

📷

This is the line for the entrance. It’s a never ending line! The palace is open everyday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm except on Mondays.

📷

Welcome to our humble home! Haha!

📷

Before you start, it’s better for you to grab this audio guide so you are aware about everything inside the palace.

📷

Chateau de Versailles

Versailles is best known for the massive royal palace and expansive gardens built by King Louis XIV. It was home for three generations of French kings and queens from 1682 until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. Each one added improvements to make it more and more lavish and beautiful. As a result, the Palace of Versailles is considered one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. Versailles itself is now one of the wealthiest cities near Paris.

📷

This painting depicts an overhead view of the palace and gardens.

📷

Full-length portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), king of France and Navarre, in armour with the crown and the sceptre on the table, before a seascape.

📷

King Louis-Philippe 1773-1850 of France and his sons leaving the Chateau of Versailles on horseback, 1846.

📷

View of the Palace of Versailles on the waterbed.

📷

 beautiful paintings part in the garden palace. 

📷

This is the two-story Royal Chapel designed after the Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) in Paris.

📷

The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee.

📷

The Apotheosis of Hercules.

📷

One of the royal bedrooms.

📷

Isn’t this gorgeous!?

📷

📷

My inlaws are so amazed in this gigantic palace.

📷

Hall of Mirrors

The Hall of Mirrors or The Grande Galerie as it was called in the 17th century, was commissioned by Louis XIV as a passageway and waiting area where the king could put on his most ostentatious display of royal power in order to impress visitors.

📷

Look at the lovebirds! <3

📷

Shops

You can buy some great stuffs from their souvenir shops inside the palace. They have books, clothes and a lot more.

📷

📷

📷

We bought a coin!

📷

“Sakit ulo pose”! Hahaha.

📷

I don’t know if he did it right. 📷

📷

Garden Palace

After the palace, you can go straight to the Garden. We bought separate tickets from the palace because the weather is not calm so anytime of the day the rain will come by. But at this moment, everything is perfect so we decided to go through in the Garden.

📷

This fabulous gardens designed by Louis XIV’s gardener, Le Nôtre, took 40 years to complete and include formal gardens, an orangerie, fountains, a canal and two smaller palaces.

📷

The vista from the terrace of the château down through the formal gardens to the Grand Canal is stunning. As we were short of time, our visit was limited to a walk through the main thoroughfare of the gardens as far as the boat hire in Little Venice.

📷

📷

Most of the places of the garden are so peaceful and romantic. <3

📷

📷

Our little travel is really enjoying the garden because he can ran along as much as he wants too. But be careful parents, always keep your eyes open to your kids because the palace is really huge!

📷

📷

There are many more gardens on the left and right of the main path but we simply did not have sufficient time to explore and after all the rain comes by so we went inside at the cafeteria. It was really crowded inside and we didn’t got a chance to buy something so we just waited inside until the rain stopped.

📷

📷

Finally the rain is gone and we straight outside of Chateau to look something to eat and we found KFC nearby to the palace.

📷

In the screen above, you can find the schedule of the departure time of your designated trains.

📷

We’re heading back to our hotel after the long and tiring day, but it’s all worth it!

📷

Hopefully you guys enjoy my blog post. Been here already? Share your stories on my blog and don’t forget to subscribe to keep you update all my latest blog posts. If you have any questions, just leave a comment and I’m delighted to reply you back as soon as I can. Au Revoir! <3