-
All tours are private & start / finish to your hotel. -
- HAVE FUN & LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FRENCH HISTORYAll tours are private & start / finish to your hotel.
- LIVE A STRESS FREE EXPERIENCE TO VERSAILLESFrom door to door with your French guide
 | WHY HIDDEN GEMS? |
What makes us special:
 | SPECIALIZED GUIDES |
We are the only agency specializing in Versailles.
 | UNIQUE TOUR |
We offer you the very best of the Palace, gardens and environs.
 | DIRECT ACCESS |
Save time – skip the lines, avoid the queues and enjoy your tour.
 | EASY TRANSPORT |
Your guide & driver come to your hotel, and bring you back afterwards.
Our agency, Hidden Gems, specializes in private guided tours of the Palace of Versailles, with our team of friendly and highly knowledgeable guides and private drivers. You’ll have your own personal guide, together with your own chauffeur-driven car (Mercedes Mini Van if you are 3 people or more). This way, our guides are really dedicated to your tour.
From Paris to Versailles, from the Sun King to the French Revolution – learn about the kings, queens, royal family members, courtiers (and even the many favorites of the kings!) who have contributed to France’s rich history and legendary heritage with our extensive collection of private guided tours.
You can also live like royalty at a masked ball for a night to remember forever. Children are also welcome – we love introducing the wonders of Versailles to our junior visitors!
Hidden Gems has crafted a collection of engaging tour experiences for you, so let us introduce you to this amazing universe, created 400 years ago and which has forged the France of today. Get started now by browsing through our selection of tours below:
The Unmissables Half Day Tour
Discover the very best of Versailles – the chateau and its gardens – in just a few hours with your very own guide. You’ll skip the lines and visit:
- The Apartment of Louis XIV, the “Sun King”.
- The Queen’s Apartment.
- The Hall of mirrors.
- Highlights of the 70-hectare Gardens.
9 reviews
Duration: 5h door-to-door
Price: €115/pers for 6
Marie Antoinettes Estate Tour
Learn about Marie Antoinette, France’s last Queen, who lived in splendor and luxury at Versailles. With your personal tour guide, you’ll visit:
- Le Petit Trianon, or Queen’s Palace.
- The Queen’s Theater.
- The English garden and the Queen’s Hamlet.
- The Temple of Love and the Belvedere.
3 reviews
Duration: 4 h door-to-door
Price: €115/pers for 6
Through The Hidden Doors half day tour
On this tour, your personal tour guide takes you behind the scenes with exclusive access to areas that aren’t open to the general public. Visit:
- The Apartment of Louis XV.
- The Apartment of Louis XVI.
- The Opera house.
- Highlights of the extensive 70-hectare Gardens.
Duration: 5h door-to-door
Price: €195/pers for 6
The Unmissables Full Day Tour
Our best-selling tour gives you the very best of Versailles in a day, including the Palace, gardens and the Queen’s Hamlet. You’ll visit:
- The Apartment of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
- The Queen’s Apartment.
- The Hall of Mirrors.
- Highlights of the extensive 70-hectare Gardens.
- The Petit Trianon and the Queen’s Hamlet.
14 reviews
Duration: 9h door-to-door
Price: €150/pers for 6
Versailles Garden Tour
Explore the very best of the stunning gardens with your private guide, and discover fountains, groves, statues and spectacular views. You’ll visit:
- The Orangerie.
- The Swiss Ornamental Lake.
- The South Parterre with its colorful flower beds.
- Apollo’s Baths Grove, and more
Duration: 4h door-to-door
Price: €115/pers for 6
Through The Hidden Doors Full Day Tour
Go behind the scenes with your personal guide with exclusive access to areas closed to the general public, including the world of Marie Antoinette. You’ll visit:
- The Apartments of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
- The Opera House.
- The Gardens.
- The Petit Trianon and the Queen’s Hamlet.
7 reviews
Duration: 9h door-to-door
Price: €270/pers for 6
What makes our tour guide unique?
Our guides are carefully selected, friendly and highly knowledgeable, and they love bringing to life all aspects of Versailles for you – they’re experts not only on the chateau, the gardens and the four kings and queens who lived there, but also the lifestyles of the mistresses, lovers, knights, court traditions and much, much more
- Our guides are also very creative and flexible, and love to find out exactly what you and your family would like to see and do so they can personalize your tour as much as possible for you – and especially of course to suit the ages and interests of your children.
- Whether you already know your way around French history or you’re complete beginners, they’ll explain everything to you before you arrive at Versailles so you can hit the ground running.
- They’re passionate about French history, and so in addition to Versailles, they’ll introduce you to other castles, parks and spots in the French countryside where Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI or Marie-Antoinette would stay with their entourages
- Our tour guides all hold the French government-issued professional guide-lecturer license, and have completed a rigorous academic study program to obtain their official qualification.
- Our guides all speak fluent English. However we’re also happy to arrange tours in other languages on request – just let us know.
Most importantly, our top priority is immaculate service and attention to detail so that you and your family enjoy a wonderful day to remember!
Sylvie is a certified tour guide, French lady, that has been living for 30 years in Paris, the City of Lights, but…
Lou was born in Paris, but she grew up in the South of France and studied Art History for 7 years at the university…
Lorenzo spent his childhood in Italy and returned to Paris in his early adolescence. He studied French history…
Since her childhood, Claire has always been passionnate about History, especially the French Kings’ time…
Hervé is a French Tour guide who was born and raised in Paris. From a young age he already knew that working …
Yaelle was born and grew up in Paris. She is a 100% Parisian who loves her home city; its history, architecture…
Discover Versailles with the Hidden Gems team
During our guided Tours, you will have fun but you will also learn about the French Queens, Kings & their histories.
You will see the Palace of Versailles including the Hall of Mirrors, the private State Apartments, the Trianon Palace, Queen Marie Antoinette’s Estate and of course the main highlights of the 800 hectares of Gardens.
But not only ! You won’t miss any of Versailles secrets and we promise that your visit to Versailles will be unique, authentic and memorable.
We know that it is quite a fuss to visit the Palace, and the private Appartments, so we have designed exclusive packages as well as customized tours to best suit your expectations in a comfy way.
Whether you are staying in nearby hotels in Versailles city or in Paris, our friendly and dedicated english-spoken professional guide will pick you up at your place of stay by a premium car. She (or he) will accompany you the whole day to unveil Versailles’Palace master piece, history, architecture, the French kings and queens of France trend of life and much more more facts to you.
Chris, LA, USA 
You must get great reviews on Lou all the time but please add us to her fan club. She alone transformed an otherwise great day into an amazing one with her style, knowledge and charm.
Please give Lou our warmest regards, and thank you for your excellent and meticulous door to door service. You, and especially Lou, made our day at Versailles without a doubt our best day in France.
James, New York, USA
The day couldn’t have been better. Our driver and Lou were waiting for us at our apartment and whisked us to the gates of Versailles in elegance and comfort where Lou escorted us past the two hour long line to our VIP entrance.
Lou was the finest tour guide I’ve ever known. She was gracious, helpful, clever, charming and above all else gifted in both her knowledge and her ability to relate the history, culture, art and substance of a very significant period of French history to my family and me.
Jannine, Perth, Australia
We had the most amazing day at Versailles with Julien. He was an absolute pleasure to be with from the moment we met him at our hotel. Such a perfect guide. Engaging, interesting and informative with passion and a sense of fun. What more could you want? Always attentive to our needs; he literally made the experience for us. I know this day will stay with us for life.
Paris To Versailles
As Versailles specialists, let us be your ambassadors to discover the castle and its secrets. Our private tours – with your own licensed guide and chauffeur – will enable you to fully appreciate Versailles from a different perspective, ensuring a visit you’ll never forget.
In addition to Hidden Gems’ full range of private tours from Paris to Versailles, we can also arrange access for you to events and shows at the château, including masked balls and other costumed events, opera and concert performances, the fountain lightshows and more. We can organize your costume, make-up artist and everything else you’ll need for a night to remember forever!
We also offer bespoke corporate visits and private events at the castle, including cocktail receptions and dinners, with musicians, chefs and serving staff dressed in period costumes if requested.