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 Look for these signs by Dabs
Versailles may very well be the most visited attraction in and around Paris, the queue to buy tickets was enormous even though we arrived just shortly after it opened. There are at least two ways to avoid standing in that queue, the 1st is the purchase of the Paris Museum Pass which Versailles is included on and the other is the Forfait Loisirs which you can buy before you leave Paris which is a combined train and admission ticket.
I assume that you also skip the queues if you go on a guided tour through one of the many companies that offer daytrips to Versailles from Paris.
When we left around 3:30 or 4 pm there was still a huge queue to buy tickets, I think that it is simply crowded all day long, at least in the peak summer season.
Look for the signs to tell you which entrance to go in, in August 2008 entrance A was for those people who neglected to buy tickets before they left Paris, entrance B for groups with reservations for non guided visits and entrance C for those people wise enough to either have a Paris Museum Pass or a Forfait Loisirs or groups or individuals on guided tours. Leave a Comment
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I would have really liked to see the fountains in action but our visit to Paris did not including a Saturday or Sunday when the fountains are on. The Grandes Eaux Musicales, the fountain show, is only on the weekend and public holidays from 1 April to 30 September, the rest of the time the fountains are turned off. Leave a Comment
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Try the Palace during the week, because on weekends it can get sooo crowded, that you have to wait for a long time to enter the main Palace Building! Leave a Comment
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Somewhere between going through security and trying to get the audio headphones I either dropped our ticket or neglected to get it back from security. When we got up to get the audio tour headphones that is included with the Forfait Loisirs, they asked to see the ticket and refused to give us one unless we produced the ticket.
After looking around the courtyard for it and unsuccessfully trying to check with the security people, we tried a different tactic, we inserted our return train ticket which was the same size into the slot on the Forfait Loisirs slot and voila, we were the proud renters of headphones! You have to produce that ticket several more times throughout your visit, at the Petit and Grand Trianons, so make sure you hold onto it. Leave a Comment
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Just a warning tip - no danger at all (exept for eventual pickpockets at the entrance)
But whenever visiting this marvellous Chateau - respect your personal time schedule and interests because this place is so huge - and time so short whenever visiting it for only one day.
- The flower scéne in the garden is May/June - if nature grills are on time (not in 2006)
- Fountains are jetting water every day - but the time is limited - start around 16hr00 or early morning till midday Leave a Comment
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Versailles may very well be the most visited attraction in and around Paris, the queue to buy tickets was enormous even though we arrived just shortly after it opened. There are at least two ways to avoid standing in that queue, the 1st is the purchase of the Paris Museum Pass which Versailles is included on and the other is the Forfait Loisirs which you can buy before you leave Paris which is a combined train and admission ticket.
I assume that you also skip the queues if you go on a guided tour through one of the many companies that offer daytrips to Versailles from Paris, but then you have to remember that you will be rushed along and cannot spend time as you see fit.
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When we were in Versailles, we just missed a train strike. All the rails shut down during strikes. If you plan to stay in Versailles and take the train into Paris, you do take a chance. Fortunately for us we arrived AFTER the strike, and the train service to Paris from Versailles was flawless. Leave a Comment
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 Versailles - dry fountains 300
days/year. by breughel
Indeed apart from these ± 65 days of Grandes Eaux, the fountains, the basins of Versailles are completely at rest. Not a drop of water is coming out of the fountains, no murmur of moving water. It is paradoxical, everywhere in France water spouts out of fountains except in Versailles!
The problem of the water provision of the gardens of Versailles existed already under Louis XIV. Expensive work was completed to pump water from ponds or rivers. The famous machine of Marly was even built to pump the water from the Seine.
But the flow was only of 3000 m ³ per day whereas at the time of the festivals of the King 10.000 m ³ were needed to feed all the fountains with full flow during 3 hours.
Presently water to supply the reservoirs is recirculated starting from the Grand Canal by modern pumps.
It is a pity that the direction of this monument did not develop a technical solution to ensure some flow of water, even reduced, to the fountains of the principal basins.
Today it is all or nothing during 300 days/year.
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- Hotel d'Angleterre
2 bis rue de Fontenay, Versailles - Mercure Versailles Chateau
19 rue Philippe de Dangeau Angle rue Montbauron, Versailles - Les Etangs De Corot
53, rue de Versailles, Versailles - Relais de Courlande
23 rue de la Division Leclerc Les Loges-en-Josas, Versailles - Pullman Versailles Chateau Paris
2 bis avenue de Paris (formerly "Sofitel Chateau de Versailles"), Versailles - Ibis Paris Versailles Chateau
4 Avenue du Charles de Gaulle, Versailles - La Residence Du Berry Versailles
14, rue d'Anjou, Versailles - Home St-louis Versailles
28 rue St-Louis, Versailles - Trianon Palace Hotel
1 Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles - Le Versailles
7, rue Sainte Anne Petite Place, Versailles
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