Private Versailles Where You Pick the Route, Car or RER

Two decisions are yours on this one, and both are unusual. The first is what you look at: with a private licensed guide and no fixed itinerary, you can spend the day on the architecture, or on the gardens, or on the history, and the guide follows.

The second is how you get there. Transport is included, and there is a public transport option where you meet the guide in front of the RER entrance and travel out together, which suits anyone who would rather not sit in traffic.

The drive takes about an hour. Inside, the visit covers the palace and the rooms Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette used, the Hall of Mirrors among them, and the gardens outside.

The guide is licensed and knows the estate well enough to answer whatever you ask rather than recite a script.