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How to skip the line at the Palace of Versailles

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Can you visit Versailles Palace? How can you skip the line at the Palace of Versailles? Do you need to buy tickets in advance? Do you need to book tickets? In this article we’ll answer these questions.

Can you visit Versailles Palace?

Yes you can. A complete visit includes:

– the Palace
– the estate of Trianon
– the Gardens
– the Park
– the Coach Gallery

Anyway you should consider that Versailles is often very busy and the line is very long. This is especially true in August.

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Then if you don’t have the ticket and you have to get it you’ll find another line at the ticket office.

That’s why you should find a way to skip both lines. In this article I’ll give you a good way to skip the lines at the Palace of Versailles.

How to skip the line at the Palace of Versailles

If you find a long line at Versailles and you want to skip the line try to go on the following link: Versailles tickets. This is Versailles official website and you can buy your tickets on-line. You should choose “Passport with timed entry” because this option gives you the ticket with specific time entry. The timed entry allows you to skip the line.

Versailles official website: Passport with timed entry

Do you need to buy Versailles tickets in advance?

It’s very good if you buy your ticket in advance. Anyway you can buy your “passport with timed entry” just before your time entrance if it is still available.

That’s what we did. We bought our ticket online and 20 minutes after we were inside the palace despite the line in the first picture.

In the picture below you can see the entrance you can use with you timed entry ticket.

Do you need to book tickets for Versailles?

No, you don’t but you can buy your ticket in advance.