Closing Time at Versailles: Small-Group Palace Tour After the Crowds with Garden Show from Paris

Hugo was outstanding.. full of amazing historical facts all delivered with an amazing sense of humor and wit! He was magnificent from head to toe ?

Hugo is a wonderful, passionate, funny and very engaging guide/art historian. His insights and stories made you truly feel part of the Versailles experience

Guide had heavy accent and made it difficult for some people to understand. Guide had a lot of knowledge but it was not focused on a single story line and hard to follow history. Wish we would have learned more about the building and less about the paintings.

Excellent tour.... tour guide (Sonali) was amazing, so knowledgeable, informative and engaging. We did this tour in 36 deg heat and she was very mindful of keeping us in the shade wherever possible. We highly recommend this tour with Walks.

I highly recommend the Versailles After Hours tour! Our guide was very informative, entertaining and helpful. She really knew her history! We were in a small group of four tourists. I really was glad that we didn’t do the tour ourselves. There is so much to see and learn. It would have been overwhelming to navigate without a guide.I can’t say enough about this tour, it was truly magnificent.

The location site can be tricky to find. Focus on the address and not the bus location. The garden shows on the weekend were really nice! The music was an added bonus. I really enjoyed the stories told. They were really interesting!

Could not have done this tour without Walks. Perfect time of day to avoid the horrible summer crowds, and most of the heat associated. A bit of a bummer that fountains weren't on due to drought, but otherwise a beautiful tour that was 'just the right length' - aka, not too long, for our family of 4!

Hugo was fenomenal, he managed to bring this huge overwhelming palace into a relaxed informative sightseeing walk, bravo !

Pros: the Palace and gardens are beautiful and a must see, the last entry time was good as to not feel so crowded (dont get me wrong, there were still definitely crowds - we waited in one bathroom line for 15-20 mins!). Easy comfortable transport from Paris to Versailles. Tour guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. Not so great: there were 2 people in our group who were late, so we waited for them before leaving Paris (reasonable, but they still didn’t show); then we had to wait again for them at the palace as they found other transport… then wait again when they didn’t show up that time either. I’m sure those guests appreciated all the accommodation, but the tour co could’ve done more for those of us who lost a good chunk of our tour time waiting for them. Also not so great was the tour guide was at times hard to understand. None of this should prevent you from going though - we saw what we came to see, learned a few things, and have some great pics and memories!