Free admission

Admission to the permanent collections of the Palace (Grand Apartments, Hall of Mirrors, etc.), the Trianon Palaces, Marie-Antoinette’s Estate, the temporary exhibitions plus the audio guides is free for:

under-18s, young people under 26 years old who are residents of the European Union, schoolchildren, teachers assigned to a French establishment bearing their “Pass Education”, disabled persons and their accompanying adult, and French job-seekers on presentation of documentary proof dating from less than 6 months before, etc.

To check if you are entitled to free admission, click here

If you are entitled to free admission, when you arrive at the Palace go directly to the principal entrance with your documentary proof.

Free Sundays

The first Sunday of months from November to March, admission is free for tours :

- State Apartments and Hall of mirrors
- Exhibitions
- Apartments of the Dauphin and the Dauphine
- Mesdames’ Apartments
- Coronation room, Battles gallery, 1830 room
- Grand Trianon and Estate of Marie-Antoinette

Reduced admissions

Reduced admission for everyone from 4 pm : Palace €6

- Buying a Palace ticket from 4 pm, in situ, from 16 April to 30 June 2013

Specific reduced admission : Palace: €13, Palaces of Trianon and Marie-Antoinette's Estate : €6

- Subscribers or holders of a ticket to the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Arras
- Members of friends of national museums associations
- Visitors with a large family discount card              
- Visitors paying admission fees with Holiday-Cheques

Paris Museum Pass

With the Paris Museum Pass you can visit the palace of Versailles, the palaces of Trianon and over 60 museums and monuments in and around Paris.

Paris Museum Pass

Musical Fountains Show

Set out to explore the fountains and groves with their water features spouting to the rhythm of music. Several circuits are available to enable you to enjoy the numerous masterpieces of the gardens or lead you to their most secret spots.

Saturdays and Sundays from 30 March to 27 October 2013, Tuesdays from 21 May to 25 June 2013 as well as on some additional dates (Friday 29 March, Wednesday 8 May, Thursdays 9 May and 15 August 2013).

The fountains are activated at weekends and on public holidays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 3:30 to 5:00 pm (Neptune Fountain from 5:20 to 5:30 pm). Also on Tuesdays and on 29 March from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 2:30 to 4:00 pm.

NB: if you benefit from a free admission to the Palace, you only need to buy a ticket for the Musical Fountains Show.

Musical Gardens

To allow you to enjoy the gardens in fine weather, the groves and other preserved areas of the gardens are accessible on certain Tuesdays from April to October for a musical promenade: a chance to discover some of the finest features or the French-style formal gardens designed by André Le Nôtre.

Tuesdays from 2 April to 14 May as well as Tuesdays from 2 July to 29 October 2013.

Music plays from 10:00 am to 6:30 pm.

NB: if you benefit from a free admission to the Palace, you only need to buy a ticket for the Musical Gardens.

The Fountains Night Show

When night falls, the gardens are transformed to offer a stunning visual and musical treat as fountains and groves come alive with colourful and dramatic lighting effects. This year once more, lighting and stage-effects artists will light up the gardens and display their surprising installations to the strollers: water features in the Mirror Fountain, lasers streaking across the dark in the Colonnade Grove and the fireworks display in front of the Grand Canal by the Groupe F to conclude the evening’s entertainment.

Every Saturday from 20 July to 14 September 2013 as well as on some additional dates (Fridays 14 June and 12 July, Saturdays 22 and 29 June 2013).

Water features from 9:05 to 10:55 pm. The fireworks display starts at around 11:00 pm.

Fountains Night Show Ticket: €23
Reduced price*: €19. Group price*: €19. Free admission* for certain visitors.

On-line booking or purchased on the spot (at the entrance to the gardens).

The Royal Serenade of the Hall of Mirrors

Just before the Fountains Night Show, the musicians and dancers of the Compagnie Baroque await you to join in a French-style ball in the sumptuous setting of the Hall of Mirrors.

Every Saturday from 20 July to 14 September 2013 as well as on some additional dates (Fridays 14 June and 12 July, Saturdays 22 and 29 June and 6 July 2013).

Departures at 6:40, 7:00, 7:20, 7:40, 8:00 and 8:15 pm.

On-line booking

Gardens subscription

Subscription card for the Musical Fountains Show and the Musical Gardens: €21
Reduced price*: €13

Valid for all the season. Purchased on the spot (at the entrance to the gardens on the days of the Musical Fountains Show and the Musical Gardens).

Free admission and reductions

Tickets to the Musical Fountains Show, Fountains Night Show and Musical Gardens
* Reduced price: visitors aged 6 to 17, students, holders of the family reduction card, people with reduced mobility and their guide, subscribers to “A Year in Versailles” (Fountains Night Show).
* Group price: groups from 30 people upwards (specific prices for school groups).

Free admission
* Children aged 0 to 5, members of the Société des Amis de Versailles, subscribers to “A Year in Versailles” (Musical Fountain show and Musical Gardens only).

Visit the Jeu de Paume room

Guided tour with the Tourist information Office of Versailles
The Tourist Information Office of Versailles proposes a guided tour of the room of the Jeu de Paume where the Third Estate made its oath. Every Saturday, 3 pm.
Information and booking