Zagan the motorhome is like one of those arty photos where one person is static and in focus while everyone else is blurred in movement. Researching the motorhome options for Versailles, we found the sister campsite to the one we are on, which is also in the ASCI scheme , so would be the same price. There is also a parking place right at the Chateau see Park4Night. As you would expect, Paris has a great public transport system, and Versailles itself has three train stations.
Wanting to beat the crowds by arriving early, we opted to catch the train from Suresnes-Mont Valerien train station, which is just over 1. The trains from Suresnes gave us two options. We set off around 7. As we stood waiting for the train the sun was rising behind the Eiffel Tower. The iconic shape was silhouetted against a deep red sky, matching the brake lights of the cars siting in the rush hour traffic around us.
The train to Versailles-Chantiers was the next one due, so we bought a ticket for that. It was bang on time and only took 20 minutes to reach Versailles. We tried to look as bored and tired at the sleepy commuters around us, but sadly failed β how could we look bored, we were on a double-decker train with Paris silhouetted in the windows! At the other end, walking through the streets of Versailles, I realised this is no normal town. We arrived at the chateau around 8.
By the time it opened at 9am the queue was much, much longer! After getting our bags checked and picking up our audioguides we spent over two hours roaming the Chateau. In case you are planning to go yourselves and want to know about timings, we took two hours and still missed several sections β we were Chateaued out!
This place is immense. To give you some idea, it has rooms, 67 staircases, windows, paintings and thousands of sculptures and decorative objects. Aside from the wall-sized paintings and they were big walls, we wondered if TVs would ever get that big , and beautiful rooms we also found ourselves people watching a lot of the time.
