About the project

Planning a day at Versailles is a small puzzle. One ticket has several prices. The parts of the estate keep different hours, and the Palace explains all of it over many pages of its website. Versaillestoday puts those answers in one place and works them out for the day you open the page.

Take the Passport, the ticket that covers the Palace, the Gardens and the Estate of Trianon. What you pay for it depends on the season, on the hour you enter the Palace and on where you live. Today the standard Passport costs €25, or €18 if you enter the Palace from 15:00. The tickets page lays the rates side by side, so you can find yours before you book.

Tours get the same treatment. The site compares 34 of them: guided visits of the Palace, tours that leave from Paris, bike tours and private tours. None gets on a list with fewer than 4.5 stars or 30 reviews on the platform that sells it. Each tour page sets the tour's price beside the official ticket. That shows you what the tour adds.

The site is written under the pen name Hester Wainwright. The editor reads the official pages, chooses the tours for each list and checks every one against the rule of its page.

If a price has changed or a fact is wrong, write to the editor. Include the page and a link to the source you found.