I need help in getting to Versailles please

Hi,

I am in Paris for a few days from 9th Jan and hope to pay a visit to Versailles.

Can anyone advise me on the easiest way to get there from my hotel at 44 Rue Hamelin Paris 75016?

Many thanks.

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we did it years ago by train - left either from the gare de nord or a station nearby - ask at your hotel

cost a fraction of the price of a tour bur and the staion is about 10 mins walk from the palace

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Make you way from the HÔTEL ÉLYSÉES UNION (3-star)--44 rue de l%26#39;Amiral Hamelin (btwn: Ave. Kléber %26amp; rue Galilee) 75016, Metro: Boissiere--(http://www.elysees-union.com/) to the RER %26#39;C%26#39; ligne at CHAPMP de MARS-TOUR EIFFEL and simply take the RER %26#39;C-5%26#39; ligne train (heading in the direction of Versailles-Rive Gauche...any train with a %26#39;..V xxx..%26#39; designation) to the end-of-the-line, at VERSAILLES-Rive Gauche station (approx 26 mins.--5,60€ r.t.)...then a pleasant ten(10) minute stroll from the station up to the gates of Chateau de Versailles (closed Mondays).

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Excellent - thanks KDKSAIL

This place is great isn%26#39;t it!

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There%26#39;re no %26#39;..tricks..%26#39; to this trip. It%26#39;s about as simple as it gets for daytrips from Paris.....only....there are three(3) different RER %26#39;C%26#39; lignes (%26#39;C-1%26#39; to Pontoise %26#39;C-5%26#39; to Versailles-Rive Gauche %26amp; %26#39;C-7%26#39; to Saint Quentin-Yvelines) that branch off from the CHAMP de MARS-TOUR EIFFEL station...so make sure that the train you take is heading in the direction of VERSAILLES-Rive Gauche....with a %26#39;..V xxx.%26#39; train number. For the return...any train back from Versailles will take you back to CHAMP de MARS-TOUR EIFFEL

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Versailles is only 12 miles outside of Paris. As other posts have suggested, the train will get you there in short time.

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and you%26#39;d have to be a really slow walker for it to be a 10 minute walk! then again, I walk at NYC/Paris speed... maybe on the way back....

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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;and you%26#39;d have to be a really slow walker for it to be a 10 minute walk! then again, I walk at NYC/Paris speed... maybe on the way back....%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;

It%26#39;s not so much the distance...but rather the stops you%26#39;re likely to make along the way to put camera to face and click. Do this on a sidewalk in mid-town Manhattan...and next thing ya%26#39; know,...you%26#39;re askin%26#39; your dry cleaner if they can get the ground-in stains from shoe-prints off the back of your coat.

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