Hi Guys,
I will be in Paris next weekend, and we hope to visit Versailles first thing on Sunday morning. We will be staying in the Porte Maillot area, and I am looking for the most direct (with the least transfers!!) train route to Versailles.
We will be purchasing the museum pass, so we won%26#39;t need the combo train %26amp; Versailles ticket. We are only there for two days, so we don%26#39;t want to waste too much time looking for trains!!
I read before that the most direct routes are from stations Invalides/St Michel Notre Dame etc. Is this correct? Is it not possible to go direct from Porte Maillot (it seems as though the RER C line runs through there)?
I don%26#39;t mind getting the metro to a station where I can get a train direct to Versailles from, but unfortunately the transilien.com timetables are only valid until Saturday, and the ratp.fr website is offering me a mind-boggling number of choices!!
We are aiming to be at Versailles for 9am, so we plan to leave between 7.30am %26amp; 8am. Any suggestions on what our best route should be would be much appreciated, thanks.
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I%26#39;m sorry. I do not know the answer to your question. However, I will also be staying in this same area and would like to know the answer to your question. Hopefully someone will come along who knows.
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As far as I know there are no direct trains from Porte Maillot to Versailles - southbound trains go down the other branch of the RER C towards Massy-Palaiseau etc. Your best bet is to take the southbound RER C from Porte Maillot to Pont de l%26#39;alma, then change to the opposite platform for a train towards Versailles. If you get the RER at 0755 you should arrive at Versailles Rive Gauche station at 0857.
The RATP website journey planner is great but sometimes the quickest way isn%26#39;t the easiest. I use the advanced options to get the simplest journey....check %26quot;Le moins de correspondance%26quot; box in the advanced options instead of %26quot;Le plus rapide%26quot;
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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;I read before that the most direct routes are from stations Invalides/St Michel Notre Dame etc. Is this correct? Is it not possible to go direct from Porte Maillot (it seems as though the RER C line runs through there)?%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;
If you %26quot;..we don%26#39;t want to waste too much time looking for trains..%26quot;, then NOW would be a good time to begin to familiarize yourselves with the RER and METRO system lignes and routes--not just for a single trip to Chateau de Versailles....but for getting around and about Paris in general. From a %26#39;base%26#39; location near PORTE MAILLOT, at the western edge of the city, it%26#39;s not as if you%26#39;re not going to be using the Metro/RER system a fair bit during your brief visit---
%26#39;..PLANS de LIGNES..%26#39;--
http://www.ratp.fr/
If you%26#39;ve looked at the Metro or RER system map to discover that one of the eight(8) branches of the RER %26#39;C%26#39; ligne does indeed pass through the Port Maillot area, with a stop at NEUILLY-PORTE MAILLOT (accessed at Porte Maillot---RER %26#39;C-1%26#39; ligne). Not all %26#39;C%26#39; ligne trains, at every %26#39;C%26#39; ligne station, serve every other station, on every other branch ligne, directly. Train and brach ligne changes en route are often required.
As noted above, the simplest, quickets and most straightforward route will be to take the %26#39;C-1%26#39; ligne to a station that connects to and also serves the RER %26#39;C-5%26#39; ligne to VERSAILLES-Rive Gauche---CHAMP de MARS-TOUR EIFFEL. From here you can then simply transfer over to any %26#39;C-5%26#39; ligne train that has a four-letter, %26#39;..V xxx..%26#39; designation, heading in the direction of Versailles-Rive Gauche.
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At the Porte Maillot station you can take any of the RER C trains going towards Paris (on the tracks on the right as you come down the stairs from the main entrance) to Champs de Mars - Tour Eiffel. All these trains will stop there. You can%26#39;t miss the stop as it is the first after you cross over the river.
At Champs de Mars, you will have to change to the other platform. This should be well-marked. Once on the opposite platform, take any train whose %26quot;name%26quot; as shown on the screens above the platform starts with a V. I think it is still true that these trains will be single-deckers due to a low bridge, unlike the others which are double-deckers. Versailles is the last stop.
On the return, when you change at Champs de Mars, you want trains called NORA, GATA or GOTA to get you back to Porte Maillot.
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At the Porte Maillot station you can take any of the RER C trains going towards Paris (on the tracks on the right as you come down the stairs from the main entrance) to Champs de Mars - Tour Eiffel. All these trains will stop there. You can%26#39;t miss the stop as it is the first after you cross over the river.
At Champs de Mars, you will have to change to the other platform. This should be well-marked. Once on the opposite platform, take any train whose %26quot;name%26quot; as shown on the screens above the platform starts with a V. I think it is still true that these trains will be single-deckers due to a low bridge, unlike the others which are double-deckers. Versailles is the last stop.
On the return, when you change at Champs de Mars, you want trains called NORA, GATA or GOTA to get you back to Porte Maillot.
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