Agata Franczak

Review of European leisure France (le pa...

I won't recommend visiting this this place. The or...

I won't recommend visiting this this place. The organization is terrible. Crowds visit this place almost every single day and you can hardly find any boards with information. We waited in line for over 2 hours. When we finally got there, we went first to see the gardens. It turned out that there is a special event and we needed to additional tickets. So we wanted to go back inside but there was no entry apart from the main one with this huge line. And we weren't the only people that had the same problem. The exit sign inside the palace doesn't say that the final exit. We had to almost beg the service to let us inside because one lady informed us with a big smile on her face that if we wanted go back to the palace, we needed to wait in the main line. Out of 3 people only one man tried to help us and they let us in through the fast line. We had to go through security check one more time and the security guy told us to drop our backpack off to the cloackroom (weird because during our first entrance 20 minutes earlier nobody cared about that). Then the lady working in the cloackroom asked if we had any food because tourists cannot bring food inside the palace. No visible information anywhere and plenty of people weren't checked so were we? When it comes to sighseeing, the palace looks great from the outside but actually there is almost nothing inside the rooms. Obviously it's really cool that we can go through the same rooms as the kings but that's it. We were aware that lots of things were destroyed during the French Revolution but we were hoping to get the spirit of their rich live e.g. seeing a dinning table with golden plates or some bath supplies. Everything is dusty and the crowd is huge. In one room there was a chandelier lying on the floor (it must have dropped a few minutes earlier). The palace's workers started to tell us that we need to hurry up. That's a little...inappropriate as people pay for their visit and they are forced to quickly leave the room (the chandelier was lying on the floor far away from tourists' access so why do we need to hurry up if the workers can easily clean everything without being interrupted?
When we finally left the palace, we saw that many people had the same problem as we did with entering the palace one more time. It shows how poorly organized this place is.