Guided Tours
Enjoy Fontainebleau offers you new ways of looking at heritage and holds the keys to help you discover exclusive and usually inaccessible places. Immerse yourself in a sound atmosphere of another time, change your view of the palaces of the Kings of France, or let yourself be carried away by the unexpected.
The Palace of Fontainebleau and its Gardens
Just follow your guide through 1000 years of history to discover this jewel that Napoleon Bonaparte called “the true home of kings, the house of ages“. It is your turn to enter this high place of power in the footsteps of Saint Louis, Francis I, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte or even Napoleon III.
> Private guided visit of the castle 1h30, every day except Tuesday, 180€.
> Private guided visit of the gardens 1h30, every day, 180€.
> Complete private guided visit: castle + gardens 2h30, every day except Tuesday, 300€.
Prices include VAT 2021, tickets not included, for a group of up to 9 people. For a group of 10 to 20, please contact us.
The Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte and its Gardens
Be dazzled by the extraordinary history of Vaux. Let us tell you about the combination of talents that made its construction and decoration possible, the sumptuous feast given by Nicolas Fouquet in honour of Louis XIV, the birth of the French-style garden, and the resurrection of the estate in the 19th and 20th centuries.
> Private guided visit of the castle 1h30, every day in season, 180€.
> Private guided visit of the castle and gardens 2h30, every day in season, 300€.
Prices include VAT 2021, tickets not included, for a group of 1 to 16 people.
The landscape painters of the Barbizon School
The Barbizon School had a major influence on, and paved the way for, the Impressionists. Your Enjoy guide takes you into the intimacy and state of mind of these innovative painters in their place of life and work. Contemplate many of their works and discover the forest where they set up their easels to paint.
> Private guided visit of the painters’ museum: 1h30, 180€.
> Complete visit: painters’ museum + village + forest border 2h30, 300€.
Every day except Tuesday, prices include VAT 2021, tickets not included, for a group of 1 to 18 people.
Milly-la-Forêt: the refuge of 20th century artists
Let yourself be guided under the foliage of this picturesque little town on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, renowned for its aromatic herbs and its famous peppermint. A multi-faceted but harmonious stroll from the Chapelle des Simples to the house of Jean Cocteau, and from the funny hoax of the donkey Lolo to the Cyclop of Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.
> 3h30 private guided visit, in season, 420€.
Tariff including all taxes 2021, tickets not included, for groups from 1 to 18 people.
Exploration in the Forest of Fontainebleau: discover amazing paintings
Like the speleologists of the forest, let yourself be guided where you wouldn’t know to go on your own. Your Enjoy guide lifts the veil on a protean Fontainebleau forest. It is at once a place of demonstration of power, a reservoir of multiple resources, and a space for artistic expression and introspection. Discover beautiful shelters decorated with astonishing polychrome paintings and gain an authentic understanding of this exceptional forest. A great breath of fresh air.
> Private guided visit of 2h30, every day, 300€.
Price for 2021, including VAT, for a group of 1 to 12 people.
Provins the beautiful medieval city
Let yourself be transported into medieval life by discovering one of the most important French cities of the 13th century! Provins is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO. Thanks to your Enjoy guide, you will understand the capital importance of the Champagne Fairs and appreciate the modernity of those who developed them.
> Private guided visit of 1h30, every day, 180€.
Price for a group of 1 to 20 people.
le Musée de la Gendarmerie
Melun abrite le Musée de la Gendarmerie depuis 1945. Entièrement repensé en 2015, l’occasion d’une plongée dans l’Histoire de la France à travers l’épopée de la Maréchaussée. De la Guerre de Cent Ans aux derniers hauts faits du GIGN, en passant notamment par les Révolutions françaises, l’Empire, les Républiques françaises et les 2 Guerres Mondiales, venez vous laisser conter l’extraordinaire histoire de la Gendarmerie.
> Visite privée de 1h30, 180€.
> Pour un groupe de 1 à 20 personnes.
The Ladies of Fontainebleau: a different kind of power
The women who have left their mark on the castle and the town of Fontainebleau are numerous: queens and daughters of France, of course, but others, too. Come and take another look at the exercise of power by women in these places which are, at first glance, so demonstrative of male power. Another way to discover or rediscover the Château of Fontainebleau.
> Private guided visit 2h, 240€.
Tariff 2021, including VAT. Tickets not included, for groups of 1 to 9 people. For groups of 10 to 20 people, please contact us.
Savoir-vivre at Court: Do’s and Don’ts
You are invited to stay in Fontainebleau! Whether under the Ancien Régime or the Empire, such a stay cannot be improvised! Let yourself be guided through the customs so that etiquette will no longer hold any secrets for you! And of course, for educational purposes, your guide will tell you about some of the mistakes made by your predecessors.
> Private guided visit 2h, 240€.
Tariff 2021, including VAT. Tickets not included, for groups of 1 to 9 people. For groups of 10 to 20 people, please contact us.
Being a child at the Court of France
We always talk about the grown-ups, but what were the children doing in the castle? What were their days like? What were their obligations? Let yourself and your children be guided around the palace to plunge into the history of little ones in France. Would you have liked to have been a child of France under the Ancien Régime and the Empire?
The tour can be enjoyed in period costume for children and even adults.
> An amazing and charming private family visit: 2h, 240€.
Tariff 2021, including VAT, tickets not included, for a group up to 9 people. For a group of 10 to 20, please contact us.
Fontainebleau: become a local for a few hours
Let yourself be guided through the lively streets of the city centre. Discover the beautiful church of St. Louis commissioned by Marie de Medici, wife of Henri IV. See the beautiful mansions, vestiges of the intense court life that animated the city until the Empire, and taste exceptional wines and cheeses with our master craftsmen.
> Private guided visit of 3h, every day.
Price on request, for a group of 1 to 10 people.