Every Château de Chenonceau tour and ticket, and what each one does about admission
All eighteen, grouped by how you get there
The last column is the one to read first. The platform draws what a listing includes and what it excludes as a single block — green checks above, red crosses below — and when that block is read as plain text the two collapse into one run of promises. Every phrase in that column is a line the listing itself strikes through. Prices are per person and were read on 27 August 2026; the widget above any listing prices itself.
| Listing | Price | Rating | Chenonceau admission | Not included, per its own page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admission on its own | ||||
| Chenonceau Castle Admission Ticket t176736 | €19 per person | 4.7 from 1,775 ratings | Included | Time slot selection (please follow instructions on voucher) |
| A guide at the château | ||||
| Chenonceau Castle: Private Guided Tour with Entry Ticket t267282 | €229 per person | 4.9 from 17 ratings | Included | Hotel pickup and drop; Food and drinks; Gratuities |
| On two wheels | ||||
| Chenonceau: E-Bike Guided Tour & Gourmet Picnic Lunch t558002 | €89 per person | 5.0 from 51 ratings | Crossed out in its own words | Entrance ticket to the chateau. Visiting the inside of the castle is not part of the experience. The visit can be done after the ride |
| Chenonceaux by bike: the Cher River reflects your day! t894426 | €50 per person | 5.0 from 2 ratings | Not mentioned either way | Tours; A meal |
| A day out of Paris | ||||
| From Paris: Loire Valley Castles Day Trip With Wine Tasting t13987 | €85 per person | 4.7 from 2,110 ratings | Included | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Guided tours inside the castles; Lunch and additional food or drinks |
| From Paris: Full-Day Loire Valley Chateaux Tour t10751 | €81 per person | 4.4 from 1,457 ratings | Included | Lunch; Tips; Headphones |
| From Paris: Small-Group Loire Valley Castles Full-Day Tour t62065 | €245 per person | 4.8 from 273 ratings | Included | Food; Tips |
| Paris Loire Valley 3 Castles Tour with Chambord & Chenonceau t943240 | €132 per person | 4.7 from 98 ratings | Included | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Lunch is not included, but your guide will recommend the best places to eat during the visit |
| Paris: Loire Valley Castles & Wine Tasting Day Trip t149828 | €279 per person | 4.9 from 37 ratings | Included | Personal expenses and souvenirs; Additional food and drinks not mentioned; Tips for guide/driver (optional); Hotel accommodation; Extra activities or tastings not listed in itinerary |
| From Paris: Loire Valley Castles Tour with Hotel Transfers t10472 | €225 per person | 4.3 from 61 ratings | Included | Gratuities; Hotel drop-off |
| A day out of Tours or Amboise | ||||
| From Amboise: Chambord and Chenonceau Tour with Lunch t198052 | €239 per person | 4.9 from 141 ratings | Included | Hotel pickup or drop-off; Snacks; Tips |
| From Tours: Chenonceau and Chambord Castles Guided Tour t475661 | €210 per person | 4.9 from 92 ratings | Included | Hotel pickup and drop-off; Food and drinks; Tips |
| From Tours/Amboise: Chenonceau & Chambord Chateaux Day Trip t86402 | €206 per person | 4.7 from 87 ratings | Included | Meals or drinks; Train tickets |
| Over it, in a balloon | ||||
| Hot Air Balloon Flight above the Castle of Chenonceau t606717 | €239 per person | 5.0 from 40 ratings | Flight or ride only | Nothing at all |
| Amboise Hot-Air Balloon Sunset Ride over the Loire Valley t602346 | €255 per person | 4.9 from 78 ratings | Flight or ride only | Nothing at all |
| Hot air balloon flight: Chambord, Chenonceau, Cheverny, Blois t630132 | €286 per person | 4.2 from 12 ratings | Flight or ride only | Nothing at all |
| Not this château at all — here for scale | ||||
| Chambord: Entry Ticket to the Castle t183794 | €21 per person | 4.7 from 2,182 ratings | Flight or ride only | Guide |
| Paris: Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access Ticket t59565 | €22 per person | 4.6 from 46,779 ratings | Flight or ride only | Guide; Food and drinks |
The one that says no, and says it well
The e-bike and picnic day crosses out the entrance ticket, and then explains itself in the same line: “Entrance ticket to the chateau. Visiting the inside of the castle is not part of the experience. The visit can be done after the ride”. Read that page as text and those words land in the inclusions list, which is exactly how a site ends up promising a ticket a listing strikes out. What it sells is an e-bike, a guided ride and a lunch of local products facing the château, and it says so. Four and a half hours, capped at four people, and not suitable for under-14s or anyone under 150 cm. It carries 5.0 from 51 ratings, and it has a page of its own at the e-bike review.
The one that says nothing
The bike hire from Montrichard lists helmets, an anti-theft lock, a repair kit and customer support, and crosses out “Tours” and “A meal”. Admission is not addressed anywhere on the page, in either direction, because it is a bicycle rental rather than a tour. So its card here reads “no ticket mentioned” rather than “not included”: the listing is silent, and putting words in its mouth would be the same mistake in the opposite direction. It also states no duration and no languages. Two ratings, both five stars, and nothing on this site is built on two ratings.
The one whose title does not match its page
“From Paris: Loire Valley Castles Tour with Hotel Transfers”, plural. Its page includes “Hotel pickup” and crosses out “Hotel drop-off”. It collects you and it does not bring you back, at the end of a full day in the Loire. That is not small print; it is the difference between the title and the product, and it is invisible to anything reading the page as text. In its favour, it is the only Paris day that includes guided tours inside the castles rather than walking you to the door, which no other Paris listing here does. It carries 4.3 from 61 ratings.
Where the ratings actually are, and what they measure
The sixteen Chenonceau listings carry 6,331 ratings between them. The admission ticket alone has 1,775, and the most-rated product that reaches this château is not the ticket at all — it is the coach day out of Paris, on 2,110. For comparison, Chambord’s ticket has 2,182, which is 1.23 times the Chenonceau ticket, and the Versailles ticket has 46,779, which is 26.4 times the Chenonceau ticket and 7.4 times the entire Chenonceau shelf put together.
Those are bookings on one platform. They are not visitor numbers. Nobody publishes an attendance figure for Chenonceau — the operator does not, and the numbers circulating elsewhere disagree with each other and carry no year. Chenonceau is not a small place; it is a small place on this platform, and those are different sentences. What checking the “most visited” claim actually turned up is here.
Three listings, three different days
The ticket, the coach day from Paris and the minivan day from Amboise are the three shapes most people are choosing between. They are not three versions of the same thing.
| The ticketChenonceau Castle Admission Ticket | From Paris: Loire Valley Castles Day Trip With Wine Tasting | From Amboise: Chambord and Chenonceau Tour with Lunch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | €19 per person | €85 per person | €239 per person |
| Chenonceau admission | Included | Included, skip-the-line | Included, with a guided tour |
| A guide inside the château | None — it is a ticket | Crossed out on its own page | Included at both châteaux |
| Transport | None | Coach from Paris, 13 hours | 8-seat minivan from Amboise |
| Hotel pickup | Not applicable | Crossed out | Crossed out |
| Rating | 4.7 from 1,775 ratings | 4.7 from 2,110 ratings | 4.9 from 141 ratings |
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All eighteen as cards
Same listings, same order: the ticket, the private guide, the two bicycle days, the six from Paris, the three from Tours or Amboise, the three balloons, and last the Chambord and Versailles tickets, which are here to give the ratings above something to sit against.
The ticket itselfChenonceau Castle Admission Ticket
Private, capped at fiveChenonceau Castle: Private Guided Tour with Entry Ticket
Ride and picnic, ticket separateChenonceau: E-Bike Guided Tour & Gourmet Picnic Lunch
Bike hire, not a tourChenonceaux by bike: the Cher River reflects your day!
Most-rated by farFrom Paris: Loire Valley Castles Day Trip With Wine Tasting
Three castles, no lunchFrom Paris: Full-Day Loire Valley Chateaux Tour
Three tickets, namedFrom Paris: Small-Group Loire Valley Castles Full-Day Tour
At your own paceParis Loire Valley 3 Castles Tour with Chambord & Chenonceau
The only real hotel pickupParis: Loire Valley Castles & Wine Tasting Day Trip
Read the title twiceFrom Paris: Loire Valley Castles Tour with Hotel Transfers
Best-rated from AmboiseFrom Amboise: Chambord and Chenonceau Tour with Lunch
From ToursFrom Tours: Chenonceau and Chambord Castles Guided Tour
No train ticketFrom Tours/Amboise: Chenonceau & Chambord Chateaux Day Trip
Over the châteauHot Air Balloon Flight above the Castle of Chenonceau
Sunrise or sunsetAmboise Hot-Air Balloon Sunset Ride over the Loire Valley
Four châteaux from the airHot air balloon flight: Chambord, Chenonceau, Cheverny, Blois
Not Chenonceau — the rivalChambord: Entry Ticket to the Castle
Not Chenonceau — the scaleParis: Versailles Palace and Gardens Full Access Ticket
If you are reading this table to decide between a coach day and a train, the château has a railway station 400 m from its ticket office and the journey from Paris is an hour by TGV to Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and twenty-five minutes on from Tours. Not one of the eighteen listings above includes a train ticket, and one of them crosses train tickets out.
The pages that go deeper: the day trip from Paris, the balloons and the bicycles, Chenonceau against Chambord, and the listings written up one at a time.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Chenonceau tours are there?
Eighteen listings, of which sixteen reach the château. Eleven put the entrance ticket in their price, five never go inside, one crosses the ticket out in its own words and one does not mention admission at all. Every one of them is priced per person.
Which listings include the entrance ticket?
Eleven of the eighteen. The admission column in the table above marks each one, and the column beside it prints the lines each listing crosses out on its own page — which is where the surprises are, because the platform draws inclusions and exclusions as a single block.
Which is the best-rated?
Two listings share 5.0: the e-bike and picnic day on 51 ratings and the bike hire on 2. The private guided tour has 4.9 from 17. Read the base as well as the average — a 5.0 from two people and a 4.7 from 1,775 are not the same claim.
Is there a group rate?
Not on the platform: all eighteen listings are priced per person. The operator’s own tariff does have a group rate, which starts at twenty people and brings an adult down to the reduced figure. It is in the table on the tickets page.