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Eiffel Tower Tickets Hack/Tip

Posted by (CT by way of FL) on

Hi All,

It took three days, but I FINALLY secured our Eiffel Tower tickets for July and wanted to share a tip/hack I found that helped.

Tickets go on sale at midnight Paris time - which is a perfectly reasonable 6pm here on the East Coast. Except, whenever I tried a dummy run in the weeks leading up to this, the 60-days-out date was never available. It turns out your DEVICE needs to be set to Paris time - in my case, my computer. I set it to Paris time yesterday and at 6pmEST/MidnightCET, it worked! Of course, the website malfunctioned between me putting tickets in my basket and actually paying for them, but it finally worked tonight! (I'll note this was AFTER I thought they went on sale at 830am Paris time and got up at 2:20am only to find everything was sold out.)

Hope this helps!!

Posted by
226 posts

I used the official site (toureiffel.paris/en). I know many tickets go on sale seven days out but 1) We will already be in France at that time and 2) I wanted to secure them early so I can make other timed-entry plans. The point I was trying to make is that it seems like one's device needs to be set to Paris time. Otherwise the website will think it is too early and not allow you to buy on the 60th day. It's great that more tickets are released at 1pm Paris time seven days out - that's good to know! But that information is moot if the website thinks your seven days out starts six-nine hours later. Maybe others already knew about the time set. I haven't seen it discussed here, and so thought others might find it helpful.

Posted by
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Thank you, this is helpful! I did not realize we had another chance at 7 days out - I am going to try that and set my computer time accordingly!

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