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Eiffel Tower Tix

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Several days in a row now, I have (I think) been able to successfully book summit tickets (two months out--to the day) for the Eiffel Tower. I do this in the AM MST (USA), about 10-12 hours after release at 8:30 AM Paris time. Based on what I've read here, this shouldn't be easy--or even regularly doable. I am doing these "practice runs" to be prepared for the time of actual purchase (I don't want tickets until March 2020). Also, I have not yet established myself as a ET "customer" and I haven't proceeded beyond getting the tickets into my shopping cart, whereupon the site asks if I want an e-mail confirmation or if I want the tickets to be mailed. Bottom line: this has been extremely easy, which is NOT what I've understood it should be. So...

Am I fooling myself here? Is it not enough to get the tickets into my cart? Should I sign up as an ET customer? Should I carry my dry run almost all the way to purchase, including entering credit card info? In other words, does carrying the process further sometimes result in failure even though it appeared to be successful at first?

Thanks in advance for any and all responses. Getting to the summit may be a bit touristy/corny, but it is mandatory for us.

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I suspect that if you become a registered member of the ET you just might have an advantage over those who are not and get first chance at tickets. I don't know that to be true but we've always got tickets when they go on sale 60 days, give or take, prior to the date wanted, as established customers. There's no downside that I know of to being an established customer. We did several dry runs the first time as well but never entered credit card data until the actual purchase. We wanted to see sunset from the summit and made sure that daylight savings time was accounted for if that's an issue in March. Before the last price increase we would purchase tickets on two separate days just in case an overcast sky blocked sunset. It might be to pricey to do that anymore. I did sit on the website to get tickets the minute they became available and even then we didn't get the time slots we wanted. Tour operators get blocks of tickets I suspect before any general tickets become available. Good luck.

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I also practiced buying tickets (without entering credit card info) and I thought I'd created an account, but it didn't complete. Turned out to be super easy to get the July date and time I wanted exactly 60 days out, and also to create my account. (I happened to wake up in the middle of the night the day they went on sale (USA PDT) so I went ahead and bought them.)

Happy planning!

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There are more tickets available on line than there were in the past; they usually drop 60 days out now but that reliability has been less than in the past.

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