Exciting Updates to my Paris Trip

While I'm not the target for it (I live here...), the consensus on the Paris Museum Pass is that it's really hard to make it pay off. At 90€, you'd need 5-6 visits in 4 days just to make it pay off: it's a lot of museums to take in!

I am not familiar at all with the Paris City Pass.

Based on your prior posts about this trip and what you feel you will be able to manage, I would say a flat no to either the Paris Museum Pass or the "Paris Pass" from the Visitor Bureau.

The Paris Pass has never been a good deal. It includes a Paris Museum Pass plus sightseeing buses and maybe a cruise. ALL of those you are better off buying individually based on how much energy you wind up with each day.

The Paris Museum Pass is a product I used to get. It lost its value to me in 2019 when they changed from being able to do multiple visits to each museum to one visit each. It also is really only money saving if you are going to have a museum heavy visit and go to 2-3 museums per day on the days you have the pass.

On one of your other threads I thought you might have narrowed things down to seeing the Orsay Museum, perhaps the Cluny which is near your hotel and perhaps the Orangerie. The Paris Museum Pass will not be useful or a money saver for 3 museums. It will be better to just buy a timed entry ticket for the Orsay and the Orangerie if you decide on those 2. The Cluny is not busy and you do not need to purchase ahead for this one. You can just go over on a day they are open and buy a ticket at the desk.

Editing to add: "Given the cost of admissions, it will probably benefit me to buy a pass or card.". I guess I should have started with asking what sites you thought you might visit that would make buying a Paris Museum Pass for 90E a good deal for your trip?

Musee d'Orsay - 16E
Musee Orangerie - 12.50E
Musee de Cluny - 12 E

Phil, we used Paris Museum Pass some years back when there was no limit on how many times you could use it on any of the museums it covered during the life of the pass (we had a 6-day.) You also didn't have to make advance reservations at any of them; with rare exceptions, there were separate entry/security lines for pass holders so wait times were minimal.

Not the case anymore.

I'll recommend that you spend some quality time with the various sections of the website (https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/en) so you understand how to use it and its limitations. For instance, you will need to make advance reservations at certain of the attractions to ensure entry. Examples? The Louvre, Saint-Chapelle, L'Orangerie and Versailles.

https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/en/musees/musee-du-louvre
https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/en/musees/sainte-chapelle
https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/en/musees/musee-orangerie
https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/en/musees/chateau-de-versailles-et-de-trianon

Realistically - and especially so in your case - you can only handle so many attractions in a day so it can be more economical to make the list of what you CAN physically manage with the time that you have, and then price the cost of the pass against the sum of individual entry fees for your chosen attractions.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone recommend the Paris Pass (which is the Museum Pass + some extras) as it's largely considered to be very overpriced.

Thank you everyone.

I do not have the time right now to read your responses thoroughly and respond back but I will be returning.

Just skimming what has been written, it sounds like "No" to the pass or the card. That is among the reasons that I asked. I was wondering.

balso, this is a link to the card that the Visitor's Bureau offers:

https://parisjetaime.com/eng/tickets/paris-passlib-m9001081

Pam

Thank you for posting the cost of entries to some of the museums that I am very interested in.

I had been assuming 19 euros up for each and every museum I was interested in. Glad to find out that my assumptions are wrong and admissions are somewhat less.

I have since looked up a few admissions as well and all are less and sometimes much less than 20 or so euros.

Kate

I will be checking out all your links soon. And will get back with you. Thank you for posting.

Make sure you are on the official websites for each venue as well. You may have seen some threads recently by people who have been hoodwinked by a company called Walker Tours. I, myself, accidentally got on the Orsay Museum website that was NOT the real one. I noticed because the ticket cost was 45E as opposed to 16E which I knew was the price. I was just looking for info and was shocked that I wound up there instead of the regular website which I am on literally once a week.

I forgot you also mentioned Sainte-Chapelle for the stained glass which is another 19E...still under the 90E for the Paris Museum Pass.

Make sure you are on the official websites for each venue as well. You
may have seen some threads recently by people who have been hoodwinked
by a company called Walker Tours.

Ooh yes, good reminder, Pam!