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Forfait Navigo Jour -- Navigo day pass information

Posted by (Queens, NYC) on

Hi all -- I know the Navigo Découverte card has been covered thoroughly in these forums, but I wanted to point out a new "Forfait Navigo Jour" (Navigo day pass) that is available. (Well, "new" as of January 2018, but I did a quick search and only saw two mentions on the entire forum, and the most reliable information is currently also only available in French.)

The "Forfait Navigo Jour" allows you to load day passes on your Navigo Découverte card, for exactly the same price as the corresponding Mobilis tickets (€7.50 for 2 zones, €10.00 for 3 zones, €12.40 for 4 zones, €17.80 for 5 zones). So while it doesn't save you money vs. a Mobilis, if you already have a Navigo Découverte card and/or are always afraid of losing those little Mobilis or Paris Visite tickets like I am, you might prefer the Navigo Jour on your Découverte card. As with the Mobilis, this is a 1-day pass (i.e. 12:00 am to 11:59 pm) and not a 24-hour pass.

In addition, the RER to CDG is not excluded (on a zone 1-5 pass of course), which has been the case for the Mobilis in the past* -- the official information from the RATP (French only) -- states it's valid for all Métro, RER, tramway and train services, excluding Orlyval, SNCF trains requiring reservations, Le Bus Direct, VEA Disney, and the Open Tour and Cars Rouges tourist buses (terms and conditions, French only).

While that information page says this is ideal for "Parisians and residents of Ile-de-France who travel regularly," it explicitly states this is loadable on Navigo Découverte cards. The page also states that you can buy it up to 6 days ahead of time, although I'm not sure if this means you have to select the date of validity on purchasing or if it just activates automatically based on your first usage.

*Some information seems to indicate airports are now included in the Mobilis (see article 2, French only) since the introduction of the Navigo Jour, but there's a lot of conflicting info and the official RATP page still says that the RER to CDG is excluded from the Mobilis.

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  • For traveling for a 24-hour period with two adults, a 14 year old, and a 16 year old between CDG and Notre Dame and the Eiffel tower, should I get (a) the Viste Pass, (b) the Mobilis 1-day pass, or (c) the Navigo Day Pass?
  • Do any of these passes require a photo?
  • Can all of these passes be purchased at CDG at a vending machine or a ticket office on about 9:00am on a Monday?
  • Has anyone been able to use the Mobilis pass to travel from CDG to downtown Paris?
Posted by
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The Navigo card requires a 25mm by 30mm photo, but it can be a head shot photocopied from a passport, or a selfie printed on regular printer paper, properly sized. The Navigo card can be purchased at the ticket windows at the CDG train station, and give them your photo and they will assemble it. That is a 5 EUR fee.

Since a one day all-zone Mobilis is 17.80 EUR, and a weekly all-zone Navigo Decouverte is 22.80 EUR, I don't see that it would be very useful for just a day trip from CDG. Just 5 EUR more gets you a whole week.

If you just want to go from CDG to the Eiffel Tower, a 10.30 EUR Airport ticket is valid for the Metro connections to get you there. For other journeys, +t tickets are just 1.90 EUR, or you can buy a pack of 10 +t tickets for 14.90 EUR.

Posted by
8055 posts

I answered your other question on this, but let me add this. Since you need two day passes each assuming you are going into Paris for the night and then returning to the airport the day, the cost doesn't make sense with your agenda. These are not 24 hour passes. (I calculated this for 1 adult and 2 kids missed it was 2 and 2 --- with 4 of you, the only sensible way to get from the airport to town is a taxi -- it will cost 50 Euro for all 4 of you to the right bank. -- for the figures below you would need to add in the additional adult which makes it even less cost effective to buy passes for everyone since you need passes for two days for everyone.)

for 1 adult two kids (the kids being adults for transportation here)
I would get 6 CDG/Paris tickets -- that gives you a round trip to and from CDG for everyone. Then buy a carnet of 10 ordinary metro tickets for use within Paris. That gives everyone 3 rides with one left over and costs 14.90. You could buy two more single tickets for 3.80 and everyone would have 4 rides. That is enough for your time there with careful planning. The airport tickets takes you anymore in Paris. Then use the individual tickets to get to more distant spots like the Eiffel Tower and back to the hotel. Walk otherwise.

In the time you have, 4 individual rides within Paris is probably more than enough and 3 might do it.

So 6 5 zone Mobilis passes: 106Euro
3 2 day 5 zone Paris Visite passes: 115 Euro
6 CDG/Paris tickets plus one carnet of metro/bus tickets: 77 Euro

Passes make no sense for this short trip.

Posted by
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The OP posted two months ago about the Forfait Navigo Jour, can any travelers share any success stories with the Navigo Jour option? Can we load our Navigo Découverte cards at the self service machines with this option?

Posted by
2545 posts

Can we load our Navigo Découverte cards at the self service machines with this option?

Of course you can.

Posted by
8055 posts

I was not responding to the OP but to the follow up question below that.

The Navigo Jour is loaded on the machines just as the weekly charge is loaded on the machines.

The Mobilis page in English on the RATP has not been updated, it is almost as if they wish to sell tourists the very expensive Visite. Go figure.

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