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Help with Metro Pass in Paris...transfers not understood clearly.

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Hi
We will be staying in Paris for 3 days only.
Thinking of Navigo easy pass as a good option., .. carnet of 10 tickets.

But I am confused about the transfers that the articles are talking about.

This is what I understood. Correct me if I am wrong.
Example, When I travel from Eiffel Tower to Montemartre, I will scan my ticket at the Eiffel Metro and reach Montmartre. If within 90 min I decide to go back to the Tower, do I scan the pass again for return trip. .? I assume it will not deduct the return trip since it is within the 90 min?

If beyond 90 min then I scan the pass and another single price ticket will be deducted from the pass?

Within the 90 min transfer time, I can use any bus or metro or train?

So to go to any attraction and spend beyond 90 min, the round trip would be approximately a little over 5 euros correct?
So a carnet of 10 tickets would be equal to 5 round trip tickets?

Thanks

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For get about 90 minutes. The tickets are per ride not timed. I suppose if you slept in the metro they could fine you for exceeding the time limit, but it is not a timed ticket -- once you leave the metro, you need a new ticket for another ride. With a couple of small exceptions transfers occur where lines cross underground and so you transfer without using the ticket -- you just walk from your platform to the platform of the train you are transferring to. One ride per ticket.

On the bus you can not return on the same ticket or use the same bus twice on the same ticket. You can transfer in order to get to a destination by using a different bus.

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Just to clarify something Janet said...”one ride, one ticket”. That means from the time you enter the system (scanning your pass) until the time you leave the system i.e. come up to street level. Conceivably you could transfer 4 times in one ride. But so long as you don’t exit the system, one ticket gets you where you’re going.

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As said above, forget about the 90 minutes. Each ticket is for a single ride that includes transfers to similar transit options (see more about transfers below) You cannot use a single ticket for a round trip. The RATP website states that each ticket is for a "single, one-way trip using any of the metro lines, the RER within Paris, the Île-de-France region’s bus routes (with the exception of Orlybus and Roissybus), trams, or the Montmartre funicular." The site also says that you cannot transfer on a single ticket between the metro/RER and the buses. The Navigo Easy is just a way to purchase a bunch of single tickets. So in your hypothetical above, when you return from Montmartre less than 90 minutes after your entered the system at the Eiffel Tower, a second trip will be debited from your pass. Now if you are like me and want to circumnavigate Paris once by train just to do it, you could get on Line 6 at Etoile and take it to Nation and transfer to Line 2 and take that back to Etoile. That will be your "round trip" on a single ticket.

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