A friend and I are traveling to Paris for several days this May. Our focus will be to see the costume exhibition at the Louvre, and to visit Notre Dame.
Is it accurate that Notre Dame entrance tickets are only available two days before a visit? What are experiences some of you have had with this new system? Re the Louvre, I tried to purchase tickets/times on the Louvre website, but was not able to reserve tickets in advance (I’m writing this in February).
I’ve visited both ND and the Louvre many times in the past, but not recently, and we will only have three and a half days on this quick trip. Any advice on entrance/tickets is appreciated!
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I will be doing this same thing in April. I have sort of been practicing to see what happens 2 days ahead for ND and it's not good. Tickets seem to go immediately. I am in the US (MT) so try to access the ND site soon after the tickets supposedly are available. Actually hoping things calm down in the next month of so.
The Lourve-tickets are available. I will be there the first Friday in April when they stay open till 9pm. Tickets are free after 6pm and like you have been there numerous times before so trying to capture a free ticket. But they too are only available a day or two before for the free entry. Again will try a practice run for March and if not successful, will just buy a ticket for 530 which is the latest time slot available.
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Is it accurate that Notre Dame entrance tickets are only available two days before a visit?
Yes
There are several threads on this topic on the Forum discussing people's experiences recently