Navigo easy card

I use a different kind of card but with the Easy, you purchase the tickets you want in advance. If you want métro tickets at 2.50€, you purchase and load métro tickets.

yes. Under the new transport rules since Jan 1 2025 bus and metro tickets are separate tickets. The metro tickets are 2.50 and take you anywhere in the Ile de France (no more RER tickets with separate pricing by distance). The bus tickets are 2.00 euro. Both can be loaded on the Easy.

FWIW you could never transfer between bus and metro on the same ticket. Even when they used the old t+ tickets, you could only transfer from metro to RER. or from Bus to Tram -- but not between the trains and the buses/trams.

So if you load both bus tickets and metro/RER tickets on one card, can you use them both on the same trip? Or do you need two separate Easy cards? I’m not sure we will use the bus that much, but my understanding is that bus tickets also include the Montmarte Funicular. So if we take the metro to the Montmarte stop and then the Funicular, how does that work? I know there is also an app but we’ll have kids with us that don’t have phones.

You can load bus and metro tickets on the same Easy -- the system knows which one to pluck when you validate. And if you have a day pass, it knows to use that and not draw tickets.

However. to use it from or to the airports the card cannot have any ticket on it except the airport ticket. So if you came in to an airport and wanted to use metro 14 from Orly or the RER B from CDG you would need an empty Easy to load your ticket on and then once you got to Paris load it with metro and bus tickets you might need.

I have watched plenty of Paris public transport videos and I still have a question. I plan on using both bus and metro tickets on a Navigo Easy card, but I have not seen anywhere if those tickets can be loaded onto the card in one transaction. Every machine video I have seen shows a choice between the two, the user picks one and the machine asks for payment. Am I missing something?

I plan on using both bus and metro tickets on a Navigo Easy card

You load the tickets you need, métro/RER or tramway/bus and the card deducts appropriately for usage of either.

Ahhhh…..I think I found the answer I’ve been searching for, though I don’t like it…

I have a Navigo Easy card from a previous trip and it has 2 rides left. I cannot add a CDG RER B to that card because it’s not empty? But I COULD get one on my phone using the Bonjour RATP app? Can I do that while in the states, or maybe wait until I’m in the passport line or baggage claim?

The Navigo card doesn't work like an Oyster card. You don't just add money to it, you add tickets--bus/tram and/or metro/train--which are 2 Euro and 2.5 Euro respectively. We used the app rather than the card since it had the advantage of being able to add tickets as we went. So when walking back to our apartment from the Eiffel Tower seemed like too much on a hot day, we bought a bus ticket on the app and hopped on the next bus.

And to Laura--the Montmarte funicular takes a metro ticket. So for our trip to the Sacre Coeur we loaded two bus tickets (there and back) and one metro ticket since we were only going to ride up, not back down. But, yes, you can put both types of tickets on one card or app