Navigo Easy for Paris

The carnet has not been discontinued, I just bought one a month ago. So if you prefer the little paper tickets, the ticket machines will still poop them out. Otherwise you would load as much travel onto the Navigo as you think you'll need, and top it up if needed during your stay. You buy the card and reload it at a machine like tickets, or you could wait in line if you want to deal with a human.

The nice thing about tickets is you can just hand them out like gum to everyone in your party.

thank you. I do think the paper cards are being discontinued....
It is official, books of ten Paris subway tickets are to disappear from 2022. in March 2022, cardboard tickets t+ will no longer be available in vending machines or RATP desks.

That may be the official pronouncement, but Covid changes everything. Anyway most transit systems around the world have changed over to reloadable cards so the change is inevitable.

Those are the dates for the discontinuation of CARNETS of tickets. Paper tickets will still be available for a while

(Edit 1/6: see my post below: even the paper carnets are not being discontinued until Sept 2022 it was announced today)

As a foreigner, no, you can't get the “pay as you go” type of card. It has to be linked to a French bank account. At the end of the month (well actually it falls in about the middle), they charge you for what you used in the past month. Paris doesn't have a real pay as you go option for the metro for visitors.

I don’t know of a way to get around buying the plastic Navigo Easy card - and doing it there. (I am FAR from an expert.) But in December, I bought my Navigo Easy and asked to have a carnet of ten tickets loaded on it. So no bits of cardboard and it was simple. I did NOT go ahead and load everything into the RAPT app on my phone, although I am pretty sure I could have (after purchase).

Just this morning, it’s in the press that the RATP is delaying the planned March 2022 phaseout of paper carnets by six months due to shortages in the chip industry (they can’t make/receive enough chip cards).

I think the only way you can use your phone to show tickets in the RATP is if you have an Android.

Also to the OP: you can still get a “carnet” on your card. A carnet is stil cheaper than buying 10 tickets individually.

If you use the English language option at any of the ticket machines, you will never see the word carnet. This potentially adds unnecessary confusion to anyone who may have never previously visited Paris. Using the English language option available at any ticket kiosk, if you want to purchase tickets t+ as a group, benefitting from a price per 10 (14.90€), vs the individual price of 1.90€, select the option labeled booklet.

I haven't been to Paris since 2017; and at that time, I had my Navigo Decouverte card from the previous year and just reactivated it when I arrived.
Does this card not exist any more, and if so, what is the best alternative ?
The ND card was good for unlimited travel for a week, from a Monday; is there another card now that still does this, with a different name?
It was such great value; I think it paid for itself within two days of using it!
I still have it in my travel bag.
Just curious.....don't know when I'll get back there!
Thank you.

S J, the Navigo Decouverte still exists and still is a good value. Last Fall when I was in Paris my days didn't line up well for the Navigo Decouverte so I just used a Navigo Easy. I think the days I wound up needing it were from a Friday to a Tuesday so will work harder next time to organize my days around the Monday start of the ND, lol!!

Thanks, Pam.
I did plan my last trip to have a Monday morning arrival!
The only problem there was every other person was recharging their ND passes at the airport then too, so it was a long wait to get it.

I got the ND when I was there in October, the actual card that I got was good for 10 years, just have to reload for the weekly pass or whatever when I go back. The agent at the counter at CDG was wonderful too!

Using a ND can be tricky with the dates, using a NE is, as the name implies, easy.