Has anyone purchased a Navigo Travel pass for Paris. We are there for 5 days and will be taking the train from the Airport, as well as going to Versailles and other locations around Paris. Someone suggested we get a 5 day pass for 78.00 euros, but the website says you can purchase a pass for a week for all zones for $32.50 euros. The 32.50 pass does not include Orlyval, I think that is the airport, which I don't need.
Posted by
Boston
501 posts
What five days of the week are you in Paris? The weekly pass you refer to, which is loaded on to a Navigo Découverte card, runs from Monday to Sunday only, so it may or may not work for you.
Posted by
OP
15 posts
We are there Wednesday to Sunday heading to Chartres on Sunday to join the tour. Does the pass include the train ride to Chartres or is that too far out of town?
Posted by
Ontario, Canada
7625 posts
Chartres is outside the Ile de France zone 5 limits, if you have a Navigo pass good for zones 1-5.
Posted by
Chicago
9786 posts
You cannot buy a Navigo Decouverte card at the airports although if you already had one you could load the pass. I don't know if you can load one on your phone at the airports. This was a move to limit tourist use of a heavily subsidized local product designed for temporary workers or those who didn't want to be tracked through a personally registered card like the Navigo available to residents.
Posted by
Boston
501 posts
It’s probably not worth your while getting a Navigo Decouverte. If you were to use it to return to the airport, it might, but your plan is to leave via train from Paris.
At the airport, buy a Navigo Easy card for €2. You each need your own. Then load it with your ticket to the city for €14. When you get to the city, load it with as many Metro or bus tickets as you think you’ll use. Don’t overdo it. You can always buy more. And Paris is a walking city; you may be surprised that you walk more than you use public transport.
Note that bus tickets and Metro tickets are not interchangeable. You’ll be fined if you run into controllers on the bus with a Metro ticket and vice versa.
Posted by
Washington state
17 posts
With the Navigo Easy card, can you load metro and bus tickets on the same card? I understand they are separate tickets.
Thanks
Posted by
Chicago
9786 posts
Yes the system knows if it is a bus or train and takes the correct ticket. We prefer metro and I always put a couple of bus tickets on the card too just in case I find a need to take a bus. It is the airport ticket that cannot be on the same card with metro tickets.
Posted by
3295 posts
If cost is not an overriding concern, the 5 day pass covers all travel throughout the Ile de France. It is a very easy, turnkey solution, albeit not the cheapest.
The Navigo week pass at 32.50€ is another possible solution, but unless you already have a configured Navigo Découverte card, you will not be able to purchase the pass at the airport. Few people use the Orlyval train any more as métro 14 is much faster and easier to use than taking the Orlyval to the RER B.
Métro/Transilien/RER tickets cost 2.55€ each and will take you everywhere on your stated itinerary other than to Chartres. Load these with as many bus/tramway tickets (2.05€) as you may need onto your choice of:
- Apple wallet
- Navigo Easy card
- Smartphone configured with either the Ile de France Mobilités app or the Bonjour RATP app.