The transport passes are confusing. In March I'll be in Paris for 3 days and then again another 3 days. I have two museum admission tickets but don't know yet if bus or metro will be more efficient. I have no other firm plans so can't foresee how many times I'll use transport over those periods. I suppose the Paris Metro ticket isn't practical in case buses are advantageous. Any advice on Navigo vs. Paris Visite? Thanks for advice.
Posted by
San Francisco/Marin County
9420 posts
Parisbytrain.com explains the Passes very well.
Posted by
Chicago
8063 posts
Your dates don't fit a good pass i.e. ND. What you need is a Navigo Easy card which you then load with a carnet of 10 t+ tickets which are good for the metro anywhere it goes and for buses. This will cover all your travel in Paris. If you need to go outside Paris e.g. back to CDG or to Versailles, then you buy an individual RER ticket just for that trip. If a round trip, you buy two of them. The tickets are good forever -- so if you only use 4 or 5 in your first 3 days you still have the remaining tickets for your last 3 days. If you use up all ten then you can add individual tickets to the card for 2.10 each as needed -- as many as you need. The carnet of 10 is sold at a discount and so is the best way to buy tickets if you will do a lot of travel. The card costs 2 euro and is refillable indefinitley.
Posted by
san ramon, ca, usa
281 posts
Agree with @janettravels44.
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Bethlehem
19 posts
Thanks so much for the excellent reply: understandable and comprehensive!
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221 posts
are the paper, book of 10 tickets (carnet) still available for purchase? We have 5 in our group and since we can't use the same navigo card, the paper tickets may be better for us.
Posted by
Chicago
8063 posts
you can no longer buy a carnet of 10 paper tickets at a discount (they have not been a 'booklet' in decades.) You can however buy individual paper tickets for 2.10 each but there is no carnet discount except on the Navigo Easy. So your group could buy however many paper tickets they will need but they cannot share a discounted carnet.
Posted by
Panguitch, Utah
2546 posts
you can no longer buy a carnet of 10 paper tickets at a discount (they have not been a 'booklet' in decades.)
Nor have they been a "carnet" in decades either. The English language kiosks use the word "booklet" to describe any grouping of 10 like tickets; be they tickets t+ or billets origine-destination (used on the RER/transilien trains.)
Individual tickets t+ are now 2.15€ or 4€ during the Olympic Games. Groups of electronic tickets t+ cost 17.35€, loaded onto either the Navigo Easy card (2€) or a properly configured Android phone. Reduced price tickets, for children 4 to 9, are only sold in groups of ten electronic tickets at 8.65€.