I usually stay in Paris for a month at a time but going in July for a few days and transpo passes are confusing. Will arrive Friday, July 10, 1pm. Depart Wed July 15. I will buy a single ticket for July 15.
I will need transpo on 5 days. 28 metro uses and 4 bus tickets for a total of 32 transpo uses. I thought about Navigo Easy for 5 days but then realized I should just buy individual tickets. Should I just pay bus separately?
How do I do this? Need expert advise, please. Thank you.
Do you already have a navigo easy card from a previous trip? If not, I believe you can buy a card and load it with both metro and bus tickets since they are now separate prices. We had an older card that still had the T+ tickets on them, they were good for both, so I couldn't add additional tickets of either type until I used the T+ tickets (original navigo purchased and loaded Nov 2024, used T+ tickets for both metro and bus April 2026). You can also use the IDF Mobiles app to check balance of cards and/or add tickets (with some restrictions on mixing types, i.e. we couldn't add anything until we used our old ones), as long as your phone has NFC on. If you're in the US, with US telephone you can't actually set up a personal account but you don't need one to check/add to your navigo card with the app.
Alternatively you can buy a ticket directly through the app, and use that to board bus and metro (check me on that, I know we did it on buses). You can also use the SNCF-connect app to buy a ticket on your phone.
If you are taking the RER into Paris from an airport, the fare is 14€ to any métro/RER station.
The Navigo Easy (2€) is a blank card that may hold airport tickets, bus/tramway tickets (2.05€), or métro/Transilien/RER tickets (2.55€). The Easy card may also hold the day pass (12.30€). Day passes are not valid for travel to/from airports.
One peculiarity about the Easy card is that it cannot hold airport tickets and M/T/R tickets at the same time, otherwise you may load all the B/T and M/T/R tickets that you may need, up to 30 at one time.
