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Paying for Transprtation Around Paris

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Upon arrival at Paris' Orly airport in the early evening, I will be travelling to my accommodations close to Gentilly station and the following morning I will be picking up my rental car near La Croix de Berny station by 9 am.

At the end of my trip after returning my rental car near near La Croix de Berny station I will be returning to my accommodations close to Gentilly station. That same afternoon I will leave my accommodations to visit Notre Dame Cathedral and return.

Then the following morning I will need to travel from Gentilly station to De Gaule airport for my flight home.

That makes a total of six trips in two 24 hour periods. What is the most economical way to pay for these six trips, and how exactly should I go about paying for them?

Thanks.

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I assume these destinations are in the Ile de France since they are on the RER. Any metro/train trip in the ile de France is 2.50 and you load tickets on a Navigo Easy card which costs 2 Euro. the exception is any trip to or from the airport; those are 13 Euro and you cannot put the ticket on an Easy that has other tickets. But to use the RER B to Gentilly you would have to take the Orlyval (separate charge and ticket) to Antony where you could buy your Easy cards and load them with the trips you need.

If your card is empty when you get back to Gentilly fro your ND excursion then you could put a ticket for 13 for CDG; otherwise you will need to buy another empty card.

Or you can put these on your phone. I don't want to do that so haven't learned how. But you are looking at RER charges of 26 Euro for the two airport trips and 10 Euro for the 4 other trips. plus 2 Euro fore the card.

You can find instructions on line for putting tickets on your phone.

Another option is to get a Navigo Decouverte card for 5 Euro at Orly. It requires a postage stamp size headshot photo and buy a weekly pass. This would cover everything and the pass is 31 Euro or so. This would make sense for convenience if your short trip falls within Mon-Sun of one week. If it laps over the weekend, then this is not an option. You don't save money but you also don't have to fiddle around with airport tickets and other tickets.

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Day 1 - Purchase an Orlyval/RER/métro ticket for 13€. Note: this a specific Orlyval paper ticket, not a 13€ airport ticket.

Day 2 - 4 RER/métro/Transilien tickets @ 2.50€, 10€. These are electronic tickets loaded onto either a configured smartphone or Navigo Easy card (2€).

Day 3 - Airport ticket at 13€.

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