Please help me with the Metro

You could buy the weekly pass on Tuesday, that goes til Sunday but it's difficult to note if it's worth it, depends on how much you're going to use the Metro.

parisbytrain.com is one of the best resources to answer most of your questions.

and no, the 10 pack does not have to be used on the same day.

Don't confuse fares, which are all electronic, with the card/app that holds them. Each traveler, over 3 years old, must have his own Navigo card or smartphone app. Those 3 and under travel free. 4 - 9 year olds purchase tickets at half price.

If you are not interested in the weekly pass, purchase individual tickets as needed: 2.55€ for the métro/train/RER (MTR), 1.30€ for those 4-9; 2.05€ for bus/tramway tickets (BT), 1.05€ for those 4-9. Either of these types of tickets is valid throughout the Ile de France, which includes Versailles, and an area well outside the city limits of Paris. Tickets are good until used and do not have group pricing.

These tickets may be loaded onto either a Navigo Easy card (2€), or a configured smartphone using either the IDF Mobilités app or the Bonjour RATP app.

There is no such thing as a 10 pack of tickets. That went out with the changes of Jan 2025. There is no 'carnet' or bulk discount. Everyone needs a Navigo Easy. Buy a few metro/RER tickets on for 2.55 each -- they are good 'forever' Half price tickets for the two youngest.

These tickets will take you anywhere in the Ile de france including Versailles

If you think you will use the bus, put some bus tickets on for 2.05.

I would probably do the Navigo Decouverte and weekly pass (same price for everyone). it does mean small head shots for everyone and assembling the passes. It does cover the airports.

Ok thank you! That's a bummer about no more 10 packs. Ok I'll prob just do the easy go cards then for all of us

The Navigo Easy Pass for metros and buses is great. You buy it with some number of rides and you pay 2e for the card and then for however many rides you buy - say 10. Metro is 2.5e and buses are 2e and they are separate tickets.

What's great about the pass is with the RATP app on your phone you can check to see how many rides you have left and then add rides on your phone from the app. You can check and charge multiple cards from one phone. This is great because you can check and recharge - if needed - in the hotel room or restaurant - rather than in the metro station after it fails to work and people are lined up behind you. It also means you can be sure everyone in the group is going to get through the turnstile and no one is left behind.

If you decide to take a bus you can add a bus ticket to your card(s) from your phone while you wait at the stop. And if you have a pay app on the phone you can just use it and not have to take out your credit card at all. Typing in an email address for the receipt is longest part of the charging up process. You can also recharge at purple stations in the metro station but I would avoid this and it easy to do. You need to buy the Easy Pass at metro or train station from a person in the ticket booth but once you have it you're good to go.

If it was paper carnet the last time you were in Paris it takes some getting used to and you won't have little tickets to use as bookmarks any more when you get back, but it really works well.

Enjoy Paris,
=Tod

Thank you Tod! We will go with the Easy pass and I'll purchase the cards upon arrival. This will be our first time to Paris, but I had read that the Carnet offered a bundled discount, so it's a bummer they did away with that. But I understand the system now thanks to everyone's feedback :)

The Easy is not a pass and probably not good to think of it that way. It is a card on which you can load tickets or day passes. Weekly and monthly passes require a different card.

The internet and guide books are full of obsolete information. People don't clean up sites or get rid of sites when they go our of business and so there is lots of bad advice like 'buy a carnet of tickets for a discount' or 'you need point to point tickets on the RER priced by distance.' All once useful to know and now just sludge that should be cleared from the internet. I spent an hour trying to find a store that had a site on line including 'open now' -- it had been permanently closed for over a year.

In London the 11 year old will need to have a £10 Oyster Card, then have a staff member apply Young Visitor Discount to it. That gives half price fares and half price daily or weekly caps, for 14 days.