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Sainte Chapelle in April

Hello everyone. My husband and I are travelling to Paris from Canada mid April. I have purchased Museum passes for the 12 days and wish to secure timed entry tickets for Sainte Chapelle. I started on the official government site for French Monuments (not a tour site) Clicking on Sainte Chapelle I find that all tickets are sold out up to the end of March. So, two things. Does anyone know when they release tickets for April? I note that the tour guide sites claim to have tickets for the 21st of April (only four left). Cost? 80 Cdn per person. Scalper? Scam?
Second thing: Can one actually pay for a timed-entry ticket in advance with your Museum Pass?
I had no trouble booking visits to the Louvre but I am stymied on how to do the same on Sainte Chapelle's site.
The Eiffel Tower appears to be the same sort of thing (except that you cannot pay with a museum pass. I wonder if anyone knows when they release tower tickets?

Thank you everyone, for reading and for any help you might be able to give me.

Posted by
795 posts

I honestly can't help you here......I want to say it's a glitch in the system because I was able to look at availability last week for the next few weeks last week....I even made a spreadsheet of ticket opening days with all the sites I need to purchase for! It looks like last week I was able to find up until the end of March, its very weird that they all have seemed to up and disappear COMPLETELY. From what I gathered it could be a possibility that they are released a month at a time and the March ones have been open for a month and that's why they are gone? But I am asking for someone to set me straight on that.....because I have NO IDEA

Posted by
16537 posts

Unless i'm doing something wrong, I'm not seeing that they're sold out for March at all.
This page of the Museum Pass website has these instructions for booking Conciergerie
ou Sainte-Chapelle with a pass (which I followed for a dummy booking)

https://www.parismuseumpass.fr/t-en/rÉservation/crÉneaux-horaires

The link brought me to this website...
https://tickets.monuments-nationaux.fr/en-GB/home

.....from which I located Sainte-Chapelle:
https://tickets.monuments-nationaux.fr/en-GB/families

Choose "Visit of the Monument"

Under "Your Ticket" on the next page, click number of tickets you need under "I already have a ticket".
Click "Update shopping cart" and click a month at the top of the next page. You'll see that April is not for sale yet but only Friday March 1 is sold out for that month. Click any of the open dates and a schedule of bookable time slots appear; when you are able to book April tickets, you'll choose a date and time slot. Be sure to bring your ticket and your pass on visiting day. Make sense?

Posted by
10 posts

Thank you so much Other Katherines! LOL. How could we all have the same name?

It appears that the answer to my query about Sainte Chapelle has been answered,

I have been waiting for 15 years to see Sainte Chapelle. I was prepared to camp out on the street in order to get a ticket!
Not really. I'm 75 years old.

I suppose that the only way that one can get a confirmed timed ticket to the top of La Tour Eiffel is to be prepared to wait in line.
Our last night in Paris is the 29th and I had planned to watch the sunset, the blue hour and then watch the stars appear over the city of lights.

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795 posts

You don't have to force yourself to wait in line! They do release other Eiffel tower tickets at 1pm 7 days in advance for the Eiffel tower too! I have been keeping an eye on availability as of late and the 60 days in advance ones go QUICK, but the 7 days in advance ones seem to go much slower. I would still be online at 1pm Paris time to get the PERFECT time, but never fear!

Posted by
679 posts

Ms K, another option could be to buy tix for the live classical music concerts held regularly at Sainte Chapelle. They can be fantastic 2-fers, where one sees the place and also experiences some wonderful music. In the past, classical lineups were mixed with a few medieval music performance dates. Dunno whether those are still on offer there too.

Some of the smaller churches also offer regular live music, some candlelit.
I am done. The end.

Posted by
4602 posts

I second the suggestion for the concert. It was sheer bliss!

Posted by
16537 posts

LOL, I'm a Kathryn/Kate. There were a bunch of us Katherines, Kathryns, Kathleens, Catherines, Kathys, Cathies, etc. etc. in the 50's.

Phew. Very glad that all is well now! Katherines 1 and 2, Sainte Chapelle is a gorgeous, dazzling jewel box of a chapel. Quite took my breath away as I'm sure it will take yours too!

Waving at Gregg: Hellooooo, Zebec! (We used to cross paths on the Thorn Tree forum before its untimely demise.)
Concerts! Yes! Brilliant!

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679 posts

I would avoid all communications with this 'Kathy' character. We have it on good authority that they are in fact a disturbed 14 year old boy currently incarcerated at the Duluth Correctional Facility for Anger Management Incurables. It seems that they bribe guards with some of their meds in the wee hours in order to gain access to the computer lab.
Don't take my word for it. Check out Interpol's Top Ten.

I am done. the Kkkkk

Posted by
10 posts

Thank you for the suggestions to make sure we attend one of the concerts at Saint Chapelle. I do happen to love Medieval and Renaissance music!

Posted by
27 posts

I am now having the same issue as KatherineM had. I go to book Sainte Chapelle tickets for April from the official monuments site and there is no availability for April. I do see availability for March but we are in Paris in mid-April. Suggestions?

Posted by
43 posts

I wrote to Sainte Chapelle and they said reservations open gradually and they advise making reservation 15 days ahead, so we'll just need to keep looking. (I'm going in mid April too.)

Posted by
16537 posts

Right. It's just too early to make April reservations.

Gregg...🤣

Posted by
10 posts

Thank you so much everyone.
So, given the response that "tickets open gradually" combined with the evidence that on the 28th of February and all of the tickets for March are open and have been open for a while ... I am willing to bet that April tickets will open on the first of March. Worth a try in any case.
Now I will give obtaining tickets for Musée de Cluny a try. My first attempt was disastrous. LOL.

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Okay. It's March 1 and I just managed to reserve a time in April for Sainte Chapelle and Conciergerie!
Have fun everyone!