Does anyone have any input of the usefulness of "t" tickets for the Paris Metro, RER, etc.? I don't want an museum pass, just the least expensive way to travel around Paris.
Are the tickets good for a day? Or are they trip specific, i.e. from Gare d'Est to Abbesses Metro?
The Forum is one of the most helpful sources of information I have found.
Thanks for the help.
Mimi
South Carolina
These are ordinary bus/metro tickets good for one ride. You can transfer from bus to bus within 90 minutes going vaguely the same way but cannot hop on and off with the same ticket. You can also not transfer from the metro to the bus and vice versa although of course you transfer within the metro as much as necessary to get where you are going.
The tickets are good within Paris for tram, bus, RER or metro. And they are good wherever the metro goes which is occasionally into zone 3 outside Paris.
Always keep the validated ticket till you exit since you will be fined heavily on the spot if you cannot produce it on inspection; these inspections don't happen often, but they happen. We average about once a week when we are in Paris but there was one week when we got ticket checked 3 times.
You get a carnet i.e. 10 of these t+ tickets for 14.10 or 7.05 for passengers aged 4-9.
janettravels44
www.janettravels.wordpress.com
Welcome to the forum, Mimi!
For more than you ever wanted to know about t+ tickets ;-)
thank you Janettravels44, very informative and useful
Just for one day (24h) and travelling only inside Paris I like to use a Mobilis ticket. You can use it for unlimited travel with metro, RER, bus and tram, with a few exceptions like going to the airports. Price depends the Zones you want to move around, cheapest dayticket is €7. You can hoho and change mode of transport as much as you like without the concern buying another ticket.
Read also: http://parisbytrain.com/paris-metro/#mobilis The site mentions only the metro, the company running public transport in Paris, RATP mentions the other modes of transport too.
You can buy at the ticket booth, but also at the automatic ticket dispenser. Larger stations has employees who can help with using the menu as the Mobilis option is a bit hidden away in the menu.
There are more “ticket options” like Paris Visite with more possibilities, but more expensive.
Keep indeed the ticket with you till the last exit, not only for being checked, but in case it is a RER station you can only exit through automatic gates and open only with your ticket.
The Visite will in 95% of the cases be a total rip off. The only times it is economical is if you lodge in a suburb and commute in and back every day and your days are over the weekend so you can't use a Navigo Decouverte.
The Mobilis is a great choice if you plan a very harried day rushing from one thing to another. It expires the midnight of the day you use it i.e. it is not a 24 hour pass but a day pass. For one person, there one day it is probably the best deal, but if there are two people a carnet of 10 tickets probably suffices and will be cheaper. BUT this is really a nickel dime decision at this point and there is some pleasure in just not having to worry about it which you get with the Mobilis. As Will noted above, it cannot be used for the airports even if you get the more costly 5 zone pass.
Be wary of anyone who is wandering around looking official who attempt to 'help you buy a ticket'. Particularly at Gare du Nord there are scammers who will steal your money in the guise of helping and often leave you with a worthless ticket e.g. perhaps a child's single ride ticket instead of a Mobilis. There are information windows and those clerks can help if you can't figure out how to get to the Mobilis or the carnet in a machine. And at large stations like Nord and RER stations there will also be a sales window where you can actually buy your ticket or pass.
Right now you need a very specific ticket -- Paris/specific station outside -- to use the RER outside Paris but with the dezoning of the system in September that should change but I am not sure how that will work.
