My daughter and 2 friends are going to Paris, Prague and Budapest for 2 weeks. Should she purhase an ISIC card for her trip? What types of things will she get a discount on. We aren't sure if it will be useful. She and her friends are 22.
Posted by
Bloomington, IL, USA
9363 posts
Mostly it will be discounts on museum admissions and things like that, although when I was a student in Austria, while I had an ISIC card, no one ever asked to see it to verify my student status. I just said I was a student (and had my regular student ID as proof, too, but never needed it).
Posted by
Ottawa, Ontario,, Canada
521 posts
Last summer in Europe, there were many places (primarily museums) that gave special student rates, but a student ID card was mandatory at almost all of them. There were two of us - one had a card, and the other did not... only twice were we both able to squeeze out a student discount as the rest of the time they insisted on seeing the card. It was well worth the small cost to get the card printed up.