Quick question regarding museum/attraction tickets in Paris

Like others have suggested, figure out what museums you most want to go to and add up the cost of individual tickets. Be sure to pay attention to whether there is a fee for the advanced ticket purchase online. Not all of the museums allow you to buy directly from them and print at home. Some of them require you to go through FNAC or digi-something-I-can't-remember-the-name (and we weren't able to get that last one to work the one time we tried to use it). If you have a ticket in hand for a museum, you should be able to use the "priority" entrance and skip the line.

Hi Ginny, Yes, the Museum Pass allows you to enter via a separate door or bypass the ticket-buying / validating line for many (but not all) attractions. You still have to go through security, though, and, in my experience at Sainte Chapelle, that's where things move slow. However, the MP was indispensable at the Louvre where the ticket lines were very long even first thing in the morning. I haven't purchased any individual tickets in advance, so I'm not sure, but those may end working similar to the MP, except if you have to retrieve them at a will-call. My suggestion would be to figure out what you definitely can and will be able to go see and use the MP for, add up the individual admission prices for those (find the Paris Museum Pass site online and they'll tell you), and see what the difference is. If its <10 euro more to get the MP, I'd say splurge so you can 'buy' a little more time. If its more ... well, I probably wouldn't do it, and instead would try to play outings for times where it wouldn't be as crowded (e.g., Sainte Chapelle around lunch, Orsay at night before closing). My two cents! Have fun!

Agree with other poster, decide which you want to go to, look on line for individual prices and see comparison and see also if you can buy tickets on line. Keep in mind that I seem to remember the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays.

You absolutely do not need to buy or use a Museum pass to avoid lines at the Louvre,, it is the most simple place to avoid lines, even in middle of summer. Simply do not use the main Pyramid Entrance. I always enter from the Caroseul Mall entrance( entrance on Rue Du Rivoli) decsend downstairs, buy tickets from machine, and proceed in to the security line, the security line is comepletely unavoidable with pass or not, but i have never waited more then 10 minutes entering through that entrance. There is also the Porte Des Lions entrance, its not always open, but when it is there are no lines at it. Just go on the Louvre website to see where it is located. Its a great website. For Orsay lines are an issue unless you have a pass OR you can prepurchase a ticket , sold from a window kiosk to left of main entrance BUT it is only to be used on any day other then day of purchase. So purchase day before visit. Sainte Chapelle is a hard one, some people report not being allowed to line skip there, others have been, it seems arbitrary from day to day. Best bet is to go there first thing , before it opens.

Thank you, everyone! This is very helpful. :-) Ginny