Paris Visite

The Visite pass is sold for a given number of days (1, 2, 3 or 5 days) and either zones 1 to 3 or zones 1 to 5. The zone 1 to 5 pass is is roughly double the cost of zone 1 to 3 pass. Versailles is in zone 4, CDG is in zone 5. How do you plan to travel from CDG and what other locations in Paris would you be going to? See this for current prices: http://www.ratp.fr/en/ratp/c_21894/paris-visite/

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The Paris Visite is generally a bad deal compared with carnets unless you are sure you will use a lot of the discounts attached. If you are arriving in Paris on Tuesday it may be worth getting a weekly Navigo pass aimed at residents rather than tourists - these require a photo and are only available for a Monday-Sunday calendar week.

The Paris Visite pass is overpriced. There are better choices. Buy a single ticket (€9.25) to get from CDG to the station closest to your hotel using the RER and Metro. Do the same for your return to CDG. Buy single tickets to get from Paris to Versailles and return (€3.25 each way). What is best fo your days in Paris itself depends upon how many rides you plan to average per day. If you plan to walk a lot, then the simplest thing to do is buy ten-ticket carnets (€12.70) as needed. Each ticket will be good anywhere the Metro goes (some lines end in zone 3) and on the RER in zone 1 (all of central Paris)and provides unlimited transfers until you exit the system. Each ticket is good for bus transfers up to 90 minutes after boarding the first bus but not for transfers between the Metro/RER and the bus. Tickets also are good on the Montmartre funiculaire that goes to Sacre-Coeur. The best transportation pass is the weekly zone 1-2 Navigo Semaine which costs €19.15. You load it on a re-useable passe Navigo Decouverte card which costs €5.00 and is good for ten years. You must attach a small photo to the card. Make a color copy of your passport photo, shrunk to about 2"x2". With a ten-ticket carnet, each ride costs €1.27 so 19 rides will cost €24.13. Based on that figure and including €5.00 for the card, a Navigo Semaine will pay for itself after only 15 rides. So what should you do? Either (1) Buy a Navigo Semaine and use it Tuesday-Sunday and buy a carnet for Monday-Tuesday. Or (2) Buy carnets as needed for the entire time you're in Paris.