I will be travelling to Paris in July. What%26#39;s the best way to ride the Metro if I am planning a 3-4 day stay? is there such thing as a day pass or 3 day pass?
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Hopefully, %26quot;Metromole%26quot; will respond (knows everything there is to know). I think the answer is the passes are only for a week. But, you can get the %26quot;carnet de billets%26quot; (pack of 10 tix at a modest discount).
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Yes, there are several options:
- The Paris Visite card is available for 1, 2, 3 or 5 days, and for zones 1-3, 1-5 or 1-8; usually the %26quot;zones 1-3%26quot; version will suffice. A Paris Visite card zones 1-3 for 3 days will cost €18.60
- The Mobilis day ticket; as long as you stay on the Metro in central Paris (zone 1-2), it costs €5.50
- Depending on when you arrive and leave, a %26quot;Carte Orange%26quot; week ticket might be an option (€16 for zones 1-2). The week starts monday morning and ends sunday night, tickets for the current week are sold up to wednesday. You will need a passport photo for it.
If you want to travel to one of the airports, Versailles, etc., you might need a ticket for zones 1-5 or more - check the RER map.
More info on www.ratp.fr - but note that on the English part of that site, cards like the Mobilis ticket are not shown!
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If you know you are going to jump on and off subway all the time in order to put in as much tourist sight as possible, the visit card sounds like a good idea...even then, most of the sights you%26#39;ll probably want to visit will be within short easy distance from one another. Jumping in subway at every opportunities takes away the pleasure of walking in Paris IMHO.
A 10 tickets %26quot;carnet can be bought for 11 E and I can%26#39;t imagine you can use 2 in 3-4 days. You can buy them at the counter...might be a couple of Euro more but it%26#39;s a no hassle solution that works out for most.
Enjoy
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Recently returned from Paris. Purchased the 10 ticket count for a 4 day stay. Used them all. I found it to be the best buy for my needs.
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Thanks Berkeley_travelers but it%26#39;s actually KDKSAIL who has an encyclopedic knowledge of this kind of info. I might be able to help with routing questions but fares and tariffs change all the time and KDK keeps track of them.
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Thanks all of you !
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i would also like to thank you all as my gf and i are going for a 3 day break at witson and were wondering bout getting about also THANK U ALL
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i remember a forum discussion on this where someone calculated that the carte orange was the best deal if you were able to use it for at least 5 of the 7 days. KDKSAIL definitive answer?
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