Travel around Paris

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Heading to Paris 5 days. 2 adults 2 teens . What is the best option for the metro? Is it the Paris visit card for each of us? Don’t seem to be able to tap on and off like in London

We used the metro all the time when we went to Paris for a family holiday in 2022.

I can’t remember how the ticketing worked but it wasn’t difficult.

The bus was more difficult to work out in terms of getting tickets as I remember - I think in the end you paid on the bus with a tap in - but we did use that too.

Just leaving this info for future travellers. With IPhones we all downloaded the iledeFrance (IDF Mobilities) we found the most economical way was to buy single tickets for 2.50 euro which are valid for a single journey taken with a 2hr window once you scan them as you enter the Metro.There's no tap on exit. You can also buy tickets to/from the airport or bus/tram tickets using the same app.

It's really straightforward once you get the hang of it.

We bought Navigo passes. Readily available - a bit like the old carnet as 10 journeys are loaded. Worked well .

We bought navigo passes. The journey from CDG airport to Paris was a different price which we bought already on the pass when we arrived at CDG, then we topped up the passes as required at the metro station machines.

Buy Navigo passes. You can buy them on Eurostar or at stations with a couple of journeys pre-loaded. It’s something like £2.50 per journey and you top them up using the app (it’s quite clever, you just hold the cardboard card against your phone when the app tells you to and it loads the journeys on). Then you tap through the gates with them just as you would with your bank card in London. You don’t have to tap out in Paris, only in.

We’re just back from Paris at half term. Just go to a ticket machine at any metro station and you can purchase a Navigo ticket. You need one per person. Costs 2euros. Can then load up with single tickets with each journey you take. Ticket machines have English options. Dead simple.

I think we preloaded a number of journeys so it just worked every time like an Oyster.