Originally Posted by
OverThereTooMuch
Interesting to hear that you still feel you get value out of the museum pass, even after 5 years of trips!
As far as the Paris Visite pass, by my math, a person would have to take 25 trips on the Metro in 5 days to "break even" (and that's assuming you don't pay to have it shipped to you, in which case it would take even more trips). There are a few additional discounts offered by the pass, but many wouldn't matter if you also had the museum pass. Is there some other benefit from getting this pass?
It seems a five day pass is around 35€, which amounts to 20 individual ride tickets at 1.70 €. If you use the buses, which more people should, you can burn through a lot of individual tickets.
The savings aren't huge but I think someone getting benefit fom the Musuem Pass would do enough running around to also benefit fom some form of transportation pass too.
Again, the key is to plan ahead.