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Apr 16, 2019, 3:42 pm

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Originally Posted by Landing Gear

Thanks to you and Tamino for your boots on the ground experience and everyone else for their help. I did not use an ATM at all while in Paris. I had brought a few (under 300) Euros with me and that was more than enough. My travel partner used one from BNP and it worked fine.

While in the Metro I tried to use a vending machine to buy a bottle of water. The only cards acceptable were the RFID-enabled ones. The only such card I had was my AMEX and it was refused (some message about not possible to gérer the card). I did not see any way to swipe or insert a card.

My attempts to use electronic kiosks to buy Metro tickets with my chip US Amex (chip but not chip+PIN) in Paris were met by failure, but the same Amex cards work fine to buy Metro tickets/passes at staffed counters at CDG, on a level down below the Sheraton CDG that sell a variety of tickets/passes.

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