Paris Metro: Options?
Feb 23, 2011, 2:35 pm
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Paris Metro: Options?
Hello,
We will be arriving on Friday, and leaving 10 days later on a Monday. We plan to purchase the Navigo ticket for the full week starting on the first Monday.
However, what is the most efficient way to have access to metro and train for the 3 days prior, and for the trip back to the airport?
What zones should we purchase on the Navigo card? Should we plan to use it for Versailles or just buy an additional ticket that day?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Lisbon
We will be arriving on Friday, and leaving 10 days later on a Monday. We plan to purchase the Navigo ticket for the full week starting on the first Monday.
However, what is the most efficient way to have access to metro and train for the 3 days prior, and for the trip back to the airport?
What zones should we purchase on the Navigo card? Should we plan to use it for Versailles or just buy an additional ticket that day?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Lisbon
Feb 24, 2011, 12:35 am
#3
Join Date: Jul 2007
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I would agree with the above poster: just get Zones 1-2 for your Navigo during the week and buy tickets in a carnet for before the week and use-specific tickets for Versailles and the airport.
Note that you should load up your Navigo before the week starts (5 am Monday morning), as the machines won't offer you the option to buy the week in progress; they only offer the coming week. Otherwise, the sales booths (which are thinning out) would be able to sell you the week in progress (unless this has changed in the last few months).
Note that you should load up your Navigo before the week starts (5 am Monday morning), as the machines won't offer you the option to buy the week in progress; they only offer the coming week. Otherwise, the sales booths (which are thinning out) would be able to sell you the week in progress (unless this has changed in the last few months).
Feb 24, 2011, 10:22 pm
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Dont forget about the bus routes either. They're a great complement to the metro, seems like the routes were designed to serve in that function.
Feb 25, 2011, 1:18 am
#6
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Paris Visite tacks on a bit more to what you would otherwise pay for the Navigo so that you have reductions on some tourist services in the city. I and many others don't find the reductions to be valuable, and recommend the Navigo+one-ways instead.
Mar 1, 2011, 3:13 pm
#7
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Note that you should load up your Navigo before the week starts (5 am Monday morning), as the machines won't offer you the option to buy the week in progress; they only offer the coming week. Otherwise, the sales booths (which are thinning out) would be able to sell you the week in progress (unless this has changed in the last few months).
For the OP, be SURE to bring a photo of yourself (or have your hotel xerox your passport photo), insert it into the NaviGo and sign it. My husband and I were fined 25 Euro each for not having a photo and signature on our passes. (That was a cold thing for the Metro police to do - where were they the day before when my husband was pickpocketed on the Metro?)
Mar 2, 2011, 4:59 am
#8
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Denver CO
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I would agree with the above poster: just get Zones 1-2 for your Navigo during the week and buy tickets in a carnet for before the week and use-specific tickets for Versailles and the airport.
Note that you should load up your Navigo before the week starts (5 am Monday morning), as the machines won't offer you the option to buy the week in progress; they only offer the coming week. Otherwise, the sales booths (which are thinning out) would be able to sell you the week in progress (unless this has changed in the last few months).
Note that you should load up your Navigo before the week starts (5 am Monday morning), as the machines won't offer you the option to buy the week in progress; they only offer the coming week. Otherwise, the sales booths (which are thinning out) would be able to sell you the week in progress (unless this has changed in the last few months).
The advice to buy ahead is good noentheless as the ticket booths are often crowded on Monday mornings since the weekly passes expire on Sunday night and many need new ones.
Mar 2, 2011, 8:46 am
#9
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Thanks for the data point.
Mar 2, 2011, 12:22 pm
#10
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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NaviGO
Hi,
Thanks for all the great advice.
I have my NaviGo card from last October. From the postings, it seems that there are machines to recharge the card? Are they in all the RER stations?
My daughter does not have a card, do we have to use a "manned booth" to get her one?
And if so, can she get one at the Denfert Rochereau station?
And another question: We are staying near the Denfert Rochereau station, what zone is that?
And to get to CDG from Denfert Rocherau, how many zones should we have on the NaviGO card?
Again, thanks for all the great advice!!
Thanks for all the great advice.
I have my NaviGo card from last October. From the postings, it seems that there are machines to recharge the card? Are they in all the RER stations?
My daughter does not have a card, do we have to use a "manned booth" to get her one?
And if so, can she get one at the Denfert Rochereau station?
And another question: We are staying near the Denfert Rochereau station, what zone is that?
And to get to CDG from Denfert Rocherau, how many zones should we have on the NaviGO card?
Again, thanks for all the great advice!!
Mar 2, 2011, 12:46 pm
#11
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DCA
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I have my NaviGo card from last October. From the postings, it seems that there are machines to recharge the card? Are they in all the RER stations?
My daughter does not have a card, do we have to use a "manned booth" to get her one?
And if so, can she get one at the Denfert Rochereau station?
And another question: We are staying near the Denfert Rochereau station, what zone is that?
And to get to CDG from Denfert Rocherau, how many zones should we have on the NaviGO card?
My daughter does not have a card, do we have to use a "manned booth" to get her one?
And if so, can she get one at the Denfert Rochereau station?
And another question: We are staying near the Denfert Rochereau station, what zone is that?
And to get to CDG from Denfert Rocherau, how many zones should we have on the NaviGO card?
Your daughter can purchase a Navigo Dcouverte at the manned booths at Denfert-Rochereau, which, like all stations in the city of Paris, is in zone 1.
Finally, Navigo passes are not valid for the "tarification spciale" (special rate) destinations of the airports. So you'll need to buy one-way tickets from CDG to Paris zone 1 (8.70) and then load your Navigo with the zones you'll be traversing during the rest of your stay.
Peace.
Mar 2, 2011, 1:06 pm
#12
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Finally, Navigo passes are not valid for the "tarification spciale" (special rate) destinations of the airports. So you'll need to buy one-way tickets from CDG to Paris zone 1 (8.70) and then load your Navigo with the zones you'll be traversing during the rest of your stay.
Navigo is indeed valid for RER and bus transport to the airports (except for the Orlyval) but needs to be charged with at least zones 1-5 for CDG or zones 1-4 for Orly.
Mar 2, 2011, 1:12 pm
#13
Join Date: Jan 2002
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La vente des forfaits mois est ouverte ds le 20 du mois prcdent le mois de validit, jusqu'au 19 du mois de validit. Celle des forfaits semaine est ouverte du vendredi prcdant la semaine de validit, jusqu'au jeudi inclus de la semaine de validit.
Mar 2, 2011, 1:18 pm
#14
Join Date: Jul 2007
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I believe you're thinking of the Mobilis day pass, which is not valid for transit to and from the airports.
Navigo is indeed valid for RER and bus transport to the airports (except for the Orlyval) but needs to be charged with at least zones 1-5 for CDG or zones 1-4 for Orly.
Navigo is indeed valid for RER and bus transport to the airports (except for the Orlyval) but needs to be charged with at least zones 1-5 for CDG or zones 1-4 for Orly.
Also, apparently Navigo Semaine (weekly) is available until the Thursday of the current week.
I'll stop contributing to this thread lest I confuse the OP even more
Mar 3, 2011, 8:08 am
#15
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Location: Denver CO
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I believe you're thinking of the Mobilis day pass, which is not valid for transit to and from the airports.
Navigo is indeed valid for RER and bus transport to the airports (except for the Orlyval) but needs to be charged with at least zones 1-5 for CDG or zones 1-4 for Orly.
Navigo is indeed valid for RER and bus transport to the airports (except for the Orlyval) but needs to be charged with at least zones 1-5 for CDG or zones 1-4 for Orly.