Paris visite
The Paris Visite is a discount travel card aimed mainly at tourists visiting Paris for a few days.
Fares and ticketing
[edit]The pass can be bought for 1, 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days for public transport zones 1-3 or 1-5 (includes airport transport).[1][2][3]
Once purchased, it allows free travel on the Paris Métro, RER and Transilien trains (within the chosen fare zones), Buses (both the RATP bus network, which covers Paris and its near suburbs, and the Optile network, which covers the wider Grande couronne area), Trams, and the Montmartre funicular.[2][3]
Choice of ticket
[edit]Zones 1 to 3 will cover most tourists who intend to spend most time in the city centre. For more out-of-town destinations, a ticket covering the banlieue (English: suburbs) may be better value. These tickets also cover travel on the Roissybus and the Orlyval to and from the two main Paris airports, Paris Orly and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
The local transport authority (STIF) has systematically reduced the number of fare zones, and from mid-July 2011 the STIF combined that with Zone 5.[4][5]
Comparison to Navigo Découverte Weekly Pass
[edit]As of January 2025, the weekly Découverte pass covers the entire Paris area, previously called zones 1-5, including the airports, and costs €31.60. You can put it on your phone or smartwatch, or on a physical card (which has a one-time €5 charge), and which requires you to provide a photo, 25x30 mm approximately. The weekly pass is good from Monday 00:00 through Sunday 23:59 regardless of when you buy or first use it.
The Paris Visite pass can also be loaded into your phone, or put on a Navigo Easy card (€2 one-time card fee). No photo is required, but you must sign the card if you are using one. The two big differences between Paris Visite and Navigo Découverte Weekly Pass is that the Paris Visite is available for 1, 2, 3, or 5 days and can start any day of the week, but is much more expensive -- €44 for two days, for example.
As an alternative, a Navigo Easy card can hold a one-day Navigo Day pass costing €12, or multiple metro/train (€2.50) or bus (€2.00) tickets.
Before 2025, Paris Visite was a paper ticket and provided small discounts at several tourist sites. It is not clear if or how this will be continued now that paper tickets are no longer issued. Most travel sites discourage the use of the Paris Visite pass as other choices are almost always cheaper.
References
[edit]- ^ "Paris at your fingertips". Hello Paris. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ a b "Paris Visite travel pass". RATP. RATP. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Paris Visite - Transport Ticket". Paris je t'aime. Paris tourism office. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Ile-de-France : la zone 6 disparaît sur le Pass Navigo" [Ile-de-France: zone 6 will disappear from the Navigo pass] (in French). Le Parisien. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^ "Conseil du 8 décembre 2010, Budget 2011, Fusion des zones Navigo 5 et 6" [Meeting of 8 December 2010, fusion of Navigo zones 5 and 6] (PDF) (Press release) (in French). STIF. 8 December 2010. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
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