Paris Pass
One of the things I really wanted to get was the Paris Pass. The Paris pass would give you access to all Museums, Paris attractions such as River boat on the Seine, free public transportation within Paris, which includes Metro, RER and buses. Picking this up also gave us one day on the Big Bus, which is a double decker, open top, hop on/hop off style bus. These buses visit all the main attractions and museums.
The Paris pass is offered in variations from 2, 4, 3 or 6 days. Obviously price increases with more days.
* Once you scan your pass, the pass is active consecutively. If you have a 2 day pass, the day you activate it, the next day it has be used too.
With that said, have your itinerary and spots down so it doesn’t go to waste.
We got our Passes at Costco. It was $230 for each pass and covered 3 days of attractions (with fast track) and 2 day travel card (public transportation). The travel card isn’t enough IMO.
Seeing as many attractions are about $15-20, it just depends on what you want to use it for.
The Louvre and Musee D’ Orsay, and Arc de Triomphe we were able to bypass lines, which was great.
Palace of Versailles didn’t work out. I asked one of the staff members there and she said to get in line… and that line was long and zig zagging!
In all honestly, I didn’t maximize it as much as I wanted, but I did feel it was worth it not standing in those long lines.
We had an E-voucher from Costco, which we brought to Paris Big Bus office and picked up our Paris Passes.
