I just had a quick question about getting carnets...doing my research it seems that going the carnet route would be most economical for us. we will be 4 adults with one child under 2 travelling and will be in paris for 6 days 5 nights. I didnt want to buy a weekly pass since we wont be there for a whole week and we will also be arriving on a saturday.
In terms of the carnets, i read on some website (i forget which one at the moment) that they are only valid between 2 specific stations.. and for some reason i feel that that is misinformation.. and that it is indeed valid between any 2 stations within 2 zones? (is that correct or would they have to be bought for travel within 2 specific stations?) Thanks so much =D
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You can use your metro tickets (10 of which makeup a carnet) to travel anywhere within the zone that you have purchased. For most tourists a Zone 1 %26amp; 2 is all you need. You can use the ticket to enter the station and then ride anywhere the line goes, and even make transfers if you need to.
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you get a stack of 10 from a machine and can use them to go anywhere in Paris -- they are not specific -- and the zones covered include all 20 arrondisement
once into the system you can connect with other trains to get literally anywhere within the zones 1 and 2 (i.e. all of Paris)
Be sure to hang onto your ticket until you are out the exit -- as occasionally you have to produce it (We have average one such request in about 50 rides -- but the consequences if you dn%26#39;t have the ticket are expensive)
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.... but if you go through any exits out of the subway or RER system, that ticket is %26#39;complet%26#39; (done).
If you find you are riding 5 times/day, you can buy the Mobilis %26#39;day%26#39; ticket for 5.80€ (unlimited rides within zones 1-2).
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Also keep in mind that when you happen enter the metro system (which can be at any station in zones 1%26amp;2) and you happen to hop onto an RER train for a part of the leg, keep the ticket you used initially since it will be required to exist the RER section of the transit. If you don%26#39;t keep that ticket and re-use it to get out of the RER section you will have to use a new ticket. This can get expensive.
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thanks for the tips.. sounds somewhat reminiscent of the tokyo subway/metro system :p however, how do transfers onto, lets say a bus, from the metro or RER work? do u have to go to some machine or a teller to get a special transfer ticket? because i imagine you would have to exit the station to transfer onto a bus thanks again =D
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Need to use a new ticket for the bus :( No way to obtain a transfer from metro/RER to bus system.
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bummer :\ but thanks!
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Be sure to keep the carnet tickets away from anything magnetic, such as key cards: they can be de-magnetized and made useless. I found out the hard way, but the lady at the metro booth kindly gave me new tickets for the ones I had de-magnetized.
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Some of the information above is incorrect. The reason for this is that the zones and the tickets have changed (since July 1st, 2007!).
Firstly: the normal %26quot;ticket t+%26quot; carnet tickets are ONLY FOR ZONE 1 (they used to be for zones 1-2, but not any more). This is only relevant on the RER - the tickets still are valid on the entire metro network, as before (even where the metro network stretches into zone 2 or even 3).
Secondly: There are no longer any tickets for, for example, zone 1-3 or 1-4. You buy either a ticket t+ if you want to travel in zone 1, or a %26quot;Billet Île-de-France%26quot; if you need to travel outside of Paris (it is sometimes also called a %26quot;Billet origine-destination%26quot;). This is a ticket to a specific destination, NOT a zone or zones.
Thirdly: You can buy %26quot;a carnet%26quot; of either %26quot;tickets t+%26quot;, or %26quot;billets Île-de-France%26quot; - it simply means ten tickets at a reduced price.
If you just ask for %26quot;un carnet%26quot; at the counter, you will get ten %26quot;tickets t+%26quot; (€11.40). But you can also buy %26quot;un carnet Paris-Versailles rive gauche%26quot;, for example; ten tickets to/from station Versailles rive gauche (one ticket would cost €2.90, a carnet is €23.20). You cannot use these tickets to go to destinations on other lines in zone 2, 3 or 4.
Of course you can still buy day/week/month passes for travel in a specified number of zones.
www.ratp.fr
www.transport-idf.fr
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We just stayed in Paris a month. We bought carnets for 11.40 Euros. We sometimes used the tickets to go just on the metro and sometimes started on the metro and switched to RER without exiting the system (i.e., on the same ticket). Sometimes we took the metro to several stops outside Paris. Sometimes we took the RER (after switching from the metro on the same ticket) to several stops outside Paris. Did we do something %26quot;wrong%26quot;? Once you%26#39;re in the system having used a ticket, I don%26#39;t see how you are supposed to know you are only supposed to go a certain distance.
