How do you cut in line with the Paris Museum Pass?
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How do you cut in line with the Paris Museum Pass?
For those places which do not offer a special entrance like the Louvre, how do you use your card to cut in line? If there are lines for security, do you cut in front for those? Do you just squeeze past people saying "Pardon moi" when you cut at places without a special entrance like the Notre Dame Towers, Pompidou, etc.? What do you do?
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You do not get to skip to the front of the security line. What you do is scope out the lines. Do not get in the one for the ticket booth. Get in the security line and wait your turn.
At a lot of places you just have to stand in line. All the pass does is skip the ticket purchase line which at the major museums can be quite long.
At a lot of places you just have to stand in line. All the pass does is skip the ticket purchase line which at the major museums can be quite long.
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At the Louvre, don't use the main entrance at the glass pyramid. Regardless of whether you have a pass or not, you can go in through the underground entrance at the Carrousel arch in La Tuilerie, or at the side entrance off Rue de Rivoli. You still have to wait to go through security but the wait is not long.
At the Musee D'Orsay, the guard will let you cut in front, but its a little less obnoxious to the line-waiters if you go through the gift shop (to the left of the entrance). There is a museum entrance there, you can go through with the pass.
In some places we realized the line was at the ticket window, and we could walk beside it to get to the entrance, this was true at Ste Chappelle and the Conciergerie.
The line at Notre Dame moved really quickly. There didn't seem to be a way to avoid it.
At the Musee D'Orsay, the guard will let you cut in front, but its a little less obnoxious to the line-waiters if you go through the gift shop (to the left of the entrance). There is a museum entrance there, you can go through with the pass.
In some places we realized the line was at the ticket window, and we could walk beside it to get to the entrance, this was true at Ste Chappelle and the Conciergerie.
The line at Notre Dame moved really quickly. There didn't seem to be a way to avoid it.