My husband and I will be getting a museum pass and my daughter is 17 so my question is can she just bypass the lines with us and show her passport for free entry? In the museums where she would get a reduced rate would she then have to wait in lines to pay?

Marilayne:

Where?????

Despite location she will still need to que with others who have to show their pass or membership etc.

Reduced rate...same thing. She will have to wait to be processed where an admittance stamp or sticker is required.

Happy Travels
Oaktown Traveler

Marilayne-

If you're asking about the Paris Museum Pass, here is a recent thread and should answer your question:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34467635

A student ID can make a difference for many kinds of admissions, regardless of age. Remember to take one, no matter where she goes to school. Ideally with a picture on it.

Best wishes,

Rex

I think everyone here is assuming you are talking about Paris, if not set us straight. If you do mean Paris - the first time I went my daughter was 17. There are essentially two "lines" at the museum. One is the ticket line, this is the really long one that you bypass with a museum pass. Then there's the place where you show your ticket/museum pass/or in her case proof of age. This is just as you enter the interior of the musuem (not the ticket area - in the case of the Louvre we are talking about the area under the pyramid). So the answer is you won't have to wait for her to go through a long line that you would have bypassed with your pass. I had the same concern but it was easy.

Yes it is Paris we're traveling to.
Thanks for the responses ,this makes it very clear.