Paris - Louvre, Orsay and Versailles to Be Open All Days...
 

of the week - for a two-week trial starting in Sept 2015 - currently each one is closed one day of the week - Monday (I believe for the Orsay and Versailles) but Tuesday for the Louvre.

Hopefully this will help out with crowding.... a little bit at least.

They can't do a 2 week trial sooner? What's the point of announcing this a year ahead?

Oops I meant to write two-year-trail not two-week!

2 years! Thanks for alerting me to that faux pas!

Sounds like a good idea to me

That is the plan, but they have not negotiated with the workers' unions yet.

They may be doing it for the revenue. Because crowds seem to fill whatever days are available (you build it, they will come, more or less). So I would suspect one won't notice a difference in crowds (which doesn't really bother me that much in any of those places, when I go). But here in Washington DC a lot of the museums are open every day, so it's certainly doable.

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Now we have a two-year trail? How about the trial?

Now we have a two-year trail? How about the trial?>

It's also two years! Same as the trail!

:)

All three places honor the Paris Museum Pass, on sale at all participating museums, and liberating Mondays and Tuesday for folks using passes will help out with the logistics of how long for and when to buy to buy and use your pass.

Love it!

I had no idea that September is when the biggest number of visitors is in Paris.

Dukey - I have been in Paris in August and Seotember a lot and it sure seems like August has more tourists - I know it is not peak season for hotels because French businessmen are off on holiday at the seaside so I guess it's how you parse tourism or is it visitors, including the briefcase brigades on holiday in August and thus not flocking to Paris as they normally doing, filling up its hotels - maybe September is a pent-up demand for business types to catch up?

But at the main tourist sites IME lines are much longer in August than in September - the Eiffel Tower, Louvre type places that is.