Paris metro vs RER cost question
 

Hi all, i know that the metro is 1.7 euro, not exactly sure how much the RER is. My question is if i am in the metro system and bought the metro ticket, am i allowed to take the RER as long as i get off within the city limits? Or do you have to buy a separate ticket just to ride the RER portion?

<<My question is if i am in the metro system and bought the metro ticket, am i allowed to take the RER as long as i get off within the city limits?>>

Yes. No additional ticket is needed.

Pinglee:

Fares on the RER vary according to distance (number of zones) travelled. As long as you remain within city limits (zone 1), you are allowed to take the RER with an ordinary ticket.

Hope this helps

Phil.

hi pinglee,

what Phil says except that a metro ticket can be more than the zone 1 cost, if you are going right out into the sticks.

it is the zone that you are going to [or coming from] that matters, not whether you are on the metro or RER.

With a regular ticket t+ (what people call a métro ticket) you can ride the whole métro network regardless of zones (the métro extends as fas as zone 3). You can also ride the RER within Paris only (zone 1). You can also ride the bus and tram.

A ticket t+ allows transfers between métro and RER so only one ticket per trip no matter how many times you transfer between métro and/or RER lines.

If you need to go outside Paris by RER you'll have to buy a specific RER ticket called 'billet origine-destination' whose price depends on the specific route rather than zone. Two stops within the same zone can be priced differently.

All the responses are correct here. How it works when you switch from the Metro to the RER you will go through turnstiles before entering the portion of the station for the RER and some stations are humongeous.....when you exit the RER even if transferring to another Metro line again you insert your ticket to leave RER portion of the station and follow signs for correspondance. You do not need your ticket to exit the metro but be aware there are some checks done by the gendarmes and you can be fined even if you are within the metro if you don't produce a valid ticket (which is why I don't understand when I enter some metro stations and put my ticket through the turnstyle I see a lot of tickets on the ground by either locals or tourists who don't hold onto their tickets.

well, it isn't correct to say regular metro ticket costs more if you go to a far point. The metro costs the same no matter where you go and the zone is irrelevant. It only matters on the RER.

The metro costs the same no matter where you go and the zone is irrelevant. It only matters on the RER.>>

I confess I didn't know that. thanks for putting me straight, and apologies for posting the wrong information.

<i>The metro costs the same no matter where you go and the zone is irrelevant. It only matters on the RER</i>

Which is why one uses the métro to go to La Défense, unless one is in a hurry.