Stephanie

I'm about 16 days from my trip and I was wondering if I should buy these on the internet and have them with me when I arrive. I know I can get the carte orange at the train station and the carte musee at a smal museum. Is it worth it paying the extra $15 service charge and Airborne Express? Please help. Also could anyone tell me in which small museum I can get my pass without unexpected lines?
Thank you

Al

At the Louvre metro stop on the Rue de Rivoli you can buy your museum pass and charge it to your VISA card. We know because we did so in September. Same with a Carte Orange. Paying a $15 fee is just plain robbery.

elaine

www.intermusees.com/
The intermusees web site provides a list of museums included in the pass, and all the places that are included are places where you can buy it. However, even at the Orsay, you can buy it in the bookstore and still avoid the long ticket-buyers' line. You can also buy one at major metro stations, at the Tourist Information Bureau (Carrousel du Louvre, at the National Tourist Bureau: 127 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris (open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.). at railway stations: Information-Tourist Bureau located in te Montparnasse, Nord, Est, Lyon, and Austerlitz stations.
Many hotels also offer them for sale to their guests, with no mark-up, at their front desks.

Christina

NO! why would you do such a thing, it makes no sense.

Gina

Agree with all the previous posters--why waste some of the money you save buying the card on an Internet processing fee? We got ours at the first site we visited that was included on the card--St. Chapelle, our first afternoon in Paris. (And on a beautiful, sunny Saturday in late September, the line was quite short.)

Shanette

The tourist office at CDG airport. You can purchase the Paris Visite and the Paris Museum Pass. Very convenient.and the same prices:

Paris Museum Pass 5 days 240Frf
Paris Visite 240Frf

kathryn

Consider carefully whether you will visit enough museums to make the pass worthwhile. We are just back from Paris and bought 5-day museum passes (purchased easily, at a metro station)for 240FF. We ended up visiting 4-5 museums in that period of time. The individual admissions would have been around 120-150FF. If we had thought it completely through in advance, we would not have bought the passes. We liked to alternate the museums with outdoor sites and found that one museum per day was plenty!

Kathryn

Patty

Kathryn, Was not the extra 100FF worth not waiting in line? Patty

kathryn

Patty, it was our experience that the lines were just not very long this time of the year. At St. Chapelle we tried to get out of the line, but it turned out that the approximately 10 minute wait was to go through the security checkpoint and the museum pass didn't help with that. Actually, 100FF isn't that big of a deal; we were just surprised when we realized that we hadn't saved as much as we thought we would have by buying the pass!

Kathryn

Harvey

You can only buy a carte orange coupon vert (weekly) on Monday. The museum pass is a good deal. If anyone has had any success buying a weekly carte orange on any day but Monday, I'd like to know where. Many museums are free on the first Sunday of the month so a museum pass is waisted on those days.

Patty

Harvey,
I, too, am interested if I can buy the "la Carte Orange" on a Tuesday (my day of arrival) with the knowledge that it would expire on Sunday.
Patty