ParisByTrain.com

[CDGBound]

Great site! Very clear and thorough.

One question about Navigo Decouverte cards . . can they be purchased at CDG Terminal 2? Is there a photobooth there as well?

Cheers,
Steve.

[ben]

Hi Steve,

Navigo Découverte pass cards are available at CDG RER train station ticket counters. If you're very unlucky, they might run out of the plastic radio frequency Navigo cards, thus you'd have to buy one when you get into Paris and simply use a regular Billet Ile-de-France to get from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Paris.

Do check out the photo tour of CDG Terminal 2 to Paris and make sure you go to the correct ticket counters for buying your Navigo Découverte pass.

Some friends recently had a ticket seller hassle them about the Navigo Découverte being for France residents only and that visitors should buy the Carte Paris Visite. This is nonsense.

If you want to prove to the ticket seller than you have a right to purchase the Navigo Découverte, download, print, and bring with you the Guide Navigo from STIF (the parent organization of all public transport services in the Ile-de-France region).

I've translated the parts which are interesting in the Guide Navigo on the Navigo Découverte Carte Orange page.

There is an automated photo booth at the CDG Terminal 2 train station. 4€ for 4 photos. The ticket sellers often have scissors handy for trimming photos. If you can bring your own photo (of whatever quality, it really doesn't matter), that avoids any hassles with a possibly broken photobooth or having euro coins handy.

Best regards,

Ben

[CDGbound]

Thanks, Ben - this is of tremendous help. I downloaded the details you provided via the link, just in case I encounter a stubborn clerk . . it's happened to me before in other countries!