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[marie67]

Hi Ben,

we will travel to Paris with our 3 kids: 7, 10 and 12 years old. We will stay 5 days. We are not sure if the "Paris visite pass" is really the cheapest option for us. We would like to travel 1 day to Eurodisney and 1 day to Versailles, but the other 3 days we will stay in the city. What do you think?

Thank you for your help

Marie, Israel

[ben]

Hi Marie,

For the two trips outside of the city: Versailles, Euro Disney, it would make sense to buy aller-rétour (round trip, i.e. two one way tickets) Billet Ile-de-France tickets for those trips and use a 3 zone 3 day Paris Visite within Paris for the rest of the time. (As opposed to a 6 zone 5 day Paris Visite, priced at 48,40€/adult, 24,20€/child.) This would save you roughly 20€/adult, 10€/child, or 70€ if you consider your party as 2 adults and 3 children (note that RATP considers children 12 and older "adults" in terms of fares).

The downside is having to manage a bunch of single tickets, which ones are which, which ones are used, which ones are unused.

If you decide to go with the mix of Billet Ile-de-France et the Paris Visite, it should be pretty easy to do so at any ticket window or at the CDG ticket office: Versailles & Euro Disney are very popular destinations. Note that you can buy these tickets (including the Paris Visite) all in advance and use them whenever you like; they don't have to be used on the day of purchase.

Hope this helps,

Ben

[marie67]

Thanks a lot and hallo from Tel Aviv