Huge adjustments are coming to the Paris public transport ticketing system in January 2025, significantly for infrequent customers and guests. Find out how the brand new simplified ticketing system and fare changes will have an effect on you, and ideas on the right way to plan your journey accordingly.
Two New Flat-Fee Tickets
Beginning January 2nd, there might be two flat fee tickets for your complete Ile-de-France: €2.50 for metro/RER and €2 for bus/tram (or €2.50 if bought onboard the bus). This replaces the present price-by-zone charges that charged extra for RER journeys outdoors town (for instance, to Versailles or Disneyland). Which means tickets will price extra for these touring inside Paris, however much less for these touring to or from the encircling suburbs, and extra for the metro and RER, however much less for the bus and tram.
Whereas the completely different costs between these transport programs are are new, nothing has modified for connections between them: for those who change from the metro to a bus, or RER to the tram, you’ll nonetheless want two tickets as you do right now. The one distinction is that now you must be sure you have two completely different sorts of tickets, which I discover extra troublesome than the small value distinction.
Au Revoir to Le Carnet
One other enormous change: the top of the “carnet” of 10 tickets, which has all the time price 20% lower than shopping for tickets separately. These had been nice for infrequent customers and guests who may top off on discounted tickets bought in a pack of ten, with none restrict on once they may very well be used. The paper carnets had been already discontinued a couple of years in the past, and beginning January 2nd, will not be accessible on the Navigo Simple passes both.
What in regards to the paper tickets I at present have?
You need to use any leftover paper tickets till December 31st, 2025, then you have to to make use of a refillable go (such because the Navigo Simple) or an app in your smartphone to buy particular person tickets on the full value.
Navigo Liberté+: The Solely Possibility for Discounted Tickets
Beginning in January, the ONLY solution to get discounted tickets with out subscribing to an annual or month-to-month go is thru the Navigo Liberté+ Cross, which might be accessible for journey throughout the total community (at present it’s only accessible inside Paris). These with a Navigo Liberté+ card will solely pay €1.99 for metro/RER fares, and €1.60 for bus/tram fares. Along with the discounted fares, they get free connections between all transport varieties (metro to bus, RER to tram, and so forth).
What’s a Navigo Liberté+?
It is a free pay-as-you-go go that robotically costs your financial institution on the finish of the month relying on what number of journeys you’ve made, with a most value of €12/day (equal to a day go). You pay nothing prematurely, so for those who don’t use it, you’re not charged in any respect. I’ve been utilizing this for 2 years now, and it’s amazingly handy. I’d advocate all Paris residents or frequent guests to get one. The one catch? Meant for residents, not guests, the go requires you to enroll with a checking account that accepts SEPA funds, that are often solely accessible via European banks (I’ve learn that Smart accounts are SEPA-compliant). Which means you most likely received’t be capable of subscribe in case your solely financial institution accounts are within the US, Canada, or Australia (if anybody has efficiently completed this, let me know!)
Beside the worth low cost on public transport tickets, the Navigo Liberté+ — identical to the month-to-month and annual Navigo passes — additionally offers you free entrance to the general public bogs within the Paris practice stations (you simply want to point out your go to an attendant), and reductions on cultural venues together with sure museums, cinemas, theatre, and concert events all through France. Discover the entire advantages right here.
Presently, the Navigo Liberté+ is barely accessible on a card together with your image on it, however beginning in Spring 2025 will probably be accessible in your smartphone (My first thought: what if my telephone battery dies? Can I nonetheless use the cardboard as backup or do I’ve to decide on one?)
Day Cross: Navigo Jour
The brand new flat fee for the Navigo Jour limitless day go might be €12 (this does NOT embrace the airports). This is a little more than the present fee of €8.30 to make use of inside Paris, however a lot lower than the present €20.60 for all 5 zones (for instance, a day journey out to Château Fontainebleau and again).
Flat Charge for Each Airports
The present value of €10.30 for Orly and €16.60 for Roissy-CDG will change to €13 for everybody, whether or not you’re taking the RER, metro 14n or the bus (Roissy Bus and Orly Bus).
Vacationers Will Pay the Most
Then again, vacationers are going to really feel the burn. Not solely are the carnet reductions disappearing, the worth for the Paris Go to Cross might be a lot increased: €29.90 for sooner or later (this contains airport entry). The present value is €13.95 inside Paris and €29.25 for all 5 zones, so it’s merely shifting to the five-zone pricing for everybody, with barely digressive charges for passes as much as 5 days (at present €76.25 for 5 zones, though no point out of what will probably be in 2025). There are different “advantages” that include the Paris Go to Cross, tiny reductions on entrance to the wax museum, Invalides, the Pantheon, Montparnasse Tower, and Toot Bus excursions, and so forth.
I believe you’d nonetheless must do the maths to see if that is actually a very good deal, as a result of why would you purchase the Paris Go to for sooner or later at €29.90 only for the airport entry when you will get the Navigo Jour day go (€12) plus the airport ticket (€13) for simply €25? I wouldn’t purchase the five-day Paris Go to go for €76.25 when 5 Navigo Jour passes would simply price €60, except I used to be together with my airport journey inside these 5 days. The opposite draw back is that the Paris Go to Cross is for consecutive days, which wouldn’t be value it for those who knew you’d be strolling loads sooner or later or solely want one spherical journey (which might be €5 with two common tickets). Generally, when you’ve got the price range, it’s rather more handy to get the Paris Go to Cross so that you simply don’t have to fret about it. However you possibly can positively lower your expenses for those who’re a very good planner and like strolling.
What In regards to the Navigo Découverte Weekly Cross?
If it’s nonetheless attainable to load an infinite week or month go on the Navigo Découverte, then that can doubtless be a greater deal for guests who don’t need a subscription tied to their checking account. I’ve been instructed by the brokers on the metro kiosk close to me that this may nonetheless be accessible, however the brand new 2025 charges haven’t been introduced but.
Why the Adjustments?
Eradicating the price-by-zone system has been within the playing cards for over a decade as a part of wider reforms that promote environmental sustainability, equity, and ease:
- To take away the “zone” system that separated Paris from the encircling suburbs, with one value for everybody. That is necessary in preparations for the Grand Paris Categorical at present being constructed.
- To encourage suburbanites to go away their vehicles at residence and use public transport (they at present pay as much as €10 for infrequent journeys into Paris, which will get dear for households coming to city for the day), thus slicing down on air pollution and congested streets.
- To simplify what has been a really advanced and complicated ticketing system (over 50,000 completely different charges relying on which cities you had been touring between).
The silver lining? Maybe it is going to encourage extra vacationers – and Parisians! – to go to the various fantastic sights outdoors of Paris that appeared inaccessible earlier than.
Numerous Questions!
Whereas ready for January to roll round, there are nonetheless a number of questions I’ve:
- It appears that evidently now you have to to load induvial tickets onto a Navigo Simple Cross. I do not know how this may work for the 2 completely different charges for metro/RER and bus/tram. Will that you must load each as completely different tickets? How will you know the way many you have got left of every?
- Which ticket does one use on the Funicular?
- What is going to the worth be on the weekly Navigo go?
- What is going to the two, 3, 4 and 5-day Paris Go to Passes price?
Barring extra readability on the RATP or Ile de France Mobilités web sites, I’ll check all the pieces on January 2nd and report again! Within the meantime, you could find the present charges and tickets — good via January 1st 2025 — by clicking right here.