Huge modifications are coming to the Paris public transport ticketing system in January 2025, notably for infrequent customers and guests. Find out how the brand new simplified ticketing system and fare changes will have an effect on you, and strategies on find out how to plan your journey accordingly.
Two New Flat-Price Tickets
Beginning January 2nd, there will probably be two flat fee tickets for your entire 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 exterior 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 encompassing suburbs, and extra for the metro and RER, however much less for the bus and tram.
Whereas the totally different costs between these transport techniques are are new, nothing has modified for connections between them: in case you change from the metro to a bus, or RER to the tram, you’ll nonetheless want two tickets as you do at the moment. The one distinction is that now you need to be sure to have two totally different varieties of tickets, which I discover extra troublesome than the small worth distinction.
Au Revoir to Le Carnet
One other big change: the tip of the “carnet” of 10 tickets, which has at all times price 20% lower than shopping for tickets separately. These have been nice for infrequent customers and guests who might refill on discounted tickets bought in a pack of ten, with none restrict on after they might be used. The paper carnets have been already discontinued a number of years in the past, and beginning January 2nd, will now 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 cross (such because the Navigo Simple) or an app in your smartphone to buy particular person tickets on the full worth.
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 cross is thru the Navigo Liberté+ Cross, which will probably be accessible for journey inside the complete community (at present it is just 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 many others).
What’s a Navigo Liberté+?
This can be a free pay-as-you-go cross that robotically prices your financial institution on the finish of the month relying on what number of journeys you’ve made, with a most worth of €12/day (equal to a day cross). You pay nothing prematurely, so in case you 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 suggest all Paris residents or frequent guests to get one. The one catch? Meant for residents, not guests, the cross requires you to enroll with a checking account that accepts SEPA funds, that are often solely accessible by European banks (I’ve learn that Sensible accounts are SEPA-compliant). Which means you in all probability gained’t have the ability to subscribe in case your solely financial institution accounts are within the US, Canada, or Australia (if anybody has efficiently achieved 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 provides you free entrance to the general public bathrooms within the Paris prepare stations (you simply want to indicate your cross 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 just accessible on a card together with your image on it, however beginning in Spring 2025 it is going to be accessible in your smartphone (My first thought: what if my cellphone 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 cross will probably be €12 (this does NOT embody 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 worth 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 will probably be a lot increased: €29.90 for sooner or later (this contains airport entry). The present worth 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 it is going to 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 many others.
I feel you’d nonetheless should do the mathematics to see if that is actually a great 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 may get the Navigo Jour day cross (€12) plus the airport ticket (€13) for simply €25? I wouldn’t purchase the five-day Paris Go to cross 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 price it in case you knew you’d be strolling rather a lot sooner or later or solely want one spherical journey (which might be €5 with two common tickets). On the whole, when you’ve got the funds, it’s far more handy to get the Paris Go to Cross so that you simply don’t have to fret about it. However you may positively get monetary savings in case you’re a great planner and like strolling.
What In regards to the Navigo Découverte Weekly Cross?
If it’s nonetheless attainable to load a limiteless week or month cross on the Navigo Découverte, then that may seemingly be a greater deal for guests who don’t desire a subscription tied to their checking account. I’ve been instructed by the brokers on the metro kiosk close to me that it will nonetheless be accessible, however the brand new 2025 charges haven’t been introduced but.
Why the Modifications?
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 encompassing suburbs, with one worth for everybody. That is essential in preparations for the Grand Paris Categorical at present being constructed.
- To encourage suburbanites to go away their vehicles at house and use public transport (they at present pay as much as €10 for infrequent journeys into Paris, which will get expensive for households coming to city for the day), thus slicing down on air pollution and congested streets.
- To simplify what has been a really complicated and complicated ticketing system (over 50,000 totally different charges relying on which cities you have been touring between).
The silver lining? Maybe it’ll encourage extra vacationers – and Parisians! – to go to the numerous fantastic sights exterior of Paris that appeared inaccessible earlier than.
Numerous Questions!
Whereas ready for January to roll round, there are nonetheless plenty of questions I’ve:
- Evidently now you have to to load induvial tickets onto a Navigo Simple Cross. I do not know how it will work for the 2 totally different charges for metro/RER and bus/tram. Will it’s essential to load each as totally different tickets? How will you understand how 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 cross?
- What is going to the two, 3, 4 and 5-day Paris Go to Passes price?
Barring further readability on the RATP or Ile de France Mobilités web sites, I’ll check every part on January 2nd and report again! Within the meantime, yow will discover the present charges and tickets — good by January 1st 2025 — by clicking right here.