Transport in Paris – the most detailed information about the city transport of the capital of France: Paris metro, buses, electric trains Rer , trams, tickets and maps.
Contents
Content:
- Tickets available in the French capital
- Subway
- City transport (buses (including excursion), electric trains Rer , trams, bicycles and water transfer)
- Transportation that travels from Paris to others cities
- Maps of cities, driving directions, useful information (in links)
Probably every tourist who is in Europe, and even more so in Paris is thinking about ways to move around the city and its surroundings. Paris is not just a city, it’s a dream for a traveler (“a holiday that is always with you”), because there are a lot of attractions (buildings and facilities, galleries and museums, libraries and places of historical events) magnificent France. AT the capital is well organized large and very convenient network public transport, which includes buses, subways, taxi, tram, and even river transport. By the way, recently in the city it has become quite popular to ride bike ride.
Tickets available in Paris
A ticket, that is, a document implying the holder’s right to travel in transport. In France, you can buy tickets at metro, tourist information office, airport, RER or “réseau express régional d’Île-de-France” (train network).
Tiket T +
A ticket, used once, costs 1, 90 euros, if you buy set of “Carnet” of 10 tickets, the price will increase to 14, 50 euros. Girls and boys from 4 to 11 years old ticket will have a value of 7, 25 Euro. This type of document can not be bought from the driver of transport. The document is white with a magnetic strip saturated yellow – brown shade.
Tiket T
This type of ticket can also be used only once, the price 2 euros. On the document there is an inscription “Sans correspondance”, thanks she will have to spend money again when transferring to a new bus. Buy ticket is only available from the driver of the vehicle.
Mobilis
Full day pass. Price depends on which Zone going traveler:
1) The first and second zone costs 7, 30 euros; 2) First, second and the third – 9, 70 euros; 3) First, second, third, fourth – 12 euros; 4) First, second, third, fourth, fifth – 17.30 euros.
The ticket is attached to the card with the name and surname user, the photo is not needed, but sometimes controllers in order to security required to show ID a citizen.
Paris museum pass
A card that allows you to see at least 60 of the most magnificent museums and stunning architectural structures of Paris. Price varies from number of days:
1) For 2 days – 48 euros; 2) For 4 days – 62 euros; 3) for 6 days – 74 euros.
List of attractions in the capital of France:
1) Arch of Triumph; 2) Army Museum; 3) Center Georges Pompidou; 4) National Museum of Asian Art – Guimet; 5) Museum arts and crafts; 6) Showroom “Fashion and textiles “; 7) Exhibition Hall” Advertising “; 
Museum Nissima de Camondo; 9) Museum of Arts and Crafts; 10) Museum on the Quai Branly; 11) The Church of the Atonement; 12) Museum of French cinematography; 13) The town of science and industry “Universins”; 14) Conciergerie; 15) Eugene Delacroix National Museum; 16) Exposition dedicated to urban sewage in Paris; 17) Museum of the Institute for the Study the Arab world; 18) Museum of Art and History of Judaism; 19) Louvre; 20) National Maritime Museum; 21) The town of architecture and cultural the heritage of France; 22) Gustave Moreau Museum; 23) National Museum the Middle Ages; 24) Musical Museum; 25) Exposure of archaeological excavations in the crypt of Notre Dame; 26) Notre Dame de Paris; 27) National Greenhouse; 28) Orsay Art Museum; 29) Palace the discoveries of the “Univers”; 30) Pantheon; 31) Landscape Museum of France; Rodin; 32) Sainte Chapelle.
Paris visit
Card entitling to travel for one, two, three, five days a specific areas:
1) For 1 day – in zones 1- 3 the price for an adult ticket is 11, 65 euros, children 5, 80; in zones 1-5 the price of an adult ticket is 24, 50 euros, per children’s 12, 25; 2) For 2 days – in zones 1-3 the price of an adult ticket 18.95 euros for children 9, 45; in zones 1-5, the price of an adult ticket is 37, 25 euros, for children 18.60; 3) For 3 days – in zones 1-3 adult ticket 25.85 euros, for children 12.90; in zones 1-5 price for adult ticket 52.20 euros for children 26.10; 4) For 5 days – in the zone 1- 3 price for an adult ticket 37.25 euros, for children 18.60; into zones 1-5 the price for an adult ticket is 63.90 euro, for a child ticket 31.95.
When going to the Wax Museum, the card will be discounted. 30% of the total price of 24.50 euros; discount to the Picasso Museum amount to 2 euros; discount when traveling by bus L’Open Tour amount to 6 euros.
Paris Metro and RER
Paris Metro
As you know, the subway is the most convenient and economical way. moving around the city for the tourist traveler. The Paris Metro consists of more than three hundred stations, where daily flow of people exceeds four million people. Parisian metro consists of sixteen branches, which have numbers from 1 to 14, plus 2 more lines, which in turn are branches from routes number 3 and number 7 (duplicated with the addition bis and are considered the shortest branches). Each branch is colored in its own color. On each branch there are stations where the passenger can easily make transfer to another metro line as well as to the suburban train RER. This is written on special boards in the subway and RATP maps. To calculate the time to move the subway from one stations to another, you need to do not very difficult arithmetic: 2 minutes, which mean the travel time between nearby stations, add 5 minutes for each transfer.
In Paris, each line bears its name, consisting of its end stations (for example, Louvre – Rivoli). On guidebooks cities in blue and white are stations and directions, which are included in the line, as well as shows the station where you can change to other branches.
The most profitable is that there is no Metro card to buy. necessary, because everyone who wants them is simply distributed in ticket ticket offices metro and tourism. Each station is present big metro map.
Quite important is the fact that the metro is constantly running, not submitting to holidays and weekends. Work schedule – from 6 am up to ½ 1 night. Every day the time of departure and the first and last trains are different because it depends on the station at which made landing. The length of the route and its time (also the time before the arrival of the next transfer) can be found on electronic scoreboard, which is available above each platform. Line Metro number 14 (as it is often called Meteor) – the newest and fast in Paris.
For the entire transfer of the ticket general, all information about their value. written above. It is worth remembering that going into public transport, It is necessary to keep the ticket until the end of the trip, due to the fact that any stop you may approach the controller. If there is no ticket, then the controller has the right to issue a fine to the passenger.
RER
What is the difference metro and RER?
Metro is a traditional form of transport, where the railway is underground, has many stops, small distances between lines, includes frequent trains, not very clear schedule.
RER (Réseau Express Régional) is a transport system that, in unlike metro, covers most of the city. RERextends its operations to two Paris airports (Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly), Paris Disneyland and Château de Versailles.
In the city center, RER has a couple distant from each other. stops, and because of this, passengers get confused. Total Paris, there are six key transport hubs (stations metro, combined with the stations RER). Use the ticket Metro, Ticket t + is allowed at RER stations, in zone 1 and in the center Paris, which is limited to the “peripheral Boulevard “(Boulevard Periphérique).
RER or “réseau express régional d’Île-de-France”
The network of these electric trains unites remote French suburbs with paris. RER has five branches, referred to as A, B, C, D, E. Information about the stop and intermediate station will be displayed on electron carrier – the scoreboard, which is localized on the platform. Of The very center of the French capital has the opportunity to get to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly on electric trains. Ticket fare has a cost of 1, 80 euros in the city. If the way lies outside of Paris, then you need to buy a ticket valid in within the region of régional d’dele-de-France or have to pay fine. Travel cards may be used for migrations along the RER paths. Metro.
Buses
Paris bus
In Paris, there are 85 routes, which move approximately 2000 buses. Bus traffic starts at six in the morning and ends at eight thirty in the evening, only sunday output. The disadvantage of this type of transport is a huge probability. get stuck in traffic at rush hour of the day. Numeric notation, schedule, route data, traffic patterns and ticket price are shown on bus stops. To stop the bus you need to give sign to the driver. You can get into the salon of transport only through the front the door, which is regulated by pressing the red button located either around the driver or outside. If on the front the glass of transport crossed out the last name of the stop, it means that the bus goes there to the final stop. For oldies and babulechek, pregnant women, children, disabled places are located In front of the bus, others need to give these places. The ticket costs 1, 90 euros per piece. The tickets operate as in the capital of France and in the suburbs. There are exceptions: Balabus, Noctilien and traffic transport routes, which are inherent in the number 221, 297, 299, 350, 351. With a large number of passages it is better to buy set of tickets “Carnet”.
Night transport
There are two special buses that travel to night time Noctilien and Noctambus from one o’clock in the morning to five thirty. For such cars there are eighteen routes by which you can Migrate both in the city and in the suburbs of the region. To guess that this stop for the night bus is necessary consider the sign next to it, if it shows a owl and a moon, it means it. Night transport drivers need to signal so they stopped. The end point on the track will be Châtelet, Avenue Victoria, Canal Saint-Martin. In this form transport single use tickets are not valid, should buy a new ticket from the driver.
Transport for travel between cities
The bus line Eurolines successfully unites Paris with its suburb and all of Europe as a whole. Sending occurs from the station Gallieni of international importance and localized 28, av. Du General de Gaulle 93541 Bagnolet, station Metro Gallieni. For detailed information it is recommended contact the company.
Transport for excursions
One of the best ways for a tourist to get to know a city France, ride on tour buses. Buses usually with two floors painted bright red or deep yellow color.
Bus L’Open Tour
Yellow transport from L’Open Tour
These open-top buses travel four routes, excursions on which do not disregard the works of Paris. Migrate buses of this line at intervals of ten or twenty minutes from April to October, and with an interval of thirty minutes from November till march
Bus bright red from Les Cars Rouges
The path of movement of this transport is one, but not leaving without France’s top spots: tour Eiffel, Champ de Mars, Musee du Louvre, Notre-Dame de Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Opéra de Paris, avenue des Champs-Élysées, Grand Palais, Jardins du Trocadéro, except Montmartre. The route of the bus is a roundabout, having nine stops and taking about two hours of time. Ticket price for adults 29, 70 euros, for children – 14.40 euros. There are two days; If you buy online, there will be a 10% discount. There are adiogids on languages of the world, and even in Russian.
City maps and directions
Grand Tour (easy to know because of the green square on the front glass bus) is considered the longest in length and time on the way route. It departs from the central office of the Open Tour to Rue Auber. The route includes 4 transfers to other lines. traffic and 19 bus route stops.
Montparnasse – Saint-Germain (orange-colored square) – his the route moves through the territory of the Latin Quarter on the left Seine Coast. Bus commits 9 suspensions and 3 transplants.
Montmartre – Grands Boulevards (contains the yellow line) – here guests of Paris can get acquainted with the magnificent lands Montmartre hill.
Bastille – Bercy (Definitive sign – blue square) – the way such a bus passes through the Mare quarter and the Bercy embankment.
Passengers of the bus can land and disembark at any stations where their route lies. They have a distinctive sign – “L’Open Tour” on a red and yellow background. Buses are equipped with audio guides. in various languages (Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Arabic and other speeches).
Ticket price for travel is (2018):
• Adult – 1 day – 33 Euro, 2 days – 37 Euro; • Child – from 4 to 11 years old – 17 Euro (the cost is unchanged for 1 and 2 days), up to 4 years is free.
It is possible to buy a ticket at the L’Open Tour office (address: 13 rue Auber, 75009, Paris, number: +33,142,665,656), driver’s route, Bureau of Tourism Agencies or online at L’Open Tour.
Trams
Tram in paris
The tram network of the routes of Paris contains four lines, from which three unite the Parisian neighborhood, and the friend of the T3 passes only in urban areas.
Line T1 is the oldest line of the Paris tramway; it is opened in 1992. Her route runs through the north capitals and brings together the suburban neighborhoods of Saint-Denis and Noisile Sec. The length of the line – 11 km, and the number of stops is 26.
Line T2 – a line that opened in 1997 with the goal of to connect the suburbs of La Defense and Issy-les-Moulineaux. For a length of 11.3 km contains 13 stations.
Line T3 – is the first tram line of Paris, it passes through the city. The length of the line is almost 8 km, and the number of stops – 17.
Line T4 is the newest line of the Paris tramway, opened in 2006. It unites the regions of Onex-sous-Bois and Bondi. The length of the line is 7.9 km, the number of stations is 11. The principle of operation of such a tram was a “tram train”. It means, that trams and regular trains move along rail tracks in equal conditions. This line, unlike the previous three, governed by SNCF (French Railways), not RATP (Paris Transport Company).
Water transport
Excursion ship on the Seine
Water transport of the romantic capital is carried out several companies. In turn, they organize walks through Seine on water trams.
Bato Mush
Bato Moush is considered the oldest and most famous cruise and excursion-river enterprise. In 1949, the company Bateaux Mouches began its history. Bato Mush offers guests Paris walks on the river Seine, guided tours, tables for brunch and dinner, as well as romantic dinners for two in a restaurant the ship. Liners that carry out simple walks, walk, every day from 1.05 to 30.09 from fifteen minutes past ten in the morning until half past ten in the evening. But from 1.10 to 31.03 excursions the river Seine is carried out from eleven in the morning to twenty minutes the tenth evening, while the number of passengers is fifty people. The trip takes place with a guide who speaks French, English, Italian, Japanese speech. The duration of the walk is 70 minutes.
Ship ticket price:
• Adult – 13.50 euros; •Children – from 4 to 12 years – 6 euros, up to 4 – for free.
Every day the liner spends dinner for guests from half past ten evenings, the time allotted for him – 135 minutes. Visitors themselves decide which menu they want to get (for € 155, € 99). Dinner contains: a bottle of wine for two persons, juice, mineral water. During the evening meal they sing and play musicians.
Dine on a cruise is possible only on holidays and weekends. (Saturday and Sunday) at one o’clock in the afternoon, duration – 105 minutes. Lunch is played with an accordion game.
Price:
• Adult – 60 euros; •Children – 29 euros.
Cruise makes its walk from the arched bridge over the Seine. Reservation ticket and all information about the ship you can do on Russian-language site.
Bato Parisien
The company Bato Parisien began its work in the half of the twentieth century. Bato Parisien is a motor ship with a panoramic view, committing the journey from the river Seine to the Eiffel Tower, from the cathedral of Paris Dame. Walking along the Seine can be accompanied by lunch, dinner in cafes, which are located on the waterfront, walking with drinks. Tourist may not be afraid of not knowing the language, because there is an audio guide on the cruise, speaking thirteen languages. Price varies from 14 euros, she depends on the program you choose.
The ship stops near the Eiffel Tower on the pier called “Leisure Club” on the Seine coast, you can also disembark at the cathedral. All information of interest can be found on the company website.
Batobus
Batobus ships are controlled by Bateaux Parisiens, offering a tour of the works of France along the Seine. Batobus ships sailing every 25 minutes and making 8 stops between tour Eiffel and Botanique. Routes work every day from ten in the morning to seven in the evening from October to May and until 9 o’clock evenings from June to September. The ticket allows you to freely go out and enter at stops. A ticket for an adult per day will cost 17 Euro, per child – 8 Euro, for two days for an adult – 19 Euro, for child – 10 euros. Buy tickets possible at the box office at the station Batobus, at airports, in the offices of Paris.
Bicycles
Bicycles
One of the most popular vehicles in Europe is considered bicycles. Because it is safe to move on this vehicle, there is no opportunity to get stuck in traffic, penalties for violations are small, and most importantly this type of transport is very environmentally friendly. Paris opened at home bike rental Velib, where you can take a two-wheeled transport to all tourists. Subscriptions are available in three versions. for a year – 29 euros, for a day – 1, 170 euros, for seven days – 8 euros. To rent a bike you need to purchase a subscription for a day or seven days. Everything is done quickly and this is how: subscribes agreement, give your credit card, freezes 150 Euro. The price for the subscription is also deducted from the score. Then follows come up with a four-digit number – the code for the card from Velib, entered in any automaton system when renting a bike. You have to choose bike only from those where the green light is on. Green light means the bike is not busy. Drive in the bike number, personal account number in the system and invented code in a special automatic, with successful authorization, you get access to two-wheeled transport. First thirty minutes of the trip is not paid, then 1 euro every sixty minutes, then the price above. When the bike is returned to the station, a frozen account of one hundred fifty euros unlocked.
Tariff cost
At first thirty minutes are not paid, then 1 euro, then 2 euro, then already 4 euros. Since thirty minutes are not paid, you can travel around the capital of France for free, from the station to the station, subject to availability of bicycles.
Maps and guides
Transport Map Map RER Map of Bus Routes Map Paris metro
