Museum Passes

Hi All

My boyfriend and I are going to Paris in July (very excited) and I have been reseraching on the net and found websites that sell museum passes. One website offers quite a good one that covers loads of the major attractions we want to see at 55 euros each. They sound a great idea, I just wanted to ask whether anybody else had heard of these and are usually above board and that there are no scare stories or anything?

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For the same reasons you are questioning... I plan on buying my Paris Museum Pass:

parismuseumpass.com/en/pass_presentation.php

from one of the locations that it is for sale in Paris, be it the airport or the first museum we visit. I feel that a 12 Euro shipping fee is too high to ship me 2 little cards in an envelope.

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thanks for that aurora, its a bit cheaper than I one I found. I found a similar one on conciergerie.com - they have the passes taken to your hotel for you but I don%26#39;t know if I trust that - it is the worry of whther they will be there when you get there after shelling out the money online.

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They are the same pass.

The website in the reply from Auroraparis is the official museum pass website. Conciergerie.com is a service that charges a markup.

The passes are for 2/4/6 days and cost 30/45/60 euro without markup. If you go to the parismuseumpass.com website, you can find the locations where the pass it sold.

IMO it is not worth it to buy in advance and pay the markup or the shipping. Follow the advice from Auroraparis and buy it in Paris at one of the smaller museum where there will be little or no line.

If you want more information, type %26quot;museum pass%26quot; in the TA forum search box. There are lots of previous posts on this topic.

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We just returned from Paris and you definitely want the Museum Pass. You can buy it on arrival from a small museum as recommended (the Cluny worked for us-- no lines). Don%26#39;t buy it from a reseller online. The pass is great, not only because you get into lots of museums, but also because you skip lines everywhere except the Nortre Dame Tower and Saint-Chapelle (which has the most painful line in Paris.)

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