The pick-up just hard to find. Booking not available. The turbo pass is unknown in Paris. No one could tell us where the pickup center is. No telephone service advisor to get. Only answering machine. No Hop & Top read too late. The pass for a family with two children is not worth it. Way too expensive. Not again!!
Generally this pass is useful. Unfortunately, some deficiencies and gaps in the offer are evident. 1. It is advertised with discount for a bus tour. At the point of sales, however, no employee knew anything about it, ergo we did not receive a discount. 2. Versailles: The entrance to the castle is included, but not the train journey from Paris to Versailles as well as the entrance to the gardens. 3. It is indeed advertised to not have to be present. Since in reality most visitors have a similar or similar pass, the waiting times are still extreme (eg Versailles 2h).
We bought a pass for 3 days. Unfortunately, the Museumspass in which I think the most popular attractions are included but only for 2 days! So far, I do not find any clear reference, which makes one point to it. Therefore you can save the pass for 3 days. Otherwise we had nice days in Paris. We were lucky, because generally there were few queues to which we would have had to wait if we had not had a passport.
Actually, it is in the short term of the time one spends on the place at all not possible to use the pass. In addition, one suggests the pass which has shortened breeding times. At the Louvre this happened, but only here. In the Notre Dame you have to be like everyone else. If one wants to then on the tower, this is included in the ticket, you have to first download an app on mobile phone with which you then get a kind of admission reservation. Unfortunately, the app does not work. If you're lucky, there is a 15 minute wait and there are supposedly 502 people in front of you. The next moment there is 8 hours and over 1000 people. Access would not be granted, despite complaint at the entrance. The crypt was closed, so there was no entrance either. We paid with the passport both. Versailles. Here one saves only the queue at the ticket queue. In order to get into the castle we still had to wait two hours. If you want to go to the garden, you have to pay 9.50 euros. This is not included in the pass. So we can not recommend the pass. In the end, we made a loss of nearly 50 euros instead of saving.
Can't really see much in 3 days (Museum Pass worth only 2 days) and many things that are included in the pass are not perceived. So I wouldn't want to purchase this anymore.
Handover was very good, documentation and description were also good, but the pass by the queue because you bought a turbopass, is not true. We had to go everywhere. For waiting times of up to 2 hours, one can not really see much in two days and many things that are included in the pass are not perceived. So I would not want to purchase this anymore. Single entry prices would have been more favorable. Nevertheless many thanks.
The pass is more worthwhile for people who want to scratch everything in their short stay. We did not use the numerous possibilities, because we individual sights / museums rather intensively to visit and not as many as possible in the shortest time. As for the additional sightseeing offers: for the free boat trip on the Seine there is exactly one possible offerer, the only explained below the sights. Too bad the Ostersonne seems tempting. There are 4 sightseeing bus companies that offer hop-on-hop-off. The discount applies to only one of them. Because we had to wait forever on this bus, which can always happen in a big city, we have risen to the full price in another. In the future, I would only buy the museum fun, the waiting time was not giant before Easter, but nice.
We had some problems with the right! Were 4 days and paid € 150.00! It was often claimed before the museums that they had never seen this pass for the hop on hop off tour we were told we should after the tour again go to the office in the city and get us the right fit ... in chocolate museum we did not get discounts but had to pay the full entrance fee again. Despite the show passes and the brochure. Too bad for such a beautiful city! The card for the subway not funtionierte also frequently and they tried us quickly cleared and they wanted again that we should buy us the map again. we have occurred very verarscht have also seen that this right had several people. Pity!!!
I was with my sister in early February of this year (2017) on a two-day city break in Paris and have brought us for the Paris City Pass. However, and we only found out on the spot, have young people between 18 and 25 years, coming from a belonging to the EU country, eh free admission to the museums of Paris. Of these, however, not a word in the order mentioned, though even the age was queried! In the case of Paris, most of the attractions, which, unfortunately, the pass includes but museums .... The argument, but one can thus avoid long waiting times, not true for the winter months but definitely also because the city is not overrun, are this could also confirm our friends and family who also know Paris in winter.
This pass was great for convenience if you order in advance. You should pick and choose your sites as 2 days is not enough. I don't think it is value for money as you have to have a strict schedule running from attraction to attraction. In my opinion, the Louvre needs a day to enjoy it unless you just running through to see the Mona Lisa. Versailles needs minimum half day.
Except for the Metro ticket, I can not recommend the Turbo Pass. In any case, you should always check the Internet before, if and when you come in with the pass. The opera is only two times. 11.00 / 14.30 with an English guide. French Giude was not possible. You would have had to buy new tickets to visit the opera without a guide. In the Palace of Versailles, we were only allowed in the garden, if we pay an additional 9.50 € per person. At events, what was not known before, so additional costs are added! A lot of time is spent on security checks! We were not able to perceive the preferred intake with the Turbo Pass.
Unfortunately, except for the metro and the busser we did not get any work, everywhere security control despite the turbopasse and city pass we were put in a queue with all others. Shipping waited 3 hours, Versailles 4 hours, Eiffel Tower 3 hours, and so on. Maybe we have bad luck?
Total disappointment. Useless and thrown out money. Due to security control with Turbopass standing in line with everyone else, security employees were dismissed back
We bought a 4 days Paris City Pass. It is a kind of waste of money. The pass is basically a metro pass plus a museum pass and a tour pass. You can buy the metro pass and museum pass with less money. The tour pass is useless. First it has very limited selection, second some tours only operate once or twice a day like 11 am and 2 pm. Some you have to make a reservation of 24 hours before. With so many museums and things to do in Paris, you don't really have a lot of time to go with those guided tours.
At our last day in Paris, we went to the Opera Garnier tour, after waiting in the line for almost an hour, we were told we couldn't get in because we didn't bring the original passport or driver's license. It is ridiculous. They don't take the copy of the passport. They were afraid we didn't return the radio after the tour. Why we steal a tiny radio? We purchased so many guided tours in Europe and we were never asked to show original passport to get the radio. Normally you just return the radio to the guide or personnel at the exit or drop it to the return box.
We went to Paris in August and the line was way too long at most of these museums (see attached picture). Maybe Paris City Pass is a great choice in off-peak season, but definitely not the case in August.
Despite pass no savings on waiting time. Often ticket purchased locally even goes faster. In addition, it is better to buy a normal weekly ticket for public transport, since all tariff zones are covered here - in contrast to the passport. Despite intensive efforts it was not possible to get the money invested in the passport (in our case at most 60%).
The Paris City Pass is not recommended at all. Let's start, that the included museum pass is basically valid for less than the City Pass. Some basic sites are included (eg Louvre, Versailles). The rest are museums that are rather outside and some of which are not accessible with the included public transport ticket. In general, this ticket for zones 1-3 is useless for tourists arriving and departing by plane as they also need to get into zone 5. For example, Versailles is also in this area. Instead, the "Navigo" is worthwhile, so you can save the public transport ticket completely. In Versailles, you have to wait for several hours before you get in (despite the words "Preferred intake - past the queue" like everyone else) (it was just under 3 hours for me). Finally, you can get cheaper without a pass.
I am sorry to say that this company and this product have not been a best experience to say the least. It was really hard to find the place where to pick the pass up as instruction not clear, time wasted on first day of sightseeing. We found out that we were not the first customers who had this experience. Second problem is that the pass is not well established and it was not accepted in most places, or at least not without an argument. Wrong direction given as to where to board the boat trip, so again time wasted and pass not accepted. frustrating and embarrassing, and most importantly yet another day's plan fell through. Lengthy email of complaint sent asking for apology and reimbursement (value of what was advertised wrong, Museum pass and Metro only used without problems), met by a sloppy brief email saying that they will reimburse 10% (in wrong currency) and no apology. Needless to say this was not done yet. I am sorry to say, but if you are looking for ease of use, best off buying Museum pass and not with this company!
A skip the line pass? Great, you might think. Unfortunately you are skipping one line and joining another one which snakes down the street. My sister, who didn’t have a pass, queued at the Musée d’Orsay for nearly an hour, but she still beat my mother and I, the pass holders, inside the building by 20 minutes. Unfortunately this experience was replicated at Versailles, the Sacre Coeur, and various other locations. Added to this was the rudeness with which you were treated by staff once they realised you held a pass - seemingly despite being a paying customer, you instantly became a second class citizen once they saw the card.
If you do not go to museums - or get tickets before, the pass on public holidays is not worth it. There are crowds of people on the move who all have the same destination. Montparnasse tower 24, € usual with discount still 17 €. One must not forget - the pass also costs at least 99 € pp for 1 day.