Is the Paris Pass worth it? Mostly not – the maths

For most visitors, the Paris Pass is not worth it. In our 2-day test plan with the big museums, Sainte-Chapelle, the Notre-Dame towers, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, the official single tickets add up to €129.30. The 2-day Paris Pass costs €199. The reason is simple: most of what the pass covers comes from the Paris Museum Pass, which is built into it – and which you can buy on its own for €85 for two days. All prices below come from the official websites, as of 26 October 2026.

The Paris Pass is the Paris product of Go City. How the All-Inclusive and Explorer passes work in general is explained in our Go City explainer. This article does the maths for Paris.

What the Paris Pass includes

Go City lists 86 attractions for Paris. There are two versions:

• All-Inclusive Pass for 2 to 6 days. It contains a Paris Museum Pass: for a 2-day pass a 2-day Museum Pass, for 3 or 4 days a 4-day one, for 5 or 6 days a 6-day one. You download it from Go City before you start.
• Explorer Pass for 3 to 7 attractions, valid for 30 days after the first visit.

Through the Museum Pass, the All-Inclusive version covers the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Orangerie, Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie, the Tours de Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Panthéon, the Rodin Museum, the Army Museum, the Picasso Museum, the Musée du Quai Branly, the Palace of Versailles and Fontainebleau. On top of that, Go City adds its own extras: Eiffel Tower reserved access by the stairs to the second floor, a Bateaux Parisiens Seine river cruise, a 1-day Big Bus hop-on hop-off tour, a self-guided tour of the Opéra National de Paris, the Hôtel de la Marine, a Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur walking tour, plus Parc Astérix, the Grévin wax museum and the Aquarium de Paris.

Important for the Explorer Pass: the Museum Pass sites are All-Inclusive only. With the Explorer you get the Eiffel Tower stairs, the cruise, a Louvre afternoon entry ticket and a Versailles full-day entry with audio guide, but not the Musée d'Orsay, the Arc de Triomphe or Sainte-Chapelle.

What is not included

• the Eiffel Tower summit and the lifts – the pass only covers the stairs to the second floor
• the Catacombs, the Montparnasse Tower and Disneyland Paris
• the Moulin Rouge and other cabaret shows
• the dome of the Sacré-Cœur
• other Seine cruise companies than Bateaux Parisiens

The Notre-Dame cathedral itself is free to enter; only the towers have a ticket, and they are in the pass.

Worked example: 2 and 3 days with the pass vs single tickets

Prices are the standard adult price on the official websites, checked on 26 October 2026. Several Paris museums now charge visitors from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) more than EU residents; we use the higher non-EEA price, which most international visitors pay.

Day 1 costs €70, day 2 €59.30. Two days come to €129.30, three days with Versailles to €154.30.

"Museum Pass route" is the official 2-day Paris Museum Pass (€85), which covers everything on days 1 and 2 except the Eiffel Tower, plus the Eiffel Tower stairs ticket (€14.80). The Paris Pass costs €69.70 more than single tickets and €99.20 more than the Museum Pass route. To catch up, you would have to use around €100 worth of the Go City extras – the cruise, the bus, the Opéra, Hôtel de la Marine – on top of a full museum programme in the same two days. That is hardly possible.

For three days the picture is the same: the 4-day Museum Pass costs €105 officially, plus €14.80 for the Eiffel Tower, €119.80 in total, against €154.30 in single tickets. Go City only showed the 2-day price on its pass page; the 3-day All-Inclusive costs more than the 2-day one.

The Explorer Pass does not fix it. Three choices cost €84. Take the most expensive combination – the Louvre (€32), Versailles (€25 in winter, €35 in summer) and the Eiffel Tower stairs (€14.80) – and the single tickets come to €71.80 in winter and €81.80 in summer. Both are less than the pass.

Who the Paris Pass pays off for – and who should skip it

It can pay off for you if:

• you want the cruise, the Big Bus, the Opéra and the Montmartre tour anyway, in addition to the museums
• you add Parc Astérix to a museum-heavy trip
• you value having everything in one app more than the price difference

Skip it if:

• your plan is museums, monuments and the Eiffel Tower – buy the Paris Museum Pass directly and an Eiffel Tower ticket on toureiffel.paris
• you only want two or three museums – then single tickets are cheapest
• you want the Eiffel Tower summit, which the pass does not cover

Single tickets, Seine cruises and Versailles tours^* are also on Tiqets; compare with the price on the official website first.

Booking ahead: time slots with the pass

In Paris, a pass rarely means walking in. Go City marks the Eiffel Tower stairs, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Notre-Dame towers, Versailles, Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie, the Orangerie and the Hôtel de la Marine as "Booking required". The museums themselves set rules as well: the Notre-Dame towers only sell online with a time slot, and at the Louvre a time slot was compulsory from 17 October to 1 November 2026.

Two details about the time: the days of the Paris Pass end at midnight, whenever you start. The Paris Museum Pass inside it is counted in hours from the first visit, according to its official website (48 hours for the 2-day version). Start both on the same morning.

Plan the days before you buy

Whether you buy a pass or single tickets, the time slots decide the day. In YesTrip you get an AI day plan for Paris with walking and metro times between the stops, so you can see whether the Louvre in the morning and Sainte-Chapelle after lunch work, and the weather forecast for your travel days for the Eiffel Tower. Start with our Paris city guide, read how many days you need in Paris, and for Versailles and Fontainebleau see our day trips from Paris.

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