Yesterday, I wrote about where to find cheap transit tickets for Paris, France.
Today, I have another travel tip to share.
You may also be able to snag a discounted Paris Museum Pass on Ebay.
I was able to buy two 4-day Paris Museum Passes at about 25 percent off the retail price on Ebay.
Where Does the Paris Museum Pass Offer Free Admission?
These passes provide admission to 60 museums and monuments in Paris and the surrounding area.
With admission at Paris museums averaging about 10 Euros, I am sure we will get our money’s worth out of this baby. The pass allows you to skip the lines for ticket purchases at the Louvre, and you can visit multiple times with a single pass.
The sites included in Paris are:
- Musée du Louvre
- Musée d’Orsay
- Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
- Tours de Notre-Dame de Paris
- Crypte archéologique du parvis Notre-Dame
- Conciergerie
- Sainte-Chapelle
- Arc de Triomphe
- Musée de l’Armée, Tombeau de Napoléon 1er
- Panthéon
- Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne
- Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet
- Musée des Arts décoratifs
- Musée des Arts et Métiers
- Musée du quai Branly
- Chapelle Expiatoire
- La Cinémathèque française
- Musée national Eugène Delacroix
- Musée des Égouts de Paris
- Institut du Monde Arabe
- Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
- Musée national de la Marine
- Musée national de l’Orangerie
- Musée Rodin
- Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
- Musée de Cluny – le monde médiéval
- Musée des plans-reliefs
- Musée de la musique
- Musée Nissim de Camondo
- Les Arts décoratifs – Collection Mode et Textile
- Les Arts décoratifs – Collection Publicité et Graphisme
- Musée national Gustave Moreau
- Palais de la découverte
- Musée Picasso
Twenty additional sites around Paris are covered, including Château de Versailles et Trianon and Château de Fontainebleau.
Do not confuse the Paris Museum Pass with the Paris Pass, which is a different product. If you do a google search for Paris Museum Pass, the Paris Pass is the first listing. The Paris Pass includes the Paris Museum Pass, a Paris Visite transit pass, and a number of other admissions, and is much more expensive than the museum pass alone.
A purchase of transit or museum passes on Ebay presents some risk, so be sure to verify the seller’s track record before bidding.
I just got back. Yes, 2 passes but there are also 2 companies that can sell them with gigantic differences in price. The one you are seeing is sold advertised and resold by a UK firm that paid for the rights to do that in and outside France. You pay theur mark up that way. However, official tourist agency which can’t advertise sells them for much cheaper at their designated offices such as at the train station. They also sell transit passes. I suspect this may be where they are coming from. Fraud is rampant in Paris and so are thieves. Not my favorite place.
I think some of the tickets for sale on Ebay are from people who had to cancel their trips, or people who had a few extra Metro tickets left over.