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- About 44625 people are working for Paris RATP: in the bus, metro, RER(=suburb metro) and tramway.
The official website is: www.RATP.fr
Except French, the website is also in English, Dutch and German language - metro ticket
A single ticket cost €1.40. If you buy 10 tickets together (called a 'carnet') you will get a reduction. Full fare price is then €10.70. There are tickets vending machines on some stations but they are in French language and require creditcards or coins. If you use your bankpas, you have the chance that you won't get tickets but that your bank account will be charged afterwards! (happend to me). Best is therefore to go to the ticket window, because you also will get there two free metro/paris maps.
- metro passes
The most expensive metro pass is 53 Euro for 5 calendar days and 8 zones. The cheapest is 8,35 Euro for 1 day. Children (4-11 years) pay half price. The pass is on sale in all metro, RER and SNCF stations, the Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports and in certain Parisian hotels and many tour operators abroad.
- At the RATP-website is also a metro map
and RER map in colour which you can print out for your journey in Paris.
In most metro stations you can get a free streetmap/metro map of Paris at one of the ticket counters - pictures of the metro in Paris
- Paris attractions + neighborhood
Paris metro
Eiffel Tower
Latin Quarter (Notre Dame, Ile de la Cite)
Montmartre (Sacre Coeur, La Place du Tertre)
Forum des Halles (shopping and entertainment)
Airport access information: timetable, map
train station Gare du Nord --> Paris Airport Charles de Gaulle(CDG)
- the metro departs every 10-15 minutes (weekdays)
- travel time Gare Du Nord <-> CDG is about 25 minutes
- rates one way: adult: €8, children (4 to 10 years): €5.65
The first train leaves Gare du Nord at 4.56h and arrives at Charles de Gaulle 1 airport at 5.28h and Charles de Gaulle airport 2 at 5.30h. Last metro from Gare du Nord to CDG departs 0.15h.
information Paris airports
nightbus
At night there is no metro. The nightbus ("Noctilien") has 35 lines. Their services are between 0.30h and 5.30h including a route to the airports