How do I use my Navigo card on metro?

Validate your Navigo pass before each trip If the station is equipped with turnstiles or tickets gates, you just need to place your card over the purple validator marks at the entrance to Transilien stations, RER and Metro stations and when getting on buses or trams.



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No more Navigo tickets and passes, your phone becomes your ticket! How does it work? Choose and use your Navigo pass or ticket via our application. Use your phone to validate your ticket at the terminals.

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There are two ways to buy Paris Metro tickets: at station ticket windows or vending machines. If you're using the vending machine, pay with euro coins, or a European debit or credit card that has a smart chip. If you're carrying euro bills or a non-European credit card, head to the staffed ticket windows for payment.

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The Navigo Découverte pass is available to everyone, and is not limited to residents of Île-de-France. The card is purchased (with no travel enabled) for a one-time fee of €5 at staffed ticket counters, and is sold together with a cardboard wrapper and a plastic holder.

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The Navigo Easy Card is accessible to everyone, available immediately and without formality. It is anonymous and transferable to only one person at a time: the same Navigo Easy card cannot be used by several people simultaneously.

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Your tickets may have been demagnatized. Or, you may have not been operating the turnstile correctly. On the RER C, you have to insert the ticket-pass through- take the ticket, instead of the usually insert-take-pass method used on the Métro. I have done that mistake several times until I got the Navigo smartcard.

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That's because Versailles is in Zone 4 of the Ile de France regional transportation network. In other words, if you have the all-zone Navigo or Visite pass, you do not need an additional ticket so your trip to Versailles and back will cost you nothing extra.

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BUYING A METRO TICKET IN PARIS They accept cash or credit card (though for Americans, make sure it's a chip & pin card!)

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The Navigo Daily Pass. It is valid for one day, from 12 am to 11.59 pm. You can buy this pass up to 6 days in advance, and it will start working after the first validation and until the end of the metro service that same day. The cost of this pass is 8,45€ (zones 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5), and 20,10€ (zones 1-5).

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