Carte Orange

We bought a Carte Orange upon arriving at CDG airport in Paris. We were charged 33 euros for each card for Monday through Sunday. Everywhere I%26#39;ve looked, it looks like the fee should have been only 16 euros. Do the cheaper Carte Orange tickets only cover certain zones? We were told that we can use our ticket to go to Versailles. Is that correct for the price we paid? Also, we don%26#39;t have a picture attached to our tickets but we%26#39;ve had no problem using them at stations all over Paris. Do we need a picture on the ticket to go to Versailles?

|||

The cheapest cards cover zones 1 and 2 only. I don%26#39;t know the current requirement on the picture, but it is my understanding that one is required. Hope that%26#39;s been lifted...let us know, please.

|||

If you paid 33 euro, you must have gotten a Carte Orange for zones 1-5. It%26#39;s true that this includes Versailles (which is in zone 4). The cheapest version of the Carte Orange is for zones 1-2 and costs €16.80.

If you don%26#39;t attach a photo to your card, don%26#39;t fill in your name and details, and copy the number of the card onto the ticket (if you have the %26#39;old style%26#39; paper carte orange), you might not have a problem using them - until you are checked... and then you will probably need to pay a hefty fine.

It%26#39;s a bit too late now, but all information is available on www.ratp.fr and www.transport-idf.com - some of it in English, all of it in French.

|||

-:- Message from TripAdvisor staff -:-

This topic was inactive for 6 months and has been closed to new posts. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one.

To review the TripAdvisor Forums Posting Guidelines, please follow this link: http://www.tripadvisor.com/pages/forums_posting_guidelines.html

We remove posts that do not follow our posting guidelines, and we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason.

Removed on: 3:16 am, October 02, 2009