If you are travelling around Paris like most visitors do it's worth studying the various travel passes available that cover all of the trains and buses in the Paris area. You can find this out easily enough by looking at the RER map (see link above).Īs guide, a single one way ticket, a billet Ile-de-France, from central Paris to Disney costs € 7.60 (as of September 1, 2017). If you purchase a ticket for a single journey the cost will depend upon which zones your originating and destination stations are located in. The zones are clearly marked on the RER map (see link below). The Paris Metro system is largely confined to just zones 1 and 2.ĭisneyland (Marne-la-Valee) station is in zone 5. Zone 1 is where nearly all hotels are and where all the city centre sights are located. Paris uses a zonal system with six circular zones radiating out from the centre. The ticket offices at places like Charles de Gaulle Airport have helpful, competent English speaking attendants well used to overseas travellers not confident in what they need and are for the most part remarkably patient. Here you can also top up your Navigo Pass if you have one. You can buy tickets at Metro and RER Railway Station which have manned ticket offices or from automated ticket vending machines (using coins or credit cards) within stations. The first time, just position yourself behind a local and follow what they are doing - it really is simple and identical to many other systems such as the London Underground. Whatever ticket you have, (including travel passes) you insert the ticket into an automatic barrier which, after validating the ticket, allows you through. To access the RER system you will need a ticket of one kind or another. There are different schedules during the weekend than during the working week.Ĭhatelet, Auber and Etoile are the key stations you will interchange with using the Metro or other RER services in the centre of Paris. Trains to Disneyland run at 15 minute intervals between about 5.30am and midnight. Within central Paris you can think of the RER as just another Metro line.

If you are travelling within central Paris you can use a single ticket which is valid for RER, Metro and buses.

As a result train, metro and bus are tightly integrated, sharing ticketing systems. The Paris RER is run by RATP, (Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) who also operate the bus and Metro system.

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