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All Metro lines run daily from 5:30 a.m. to around 40 minutes past midnight. During rush hours, the trains run about five minutes apart.
There are 14 lines and over 320 stations. You are never more than 500 meters from a metro station in Paris.
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket counters located inside most stations. Automated ticket machines are also available which take coins or a credit card with an embedded micro-chip. There are some which will take bills.
Ticket prices as of July 1, 2008 are 1.60 euros for an individual ticket; 11.40 euros for a pack of ten tickets called a carnet (car-nay) and 5.70 euros for a children's carnet, ages 4-10 years old.
The day-pass, called a Mobilis, costs 5.80 euros. There is no children's price for this ticket.
There are visitor passes which include an additional travel-zone called Paris Visite, available for one, two, three or five days with prices at 8.50, 14, 19 and 27.50 euros. For children between the ages of 4-12 years the prices are 4.25, 7, 9.50 and 13.75 euros. These give you unlimited use of the public transportation systems during that time period.
The best deal, depending on your length of stay, is the Carte Orange. These can be purchased for the week or for the month and gives you unlimited travel on the Paris Metro, the RER (within Paris city limits) and the Buses.
There are a few things to know about the Carte Orange:
The weekly Carte Orange is valid from Monday-Sunday and costs 16.80 euros.
Always have a validated ticket when traveling on the Paris Transportation systems. Groups of Transportation Police frequently set up check-points in the tunnels of the Paris Metro and the RER and on-board the Buses. If you do not have a valid ticket you will be fined on the spot (they take cash or credit card) or be taken on a tour of the French judicial system starting with the local gendarmerie.
You may also need the ticket for exiting at some stations.
A selection of Paris maps are given for the asking at the Metro ticket counters. There are maps of the Metro, the Buses and the RER, which is the regional train system, special tourist maps and maps of the greater Paris area.
There is also a mini-metro map that folds up to a size smaller than a credit card.
Within the Metro cars, above the doors, is a linear map of the stops on that line, making it easy to determine when your stop is coming up.
On this map, an encircled number by a station name indicates a transfer point where you can change to another line. Once on the platform look for large "Correspondances" signs above the platform with the number, name and the direction of the connecting line.
Lines are numbered 1-14. They are color coded and named by the terminating stations of each route. This helps you determine the direction that you want.
On the walls of the tunnels, before you get to the platforms, are signs listing the stations accessed by that platform.
It may sound rather complicated and can be daunting at times, but, there are plenty of indicators, signs and maps common to all stations.
Understanding the Metro system is also a great reason to take our Paris Introduction Tour. Not only do we bring you to and explain the major sites of Paris but we take the mystery out of the Paris Metro, making it much easier for you to get around on your own.
For more detailed information try the Official Website of the Paris Metro.
Many stations are worth visiting for own their style and uniqueness.
For example, the Louvre-Rivoli station has samples of artifacts from the Louvre.
The Cluny-Sorbonne has examples of the signatures of famous writers, scientists and artists.
In the Concorde station, on line #12, the French Constitution is written out in the tiles of the walls and ceilings.
The station Abbesses, the deepest of the metro stations, is serviced by an elevator with a forty person capacity.
The station at Arts and Métiers is designed in copper with porthole windows giving the impression of being in a Jules Verne submarine.
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