carte orange vs paris visite pass

Can someone explain the difference between the two and which we should purchase. We are staying Saturday to saturday. Do you need to be a resident to get CO? What are the price differences? We are staying near disney.

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The PARIS VISITÉ is a multi-consecutive calendar day transportation pass (becomes active on its First Day of useage)...and in most cases not an especially good deal. The CARTE ORANGE is a weekly transportation pass with a fixed term of validity--from FIRST TRAIN, MONDAY AM, until LAST TRAIN, SUNDAY PM. Both are good for ALL public transportation (RER, Metro, Bus, Tram, Funicular, NoctLien bus) within their transportation Zones of validity.

For your intended itinerary, you would probably be best served by CARNETs (booklets of 10 reduced price tickets--10,70 €) for the first Sat %26amp; Sun of your visit...and then a weekly (hebdo) CARTE ORANGE Zone 1-2 for the Mon-thru-Sat remainder of your visit.

The CARTE ORANGE pass requires that you provide a %26#39;head-shot%26#39; photo to be affixed to the photo-ID portion of the pass (approx 1 1/4%26quot; x 1 1/4%26quot; photo of ANY type, from ANY source). UNLESS you plan to make a few RER trips outside of Paris (Chateau de Versailles, DLP, etc) then a CO valid for Zone 1-2 will cover ALL of your public transportation needs within the City of Paris (and in a few places a bit beyond). If you have doubts about what to ask for or how to ask for it when you get to a Metro ticket kiosk, simply print out the appropriate page from the web site with what you want circled on it

You can do the math for yourself by comparing prices at--

RATP Ticket %26amp; Pass Pricing--

ratp.info/informer/titres_de_transport.php

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I buy a carnet for days of light usage (3 or 4 trips), but on days Im going to be a travellin%26#39; man (which are usually wet and windy days, almost a given at this time of year) I buy a Mobilis pass for zones 1 and 2 for EUR 5.40 . This allows unlimites travel on all buses and trains in the zones and can be a godsend when the old Hush Puppies are maxed out.

You have to be careful though - at Gare Du Nord they may refuse to sell you a Mobilis because, according to the woman in the window, they are %26quot;only for locals%26quot;. Everyone in the queue was horrified and told her she was wrong, but she wouldnt budge.........

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If you%26#39;re staying near Disney, this means that you%26#39;re probably in zone 5 (check the zone map on www.ratp.fr). And this means of course you will need 1-5 zone tickets to get to central Paris, or back to the hotel from Paris.

As long as you%26#39;re traveling within the Paris ring road (périphérique), a 1-2 zone ticket will suffice (but of course you can use a 1-5 zone CO or PV to travel in zones 1-2 too, it%26#39;s just more expensive).

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KDK-Thanks. One last question or explanation needed. Will it cover us getting from our disney area resort into Paris and back, and from Disney area to Versailles. I feel I will need Zones 1-5.