5 monuments of Paris where there is always the tail, and how to avoid it

The queues in front of the museums and monuments of Paris are endless. Thanks to cut-and-file notes and a few tips, it is relatively simple to avoid them!

Paris is the most visited city in the world. As a result, it is well known to the airy premises and travellers that the most famous monuments of the French capital have endless queues. It is a pity for these tourists not to know some simple tricks to avoid spoiling their precious holiday time in the long queues.

Indeed, you often have the option to book online, for a few more euros, a ticket cut-file that will keep you from tailing. Entry tickets to Paris monuments are already expensive to tell me, but earning 1 hour or more by monument will save you a crazy time, and thus enjoy what Paris has to offer you (and everyone knows that it takes several trips or even several lives to visit Paris entirely).

The 5 monuments that we present to you here are known worldwide, and each of them can be visited in a privileged way by means of a cut-file ticket. After you've tasted it, you can't go through it anymore!

1. The Eiffel Tower

No one is surprised to learn that Eiffel Tower is probably one of the most visited tourist attractions in Paris, and perhaps the world! The queues are more and more years after year and you would like to avoid losing time to visit the city of light. Fortunately, there are several options for you:

If you want to climb to the first two floors of the Eiffel Tower with a skip-the-line ticket with a guide, you can book this ticket . You can also choose the option to access 3 floors of the Eiffel Tower always without dicking.

You can also make one guided tour which will make you discover the scenes of the Lady of Fer. guided tour of the Eiffel Tower with a comedian is also very popular and also offers a cut-file access.

As you can see, the choices of visits to the Eiffel Tower without queue are varied.

2. The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris and its towers

Admission to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is free. Even if the queue moves fast enough, it is sometimes difficult to understand why there is one. The capacity of the cathedral is enormous, you will see it when you enter inside. A queue is simply formed because many tourists block the entrance inside by wanting to take pictures right after entering.

No one manages the queue, so nothing prevents you, if you are not ashamed to do that, to place you near the entrance and to pass in front of everyone. Of course, this advice is to be taken into account that if you travel alone or to a maximum of two. Do not double everyone if you are in a group.

Did you know that free guided tours of Notre-Dame are organized inside the cathedral in several languages? To learn more, you can go to the official cathedral site .

But there's a tail you can't avoid, not even with the Paris Pass , it is the visit of the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Of course, you will be entitled to free entry through your Paris Pass, but you will not escape the long waiting list. The length of the queue to climb in the cathedral towers ranges between 40 minutes and 1h30.

To pass in front of everyone and enjoy your visit time, you can book your visit online ticket cut-file . As a bonus, a local guide will count you all the history of these towers and the mysteries that surround them. Certainly a little more expensive, it is highly recommended if you have only 2 or 3 days to visit Paris.

3. The Louvre Museum

Given the fact that the Louvre Museum is the most visited museum in the world , the staff at the reception does a great job! It really depends on the day: sometimes you can be lucky and go through the main door almost without waiting, but usually the queue is extremely crowded and the waiting time is long. Here are some tips to avoid the queue at the Louvre Museum:

Solution 1: Buy your ticket online The easiest is to buy your ticket directly online on the official website of the Louvre . Don’t hesitate to pay a little more to get audio-guide that gives really fascinating information.

Solution 2: Enter the Lions Gate As you can see on the map above ( click here to see the map in large), there are 3 admissions to the museum. Do not choose the most obvious, this is where you will wait the most. Use the “secret” entry of the Door of the Lions that few people know. Attention, it is reserved for visitors in groups. If it is closed for technical reasons, head to the entrance of the Galerie Carrousel de Louvre . The main entrance, that of the Pyramid, is always crowded, and thus to avoid.

To know the opening days and times of each entry, appointment here .

Solution 3: Book a skip-line ticket or a guided tour By paying a little more than the classical entrance, you can save a valuable time to admire the works exhibited in the Louvre Museum a little longer. For this, we must book a cut-file ticket online.

A guided tour of the Louvre Museum also allows you to avoid the queue, as if you book audio-guide online.

Solution 4: Take the Paris Museum Pass The Paris Museum Pass can also be a good solution if you are a feru of Parisian museums, as it will give you a cut-file access to the Louvre and 60 other museums in Paris! You can find the complete list of museums here .

Solution 5: Visit the Louvre on Wednesday or Friday evening The Louvre Museum is open in nocturnal until 9:45 pm on Wednesday and Friday, with the rooms that close from 9:30 pm. Every other day, the Louvre closes at 6 p.m. (Tuesday it is closed all day).

If you are a European citizen under 26 years of age, you can go to the Louvre for free. It should also be noted that the Musée du Louvre offers the “Nocturnes of Friday”, starting at 6 p.m., with free access to the permanent collections granted to young people under 26 years of age, regardless of their nationality, upon presentation of a supporting document.

4. The Orsay Museum

Solution 1: Go on Thursday after 6 p.m. Most people do not know that the Musée d’Orsay remains open until late (until 21:45) every Thursday. Thus, after 6pm the queue will be short (max 10 minutes). In addition, your entry ticket will also cost you less: 9€ instead of 12€.

Solution 2: Book a skip-file ticket online To avoid queue at any time of day, you can take a cut-file ticket for the Musée d’Orsay which will only cost you 2€ more than a classic entry.

Solution 3: Take the twin ticket Musée d’Orsay – Musée Rodin The Rodin Museum is also worth visiting if you are an unconditional fan of sculptures. You can then take a combined ticket that will allow you to visit both museums. Go first to the Rodin Museum, and buy your double-entrance ticket there (the queue is much less long). Again, it will be cheaper in this way (19.80€ instead of 23.30€). The ticket is valid for 3 months for a visit to the 2 museums from the date of purchase. Visits can be done on different dates.

Solution 4: Take the Twin Ticket Musée d’Orsay – Musée de l’Orangerie The Musée de l’Orangerie is a museum that includes a magnificent collection of Impressionist art located in the Tuilerie garden. You can do the same as with the Rodin Museum, that is to go first to the Orangerie Museum, then to the Musée d’Orsay to avoid the queue. And it will be cheaper: €17.70 instead of €21. The double-entry ticket is valid for 3 months. It is recalled that the museums cited here are free for visitors under the age of 18 and for visitors aged 18 to 25, nationals of the European Union.

5. Les Catacombes de Paris

The Paris Catacombs are superb, and they are one of the most exciting (and frightening) things to do in Paris! And unfortunately, to get in there, you have to queue for a long time.

Groups of 200 people enter catacombs every 45 minutes. It is therefore unnecessary to start queueing if you arrive 1h before closing ( see opening hours ). However, arriving at the site 30 minutes before the opening usually saves at least one hour waiting in the queue.

If for a time no ticket was sold online, there is fortunately a ticket for a few years skip-file ticket for the Paris Catacombes . Certainly more expensive (27€ versus 12€ admission + 5€ audio guide), this cut-file ticket avoids you losing more than an hour or two in a queue.

Another solution, if you are looking to visit catacombs with a group and a private guide, it is possible to do so by buying a online ticket here .