First visit to Paris in Nov. Tour group with 3 days free time. Looked at rapt.fr for bus info. Staying in 15th. Leary of Metro (dupleix) due to husband%26#39;s bad knees. heard there are lots of steps at all Metros. Confused about the %26quot;tourist bus sschedule%26quot; which has a %26quot;great route%26quot; according to others; however, this route is not on the regular bus route map. It is line 69. Unclear if you can use bus pass to ride these tourist routes. Other xportation on site has prices if it is extra, like Batobus. Can someone help clear this up? Also, can I send for a map in advance? The bus pass I looked at is Visite Paris %26amp; has discounts for other attractions, plus Metro. Trying to work out schedule to avoid wasting time. Also, do I have a chance of getting the discount %26quot;Lido%26quot; show tickets using my visitparis pass after I get there? Thanks so much for info from someone %26quot;in the know.%26quot;
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Keep looking on the ratp.fr website.
You can download a brochure for the Paris Visite that lists all the discount coupons included. The pass does include unlimited rides on the buses.
You%26#39;ll definitely want to use the buses rather than the metro if your husband has bad knees. Many (such as myself) much prefer the buses to the metro anyway. To ride the Batobus many steps are involved to/from the stops on the docks along the river.
Find the bus routes with streets map. You can download this to your PC and print sections of it for folding up and tucking into a pocket. You can get a copy of this at most metro stations once you arrive in Paris.
If you%26#39;re staying near Dupleix metro station, you%26#39;ll be near bus route 42, which does connect to bus route 69.
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Have a look at this map (tourist bus) - ratp.info/picts/…bus_touriste_simple.pdf You can see the 69 goes from near the Eiffel Tower.
I quite like Line 80 - www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan.php…
And if you want to see Montmartre the Montmartro bus does a nice circuit - www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan.php…
You can use ordinary tickets and ParisVisite.
What other maps would you like? You can print all sorts off the RATP site.
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Does Montmatrobus run 7 days a week or just Sundays?
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Montmartrobus runs every day, early until late (just after midnight).
It%26#39;s the Balabus that runs only on Sundays.
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There is a color map of every bus stop, superimposed on the street map: %26quot;Plan des bus avec rues%26quot;
It is 130cm x 101 cm, too big for me to print (even if I had a color printer!).
Is this %26quot;Plan%26quot; available at metro stands for free?
(It looks most helpful to have each stop on the map for somebody with a knee injury like me.)
www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan.php…
Thanks for help.
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The 69 bus is not a %26#39;tourist bus%26#39; per se... it is a regular Paris bus route but it happens to be a very handy route for tourists to use to sightsee
as it passes by or close to many popular tourist sights.
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For anyone still reading about the bus map, here%26#39;s an old reply:
%26lt;%26lt;Once arrived in Paris, be sure to stop at a Metro or RER station ticket kiosk and pick-up a copy of the RATP%26#39;s FREE %26quot;Paris--GRAND PLAN--Lignes et Rues%26quot; large-format transportation system map.
This map has a colour-noded, numbered/lettered diagram of the entire Paris Metro %26amp; RER system, over-laid on a serviceable Paris street map on one side
AND
a colour-coded, numbered, directionally-indicated diagram of the entire Paris Bus system over-laid on the same serviceable strreetmap on the reverse side.%26gt;%26gt;
tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187147-i14-k20697…
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You should be able to see #69 route on the ratp interactive map. It is not a loop if you wanted to ride all the way around. Get off at Giambetta(I think )( this is near Pere Lachaise cemetary) and change buses to go back the other direction.
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Thanks so much for all the helpful info and links. I am still quite overwhelmed, but will study and %26quot;play with%26quot; the ratp maps. The bus seems the way to go for us. I saw that the evening schedule is needed if you are out after 8:30 p.m. Also, some of the individual bus routes are kind of confusing with the arrows, then no arrows, etc. so you are not sure if you can get from point A to point B, as you are not sure if the bus goes that way or not. Maybe I don%26#39;t know how to read it. The site is very detailed and will take some time. I got a lot out of the suggestion to put your hotel address in the middle and print maps, etc. Once there, it is nice to know you can get a big free map.
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On the tourist bus map the %26#39;arrows%26#39; (more like %26#39;1%26#39;) are the OpenTop buses. They%26#39;re the tourist buses with commentary and costs €29 a day. The %26#39;regular%26#39; buses have numbers. They%26#39;re not tourist buses specifically, just buses that go on routes tourists might be using.
On the Montmartrobus the arrows show the direction of travel. It%26#39;s a loop, and the bus only goes one way round it.
Sometimes there are one-way street that mean buses have to go up one street and down another but, generally, most buses go up and down the same roads most of the time.
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