You can take the RER-B with a simple Metro Ticket as long as you stay inside paris, which is the case here. No need for a pass navigo.
Le mer. 9 juil. 2025 à 18:42, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Thomas, > > Am Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 06:09:25PM +0200 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > This was my route last Monday: > > > > Todays experience when changing trains in Paris: From Gare du Nord > > take the rer B ligne to the south, change at Denfert-Rochereau into > > ligne 6 towards etoile. The 3rd stop is Montparnasse. Line 4 is not > > working the next days. It was easy to buy a navigo card for 7 Euro > > including two rides from a sales person in front of the ticket vending > > machine using a debit card. > > This is what the "NOTE" in Wiki[1] is actually recommending. > > I admit I did not read that "NOTE" since I (wrongly) assumed I know how > to pass Paris from past experience. This proves that reading the docs > *before* something might go wrong could be helpful. ;-) > > I personally had no idea what "RER B" might be thus asking the stuff at > the entrance to the Metro worked as well. I might add the following > experience: I've bought a Metro ticket inside the TGV to Paris to not > loose time. Strangely enough you need to pass **two** barriers to enter > Line 5. I talked to the stuff and they let me pass with my single Metro > usage ticket. (Not sure what went wrong here.) > > Hope we now made sufficient noise about non-normal passing between Paris > railway stations. > > Have a safe travel to Brest > Andreas. > > [1] https://debconf25.debconf.org/about/venue/ > > -- > https://fam-tille.de > >
