We are coming to Paris in June and we are bringing our 3 teenagers. My daughter heard from a teacher in school this week that all the museums in Paris and in London are free with their student ID. Can anyone verify if this is true in Paris? I was going to buy them all museum passes, but now I don%26#39;t know??
Thank you in advance!
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Student ID, Teacher%26#39;s ID and handicap ID ( with a letter from a Doctor saying the person is 100 % handicap according to USA standards) allows free, reduced or in some cases student discounts to many museums.
They can avoid the line if you buy the museum pass for yourself and they enter thru the pass line with you.
Do you know what museums you plan to visit? How old are your children?
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The kids will be 17, 18 and 21 (not so young there) My husband and I planned to get the museum pass... have done so before and it works out great. We were going to do this for the kids also, but it looks like there is almost everything free for my daughter that will be 17 and reduced fares for the other two. So, if you possess the Museum pass, they can go through the same line with you?
We plan to see the Louvre, Musee D%26#39;Orsay, the Cluny (missed that last time and was disappointed) and the Rodin.... We plan to do the Fat Tire Bike Tour of Versaille, so the entrance into that really isn%26#39;t an issue since it comes with the tour... St. Chapelle if there is NO line! Last time my husband and I waited in line for over 2 hours (no by-passing the line here with a museum pass) and it ended up making the experience just OK. We are,of the few, that prefer Notre Dame. The kids may be interested in seeing St. Chapelle though, if not... we have been.
Thanks again for any information...
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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt; Student ID, Teacher%26#39;s ID and handicap ID ( with a letter from a Doctor saying the person is 100 % handicap according to USA standards) allows free, reduced or in some cases student discounts to many museums. %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;
Ummm, no, I don%26#39;t think that quite covers it. Let%26#39;s leave aside the handicap issue about which Discover will know more than I do and that is presumably not relevant in any case.
First for the Sainte Chapelle there is no free or reduced admission for anyone. (PLEASE can we stop calling it the %26quot;St. Chapelle%26quot;? There is NO St. or Ste. Chapelle. There is a Holy Chapel, in French Sainte Chapelle.) For the Louvre, d%26#39;Orsay, Rodin and Cluny anyone UNDER 18 is admitted free of charge. For the older children they will be admitted free to the Louvre if they can document their standing as (broadly speaking) art or art history teachers or practising artists. If they can document their status as teachers of any kind they will be admitted free to the Rodin. For the Cluny anyone under 25 is admitted at a reduced price. Any teacher with documentation is admitted free.
Yes it%26#39;s bizarre and a pain, but that%26#39;s how it is.
Incidentally you can skip the lines at all these places EXCEPT the Sainte Chapelle without buying a museum pass
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Many.....but not all Paris museums are either free or free to those under-18. Usually all that is required to prove age is the Information page of your passport. In the case of your two oldest--18 %26amp; 21--neither will qualify for this. US student ID%26#39;s used to be regularly accepted at many museums that allowed free entry for students...but this is not the case any longer for other than French school IDs for free admission. To the best of my lnowledge, museums which provide discounted / reduced admission fees for students will accept any student ID.
As an example, your two eldest children would not qualify for any free student or under-18 admission to Musée du Louvre...nor will there be free admission for them at Musée d%26#39;Orsay or Cluny
If you decide to purchase PARIS MUSEUM PASSES, the younger child, would be allowed to accompany PARIS MUSEUM PASS holders at those covered museums proving free-under-18 admission. As noted some popular museums and monuments are notable exceptions--Sainte-Chapelle and Invalides (free under-12)
PARIS MUSEUM AGE INFO %26amp; LINKS--
tripadvisor.com/…1960806
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IrishRover: %26quot;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt; Student ID, Teacher%26#39;s ID and handicap ID ( with a letter from a Doctor saying the person is 100 % handicap according to USA standards) allows free, reduced or in some cases student discounts to many museums. %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26quot;
I wrote this generalized statement and requested the ages of the teens and also asked which museums they were interested in seeing.
That is why I could not be specific and..... you could.
Also if the students have to pay a reduced fee they must stand in the ticket line which I guess they then could use their tickets to go stand in line with the museum pass holder but that would not make much sense.
Sorry if I upset you by my post I just did not have all the information...
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Ah, I%26#39;m sorry, Discover. No your post did not upset me at all. And I%26#39;m sorry that you thought it might have and if mine upset you. I think I did misunderstand your post and didn%26#39;t realize that it was really just a broad general statement. in any case, yes, you are correct. I was responding to information you did not have and did not acknowledge that. My apologies to you.
As far as I can tell, for most museums and in most cases, and specifically for the museums Hylasgirl is interested in, a Student ID is irrelevant, whether it is French (per KDK) or foreign. It seems that age is all that matters. As with your statement about the Handicap ID, the Teacher ID also does not seem to be enough by itself. It seems that more documentation is required, especially in the case of the Louvre for example. I think some kind of official letter on the institution%26#39;s letterhead and signed by an appropriate person is also needed these days. I do recall not so many years ago when a teacher or student ID, French or foreign, would open a lot of doors. I think too many people were wandering round Europe with somewhat bogus credentials and the requirements are therefore more strict now.
Just to add to the complication, anyone under 26 is admitted free to the Louvre (except the Napoleon gallery) after 18:00 on Fridays. And students of recognized art schools, French or foreign and under 26, are also admitted free with proper documentation at all times. And then there is the fact that admission to the Musée d%26#39;Orsay is reduced after whatever time it is every day and some other time on Thursdays when the museum is open late. And then there are different rules for special exhibitions. It all just gets WAY too complicated...
There are also certain non-tourist categories who are entiltled to free admission such as the unemployed.
One other note to the OP. Most major London museums are free to people of all ages. (Now isn%26#39;t that nice — and simple?)
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Hey Irish, just to clarify, Sainte Chappelle, is no longer a holy chapel. It was %26quot;vider de son ame%26quot; and made secular in the late 1700%26#39;s. It is a national monument, which is why it is one of the few churches that one must pay to enter.
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Irishrover:
Last May, June and July and August I was able to get into most all museums ( Paris and outside of Paris too) with my Offical State Handicap ID card with my photo on it. I only had two problems one was with Sainte Chapelle who also requested my letter from my doctor stating I am 100% handicapped according to USA standards. My husband had my doctor write one and e-mailed it to me I then could get in no problem.
The other problem place was at Les Invalids which had let me in the day beforewith all the ID -- no problem. The next day as I had not had time to finish all the museums, I went back and this ticket taker would not let me in saying I needed an International Handicap ID. I asked for the manager and he could not tell me where I could get that. He looked at all my paperwork and he let me in.
I saw many people including children in wheelchairs and walkers who would stand in long lines not knowing that they do not have to wait they can go to the front of the lines.
My husband used his Teacher ID Photo ID and was allowed reduced student prices in many museums and in most of the others he was allowed to accompany me free since I am handicapped. He had no problem at all for the entire time he was there!
Years ago we had gotten our two children International Student ID cards which got them in free or reduced prices. I do not know if the International Student ID cards are still in use any more. Many other posters are saying to use the passports for the age information. We did not do that.
I just want handicap people who %26quot;search%26quot; for information to know that they may bring their Official Handicap ID and the doctor%26#39;s letter and the Handicap Parking Place card to use in France too. Some cities let one with the place cards use reserved spaces but one still has to pay to park it all depends on the town. We just found a policeman and asked and asked sometimes in the tourist office.
I asked questions of the poster to post correct information not just the generalized information but it looks like you and %26quot;KDK...%26quot; have it covered!
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We travelled in July this year with our 18 year old son. His International Student Card did not get him any concessions as it only applies to residents of EEC countries.
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I think we paid $20.00 a piece for those it is good to know they don%26#39;t work any more! Thanks for the post.
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