A 50% discount on Sundays???????

Hello,

Someone posted that this is true. Is it?

Thanks

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a 50% discount for what?

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Sorry...............On museum entrances.

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Never heard of this discount, but, I do know that the first Sunday of each month is free for the Lourve. If you go then , my personal opinion is that you are insane. To spend thousands on air and hotel and then try to save a grand total of 8.5 euros, at the exspence of going on the most crowded day of the month.

I went once, by accident, didn%26#39;t realize it was a %26quot; free sunday%26quot; and thought that it was normal to wait hours in line, it was horrendus. . I can almost walk straight in by going through the shopping mall entrance and buying my ticket by machine.

Many museums are free to under 18 yr olds , I don%26#39;t know if that helps you at all.

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Bea, I did not see anything mentioned on the museum sites.

Joan, Sometimes visitors to Paris are students, starving artists, or avid travelers, for who 8,50 represents a meal. It can make a BIG difference for these people, especially given the number of museums one may wish to see in Paris.

To AVOID the crowds on a free Sunday, go to a museum other than the Louvre and go in the morning, before the locals are awake.

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phread, nope sorry I will have to agree to disagree on this one, , I have been a starving student, and done the back packing thing. Please, when one spends 1000 dollars on airfare( standard from here) then one can and should have set aside 8 or 9 euros in their budget for a WORLD class museum visit. I mean come on, you know darn well they have drinking money, gosh, I did, didn%26#39;t you!?

I suppose if one didn%26#39;t like museums or saw no value to them they could just not go to one, that would save money. I do not like Picassos. So, guess where I did not spend my money!

But,, I digress, my point is , if one likes museums,, then pay to go to them , they are so dirt cheap in Paris to me. Here our local museum is about 12 dollars Canadian, and it is MUCH smaller, and of course has many less exhibits and masterpieces, I mean there is no comparison at all.

Paris museums are the best travel deal around.!!

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P.S. I guess I could add I get my moneys worth. I never enter a museum and just leave in an hour, not even our small local one.

The Lourve is all day fun to me, even the small Cluny is hours of fun.

I suppose if one likes to just say they have been to so many museums and then runs through 2 or more a day, then that is a style that I personally don%26#39;t get.

I remember one poster saying two hours is enough at the Lourve, I almost fell out of my chair. I do realize there are different strokes for different folks though.

Apparently some people spend hours shopping. I spend ten minutes at the airport usaully, LOL!

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I have never heard of a 50 % discount for museums even if you go on late nights it is only reduced one or two euros.

There is free first Sunday of the month museums but not all the museums are free.You have to look on museum web sites.

There are free museums such as the Petite Palace and the Carnavalet and a few others.

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1) All City of Paris museums are free (the permanent collection, not the temporary exhibitions): that indeed includes Petit Palais, Carnavalet, Cernuschi, Bourdelle, etc.

2) I agree with Joan%26#39;s comments about the absurdity of wanting to save € 8.50 vs going to one of the greatest museums in the world and spending, come what may, dozens of hundreds of bucks on airfare, accommodation, internal travelling, beers, etc.

3) The Louvre is free all the time for under 18s. For under 26s, it%26#39;s free on Fridays, 18h00 to 21h45.

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Joan, Sorry, but I did NOT have drinking money when I was a starving student in Paris. I barely had enough money for one meal a day, and I took advantage of every free cultural event that I could. In London I %26quot;camped%26quot; outside of the S. African Embassy. It was apartheid and there was a 24/7 protest that I joined just to have a safe place to sleep.

My point is that there is more than one perspective on this one.

The free Sundays are especially great for repeat visitors, like Bea or myself, who may want to return to visit a wing of the museum that most people ignore. There are tons of them, and they are virtually empty even on free Sundays.

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phread, perhaps for someone like yourself who lives there and can afford the two hour line ups then the free sundays are a bargain.

My time is fairly precious on holiday in that I would not like to save 8 or 9 euros, but lose 1- 2 or even more hours. Now, since you live there you can go at non peak sundays, you know, not june, july, or august, or sept and as you point out just return to a quiet wing.

I guess I was answering the question from a more of a holidayers perspective.