Short answer: it depends which product you mean. “Paris pass” covers three genuinely different products with genuinely different prices — €70 to €110 for the Paris Museum Pass, €99 to €214 for Go City’s All-Inclusive, and €149 to €259 for Paris Passlib’ Explore. The price gap reflects what each one is actually for.
The three products, side by side
| Product | Tiers | Transport included? |
|---|---|---|
| Paris Museum Pass | €70 (2-day) / €90 (4-day) / €110 (6-day) | No |
| Go City: Paris All-Inclusive | €99 (1-day) up to €214 (5-day) | No |
| Paris Passlib’ Explore | €149 (2-day) / €189 (3-day) / €259 (5-day) | Yes |
These aren’t three prices for the same thing — they’re three different products that happen to share the word “pass.”
Why the prices differ
Paris Museum Pass is a museum-and-monument card, full stop. It covers the Louvre (reservation required, entry free), Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, Arc de Triomphe, Sainte-Chapelle, Conciergerie, Panthéon, Centre Pompidou, Musée Rodin, Musée Picasso, and Versailles (reservation required). It excludes the Eiffel Tower, the Seine cruise, the Catacombs, and Montparnasse Tower entirely — none of those are museums or state monuments, which is exactly the line the pass draws.
Go City: Paris All-Inclusive is a commercial attractions pass, priced per day like The London Pass. It covers the Eiffel Tower summit by lift (timed reservation), a Seine river cruise, Montparnasse Tower, the Catacombs, plus a mix of museums including the Louvre (reservation) and Orsay. It leaves out Sainte-Chapelle. The higher price buys access to attractions the Museum Pass structurally can’t include — commercial, ticketed experiences rather than state-run museums.
Paris Passlib’ Explore is the most expensive at every comparable tier, and the reason is on the label: it bundles unlimited public transport alongside museum and monument entry (Louvre, Orsay, Arc de Triomphe, Sainte-Chapelle, Panthéon, Orangerie, Rodin, Picasso, Conciergerie, Pompidou, the Seine cruise, and Versailles, all reservation-dependent where noted). It excludes the Eiffel Tower, the Catacombs, and Montparnasse. You’re paying for a transit pass and a museum pass merged into one product, which is why its cheapest tier already costs more than the Museum Pass’s most expensive one.
Which is cheapest for which trip
- Museum-heavy trip, own transit plan — the Paris Museum Pass wins outright. If you’re buying a Navigo or day tickets separately anyway, there’s no reason to pay for a bundle that duplicates transit you don’t need from it.
- Want the Eiffel Tower and a cruise without booking each separately — Go City’s All-Inclusive is the only one of the three that includes the Tower summit at all.
- Want transport handled and don’t want to think about the Metro — Passlib’ Explore is the only product where a single price covers both sightseeing and getting around, which can be worth the premium on a longer trip with a lot of moving between arrondissements.
None of the three is “the Paris pass” in any meaningful sense — they solve different problems at different prices, and picking by price alone before checking what’s actually included is how people end up disappointed at the Eiffel Tower ticket counter.
The verdict
Match the product to your itinerary before you look at the price tag. Museums only, skip the Museum Pass upgrade. Want the Tower and a cruise, go Go City. Want transport solved too, Passlib’. Whichever you’re weighing, price your actual attraction list against the specific pass through the calculator — see the Paris Museum Pass page for the full inclusion breakdown, and the Paris destination guide for wider trip planning.