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Where to buy tickets for the 2024 Olympic Games?
Only one official website sells tickets for the French 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Paris 2024 Official Ticketing – Olympic and Paralympic Games
This Paris 2024 Organising Committee secures and operates the website.
Ticket prices range from 24 to 2 700 €, depending on the type of event and the place of the competition.
Since 15 May 2024, you can also buy tickets from other buyers via the official resale platform. You will then have to download the “Paris 2024 Tickets” app.
Several offers are available:
- Customised packs (first tickets up for sale). The tailor-made pack allows you to select tickets for 3 competition sessions. All the sports and venues are covered, except surfing for which single tickets will be proposed. For example: a ticket for a beach volleyball quarter final, a ticket for a rugby 7s semi-final and a ticket for the taekwondo final;
- Single tickets ;
- "hospitality" and "travel" packages. The hospitality programme, developed by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, offers standard and tailor-made packages that include guaranteed tickets to the sporting events, access to in-stadium and out-of-stadium hospitality areas as well as travel, accommodation, cultural activities, fine dining and sporting offers. These packages are only available through On Location.
Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies, and for certain sessions, will not be available during the phase of tailor-made pack sales but you can buy them during the second single-ticket sales phase in May 2023.
Can I cancel the tickets for the 2024 Olympic Games?
No.
When you buy online, you have at least a 14-day right of withdrawal. However, when buying tickets for leisure activities on specific dates, there is usually no legal right of cancellation.
So you cannot cancel purchased Olympic Games tickets and you will not receive a refund!
How can I retrieve my tickets after the purchase?
The "Paris 2024 tickets" application allows you to retrieve your tickets on your smartphone. You need to download the application and then log in using the e-mail address and password you used when you purchased your ticket.
By clicking on the ticket in the application, you will get a QR code (available a few hours before the start of the session). To access the session on the day, you will need to display this QR code on your mobile device.
Good to know: Tickets are only available in electronic format. If you do not have a connected device to access your electronic ticket, print out the purchase confirmation and take it with you. You can use it at the entrance to the session sites.
Are there specific tickets for people with a disability or of reduced mobility?
Yes, they can get easy-access tickets and tickets that are adapted to wheelchairs.
- For the Olympics: easy-access tickets and tickets adapted to persons in a wheelchair
- For the Paralympics: easy-access tickets and tickets adapted to persons in a wheelchair
Where to buy tickets for the Paralympic events?
Ticketing for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will officially open in autumn 2023, via the same ticketing platform.
Concerning hospitality and travel packages: On Location will also be the one and only official hospitality provider for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
How to book accommodation for the 2024 Olympic Games
Once you have reserved your tickets for the Rugby World Cup, the Olympic and/or Paralympic Games, the next step is to find a place to stay in Paris or in another French city hosting the Games. What types of accommodation are available? How can you book them? And what should you look out for when booking a hotel or other type of accommodation that seems suited to your needs? All information on booking accommodation in France during the Rugby World Cup or the 2024 Olympics on the ECC France website.
Driving in France during the Olympic Games
If you're driving to France for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, find out what you need to know to avoid any problems on the road in our press release.
Public transport during the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics
Effective a week before the opening ceremony of the Games on 26 July 2024, a number of bridges, metro and train stations in Paris will be closed. Plan your journey in advance to avoid moving around in Paris on this day. You will not be able to rely on public transportation as usual.
17 metro and RER stations will be closed between July 18 and 26. The full list is available.
From July 8, bridges between Pont d'Austerlitz and Pont de Bir Hakeim will close. Bus lines will be diverted if they typically cross the security perimeter.
For the whole duration of the Games, some metro stations are completely closed (Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, Concorde, Tuileries).
What types of public transport exist in Paris?
- The Metro: it is a popular and rapid transit system for public commute in Paris.
- Bus: there are hundreds of stops throughout the city. However, during the games, certain bus routes may not be able to reach their terminus due to zone restrictions.
- RER: The RER is a rapid transit train that functions like the metro, but with significantly less stops, making it faster.
- Shuttle Busses: Paris 2024 is currently working with public transport companies to increase the number of vehicles in service and to set up shuttles to reach some competition venues that are difficult to access. More information to come.
- Trams: the tram lines only run in the city’s outskirts and therefore visitors don't usually take them.
- Car Sharing: Here is a list of certified car sharing operators in Ile-de-France: Certified car-sharing operators | Île-de-France Mobilités (iledefrance-mobilites.fr)
- Bicycles: You can use one of the many self-service Velib’ bike hire locations. Below is a map of these stations, as well as the number of bicycles currently available at each: Carte des stations - Vélib' Métropole (velib-metropole.fr)
During the Olympics and Paralympics, stations will be open from 5:30 in the morning until 1:15am on weekdays, and until 2:15am on Friday and Saturday nights.
What are the available tickets and passes?
You can either buy single tickets or a “Pass Navigo Easy”. The pass costs €2 and allows you store up to 30 tickets on it. There is no individual name on the pass, which means it can be successively used by different users.
Ticket prices will increase compared to usual prices for the duration of the 2024 Olympics. The surcharge will be effective from 20 July to 8 September 2024. Single metro tickets will rise from €2.10 to €4, and a book of ten tickets from €16.90 to €32. Train and RER tickets will cost €6.
Tourists can opt for a Paris 2024 pass (“Passe Paris”), which will enable them to travel throughout the region for a gradually increasing rate which ranges from €16 per day to €70 per week. The pass gets cheaper the more days you purchase. The pass offers illimited access to all competition sites and "fan zones", as well as the two main airports of the region (Orly and Charles de Gaulle). You can purchase the pass via the forthcoming Transports Publics Paris App or online at this link: Paris 2024 Pass | Île-de-France Mobilités (iledefrance-mobilites.fr)
If you hop on a bus without a ticket, you can buy one directly from the bus driver. From the 20 July 2024, bus tickets will cost €5.
Good to know: metro tickets never expire. You can therefore stock up on tickets before the price increase and use them during the Olympics and Paralympics.
How can I plan my route in and around Paris?
The public transport authority “Île-de-France Mobilités” launched a mobile application. The application, called “Transport Public Paris 2024”, is now available in 6 languages (French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German) on iOS and Android. It includes a route planner, personalised information on traffic and a ticketing module. This app features a special algorithm designed to limit congestion and find the quickest route to destination. To make use of this feature, choose “Paris Journey 2024” in pink at the top of the app’s route planner.
Good to know: the same route planners’ algorithm used by the official app will also be used by private navigation apps as well as SNCF and RATP apps.
