Queuing up at museums in March ?

We will be in Paris next week ( 8th).. and the Musuem Pass seems a bit expensive, unless you go to at least 3 museums a day.people say the Pass is good to avoid lineups.We wondered how bad the lineups are at this time of year.. many of the ones we are going to are a little more obscure.

I know Dorsay, Louvre, and Pompidou have lineups, but how bad would it be in early March??. What if you go to these at opening in the am??

Comments much appreciated .Merci bien!

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kateli, you are correct while the museum passes are great for convience they are not saving you any money unless you see at least three sites a day.

You do not have to be in a line of any consequence, as least I have not been in one any of the 5or 6 times I have gone in the summer. The key is DO NOT use the Pyramid entrance. Enter through the underground shopping mall ( entrance off Rue Du Rivoli, there is an awning and escalators downstairs) or enter from metro station. Buy ticket from machine. Viola, never much line here as everyone rushs to enter by Pyramid. Feel free to leave that way if you just want to %26quot;enter the Pyramid%26quot; LOL .

Orsay, well go early.

Most other museums do not have huge line ups. I do think the Orangerie also has some line up issues, but just make it one that you enter early( check opeing times online)

The lines are almost always bad at Eiffel Tower, and other then arriving before opening there is no way of avoided them, they do not accept pass. Perhaps you will hit it lucky though, another hint , line up for taking stairs is always much shorter( and its fun too!)

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We have never had a line at the Pompidou and have only once in a dozen time had a line at the Louvre -- you should not have a line in March at either -- enter the Louvre through the Carousel entrance and you will almost certainly have no line

the D%26#39;Orsay often has a line -- you can buy a year long ticket at a small office to the left of the main entrance which is good ANY day except for the day on which it is purchased -- stroll by and pick one up if the line is too long when you first try -- in March is you try early afternoon you may find no long line (early morning is always the worst time for museums that have lines)

the Orangerie is the one other museum where we have encountered lines -- I don%26#39;t know how to game that one

but all the others the Jacquemart Andres, the Nissim Camondo, the Marmottan, the Picaso -- none of those usually have lines

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We were in Paris last week and had also contemplated purchasing the pass just to avoid the lines. We decided against it and made the right choice. Although we did not visit the D%26#39;Orsay and the Louvre during this trip, we did go the Pompidou and you do not have any long lines to bypass. The lines to purchase tickets to the Eiffel were not so bad, but the line on the 2nd level to get to the elevators for the 3rd were awful. We waited 45 minutes and boy was it windy.

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