01 Summit access and the stair climb
6 compared from €41 typically 2h 4.20 average
From €41, median €89. The climbing tours, which take the stairs to the second floor and a lift from there, rate highest of the group at 4.62 from nearly three thousand reviews, and they cost less than the lift-only tickets. The summit itself is a glass-walled platform with Gustave Eiffel's apartment recreated below it, and the lift up from the second floor has its own queue that no ticket removes. Summit access is weather-dependent and closes in high wind.
02 Second-floor reserved entry
2 compared from €69 typically 2h 4.62 average
From €69, median €85, and the level most reviewers say they would pick again. At 115 metres the city is legible: the Seine bends, the Champ de Mars, the Trocadéro directly opposite. The first floor below it has the glass floor and a restaurant. Reserved entry is what you are buying; the security screening at the base is a separate queue and takes twenty minutes at midday whatever your ticket says.
03 The tower with a Seine cruise or a city tour
5 compared from €62 typically 4h 4.27 average
From €62, median €98, for four hours to a full day. The pairing is natural, because the boats leave from Port de la Bourdonnais at the foot of the tower, and the ratings are mixed for a predictable reason: a coach itinerary that adds the Louvre and Notre-Dame gives each of them forty minutes. The cruise-only combinations rate better than the ones with a bus attached.
