Most people leave Paris rating the Orsay above the Louvre, and the reason is size. A converted railway station holding the largest Impressionist collection anywhere, laid out on three floors you can see properly in two hours, against fifteen kilometres of galleries across the river. Entry starts at €20 with a €35 median across the twelve products compared here, and the best-rated ticket in Paris is a semi-private Orsay tour capped at six people. The ranking below orders everything on traveller rating weighted by review volume.
12 tickets and tours compared from €20 refreshed August 30, 2026
One score sets the order, the review-weighted rating, and no operator pays for a place. This is a small catalogue, so a product needs 250 reviews to enter the ranking, and at most four of one kind are seated. Several well-regarded sellers here are simply too new to clear the floor.
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4 of 12 products naming the Musée d'Orsay make the list: anything fewer than 250 reviews is held back until enough travellers have rated it, and no kind of ticket takes more than 4 rows. For the rest of the city, see every tour and ticket in Paris.
3 compared from €35 typically 2h 4.03 average
From €35, median €63, and the semi-private tour capped at six people carries the highest rating of any museum product in Paris at 4.97. Two hours, and the value is different from the Louvre's: the Orsay is small enough to navigate alone, so what you are paying for is the reading of the paintings rather than the route through the building. Worth it if the Impressionists are the reason you came.
2 compared from €23 typically 2h 3.16 average
From €23, median €40, and a ten-minute walk across the Seine into the Tuileries. Two oval rooms built to Monet's own specification hold eight water-lily panels at eye level, curved around the walls, with daylight from above. Forty-five minutes covers it. It is the quietest major museum in central Paris and the ratings here are middling only because the tickets are sold as bare admission.
7 compared from €20 typically 2h 4.05 average
From €20, median €33. The museum takes walk-ups most days, so a timed ticket here buys convenience rather than access, which is why this group rates lower than the guided one: reviewers compare what they paid against a queue that was not there. Book a slot for Sunday, for the first Sunday of the month when entry is free, and for the Thursday late opening.
€35 median price, from €20
A €35 median and a €20 floor, which is close to the museum's own admission price. Guided visits run €35 to €63 and are the only products here that add something the door does not sell. The Orangerie from €23 is a separate ticket ten minutes away, and a combined Orsay and Orangerie ticket exists at the door for less than buying both. Only a third of this catalogue offers free cancellation, the lowest share of any Paris page on this site.
2h typical visit · 25% with priority entry
Two hours is the median and it is the right length: the Impressionist floor under the roof, the Post-Impressionists, and the sculpture nave at ground level. The clock face on the fifth floor looks across the Seine to Montmartre and is the photograph everyone comes up for. Closed Mondays. Open late on Thursdays until nine-forty-five, which is the emptiest the Van Gogh room gets. First Sunday of the month is free and correspondingly busy.
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From €20 for entry, with a €35 median across the twelve products compared here. Guided tours start at €35 and the Orangerie at €23. The museum's own admission is close to the floor price, so a ticket here is mostly about the timed slot. Figures come from the latest data refresh.
On traveller ratings, the Orsay, and by a wide margin. It holds the Impressionists in a building you can see properly in two hours, and entry starts at €20. The Louvre is the bigger collection and the harder day. If you have one morning, most reviewers would spend it here.
Less than at the Louvre. The museum takes walk-ups most days and the queue is rarely long outside July and August. Book a slot for Sundays, for the free first Sunday of the month, and for the Thursday late opening. Note that only about a third of the tickets here are free to cancel.
Yes, and it is ten minutes away on foot through the Tuileries. Two oval rooms hold eight of Monet's water-lily panels at eye level in natural light, which is how he intended them to be seen. Forty-five minutes is enough. From €23, and a combined ticket with the Orsay is sold at the door for less than two separate ones.
Two hours covers the Impressionist floor, the Post-Impressionists and the sculpture nave, which is what most visitors come for. Three if you want the decorative arts and the Art Nouveau rooms as well. It closes on Mondays and opens late on Thursdays.
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