Seeing the prices displayed to take the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower (Paris 7th), Damien bursts into nervous laughter.
“Frankly, it pains me to pay 75 euros for three people, it's the price of a restaurant,” chokes up this forty-year-old who came from Bordeaux (Gironde) with his wife and daughter.
So when he learns that the ticket to visit the most emblematic monument in Paris has increased by more than 12 euros in seven years, his laugh turns yellow, and his voice resigned: “We have come this far, so we are going anyway do it.
But like everything else: everything increases and our purchasing power plummets.
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Like the Iron Lady, the full price entrance fee to major Parisian tourist sites has been continuously increasing in recent years.
In January, the increase in the Louvre ticket from 15 euros (purchase on site) to 22 euros threw a wrench in the pond, causing incomprehension among visitors and certain Parisian elected officials.
Elsewhere, increases are more gradual but no less significant, particularly for monuments and historic sites.
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