Paris 2024 Olympic Games: SNCF tickets for the opening ceremony will go on sale from mid-April

Reservations are currently impossible. Train tickets departing from or arriving at three Parisian stations on July 26, the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, will go on sale in mid-April, the Minister responsible for Transport Patrice Vergriete said this Thursday on TF1. The SNCF has put up for sale Wednesday its summer program, with the exception of this dateyet on the Friday of one of the biggest weekends of cross-border holidaymakers next summer, for the Paris-Gare de Lyon, Paris-Bercy and Paris-Austerlitz stations.

This situation is due to the fact that “the Paris police headquarters has not yet completely finished its plan for securing the opening ceremony, we will know at the beginning of April,” declared the Minister for Transport. “This means that from mid-April, we will obviously have access to tickets for these Parisian stations,” promised Patrice Vergriete, while assuring that during the rest of the Olympics, “very few” public transport stations would be closed.

“Maybe it’s time to get out your bike”

Patrice Vergriete recalled the existence of the website making it possible to anticipate travel during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Île-de-France and in regional towns hosting events. More broadly, the minister called on people wishing to travel during sporting events to “adapt (their) behavior”. “Perhaps this is the time to take out your bike, because there will be no restrictions on walking or cycling” outside of the opening ceremony, he advised.