"amazing value fir money, and real freedom from transport. staff at centre amazing. Only quibble is transport hub at Perache highly confusing - would have helped to have a guide to transport and Perache hub. otherwise brilliant!"
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Lyon's Official Card, Explained Honestly
The official Lyon City Card — 26 museums plus unlimited metro, trams, buses and the Fourvière funiculars, 4.6/5 from 691 bookings, from $37. Two honest rules first: validate at every connection or the ticket isn't valid, and never let a short card span May 1.
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- 4.6 / 5 691+ Reviews
- 26 Museums Free + All TCL Transport
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- Free Cancellation
The Experience
What the Card Includes
From the office's listing — museums, transport, tour and cruise.
Highlights
- Travel freely across Lyon with unlimited metro, tram, bus and funicular access
- Discover 26 museums and their temporary exhibitions (Musée des Confluences ...)
- Relax for a moment on a cruise along the Saone
- Explore Lyon's hidden traboules and iconic districts with guided walking tours
- Save with discounts on theaters, bike tours, and more
What's Included
- Travel freely across Lyon with unlimited metro, tram, bus and funicular access
- Discover 26 museums and their temporary exhibitions, including the Musée des Confluences and the Lumière Museum
- Relax for a moment on a cruise along the Saone
- Explore Lyon's hidden traboules and iconic districts with expert guided walking tours
- Save with discounts on theaters, bike tours, and more
How the Card Works
Four steps from purchase to the last validation.
Count Museums AND Rides
The card's math has two meters: two museums plus a normal day's TCL riding already beats the 24h price. Funiculars count.
Activate on a Morning
Continuous hours from first use — a 9 am validation stretches every tier to its full length.
Validate Every Connection
The office's own rule: first use AND each change of line, or the ticket isn't valid. Thirty seconds of habit.
Book the Evenings Separately
The card owns your days; Lyon's food owns the nights — bouchons and tastings book apart, and should.
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The Card's Lyon
Fourvière above the rooftops, the Confluences' clouds of steel, the funicular climbing.
Book Your Experience
Check Availability & Prices
Select your preferred date and time. Instant confirmation — free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure.
The Card, the Singles, or Transport Alone
Lyon's honest three-way. The card is the tourist office's own product — provider-verified OnlyLyon — and unlike most Italian cards, unlimited transport IS the headline inclusion.
| Feature | PROVIDER: ONLYLYON · 4.6 ★ (691) Lyon City Card | Buy attractions individually | TCL transport tickets only |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | From $37 for 24h, tiers to 96h (about €32–€68 at the tourist office) | Confluences $16 · Beaux-Arts and the rest at their own gates | TCL's own 24h–72h tickets at machines — the budget answer if museums aren't the plan |
| What's covered | 26 museums + unlimited metro/tram/bus/funiculars + a guided tour + a seasonal Saône cruise | Exactly what you pick | Transport only — including the Fourvière funiculars |
| The funicular detail | The two Fourvière funiculars are covered — the climb every visitor makes | Pay per ride | Covered — they're part of the TCL network |
| Best for | Two-plus museum days — the transport alone erases half the card's price | One-museum visits and food-first trips | Walkers and eaters who'll ride the funicular twice and call it transit |
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What the card doesn't cover — deliberately
The Traboules, the Food, the $16 Museum Ticket
Lyon's other half books separately: the 5.0-rated traboules tour, the food walks, and the Confluences single for one-museum visitors. Free cancellation on all.
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Two lines frame this site: the card sold here is the official one — the activity provider on the listing is OnlyLyon Tourisme et Congrès, the tourist office itself — and we are an independent guide, here to run the math and print the validation rules the sales pages bury.
Lyon’s card differs from its Italian cousins in the best way: transport is the headline inclusion. Unlimited metro, trams, buses and — the detail that matters daily — the two Fourvière funiculars, on top of 26 museums with their temporary shows, an office-guided tour and a seasonal Saône cruise. The math follows: two museums plus a normal day’s riding already beats the 24-hour tier’s price. The fine print we print: validate at every connection, and never let a short card span May 1, when TCL sleeps. The full worth-it breakdown, everything included, the four tiers priced, and the transport playbook.
Guest Reviews
What Our Guests Say
4.6/5
from 691 verified guests
"FANTASTIC!!! A super beautiful city, both old and new, easily accessible both on foot and by public transport. And with the Citycard, you can enjoy mobility, museums, a guide, a boat trip, and a discount on clothing... That's definitely a real must!"
"Quentin was an amazing guide! He was very knowledgeable and easy to follow! The pace of the tour was exciting without tiring me out. Stops were strategically planned and we covered a lot of interesting sites around Lyon. One of my favorite parts of the tour was walking through the traboules and learning the history behind them. Also the Lyonnais Wall of Art and the story behind it was fascinating! I would highly recommend a walking tour with Quentin!"
"Uniform colours for the underground, tram and buses on the city maps and notices. Some underground stations are difficult to find. A large M like in Paris would be good."
"L'acquisto della card è sicuramente consigliabile.Il suo costo viene azzerato dalle varie attività gratuite incluse.Attenzione al Museo del cinema, perché nella card è riportato come gratuito,ma mi hanno fatto pagare 11€ a persona"
"Great investment if you want to visit more places at different locations. You just need to pick up a card from their office to use the public transport"
"I like the network transport. Be carefull on May 01st the local transport was out of service."
"the city pass was great value - very convenient for travel around the tram and metro system included an interesting history walk and an afternoon boat cruise with excellent bilingual guide even managed to visit a few museums and I highly recommend the one on he history of life/existence - could have spent 2 days there ! 1 stop from a huge shopping mall with great food options definitely worth the purchasing"
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Lyon City Card — Frequently Asked Questions
The tourist office's own card: what the tiers cost, what 26 museums plus all of TCL actually means, the May 1 trap, and where the food fits.
Run the two meters: transport and museums. Unlimited TCL — metro, trams, buses AND the Fourvière funiculars — replaces a fistful of tickets on its own, and the 26-museum list (Confluences, Beaux-Arts, Gadagne, the Roman theatres' museum) does the rest: two museums plus normal riding beats the 24h card's price. The full math: the worth-it breakdown.
The tourist office's list: free entry to 26 museums with their temporary exhibitions, unlimited TCL public transport, a guided old-town tour with an office guide, a seasonal Saône cruise, the Fourvière rooftops tour, the planetarium, Mini World with queue-skip, Guignol puppet shows and a silk-weaving demonstration. The attraction-by-attraction detail: what's included.
Four tiers — 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours — running from about €32 to about €68 at the tourist office's shop; the marketplace listing here starts at $37 with free cancellation. Which length fits which trip: the price and tier guide.
The metro isn't free for anyone — but with the card it effectively is: unlimited TCL riding is the card's headline inclusion, funiculars included. One validation rule matters: validate at first use AND at every connection, or the ticket isn't valid — the office says so plainly. The transport playbook: getting around Lyon.
France's Labour Day is the one day the card's transport side goes dark — no TCL service on May 1 — and most museums close too. A card spanning May 1 buys a walking day; plan around it.
Seasonally: the Saône cruise (or a sightseeing-bus tour, depending on season) is bundled in winter, and carries the office's own seasonal terms in summer — their shop page is the live source on the current arrangement. Treat the cruise as a bonus, not the reason to buy; the transport and museums carry the card's math regardless.
The card runs on continuous hours from first use — 24, 48, 72 or 96 — and the transport pass activates at your first TCL validation. Morning activation stretches every tier furthest; the itineraries in the days guide are built on it.
The famous hidden passages of Vieux Lyon and Croix-Rousse are public and free — no ticket, no card needed. What earns its money is a guide who knows which doors and which stories: the best-reviewed private traboules tour holds a 5.0 from over a thousand travelers and books separately — it's in the tours list.
The honest answer: the card is a museums-and-transport product; the bouchons, food tours and tastings that define Lyon for many visitors book separately. Budget the card for days and the food for evenings — the pairing, not the choice, is the Lyon move. Our picks are in the tours list.
Two full days covers Vieux Lyon, Fourvière and a museum flagship; three lets Croix-Rousse and the Confluences breathe. The day-by-day, matched to card tiers: the days guide.
Bookable here as the tourist office's own marketplace listing (provider: OnlyLyon Tourisme), or direct at the office's shop — visiterlyon.com — and its city-centre desks. Same product either door; buy wherever the rest of your Lyon plans live.
No — this is an independent planning and booking guide. The card sold here is the office's own product (the provider line on the listing reads OnlyLyon Tourisme et Congrès), and the office sells direct at visiterlyon.com. We earn a commission on marketplace bookings at no extra cost to you.
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