This popular: these are the crowds on a weekday afternoon in early August. With tickets for the elevators to the top sold out well in advance and long lines for walk-up tickets, the Tower has certainly lost none of its popularity.
We went to look near the end of our time in Paris; surprisingly, up to that point, we hadn’t even seen it, except a brief glimpse from the highway as we returned from a weekend in Normandy. Here’s the view of the tower from the Avenue P. Kennedy station on the RER commuter train.
Hope you were able to keep your wallet in that throng. Exactly the kind of place Paris’ expert pick-pockets like to frequent.
And yes, it’s amazing popular, even well into the evening.