The Saint Chapelle is stunning! You first enter on the ground floor with a beautiful ceiling and arched roof. Using the spiral staircase to the second floor was tiring but so very worth it as the top chapel is amazing with its stained glass windows. Lovely to sit and look at the detail. There was ongoing restoration work until around Oct 2022 but that didn’t limit the visit which took less than 1 hour for the chapel tour. Our joint ticket gave access to the Conciergerie. This is a separate part of the building which can be accessed after exiting Saint Chapelle. The Conciergerie was great with the use of an interactive tablet displaying what the building was used for and what it looked like hundreds of years ago. There was security at each building entrance and a small queue which went in quickly (around 10 mins). For us, the whole visit took 2.5hours at a leisurely pace (including gift shop).

Timed ticket worked out fine. Two lines one for on the hour and one for on the 1/2 hour. This prevents intermingling. Much Bentham waiting in line to by ticket. Nice cafe across the street to get a coffee and use restroom. Public restroom on the site of the chapel was filthy with many facilities out of order.

St. Chapelle is absolutely breath taking, the experience is not very long but its worth it. You do have to go through security and also the line to get into the building, if you get the conciergerie and St. Chapelle option, you have to go through security in both and line to get in also in both, since I had a skip the line ticket that made a difference. All the security and having the police surround the buildings and having to make all those lines do take some of the magic out of the experience. But these are the times we live now. Enjoy it, it really is beautiful. Sunny or not.