Everyone visiting Paris mainly for the view of this Eiffel tower. No one will hesitate to go up in elevator and see the best view of city. But they are allowing only upto second floor and most of the time other floors always under renovation 😂 . We have special offer for kids and youth. From my view only country giving concession for youth under 24.and free for kids as usual. most of the time it will be more crowded and people needs to wait for more than 2 hours normally. But if weather factor helps you, you can get ticket very soon and see city view very soon :p , There is some special entry also there to skip the line and directly wait in another queue. But that way looks more crowded than normal ticket queue when I have been there better if you don't have any preferred time to visit the Eiffel you can get ticket there directly without getting pass for direct entry to the tower. There is 2 different queue to get into tower In two different pillars. But both will be crowded always 😜 . If the weather is too bad like -5 better avoid the plan to go there they may stop the service and you will feel more cold. People will go for walk on the steps as well. You can get more photos if you prefer to go by walk through steps.but you will loss your all energy while you get down. Outside of the tower these will be more sellers forced us to buy Eiffel tower models and key chains but those products were good and everything is cheap if you buy from any one of them other than buying from shop.