What to do in Paris with children

Not all travelers are couples in love, grown-ups, or solo travelers. There are parents who travel with children and although for many of us it is a litmus test they have fun planning excursions and activities so that the little ones can enjoy knowing another place.

Is paris a city kids friendly? At first glance, no. It's not even very pet friendly let's say but you can't keep the negative comments. You can always do something so don't give your thumb down to Paris for a family vacation. Here we leave you Some proposals.

Paris with children

Yes. Yes, it is possible. There is no freaking out. It may not be the best city in the world to go on family vacations, but it can be known, traveled and enjoyed. You just have to organize yourself because if you want your children to visit the emblematic sites, you will have to book in advance. The idea of ​​having two hours of waiting to walk through Versailles will not delight them ...

Tips: avoid visiting Parisian museums on Wednesday because French children usually don't have school that day and avoid them also the summer holidays. Now yes, our list of destinations in Paris to go with children.

City of Children

It is a beautiful children's museum where everything is designed for them. The ideal is to buy the tickets before and if you arrive time before your entry time you can walk through the beautiful Parc de la Villete.

This place It is for children between two and seven years old and it offers things that allow them to experience and explore the world. There are three central themes that have to do with the physical, cognitive and spatial development of the child. Through different activities they can discover how their body works, their senses, their emotions and more. There are mazes, mirrors, sounds, experiments with water, air and lights.

La Cité is open from Tuesday to Saturday And it works with sessions lasting an hour and a half, more or less. From Monday to Friday it opens from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. On weekends he does it from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2:30 to 4:30 pm.

The entrance costs 12 euros but it costs 9 if you are under 25 or over 65. The online reservation costs 2 euros. The ticket includes the session and a screening at the Louis-Lumiere cinema.

Villette Park

Around the Cité des Enfants is this amusement park, once a manufacturing area. Bernard Tschumi is behind the design of all games and leit motivate it was the children. Tschumi is a French-American architect, decontructivist, who always guides his work from his personal freedom.

At the beginning of the '80s he won the competition to design the games in the park and today here and in the Acropolis Museum in Athens are his best works.

El park is in the XIX district, on avenue Jean Jaurès and it has 55 hectares. You can let the kids get lost in the huge bamboo maze or slide down the dragon slide, among the best of the group of distinctive constructions here.

A canal, the Canal de l'Ourcq, divides it in the middle and it has about eight spaces: La Grande Halle de la Villete, the library, two theaters, thematic gardens that hide a submarine and a field of horses, the National Conservatory of Music and Dance, the City of Music, the City of Sciences and the City of the Children, the Dome with Imax films and a Concert Hall.

Entrance is free and the park is open 24 hours a day, although, of course, certain spaces have specific hours. You can get there by bus (75, 151, PC2, PC3, 139, 150, 152, or by metro using Line 5 or 7.

Paris beach

We have talked before about the beaches of Paris or Paris plague. In fact, these are sandbanks that are especially brought to the banks of the Seine for entertainment in summer. Between July and August these urban beaches They include food stalls, concerts and games.

It's a really cool way to enjoy Paris and I think kids can enjoy it.

Garden plants

Gardens are always good places for children to run freely. This garden it's in district 5 and it's a botanical garden that has a small zoo where you can see monkeys and a museum, the Museum of Natural History, where you will see dinosaur bones in a huge room, well from the XNUMXth century. They will feel in The Mummy.

This park has little more than 23 hectares on Rue Cuvier. Open all year round from 8 am to 5:30 pm or a little later depending on the season. Admission is free to all the gardens that compose it, the rose garden, the alpine garden, the botanical garden and the lively plant garden.

Torre Eiffel

Obviously, we cannot deny the children this visit, although they must be warned that there will be people and wait. You can book in advance and buy the tickets to climb the ladder online, directly from the official website. This way the waiting queue will be shorter.

If your children are older, they will have no problem climbing the 600-odd steps to the top. On the first level you can rest and watch the video with the history of the tower or enjoy a coffee while the boys go around.

However if you have small children, less than six years old, it is best not to go up. If the day is nice you can have a picnic under the tower, on the Champ de Mars, go to the carousel, rest or have an ice cream, always with the high tower as a backdrop.

Arch of Triumph

It is another typical attraction but it is worth it if you have big children because you can go up and see the city. The staircase has 284 steps, there is an elevator as well, and the views are great. You can always include a walk on the Champs Elysees, stop at the Laduree and buy macaroons and enter the Disney store.

Tuileries Garden

Another garden? Yes, children are happy when they can be loose so don't hesitate to make them visit gardens. In this case there is a great central fountain because you can rent a little boat and make it go. And if you go in summer there is a fantastic ferris wheel and tasty ice creams.

And if you are not afraid of museums there is the Musee de l'Orangerie.

The catacombs

If your children love horror stories, nothing better than Catacombs of Paris or Pere Lachaise cemetery. If you are not afraid of these things they are darker options but also entertaining. It all depends on how old they are, of course.

Finally, a very obvious destination: Disney Paris. The icing on the cake.


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