Paris, three days with three children--suggestions?

mythmom
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:39:29 +0000

Also took my kids to Paris at around that age. Favorite places were Musee d’Orsay and its gorgeous Belle Epoque ice cream parlor.

The Cluny museum with unicorn tapestries. They’d seen some of them at the Cloisters in NY, our stomping ground.

S loved Louvre (he is the younger!!), D did not.

Montmartre and Sacre Coeur. It is touristy but wonderful. The metro station there is gorgeous too.

D loved, loved shopping on the Champs Elysees. Laduree is now their favorite restaurant in the world. It has frosted macaroons in 28 flavors and the best hot chocolate I have ever tasted. Another gorgeous Belle Epoque room.

Right across a tiny street from Laduree on a side street (rue lincoln and le champs elysee) is an old fashioned English language cinema. It was quite a rest for tired feet. And it was fun for the kids to explain the plot of the English language movie to very polite Parisian francophones. We saw Gosford Park there, and the ending was a tad confusing for the non-English speaking folk.