Animals and farms
Drive among the animals at Thoiry
Wow Safari Thoiry · Thoiry (78)
The park, renamed Wow Safari Thoiry, is explored by car first: you drive through large enclosures where the animals come right up to the windows.
Rainy day with kids around Paris
When the rain sets in, the Paris region has plenty of indoor outings: museums, aquariums, trampoline parks, indoor play centres and workshops. Here are 24 ideas picked from over 650 places on the Trottimap map.
Pools, beaches and water
Spend the day at Villages Nature Paris
Center Parcs Villages Nature Paris · Bailly-Romainvilliers (77)
Without staying overnight, a day ticket gives access to Aqua Mundo, the heated water park at Villages Nature, with its slides and outdoor lagoon.
Museums and science
Step aboard Concorde
Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace · Le Bourget (93)
In the former Le Bourget air terminal, the halls line up First World War aircraft, prototypes and Ariane rockets, while giant planes stand on the tarmac.
Museums and science
Run a model railway
Rosny-Rail · Rosny-sous-Bois (93)
On the platform level of Rosny-sous-Bois station, enthusiastic volunteers show visitors round a small railway museum with the atmosphere of an old-time station.
Castles and heritage
Walk through the Hall of Mirrors
Château de Versailles · Versailles (78)
You tour Louis XIV's château through the State Apartments and the Hall of Mirrors, then step out into Le Nôtre's vast gardens, with their ornamental pools, groves and Grand Canal.
Museums and science
Follow the miniature trains at Rambolitrain
Musée Rambolitrain · Rambouillet (78)
This small municipal museum traces the history of the railway through a vast collection of toy trains and models, from the first steam locomotives to electric trains.
Leisure parks
Meet Mickey and step into Arendelle
Disneyland Paris · Coupvray (77)
The resort has two parks: Disneyland Park, with its castle and Fantasyland for little ones, and Disney Adventure World, the former Studios park renamed in March 2026 with the opening of an…
Museums and science
Travel the world in pictures at Albert-Kahn
Musée départemental Albert-Kahn · Boulogne-Billancourt (92)
At the start of the 20th century, the banker Albert Kahn had the whole world photographed, and the museum shows these first colour images, known as autochromes.
Museums and science
Discover contemporary art at MAC VAL
MAC VAL · Vitry-sur-Seine (94)
This departmental museum devoted to art made in France since the 1950s shows its collection in large, light-filled galleries in Vitry.
Castles and heritage
Explore the painter Caillebotte's park
Maison Caillebotte · Yerres (91)
Gustave Caillebotte's family home is open in the afternoons, but it is mainly the eleven-hectare park that keeps children busy.
Castles and heritage
Climb the keep at Vincennes
Château de Vincennes · Vincennes (94)
On the edge of Paris, the walls built under Charles V protect a keep more than fifty metres high, one of the tallest in Europe, where you visit the royal apartments and…
Castles and heritage
Explore the Château de Fontainebleau
Château de Fontainebleau · Fontainebleau (77)
Home to French monarchs for eight centuries, the château unfolds its gilded galleries, Napoleon's throne room and the queens' apartments.
Castles and heritage
Climb the keep at La Roche-Guyon
La Roche-Guyon · La Roche-Guyon (95)
Set against the chalk cliff, the Château de La Roche-Guyon combines 18th-century salons with rooms dug into the rock.
Castles and heritage
Visit the great pagoda of Évry
Pagode Khánh-Anh · Évry-Courcouronnes (91)
On the edge of the Parc aux Lièvres, the Khánh-Anh pagoda, funded by donations from Vietnamese worshippers, stacks up its glazed tile roofs.
Castles and heritage
Solve a mystery at Royaumont Abbey
Abbaye de Royaumont · Asnières-sur-Oise (95)
Founded by Saint Louis, this Cistercian abbey has kept its cloister, its vaulted refectory and a large park crossed by canals.
Castles and heritage
Row on the canals at Rambouillet
Château de Rambouillet · Rambouillet (78)
Around the château where kings, emperors and presidents have stayed, the gardens stretch over 150 hectares of canals and lawns.
Museums and science
Step inside Jean Cocteau's house in Milly
Maison Jean Cocteau · Milly-la-Forêt (91)
Jean Cocteau spent his last years in this house in Milly-la-Forêt, where you discover his furnished rooms, his drawings and his everyday objects.
Castles and heritage
Follow Dumas at the Château de Monte-Cristo
Château de Monte-Cristo · Le Port-Marly (78)
Alexandre Dumas had this small Renaissance-style château built on the hill at Le Port-Marly, with a Gothic pavilion opposite, the Château d'If, where he wrote.
Castles and heritage
Discover the Tinh Tâm pagoda
Pagode Tinh Tâm · Sèvres (92)
Hidden behind apartment blocks in Sèvres, this Vietnamese pagoda opened in 1990 surprises visitors with its 14-metre stupa and glazed tile roofs from China.
Pools, beaches and water
Splash about at the Dôme de Vincennes
Centre aquatique Dôme de Vincennes · Vincennes (94)
On the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, this aquatic centre run by Récréa combines a 25-metre sports pool, a leisure pool of about 260 m² and a paddling pool for the…
Leisure parks
Slide down at Royal Kids Ivry
Royal Kids Ivry-sur-Seine · Ivry-sur-Seine (94)
In Ivry-sur-Seine, this indoor park is built around a three-level structure, with a four-lane slide, a roller sledge run, a zip line and a football and basketball pitch.
Also worth a visit
- Spend a day under the big topCirque Micheletty (Une journée au cirque) · Villeneuve-la-Garenne · From age 3 · Shows and workshops
- Bounce on the trampolines at Jump XLJump XL Paris Gennevilliers · Gennevilliers · From age 2 · Leisure parks
- Play firefighters in a mini townPalomano Clichy · Clichy · All ages · Leisure parks
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