Some days call for a big outing. This list gathers the theme parks, zoos, aquariums, farms and famous sights that we think hold up with kids, from a full day of rides to an hour with the animals or a climb for the view. Each page covers what to know before you buy tickets.
Disneyland Paris is a Disney resort with two theme parks a short walk apart. Disneyland Park is the classic one, built around Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street, with rides themed on Disney stories.
Disney Adventure World, the second park, opened World of Frozen and a lake called Adventure Bay in March 2026, alongside Avengers Campus and the Ratatouille ride.
The only amusement park inside the Paris city limits, set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne. Around 45 rides run from a dragon roller coaster and flying swings to a pirate ship, a mirror maze and a Guignol puppet theater.
The farm side has dwarf goats, alpacas, Ouessant sheep and some 450 birds, and toddlers get a paddling pool and a bear-themed maze.
The Natural History Museum's zoo sits on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, under its landmark Grand Rocher. Over 3,000 animals live in five biozones: Africa, Patagonia, Europe, Amazon-Guyana and Madagascar.
Kids watch giraffes and white rhinos on the African plain, penguins and sea lions in Patagonia, and lemurs up close in Madagascar. A tropical greenhouse with manatees makes a warm stop on a cold day.
Aquarium de Paris sits under the Trocadéro gardens, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Around 50 tanks hold some 13,500 fish and invertebrates from French seas, including 35 sharks and 400 coral colonies. The jellyfish gallery has 24 tanks with species that rotate.
Talks and shows during the day come with entry. The route slopes gently with no stairs, so strollers go all the way around.
France Miniature is a park of 117 scale models of French landmarks, built at 1/30 of their real size across 5 hectares of gardens. Model trains run on 4 km of track between the monuments.
The park also has 25 rides and family challenges, including Fort Boyard and Koh Lanta games based on the TV shows.
An aquarium on the lower level of the Val d'Europe shopping center in Serris, one RER stop from the Disney parks. Kids walk through a tunnel under a 600,000-liter cold-water Atlantic tank as sharks pass overhead, then watch king and gentoo penguins swim. Other zones cover the Amazon, Asia, a tropical zone, the French coast and a shark island, with staff talks and feedings through the day.
A working farm, farmed by the Laureau family since 1746, beside the Versailles château park. A loop path passes pens of dwarf goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, Shetland ponies, pigs and hens, then winds through a small wood dotted with barrel huts.
Kids can stroke the goats, watch the animals being fed, and join short workshops making bread, butter, apple juice or recycled paper.
The Eiffel Tower is the 330-meter iron tower on the Champ de Mars, with three levels open to visitors. The first level has a glass floor where kids can stand and look straight down to the ground.
Stairs climb about 600 steps to the second level, and elevators go all the way up. The top, at 276 meters, holds a champagne bar and Gustave Eiffel's old private apartment.
A theme park built on the Astérix comics, split into five themed worlds: Gaul, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Vikings. Its 51 attractions run from a mini train, flying chairs and play areas for young kids to big coasters like Osiris Convolvulis.
There are nine water rides and live shows. In fall the park adds haunted houses, and in winter a Gaulish Christmas with an ice rink.
A Wild West theme park built around a huge sand dune. Rides are split across three themed areas: small flying rides and a spinning canoe in the Vallée des Mississi'Ptits, roller coasters and water rides in the Canyon du Color'Ado, and hot-air balloon rides in the desert zone.
Stunt shows include a train attack and trick riding, and a train crosses the dune to a farm with pony rides.
Some days call for a big outing. This list gathers the theme parks, zoos, aquariums, farms and famous sights that we think hold up with kids, from a full day of rides to an hour with the animals or a climb for the view. Each page covers what to know before you buy tickets.
Disneyland Paris is a Disney resort with two theme parks a short walk apart. Disneyland Park is the classic one, built around Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street, with rides themed on Disney stories.
Disney Adventure World, the second park, opened World of Frozen and a lake called Adventure Bay in March 2026, alongside Avengers Campus and the Ratatouille ride.
The only amusement park inside the Paris city limits, set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne. Around 45 rides run from a dragon roller coaster and flying swings to a pirate ship, a mirror maze and a Guignol puppet theater.
The farm side has dwarf goats, alpacas, Ouessant sheep and some 450 birds, and toddlers get a paddling pool and a bear-themed maze.
The Natural History Museum's zoo sits on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, under its landmark Grand Rocher. Over 3,000 animals live in five biozones: Africa, Patagonia, Europe, Amazon-Guyana and Madagascar.
Kids watch giraffes and white rhinos on the African plain, penguins and sea lions in Patagonia, and lemurs up close in Madagascar. A tropical greenhouse with manatees makes a warm stop on a cold day.
Aquarium de Paris sits under the Trocadéro gardens, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Around 50 tanks hold some 13,500 fish and invertebrates from French seas, including 35 sharks and 400 coral colonies. The jellyfish gallery has 24 tanks with species that rotate.
Talks and shows during the day come with entry. The route slopes gently with no stairs, so strollers go all the way around.
France Miniature is a park of 117 scale models of French landmarks, built at 1/30 of their real size across 5 hectares of gardens. Model trains run on 4 km of track between the monuments.
The park also has 25 rides and family challenges, including Fort Boyard and Koh Lanta games based on the TV shows.
An aquarium on the lower level of the Val d'Europe shopping center in Serris, one RER stop from the Disney parks. Kids walk through a tunnel under a 600,000-liter cold-water Atlantic tank as sharks pass overhead, then watch king and gentoo penguins swim. Other zones cover the Amazon, Asia, a tropical zone, the French coast and a shark island, with staff talks and feedings through the day.
A working farm, farmed by the Laureau family since 1746, beside the Versailles château park. A loop path passes pens of dwarf goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, Shetland ponies, pigs and hens, then winds through a small wood dotted with barrel huts.
Kids can stroke the goats, watch the animals being fed, and join short workshops making bread, butter, apple juice or recycled paper.
The Eiffel Tower is the 330-meter iron tower on the Champ de Mars, with three levels open to visitors. The first level has a glass floor where kids can stand and look straight down to the ground.
Stairs climb about 600 steps to the second level, and elevators go all the way up. The top, at 276 meters, holds a champagne bar and Gustave Eiffel's old private apartment.
A theme park built on the Astérix comics, split into five themed worlds: Gaul, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Vikings. Its 51 attractions run from a mini train, flying chairs and play areas for young kids to big coasters like Osiris Convolvulis.
There are nine water rides and live shows. In fall the park adds haunted houses, and in winter a Gaulish Christmas with an ice rink.
A Wild West theme park built around a huge sand dune. Rides are split across three themed areas: small flying rides and a spinning canoe in the Vallée des Mississi'Ptits, roller coasters and water rides in the Canyon du Color'Ado, and hot-air balloon rides in the desert zone.
Stunt shows include a train attack and trick riding, and a train crosses the dune to a farm with pony rides.
