• Lawns open around the clock, while the eastern gardens are gated: open from 8am on weekdays and 9am on weekends, closing between 5:45pm in winter and 9:30pm in summer
• Toilets and baby changing on site, plus drinking fountains around the park
• Footbridge across the Seine: the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir leads straight to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on the other bank

Parc de Bercy runs along the Seine on the site of the old wine warehouses, and its old rail tracks still show in the cobbled paths. The open lawns at the west end have a playground, a carousel, a skate park and ping-pong tables. Further east, gated gardens hold a vegetable patch, a vineyard, a maze, duck ponds and a small lake with an island.