• Playground, swings and a carousel are all inside the park, though the sandpit by the Naumachie is fenced off while the colonnades await restoration
• Snacks and toilets on site, but no baby changing table, so plan diaper changes before you go
• Accessible for wheelchairs and strollers, with gates on Boulevard de Courcelles and Avenues Vélasquez, Van Dyck and Ruysdael

Parc Monceau is an English-style garden laid out in 1861, with winding paths, a pond ringed by stone colonnades (the Naumachie), a small pyramid and other 18th-century follies. Kids head for the playground, the swings and the carousel, then go looking for the Oriental plane tree planted in 1814.