• Eiffel Tower across the river, so parents get the classic tower view while the kids ride
• Carriages as well as horses, so a nervous or very young rider can sit in a shell-shaped carriage instead
• Next to the Warsaw Fountain, with the gardens running down to the Seine for a walk after the ride

A two-tier carousel in the Jardins du Trocadéro, below the Palais de Chaillot and across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Gilded trim, strings of lights and painted panels of Paris monuments (Sacré-Cœur among them) ring the top, and it plays fairground tunes as it turns. Kids pick a painted horse, a shell-shaped carriage or the hot-air balloon gondola.