Christmas eve/day in Paris

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve tweaked it again!

Christmas Eve:

9 am le louvre (1 hour), snack/maybe check out Christmas market/Ferris wheel at the Tuileries and walk to the scare-coeur and tour, Notre-dame, and then return back for a rest. Head back out a few hours later for a childrens river cruise at pont neuf (should be at sunset), and then head back to hotel de ville or maybe the Christmas market at the Tuileries.

Christmas Day:

Celebrate at apt til noon
Eiffel Tower+go up at 1, wander around gardens some, head to dinner (maybe that place someone above mentioned. Only issue is that it’s about an hour away from the Eiffel Tower so that’s hard….

12/26:

Angelinas breakfast at 9 (If we can get reservations)
Musee des arts Forains (big Christmas festival there with lots of cool things and only open twice a year)
Return to apartment and decide together for evening.

So not possible to fit in galeries Lafayette nor champs-elysees or montmartre…unless the kids feel motivated to go out our last night to one of those areas.

I think I’ve got it! Still debating on that restaurant due to how far it is from where we’ll be but it looks nice for a family night out.

Oh my god. What happens if it rains, or one of your kids gets an ear infection or the train workers go on strike, like they love to do. My husband gets frustrated if I try to schedule him at all, let alone this minute to minute plan. Chill out a bit.

There's a lot of times and places where planning ahead is NOT needed and you can just schedule your lodging and go with the flow and I do that often during trips. In a huge city such as Paris, especially OVER the holidays when many things have different hours and reservations are required....it makes sense to plan ahead when stuff. Many activities and restaurants book up so it makes sense to do some planning. In case anyone was wondering....Christmas eve at Le Train Bleu is already not available for a family of 4. Of course things can change and you make the best of it but it helps to have a plan. My husband commented that he thought we just went with the flow in Paris during our previous trips but he only thinks that because I did all the planning and he just got to relax (which is fine but yeah, it is required in big cities). We have NOT planned out "every minute" in smaller cities we are visiting on this trip, in fact I've planned nothing at all but lodging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the same person who was posting a lot last winter about a trip to montreal? The very detailed but often changing itineraries with young kids is so similar

What a weird post. Even assuming you are right (which seems a stretch) no wants to be stalked on this board for asking questions about two different vacations a year apart.

Stalked lmao. You don’t notice patterns of editing among posters who frequent these forums? Maybe because I am a writer I notice this. There are definitely people who have a distinctive enough writing style or write about certain topics enough you start to “recognize” them. I was wrong but OP wrote about planning a trip with kids at Christmas a lot like this other person did about going to montreal at Christmas.

So first of all you were wrong so not sure why you are bragging about being a writer who notices distinctive writing styles. But more importantly what does it matter, except perhaps to your inflated sense of writerly style detection? If it had been the same person why would it matter for purposes of this thread? It’s just weird if not rude to try and link people’s posts based solely on their style (assuming they aren’t trolls and each topic deserves its own thread), and again that would be assuming you could even do it which is apparently a lot harder than you think.

And I recognize I am not guilty of taking the thread off topic so maybe someone will report me, but if it stops this weirdness from recurring I’ll consider it worth it.

[Anonymous]

champs-elysees is super cheesy I would avoid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:champs-elysees is super cheesy I would avoid

Disagree. It’s a main arterial toute. Maybe the shopping is a bit touristique, but it’s nice to drive through in daylight and even better at night. Even walking down it to appreciate the scale is worthwhile, weather permitting.

[Anonymous]

Something feels off about OP. I call troll. Who plans this kind of itinerary with two small kids for Christmas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve tweaked it again!

Christmas Eve:

9 am le louvre (1 hour), snack/maybe check out Christmas market/Ferris wheel at the Tuileries and walk to the scare-coeur and tour, Notre-dame, and then return back for a rest. Head back out a few hours later for a childrens river cruise at pont neuf (should be at sunset), and then head back to hotel de ville or maybe the Christmas market at the Tuileries.

Christmas Day:

Celebrate at apt til noon
Eiffel Tower+go up at 1, wander around gardens some, head to dinner (maybe that place someone above mentioned. Only issue is that it’s about an hour away from the Eiffel Tower so that’s hard….

12/26:

Angelinas breakfast at 9 (If we can get reservations)
Musee des arts Forains (big Christmas festival there with lots of cool things and only open twice a year)
Return to apartment and decide together for evening.

So not possible to fit in galeries Lafayette nor champs-elysees or montmartre…unless the kids feel motivated to go out our last night to one of those areas.

I think I’ve got it! Still debating on that restaurant due to how far it is from where we’ll be but it looks nice for a family night out.

Oh my god. What happens if it rains, or one of your kids gets an ear infection or the train workers go on strike, like they love to do. My husband gets frustrated if I try to schedule him at all, let alone this minute to minute plan. Chill out a bit.

There's a lot of times and places where planning ahead is NOT needed and you can just schedule your lodging and go with the flow and I do that often during trips. In a huge city such as Paris, especially OVER the holidays when many things have different hours and reservations are required....it makes sense to plan ahead when stuff. Many activities and restaurants book up so it makes sense to do some planning. In case anyone was wondering....Christmas eve at Le Train Bleu is already not available for a family of 4. Of course things can change and you make the best of it but it helps to have a plan. My husband commented that he thought we just went with the flow in Paris during our previous trips but he only thinks that because I did all the planning and he just got to relax (which is fine but yeah, it is required in big cities). We have NOT planned out "every minute" in smaller cities we are visiting on this trip, in fact I've planned nothing at all but lodging.

Do you hand out schedules to the family or set up alerts on your phone to indicate when it is time to move onto your next activity? This all reminds me of my high school timetable.