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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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