What is the name and address of your hotel?

Day 3 is absolutely exhausting for adults let alone a young one. Get a map of Paris and look at where the things are. Remember you have to get from one to another by metro or bus or walk. I think you might have to drop a thing or two or three.

Day 4 - are you going from Paris to Disneyland? Are you returning the same day? Where are you staying? How are you getting from Disneyland to Zurich? And why is Zurich on your itinerary?

Seems like day two will be challenging and ambitious and time consuming with too much to do for day two for sure and it makes plans for day three problematic especially if you leave much unfinished or undone. If you get off to a late start in the morning you will be asking for trouble later in the day. Itemize or identify your priorities and group them according to location and proximity. Match them up with you personal tastes and travel goals. Ask your family members to participate in this analysis. Look at a map to estimate the distances to be traversed. You might be exhausting yourself and your family if you ask them to follow you or keep up with your pace needed to accomplish these goals. Too much territory and sites to visit in a short time period. Louvre deserves more than a brief half day two hour visit at night. I agree with response # 2 namely that your proposed itinerary is far too exhausting and nearly impossible. Redraw your itinerary and drop a few places. You can see them on another voyage when you have more time. Proposed itinerary for day 3 will be beyond attainment with far too many places to reach. Louvre deserves more time than Disneyland. Skip Versailles for the reasons enumerated in response 1. Suggestion from response #2 for walking in the parks with your daughter makes sense. You might be ending up going to many places rather than being at places you say you want to visit. Slow down and enjoy a small part of Paris - not so much this time. Hope this helps.

I would not attempt day 2 with a 5 year old. I probably would not take a 5 year old to Versailles unless somehow the 5 year old knows about and is interested in it. (My daughter was but she was 11.) I'd have had to put some effort into getting her interested in the Louvre as well. In fact on the trip when she was 11, she lost interest partway through our visit, so I let her sit in a corner and play on her Nintendo DS while my sister and I looked at the Egyptian section (which my sister really wanted to see.)

Most of what you have planned doesn't sound very interesting for a 5 year old. I think my daughter might have liked climbing the Towers of Notre Dame and possibly going up the Eiffel Tower.

I'd consider reading her some books about Paris - maybe the Madeleine books? There could be others now, I haven't looked at children's books for a while.

Thanks Skaerje, will definitely review the link. I want my daughter to have fun so yes, I will cut out those places which I feel is stretched out.

As suggested, I will include Eiffel Tower on Day 1 which might be a good idea.

For Day 3, I am planning to carry a Paris Map marked with top locations....Will skip those which may be far or if we are tired to explore it.... Except for few top monuments & museums I won't spend time on them.

Thanks Dale47_11, Yes...Day 3 appears to be packed but priority will be the top few's and will skip others if it doesn't fit.

Day 4: My plan is to stay within Paris to ensure walk-able distance around the top attractions..and a train early morning to Disneyland...I am not planning to stay there and will come back same day as we have to take a train to Zurich (Lucerne) next day, which may be little difficult if I stay in Disneyland.

Lucerne will be our base for next 4 days of Switzerland trip.

Let me know your thoughts !!

Thanks btgm, I agree with you. Mostly kids doesn't like to go places where adults want too and it will be a challenge. But will try to ensure she doesn't get too bored :), maybe by going to Disneyland a day early.

Hi, have you already bought your Paris-Lucerne train tickets? It can be a quicker trip to go TGV to Basel (3hrs) the change for 1hr trip to Lucerne.

Paris to Zurich is 4 hrs then a further 45 min to Lucerne.

I don’t think you can realistically get to Versailles and back in the morning. It’s going to take at least 1 1/2 hrs to get from hotel to train station and train station to long line at Versaille. Lines are too long and tour of chateau is so crowded, a 5 yr old is probably going to have a melt down somewhere along the way.

Thank you 107sharong, Fortunately I haven't yet booked it...will be booking this week as my Trip is in September. I did miss this point...will book it until Basel and then to Lucerne.