Themeparks Kids' Private Tour

Board your flight from your home destination to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France.

(Your return will be from Zurich.)

This itinerary assumes this to be an overnight flight.

Air fare independently arranged.

Arrival in Paris, France.

Upon arrival of your flight you are met and picked up for transfer to the Dream Castle Hotel, for check-in.

The rest of the day is at leisure.  You can use your included DISNEY PARKS day pass to begin exploring Disneyland Paris or the Walt Disney Studios Park or both.

Disneyland Park features five themed realms: Fantasyland, Discoveryland, Frontierland, Adventureland, and Main Street U.S.A.  These lands offer rides and attractions ranging from the family fun of Pirates of the Caribbean to the thrills of Space Mountain: Mission 2.

Walt Disney Studios park features realms inspired by Disney's animation classics.  Movie magic is provided on rides and attractions ranging from the family show time of Stitch Live! to the height of thrills on The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Dinner on your own so that you can stay at the themeparks as late as you wish.

>  Your tour includes: Transfer from airport to hotel, Disney parks day pass, overnight in Dream Castle Hotel

All day at DISNEYLAND PARIS.

Where to start?  You'll be spoiled for choice.  There are 34 rides and attractions in the Disneyland Park, and another 18 in the Walt Disney Studios Park.  As examples, here are the top attractions:

It’s a Small World, in Fantasyland, takes the visitor on a musical tour of the world in a boat which follows a river that runs through the attraction, with each part of the ride themed for a different part of the world.

Space Mountain: Mission 2, in Discoveryland, is a roller coaster like ride that “will blast you on a warp-speed ride into the unknown."

Big Thunder Mountain, in Frontierland, is a "runaway train" through the man-made sierras of Big Thunder Mountain.

Pirates of the Caribbean, in Adventureland, cruises secret caverns and catches the Pirates of the Caribbean in action as they loot, plunder and pillage.

Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, in Discoveryland, sits visitors in a star cruiser to shoot laser beams at targets.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, an accelerated drop tower thrill ride in the Walt Disney Studios Park, is considered one of the most extreme.

The Disney Railroad, Peter Pan's Flight, and Alice's Curious Labyrinth are some of the attractions for younger kids.

Dinner on your own.

>  Buffet breakfast, door-to-door transportation, Disney parks day pass, Dream Castle Hotel

Paris city-tour.  Meet your guide and coach and your traveling companions and spend the day in Paris.

After breakfast, enjoy a guided tour of VERSAILLES, perhaps the most famous palace in the world.  From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789, the Court of Versailles was the centre of power in France.  Spend several hours visiting the Palace of Palaces and the famous gardens with the fountains.

In the afternoon we go up to the second floor of the EIFFEL TOWER for majestic views.  This tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair, is one of the most recognizable structures in the world and is the most visited paid monument anywhere.

Free time around the opera for shopping and dinner on your own.

>  Buffet breakfast, door-to-door transportation, entrances to Versailles and Eiffel Tower, Dream Castle Hotel

This morning we leave Paris and drive into the champagne region to visit the impressive 13th century French Gothic REIMS CATHEDRAL, where the kings of France were crowned.  The cathedral was under siege by the English from 1359 to 1360 during the Hundred Years' War.  After it fell the English held Reims and the Cathedral until 1429 when it was liberated by Joan of Arc.  The towers are 267 feet / 81 metres tall.  The three portals are laden with statues and statuettes.  Among European cathedrals, only Chartres has more sculpted figures.  Its stained glass windows date from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

While we are in Reims the grown-ups should try a glass of the local and world-famous champagne.  Other treats for the kids. 

We continue south to the ALSACE region and check into your local hotel in one of its picturesque medieval villages.  Alsatian dinner in the country.

>  Buffet breakfast; door-to-door transportation; Reims Cathedral entrance; three-course dinner with menu choices, one beverage, and coffee or tea after; hotel in Alsace

Since its construction in the 12th century, the HAUT-KOENIGSBOURG CASTLE at Orschwiller in Alsace has been a constant witness to both European conflicts and rivalry between lords, kings and emperors.  A number of illustrious owners each left their mark on the castle’s history, and successive events even led to changes in the castle’s structure.  Enjoy a tour of this magnificent castle with its majestic architecture and its incredible view across the Alsatian plain.

We continue to COLMAR in the heart of Alsace.  Colmar's Germanic and French architectural heritage was spared by the frequent wars that ravaged this area.  Highlights include the “Koïfhus”, Pfister House, and the House of Heads.  The town has preserved the charm of its romantic districts (Tanner’s District, Little Venice).  Enjoy your guided tour of the old town, which also includes a visit to the Bartholdi museum, housed in a vast residence which was the birthplace of the creator of New York's Statue of Liberty.  Its rooms contain a collection of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's most important works, thanks to the heritage the artist's widow left to the city.

Dinner tonight in France.

>  Buffet breakfast, door-to-door transportation, entrance to KHaut-Koenigsbourg Castle, three-course dinner, hotel in Alsace

All day today at EUROPA PARK in Rust, on the western edge of Germany's Black Forest.

Europa Park ranks with the Disney parks as Europe's most visited, and is the Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice pick as "Best Theme Park in Europe".

Europa Park is themed mainly around 13 European countries, with a mix of attractions in each zone.  The other themed areas are Adventure Land, Grimm's Enchanted Forest, and Children's World.

Europa Park is famous for its rollercoasters, and has 12 of them, including high coasters, fast coasters, spinning coasters, indoor / outdoor coasters, water coasters, and dark ride coasters.

Silver Star, in the 'France' section, is a high coaster (239 feet / 73 metres) with a maximum speed of
79 mph / 127 km/h, and is the largest coaster in Europa Park.

Blue Fire, in the 'Iceland' section, is launched with 62 mph / 100 km/h, and has several inversions and a dark ride section with special effects.

Wodan Timbur Coaster, also in 'Iceland', is a 131 foot / 40 m wooden coaster that reaches speeds of
62 mph / 100 km/h.

Euro-mir, in 'Russia', is a spinning coaster with dark-ride elements.

Poseidon, in 'Greece', and Atlantica Supersplash, in 'Portugal', are water coasters.

There are also dozens of lower-speed attractions, including dark rides, boat rides, merry-go-rounds, car rides, an observation tower, a 4D cinema, and live entertainment shows.  Children's World offers about three dozen experiences for younger visitors.

Dinner on your own so that you can stay late at the park if you wish.

>  Buffet breakfast, door-to-door transportation, entrance to Europa Park, hotel in Germany's Black Forest

A very special treat today.  Experience the Black Forest with all your senses!

Culture and history come to life in the famous VOGTSBAUERNHOF OPEN-AIR MUSEUM.  Find out how people lived and worked in the Black Forest over the last 400 years in Germany's largest and most popular open air museum.

This is history you can touch: centuries-old houses, atmospheric rooms, smoky kitchens, blooming gardens, living animals, and a cornucopia of smells and scents – all things that kids will not find elsewhere in this form and variety.

The museum is organized around six fully furnished farmhouses spanning the 16th to 18th centuries and drawn from different parts of the Black Forest.  The Vogtsbauernhof farmhouse, built in 1612, remains in its original location.

Many of the farmhouses will seem strange to North Americans, because they provide accommodation for both families and their animals, and even use the roof for the storage of hay.

As well as the farmhouses visitors will find farm and community resources, including a labourer’s cottage, kitchen herb gardens, fields, grain mills, sawmills, storehouses, a bakery and distillery, a forge, and a chapel.

There are lots of animals on the grounds – cows and calves, pigs and piglets, goats and kids, sheep and lambs, bunnies, chickens and geese. Sometimes you can even hear the whistle of a cuckoo.

A great variety of traditional crafts are demonstrated every day, and there's even a workshop for kids to make their own cuckoo whistle or water wheel.

Dinner together this evening.

>  Buffet breakfast, door-to-door transportation, Vogtsbauernhof entrance, three-course dinner, hotel in Germany's Black Forest

Time to say “Auf Wiedersehen”.  Transfer to Zurich Airport for your homebound flight which arrives the same day.

Your flight should not leave Zurich before10:30 a.m.

Alternatively, an extension to see King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein and other famous places in Bavaria is possible.  Please contact us for details and a quote for your family.

>  Buffet breakfast, transfer to airport