Paris Family Challenge: Secret Passages, Macarons & Gourmet

Paris, France
Duration4h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 12 travelers

Overview

Most family sightseeing tours are designed for adults with activities added for children. This experience is designed around the whole family playing together.

Instead of simply listening to a guide, you'll solve clues, search for architectural details, complete photo challenges and discover hidden corners of Paris. History becomes part of the game rather than a classroom lesson.

The experience then moves from discovery to creation with a hands-on macaron workshop before ending with a €50 Galeries Lafayette Gourmet reward that lets your family choose its own French food adventure.

It's part treasure hunt, part Paris history discovery, part pastry workshop and part gourmet adventure — giving families something to do together rather than simply something to see.

What's included

  • Exploration of Palais Royal and historic covered passages
  • Family-friendly activities and challenges
  • Macaron-making experience and tasting
  • 90-minute hands-on macaron workshop
  • Interactive clues, riddles and family challenges
  • Self Guided Secret Paris family challenge
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Transportation to and from the meeting point
  • Additional food or drinks purchased beyond the €50 Gourmet reward
  • Tips and gratuities

What to expect

  1. Palais-Royal
    15m
    Enter one of Paris's most historic neighbourhoods and receive your first Secret Paris challenge.

    Search the famous courtyard for your first clue, complete a fun family photo challenge and prepare to enter a side of Paris many visitors never discover.

    Your mission starts here.
  2. Galerie Vivienne
    15m
    Step into one of Paris's most beautiful historic galleries.

    Look down and search for the extraordinary mosaic floor before turning your eyes upwards towards the elegant glass roof.

    Discover why these galleries were revolutionary in 19th-century Paris and solve the first historical challenges.

    And don't be surprised if one family member suddenly has to walk like a ridiculously wealthy Parisian from 1830.
  3. Passage des Panoramas
    15m
    Enter one of Paris's historic covered passages and search for clues belonging to another era.

    Look for old-fashioned signs, specialist boutiques, collectors and unusual details while discovering how these passages helped invent the idea of shopping for pleasure.

    Your family becomes a team of historical detectives.
  4. Passage Jouffroy
    15m
    Watch Paris enter the Industrial Revolution.

    Search the passage for the iron, glass and architectural innovations that helped transform the city.

    Then solve another mystery.

    Somewhere nearby are famous people who never grow older, never blink and never move.

    Can your family discover where they are?

    Complete the challenge with your best wax-statue family photograph.
  5. Passage Verdeau
    15m
    Enter a quieter and wonderfully atmospheric world of books, prints, photographs, postcards, art and collectors.

    Your mission is simple:

    Find three objects that appear to belong to another era.

    Then tackle one of the adventure's biggest questions:

    Why did some of Paris's passages survive while others disappeared?

    There isn't always one correct answer.

    Sometimes the youngest explorer may have the smartest theory.
  6. Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann
    1h 30m · Admission ticket included
    Become French pastry chefs during a fantastic hands-on macaron workshop.

    Learn the techniques behind one of France's most recognisable delicacies, make macarons yourselves and enjoy the satisfaction of tasting something you actually created in Paris.

    Families learn, laugh and create together.

    And once your macarons are complete...

    you've almost unlocked the final reward.
  7. 1h
    Welcome to French food heaven.

    Explore Le Gourmet and use your reward to create the family's own French tasting adventure.

    Find something sweet.

    Something savoury.

    Something typically French.

    Something you've never eaten before.

    And perhaps one completely unexpected discovery.

    There is no predetermined menu.

    Your family decides what Paris tastes like.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Meeting point :
Cadet metro (line 7) close to the McDonalds.
The McDonalds address is
65 Rue La Fayette, 75009 Paris, France

End point

Explore Le Gourmet and use your reward to create the family's own French tasting adventure.

Additional information

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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