Ready to be taken for a (free) ride?

Here’s another way to keep the kids amused over the holiday period, and it’s completely free. How lovely! However, if you find yourself in the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 13th, 15th or 18th arrondissements you’re out of luck; no free rides there I’m afraid!

And if there are only five rides available on the Left Bank (boo hoo!), don’t worry as two of them are under 10 minutes’ walk from our hotels, at place de l’Odéon and square Saint-Médard in the Mouffetard area.

So here’s the list of the sixteen free merry-go-rounds (or carousels if your prefer) for Xmas 2010, opend from 18th December 2010 until 2nd January 2011, from 10am – 7pm.

The map is just below the list (or click here to see it bigger).

3rd arrondissement
Square du Temple

4th arrondissement
Place de l’Hôtel de Ville
1 on the rue de Rivoli side
1 on the Seine side

5th arrondissement
At the edge of square Saint Médard

6th arrondissement
Place de l’Odéon

7th arrondissement
Place Joffre

8th arrondissement
Place de la Madeleine
Place de la Concorde

9th arrondissement
Place Lino Ventura

10th arrondissement
Place Jacques Bonsergent

12th arrondissement
avenue Daumesnil (near the town hall)

14th arrondissement
Corner of rue Didot and rue d’Alésia

16th arrondissement
Place du Trocadéro

17th arrondissement
Place Docteur Félix Lobligeois

19th arrondissement
place Armand-Carrel

20th arrondissement
Rue Belgrand