One week (10 days, maybe) - trip with 5 kids to Paris, London, Sheffield.

Help with itinerary & costs, please.

You will need to give a lot more information to get useful help.
Is it ten days or a different amount?
Do you want hotels or apartments where you could cook some meals?
What are you interested in seeing? Art? Museums? Churches? Outdoor stuff? If you don't know, get some guidebooks to get you started.

Lots of people here are willing to help, but you need to put in some effort! 😁

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SusanP is correct -- A one sentence idea listing 3 cities isn't nearly enough information to work with.

• Things like When is the trip?
• Have you already booked your flights - if so in to which city and home from which city?
• Ages of the children?
• What sorts of interests do you have?
• Is it 10 days 'on the ground' in Europe . . . or . . . is 10 days the total length of the trip home-to-home.
• Not that Sheffield isn't a nice place to visit - it wouldn't be on most 1st time visitors' wish list -- so is there a specific reason you included it?
• What major things have you already chosen to see/do?

Realizing 10 days is not very long for just London and Paris so adding in a 3rd city does complicate things . . .

You are right. Not enough information. Sorry. Ten days max on entire trip. Looking at early June 2025. Ages of kids range from 9 to 16 (all girls). No tickets have been purchased. This is just a preliminary plan. Seeing the highlights. There was (is) a special reason to add Sheffield, but it could be knocked out if not feasible. Was thinking a couple of days hitting a couple of small towns (basically because of the names), but that can be dropped. Flexible on type of accommodations.

You lose a day or so from the initial flight, jetlag etc. Travel from London to Paris is easy but you lose time there too. So try and limit the cities you want to visit. With so many people and luggage, I'd use trains. And travel light, very important. Book direct on Eurostar website for train London to Paris or other way round. Costs go up closer to departure, same as flights. Fly into one city and out of another to save backtracking. Look for multi-city option on airline websites.

That's better

OK -- now the bad news 10 days total nets you a grand total of 7.5 days free on-the-ground for seeing doing. Day one is spent flying overnight to Europe. At least half of day two is spent with immigration formalities, transit into the city and checking in/unpacking. Then day 10 is spent getting to the airport and flying home. Then you'd lose another half a day when you move from one city to another.

Specifically which 'couple of small towns' are you considering -- that could make a huge difference (transport to all places is not equally easy/practical)


7.5 days would be quite rushed even if you only do London and Paris. Depending on how important Sheffield is and which other couple of towns you are considering -- It might be best to just do London and a couple of days up north.

Otherwise I would definitely consider JUST London or JUST Paris with maybe one day trip out of either city (Hampton Court Palace or Windsor or Oxford or Brighton out of London -- Versailles or Chartres out of Paris)

Janis is right, after considering the overnight flight to get there and the last day coming home, you basically have four nights in each of two places. You really don't have time for three stops. If Sheffield is really important, do that and London. Otherwise, you could do London and Paris, but it will be a short time in each place with no time for day trips to any small towns. If you want day trips to small towns, choose one city to stay in the entire time.