A family holiday across Europe comes apart when every city is given the same two nights and every transfer is “about an hour” on a map. Children feel that before anyone else does.
We build the route the other way around. One base when it helps. Trains that are actually pleasant. Hotels with a room that can take a family, not three singles down the hall. Days with one thing you came to see, and the rest left open.
A shape that works
Paris for the arrival and the museums you will actually enter. A lake stretch — Switzerland is the calm middle — so the holiday has air in it. Italy at the end, when everyone is ready for evenings outside. Twelve days is enough. Eighteen is a different trip, and we will say so.
The price includes the transfers and the seats together. That is the difference between a route and a pile of bookings.