Princess Antoinette Park, where Monaco's children let off steam

Travel with small children and Monaco turns uphill fast, in every sense. Pricey museums, steep streets, smart terraces where no one wants to hear a four-year-old. This park is the exception. The town hall runs it for local families, and it has what children actually ask for, animals, swings and a proper mini golf course. Here’s what’s there, what it costs and how to fit it in.

A local park, not a tourist attraction

It helps to know who it’s built for. Princess Antoinette Park belongs to the town hall’s events service, which puts on Easter egg hunts, storytelling sessions and Halloween parties here, hires the space out for birthday parties of ten or more and tends a teaching vegetable garden with pupils from the Les Révoires school. There’s no gift shop and no guide. There are neighbours.

For me that’s exactly what makes it worth a visit. It shows you a Monaco most visitors never see. The best proof is U Cavagnëtu, the Monegasques’ traditional end-of-summer picnic. On Saturday 19 September 2026 more than 800 people gathered here with Albert II, Charlène, Jacques and Gabriella, with an open-air Mass on the sports pitch and picnic baskets under the park’s olive trees.

How much does the mini golf at Princess Antoinette Park cost?

A single fee of €5, payable by card. The course has 18 clay holes and sits in the lower part of the park. The town hall runs it with a local association, La Boîte de Jeux, and the one condition you can’t dodge is booking, compulsory for everyone, on their website or on +377 99 99 19 29.

Rounds go off every 15 minutes with a maximum of six players, so a big family or two families together fit into one slot. Clubs and balls are disinfected after each use. One detail could scupper your plans if you don’t know it. After heavy rain the course may close for 24 to 72 hours while the clay dries, so after a storm I’d ring before setting off.

The farm, and something for every age

The little farm is what the youngest love most. According to the town hall’s page it keeps sheep, billy goats, ducks, hens, guinea pigs and rabbits, and a few birds roam the paths. The park’s gardeners look after them daily, and feeding them is forbidden.

Under-9s get play equipment, swings and sandpits. Teenagers have a multi-sports pitch, two badminton and ball-tennis courts and table tennis. With that mix, I’d call it ideal for siblings of different ages, which is where most children’s outings fall down. For more ideas across the country, see Monaco with kids.

What I couldn’t confirm is if there’s a charge to enter the park itself. The town hall publishes the mini golf price and nothing else, neither a charge nor the word free, so I’m not going to guess.

Opening times that change four times a year

The park always opens at 08:30, but closing time depends on the date. From May to September it shuts at 19:00. In April and from 1 to 20 October, at 18:00. From 21 October to 31 March, at 17:30. It closes just two days a year, 25 December and 1 January. The mini golf publishes no hours of its own, so your booking sets the time.

Reaching the park, and what to see nearby

It’s at 54 bis Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, in the upper part of the country. Town bus line 5 has a stop named after the park, with a public lift beside it to save you the climb, and the 600, the coastal bus from Nice to Menton, also stops at Princesse Antoinette. With a pushchair, check Monaco’s public lifts before you go.

I’d combine it with its two neighbours up the hill. The Exotic Garden of Monaco, reopened in 2026, for the grown-ups, and Villa Paloma, one of the New National Museum’s two villas, if you fancy some art and it’s a Sunday, when entry is free. Garden first while it’s cool, then the park, with the mini golf booked for late morning, by which time the children have earned their reward.