We will be traveling with several families, one or two adults and one or two kids (aged 13-14), so we are trying to do everything by train instead of renting cars.
We will fly in and out of Paris, and want to spend ~3 night in the Loire Valley (Amboise) and ~4 nights in Paris. My question is how to break it up. My initial thought was fly into Paris and immediately hop on the TGV to Tours, then connect to Amboise. We will be tired after the overnight flight but hopefully we can corral everyone onto the train and then sleep on the train or at least recover a little bit before we get to Amboise, check in to the hotel, and relax and get used to the time change. Then we can have a few more days in Amboise, take the TGV back to Paris, and then spend our time there before going home from CDG.
Would it be better to spend a night in Paris before going to Amboise? I was thinking the less hotel transfers the better, and I definitely want to be in Paris the night before we fly home.
Thoughts?