3 Nights in Girona

I wouldn’t add a thing to 3 nights in Girona. I would keep the daytrip to Besalu. Girona itself is a fantastic place to spend a solid three days without running out of attractions to enjoy and things to do. Be sure to walk the walls and hike to the top of the town where the Roman tower is located. A daytrip on the bus to Besalu will take the better part of a day.

That will fill your dancing card without adding anything more.

Have a great trip!

Girona's historic center is quite large.

I don't think you have too much time planned in Girona, but a trip to Figueres would be possible. I have no children so am not the one to say whether the Dali Theatre-Museum would be interesting to a young child, but it is quirky; it's not just a bunch of paintings hanging on walls. There are both fast and slow trains from Girona to Figueres. The fast trains are likely to be more expensive, and they go to the Figueres-Vilafant Station. The slow trains go to the Figueres Station. Figueres is a bit closer to the Dali Theatre-Museum, but it's a walk from either one. There's a city bus connecting the two stations that passes within a few blocks of the museum; that could be handy if the timing works for you.

You might very well be able to get tickets to the DTM at nearly the last minute. It would certainly be worth checking. The museum gets some bus tours, and one bus tour might suck up most of the tickets for one entry time, but I doubt that an entire day sells out very often. (But I went to Figueres in 2019, so my experience isn't very recent.)

Thank you both for your replies, and thanks acraven for the Figueres info. I'm feeling better about our itinerary!

Everyone’s experience is different but when my spouse and I went to the Dali museum with my 7 and 11 year old we had a bad time (July 2017). It was very crowded and the layout of the museum, with art in nooks and alcoves made the crowds more frustrating.

I think conditions in the museum can vary a lot. My visit was in the first half of May 2019; I don't remember the day of the week. My ticket was for either the first or second entry time, and the museum was quiet when I arrived. Within less than an hour, a French bus tour arrived, which did make a significant difference. I think the tour group left after no more than an hour, and the museum was much less crowded then. I imagine most bus tours travel to the museum from other cities; Figueres isn't otherwise a particularly interesting place. Depending on the origin point of the tours, they could be choosing just about any entry time up till 11:00 or so if the DTM is their first stop. Odds of a quiet experience may be better in the afternoon, though I'm sure it's somewhat different from day to day.

On the museum website the ticket-purchase calendar indicates how many tickets remain available for the timeslots in heaviest demand. If I had flexibility, I'd choose an entry time not showing only a few tickets available. With date as well as time flexibility (but take a look at train fares to see whether that's a costly approach), one could monitor that website daily to see how ticket sales are going and choose an entry time later rather than earlier. I think it's usually not necessary to buy the tickets way ahead of time; it's just risky to plan to buy them at the museum (some timeslots do sell out)--and it also costs a bit more.

The museum ticket also covers entry to the jewelry collection displayed in a separate building nearby. It's impressive but not terribly large. If you don't try to take photos (which is futile), 30 minutes should be plenty of time. At the time of my visit, I was told entry to the jewelry collection was permitted before the entry time shown on the DTM ticket. That made sense, because I was the only person viewing the jewelry the entire time I was there. I cannot guarantee that policy remains in place, however.

I was at the Dali Theatre Museum at opening in September 2024. It was so jammed packed from the get go that I skipped some of the rooms such as the Mae West. You may need to split up and explore separately in shifts rather than try to take a 3- year old through the museum.