Plage Thiers — Attraction in Arcachon

The swimmable area is way too small! I like swimming in the ocean for a while up to the limit buoy and here it's a very short adventure. I wish they'd open up the swimmable area a bit, instead of giving all the space to boats. I was hoping to see sea life, but the water is green everywhere, at least in the swimmable area, which again is way too small, so no possibility at all on this point. The sand on the other hand is perfect. It's thin and beautiful, pleasant to touch. The sand area is pretty big so even when crowded you can find a spot. There are garbage cans which is always a plus. The walk is filled with shops and restaurants which is peasant, there even is a carousel right next...

At dawn the tractors comb Arcachon’s central beach, screening litter from the sand into neat ribs before bathers arrive. It’s a balance of amenity and ecology: too deep and the wrack line that shelters insects and birds is stripped away, so management alternates machine passes with lighter hand-picks and seasonal pauses. When storms erode the foreshore, SIBA undertakes re-nourishment — bringing in authorised sand to reset the beach profile, timed outside peak season. Along the promenade, Julien Marinetti’s painted bronzes — Bâ le Panda and Doggy John — add colour and playfulness, bright sentinels against the horizon. A beach where engineering, ecology, and...

Very beautiful and clean beach. Very popular with internal tourism as well. The sand is also very beautiful, soft and fine, during summer it can get quite crowded. It's a fairly long beach as well so you can jog and cycle along it. There is a small pier that you can take a jetty to cap ferret it;s about 45mins ferry ride to get to the other side of the bay. Many seafood restaurants lined the coast of the beach. HIghly...