Aqualac - Grand Lac — Attraction in Chambéry

If you're a tourist like me and my girlfriend avoid this place! We came here on a rainy day hoping to escape de downpour and we were met with an entrance fee of 6,30 per person which is way too expensive for what you're getting (1 small sized indoor pool, and an outside pool) there's no place to just sit and relax. Firstly none of the staff speaks ANY English which was quite the inconvenience. Furthermore we discovered that the French have a strange superstition about hygiene as you're only allowed to wear speedos inside the pools which I didn't have (I mean who does, beside the French and probably creepy guys at the beach) An employee informed us that we could buy one, great! It would just cost me 13 bucks (for a goddam speedo c'mon people). Even if we wanted to pay we couldn't because the machine which dispensed those was broken. Sadly we didn't find out about all this, until after we paid the entrance fee. So essentially we wasted 12 bucks getting in and didn't do any swimming. Do yourself a favour and go...

Not a great experience here. Didn't turn up with the right type of swimming trunks (your are only allowed in with the skimpy type, no board shorts etc.) so decided to leave my wife and daughter there while my son and I went to the lake instead. My daughter is very particular about what she wears and likes to wear a rash vest rather than a bikini top, but the lifeguard was insistent that she could not enter the pool or slides with it on unless it was for medical reasons. My wife was wearing a smock to protect her from the sun and she was told that she was not allowed near the pool area with it on. So with all that fuss, we just abandoned the park altogether and stuck with the lakes for the duration...

This place has 2 areas. One in the actual lake where there is 2 water slides and a diving board. This is accessed by a wooden pier or you can swim from the shore. We were here at the start of August and lifeguards were on duty. The lake water temperature was fine for swimming and using the slides. There is an additional area with an outdoor manmade pool and a couple of additional slides as well as a pool for toddlers. The only downside about this area is men are not allowed to wear swimming shorts, they are only allowed to wear Speedos!! We were told to stay on the lake side area because my husband and son were wearing swimming shorts and not...