Lake Schools — Local services in Thonon-les-Bains

This is a brilliant place to come as a family who have kids. Ours (4, 5 and 7) had a blast and didn’t want to leave. It’s a bit unclear what facilities are here when you look online but there is:

A small lake with two inflatable floating obstacle courses, plus an area for swimming, and an area for using things like boats and paddle boards A splash zone with sprinklers and water guns next to the lake A large playground with swings, climbing walls, fort, slide etc above the lake near the restaurant A restaurant selling very good freshly made salads, baguettes, scoop ice cream, ice lollies, alcoholic drinks and soft drinks. I’m sure they sell hot food as well but we only went in for ice lollies so didn’t see. A water flume going down the side of the hill and coming out in a little pool if it’s own behind the lake (it’s slow and suitable for young children) A multi bed trampoline that is €3 for 15 mins per child A pump track suitable for kids A car park Three toilets in a temporary block

The larger inflatable course on the lake is for people 120cm+ and costs €8 per 45 mins, and the smaller one is for 4-8 year olds and costs less I think it was around €5 for 45 mins. A parent can join their kid(s) for free on the smaller course to supervise but will need to pay for their own ticket on the larger course. Both courses are brilliant fun and the water wasn’t too cold even for my three kids.

Its €4 to use the lake and to be able to sit inside the large corded off area which also has the flume, splash zone and toilets in it. Outside of the zone is the restaurant, playground, pump track, trampolines, and car park. You don’t have to pay the €4 entrance fee to use any of these.

The whole set up looks beautiful and is really fun. I don’t agree with charging €4 to use the lake and feel the money needed for its maintenance should be funded either through the local council or via the pay-for activities at the site. It seems very strange to charge people for using a natural feature of the mountains especially when there’s other charges to pay ontop.

If there is going to be a charge then there needs to be a better toilet block (it was quite dirty and there was a long queue). And there also needs to be shade available around the lake. The only shade near to the lake are the trees inbetween the lake and the car park, next to the inflatable area. The entire other side is completely open, as are the trampolines and the kids playground. During the summer the heat is too much for an entire day in the sun with no cover especially for children.

There is a pebble beach around the edge of the lake with lots of large rocks in it which all the kids were playing with like sand, building their own mini lakes and rivers with the stones. also lots of crickets in the grass below the trampoline area which my children spent a good hour catching and...

De moins en moins de place pour les nageurs hors zones surveillées. Toujours pas d arbre planté ou d ombre sur la grande pelouse. Pareil pour les jeux d enfants pas un banc à l ombre pour les parents et grands parents. Pas un abri même temporaire. Il y a de sapin et d arbre et avec les étés de plus en plus chaud toujours pas de réflexion sur l ombre nécessaire. Le wibit assez cher a envahi le lac au détriment des baigneurs. Il est loin le temps où on pouvait vraiment profiter du lac pour nager en long et large ....Le temps où les familles venaient avec leur bateau gonflable ...tout pour le fric et la rentabilité. L espace réservé au wibit est de plus en plus grand au fil des ans . Les cyclistes qui viennent au lac en vélo et laissent leur vélos sur la pelouse (bien qu il existe des signes vélos interdits) sont tranquilles. Aucun respect pour autrui ni pour le règlement. Pourquoi ne pas mettre de vrais parkings à vélo côté restaurant ? La police municipale mets des amendes à juste titre pour ceux qui se garent sur les emplacements réservés aux navettes , Pourquoi ne pas mettre un petit PV symbolique de 15€ aux cyclistes ? Sont ils si convoités financièrement qu ils faut les ménager ? (Je suis cyclotouriste). Sinon le lac est cool et les surveillants professionnels. Je comprend et apprecie les nouveaux chemins vers le...

It use to be nice free and quiet! Now they charge you 4 Euro and I am not sure for what for?! Toilettes are dirty! Adult and kids pay the same price, 4 Euro! The strange thing is you can access to the place with out paying some time they're checking in out ask the people to leave and come few minutes later! So basically some people honest like us paid and some others come for free! Not fare! I won't go back to this place...