Hot day, restless kids: this is the list for when they need to get wet. It covers public pools, indoor water parks with slides, and park fountains they can run through. The indoor ones work year-round, so they are just as handy on a gray winter Saturday.
Aquaboulevard is a big indoor water park at Balard, with the water kept at 29°C all year. Inside are two wave pools, 11 slides, rivers with a current, geysers, water mushrooms and jacuzzis.
In summer, outdoor pools and a 4,000 m² sand beach open too. A Gaumont cinema, a McDonald's and a Decathlon share the same complex.
Aqua Mundo (called Aqualagon until the Center Parcs rebrand) is the water park of the Villages Nature Paris resort, about 6 km south of Disneyland Paris. Under a tropical dome there's a wave pool, seven slides, rivers, whirlpools, splash play and a pool with a climbing wall. Outside, lagoons heated by geothermal water sit beside a 15-hectare lake.
A glass-roofed hall holds a 33m pool, with six lanes split by swimming speed. Kids head for the leisure pools next door: a paddling pool, a wave pool, a massage bath and a jacuzzi. A solarium opens in warm weather.
The same sports center houses an ice rink, so a swim and a skate can share one outing.
A 1924 Art Nouveau public pool, listed as a historic monument, where the 33-meter indoor pool sits under a tall vaulted roof. Outside are two more: a 25-meter Nordic pool heated all year, and a 12-meter children's pool that runs from 40cm to 1.1m deep. The artesian well that once fed the pools still runs the fountain on the square out front.
Parc André-Citroën sits on the site of the old Citroën car factory beside the Seine. A long central lawn runs down to a canal, renovated in 2024 with shallow streams, floating gardens and geyser jets near the river.
Kids run through the fountain jets on hot days, then head to the playground, the merry-go-rounds or the ping-pong tables. Glass greenhouses and a series of themed gardens round it out.
A public pool built on a barge moored on the Seine, beside the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. The 25-meter pool sits under a glass roof that opens in summer, when a 500 m² sun deck with views of the river boats opens too.
It suits kids who swim confidently: there is no separate shallow pool for toddlers.
Hot day, restless kids: this is the list for when they need to get wet. It covers public pools, indoor water parks with slides, and park fountains they can run through. The indoor ones work year-round, so they are just as handy on a gray winter Saturday.
Aquaboulevard is a big indoor water park at Balard, with the water kept at 29°C all year. Inside are two wave pools, 11 slides, rivers with a current, geysers, water mushrooms and jacuzzis.
In summer, outdoor pools and a 4,000 m² sand beach open too. A Gaumont cinema, a McDonald's and a Decathlon share the same complex.
Aqua Mundo (called Aqualagon until the Center Parcs rebrand) is the water park of the Villages Nature Paris resort, about 6 km south of Disneyland Paris. Under a tropical dome there's a wave pool, seven slides, rivers, whirlpools, splash play and a pool with a climbing wall. Outside, lagoons heated by geothermal water sit beside a 15-hectare lake.
A glass-roofed hall holds a 33m pool, with six lanes split by swimming speed. Kids head for the leisure pools next door: a paddling pool, a wave pool, a massage bath and a jacuzzi. A solarium opens in warm weather.
The same sports center houses an ice rink, so a swim and a skate can share one outing.
A 1924 Art Nouveau public pool, listed as a historic monument, where the 33-meter indoor pool sits under a tall vaulted roof. Outside are two more: a 25-meter Nordic pool heated all year, and a 12-meter children's pool that runs from 40cm to 1.1m deep. The artesian well that once fed the pools still runs the fountain on the square out front.
Parc André-Citroën sits on the site of the old Citroën car factory beside the Seine. A long central lawn runs down to a canal, renovated in 2024 with shallow streams, floating gardens and geyser jets near the river.
Kids run through the fountain jets on hot days, then head to the playground, the merry-go-rounds or the ping-pong tables. Glass greenhouses and a series of themed gardens round it out.
A public pool built on a barge moored on the Seine, beside the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. The 25-meter pool sits under a glass roof that opens in summer, when a 500 m² sun deck with views of the river boats opens too.
It suits kids who swim confidently: there is no separate shallow pool for toddlers.
