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Can someone tell me which resorts in france have swimming pools.
I know Chamonix has a public pool.
We would like to go away next feb but would like to go to a resort which
also have a public pool.
Thansk
Gilly
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Alpe D'Huez and Les Deux Alpes have public pools.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thank you.
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James_mummy, welcome to snowheads 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Megeve, Serre Chevalier (two pools).
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I think La clusaz does but please double check before booking
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Verbier.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Flaine Montsoleil has its own outdoor (heated!) pool free for residents
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Val Thorens has a nice one that is indoors! Some of others mentioned here are outdoor pools
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There ia a public pool open from late afternoon !630-1700 dependant on day until 1930 in Bourg Saint Maurice which is below the les arcs domaine
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Méribel has a very good public pool
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Alpe D'Huez has an open air heated pool with free entry with a lift pass (at least it used to be free), and you can wave at your friends as they pass overhead on a chairlift!
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You know it makes sense.
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val d'Isere
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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welshskier, there's an indoor one as well.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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And do remember that you need to use trunks made out of Lycra or the like. Any form of shorts that are non-stretchy are not accepted in French swimming pools.
This does remind me of an incident at the pool in Val d'Isere many years ago. I hadn't sorted out my footbeds by then and needed to give my leg a rest. Free swimming was advertised so off we went in search of the pool. It turned out to be quite a small affair but, obviously, most folks were there for the skiing so it wasn't too busy. However, one particularly curvey French woman did attract my attention but I wasn't prepared for what happened next. By the side of the pool was a row of showers where we could wash off the chlorine. By chance (or design) we all four ended up in the showers at the same time. Then both our partners headed for the changing cubicles leaving me and this woman right next to each other. Suddenly she slipped the top off her shoulders, rolled the cossy down to her waist and proceeded to vigorously wash the previously covered parts!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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altis, How long did you work in the adult entertainment industry? 
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For quite a while it seems - if only inadverently.
Before we took up skiing we used to spend many a summer holiday cycling around different bits of Eastern Europe - while it was still Communist. Bulgaria was very hot and I remember hauling the bike up quite a hill to a campsite somewhere. While Mrs A went shopping or something I crashed out in the sun outside the tent. After some time I sat up to see if anything had changed. Directly in front of me, not more than 20 yards away was stood an Amazon of a woman with just a skirt on looking up into the sun and shaking her long curls.
Later, we ended up at a campsite in Varna on the coast. The attendant had tried to send us on saying that the place was too primitive for Westerners but we were in no state to continue so we stayed - for two or three days in the end. The facilities certainly were primitive. The wash block was a 500 gallon tank perched on stilts and, next to it, a simple wall with three wash basins on either side. Since the Mediteranean and, for that matter, all of Western Europe was out-of -bounds, all the beautiful people in Eastern Europe headed for the Black Sea coast and the young ones, in particular, seemed to head for Varna. I was having a ball. One morning I went down to the basins to brush my teeth. Very soon a nice young lady in bikini bottoms and a track-suit top rolled up next to me and started to wash. Soon the track-suit was in the way so off it came revealing that she'd forgotten to bring her bikini top. I carried on brushing my teeth trying not to look as though I was looking. Then, suddenly, her thumbs went into the bikini bottoms, down they went and she started lathering rarely seen parts. By now the foam was pouring out of my mouth and I very nearly choked on my toothbrush. To my never ending shame I said not a word to her. I simply rinsed my mouth, smiled at her and walked away. She gave quite a performance.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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the public pool in meribel was good but slightly too cold for my tastes. I bought some speedos before I wnet on the myth that speedos were the only acceptable male swimwear. This was not the case. People were wearing fairly discreet shorts and I felt I bit of a plank in my speedos.
Austria has some good pools. The Kaiserbad in Ellmau is great for kids. slides, outdoor bit, good wellness centre (albeit a naked one).
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Chamrousse - there is a heated outdoor pool, hot tubs and sauna located at the Domaine de l'Arselle
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Vaujany - good indoor pool, plus spa area. Pool has a long waterslide - when we were there the kids loved it, so my husband thought he would give it a try. Unfortunately he is of 'sturdy' build and he managed to get wedged stuck halfway down - next person down was a very attractive young French woman in a very small bikini who ended up wrapped around him (but did at least dislodge him) and they came down together! Me and the kids thought it was hilarious, but I don't think her boyfriend was so amused...
I seem to remember that you get free entrance to the swimming pool in Vaujany if you have the full area pass (which covers Alpe d'Huez). Vaujany also has an icerink which the children loved.
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There's a lovely pool in Bad Kleinkirchheim but there isn't a huge lot else that's particularly good about the place....
James_mummy, you can often find accommodation with its own private pool, even in a resort without one. Les Saisies is one such - no public pool but several places including the following (very nice piste side apartments) have their own pool. http://www.cgh-residences.com/uk/location-les-saisies/index.html
if you want to go in February you'd need to book early and pay a fortune, of course!
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