Thomas Cook Explorer's pool... SPEEDOS only????

[jtw999]

Hello!
I have recently been told that board shorts are not allowed for men/boys in France.

We are staying at the Thomas Cook Explorer's hotel this summer while in DLP. Will my sons and husband be able to wear their loose-fitting board shorts? Or will we need to purchase new tight-fitting swimsuits?

Does anyone have experience in this area?

Thanks!!

 

[Carrie_Cat]

It's certainly true that in public swimming pools here in France board shorts are banned as they are not considered hygenic...people were swimming in their underwear as the coton caleçons look much like those baggy shorts....and men wear closer fitting shorts such as these

http://www.decathlon.fr/boxers-slips-de-bain-homme-basic-noir-boxer-id_DUP14330_4155698.html

Not everyone wears Speedos (thankfully )

Saying all that I have no idea what policy private pools operate as I've never been swimming in a hotel pool in France but I would have thought that they would be more flexible seeing that there are people from all over who come and stay

 

[jtw999]

It's certainly true that in public swimming pools here in France board shorts are banned as they are not considered hygenic...people were swimming in their underwear as the coton caleçons look much like those baggy shorts....and men wear closer fitting shorts such as these

http://www.decathlon.fr/boxers-slips-de-bain-homme-basic-noir-boxer-id_DUP14330_4155698.html

Not everyone wears Speedos (thankfully )

Saying all that I have no idea what policy private pools operate as I've never been swimming in a hotel pool in France but I would have thought that they would be more flexible seeing that there are people from all over who come and stay

Thank you!! I can see the sense of not allowing the loosefitting shorts...
Being that DLP has so many visitors from all over, hopefully they will be OK with board shorts.

 

[tennisfan]

The hotels are fine with people wearing board shorts last year.

 

[Johnny_boy]

On our first holiday together, wDW and I went to France and at one pool we I had to go and buy speedos out of a local department store - very like Are You Being Served where a snotty gentleman removed various pairs of speedos from wooden drawers. I think they got handed into a charity shop in the end. Maybe I should buy some before we go to Aquaboulevard laer in the year after Disney.

 

[Carrie_Cat]

On our first holiday together, wDW and I went to France and at one pool we I had to go and buy speedos out of a local department store - very like Are You Being Served where a snotty gentleman removed various pairs of speedos from wooden drawers. I think they got handed into a charity shop in the end. Maybe I should buy some before we go to Aquaboulevard laer in the year after Disney.

Yep .. for Aquaboulevard it's speedos or those shorts like in the link above - no loose fitting shorts

 

[ICECUBEQUEEN]

My Hubby and 2 sons all wore board shorts when swimming at Sequoia Lodge swimming pool a few weeks back on our visit to DLP and no one said anything

 

[MummyMinnie]

oh no now I'm worried - we go to the Explorers this Saturday and hubby will not wear Speedos , my son does have 'closer fitting swimming trunks' so they should be ok. Will see what happens and report back.!

 

[Carrie_Cat]

Like above I don't think hotels applys the same rules as public baths and leisure centers so you'll be okay.

My OH doesn't mind the tight fitting shorts (wouldn't be seen dead in Speedos) but hates having to wear the swim caps that so many public baths make you wear again for hygiene reasons - don't know if they are compulsory in the UK

 

[MummyMinnie]

Like above I don't think hotels applys the same rules as public baths and leisure centers so you'll be okay.

My OH doesn't mind the tight fitting shorts (wouldn't be seen dead in Speedos) but hates having to wear the swim caps that so many public baths make you wear again for hygiene reasons - don't know if they are compulsory in the UK

No they're not (well not round here anyway) - thank goodness .

Hubby doesn't 'do' tight fitting anything so lets hope not

 

[Cyrano]

On past visits at Davy Crockett Ranch pool the vast majority of guests thankfully wore board shorts. So to the OP you will be fine at Disney.

I have no experience of public pools in France but equally at the beach board shorts were the swimming costume of choice for most males

 

[Ware Bears]

oh no now I'm worried - we go to the Explorers this Saturday and hubby will not wear Speedos , my son does have 'closer fitting swimming trunks' so they should be ok. Will see what happens and report back.!

We've been swimming at the Explorers a few times and it's fine to wear board shorts there.

but hates having to wear the swim caps that so many public baths make you wear again for hygiene reasons - don't know if they are compulsory in the UK

No, they're not but I can remember having to wear one at a public pool in Austria - I had very long hair and couldn't get all of it in the cap so it was a bit of a futile exercise!

 

[sarahb74]

We fell foul of this at a public pool on holiday in France - they did have a sort of dispenser in the changing rooms that provided hugely unflattering swimwear in rather dubious sizes, so we decided to give it a miss.... cue tantrum from stroppy 2 year old!