French Holiday Villages - Swimwear 😖

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Having read a previous thread I have been tempted to look at Siblu Holidays in the Brittany area in the summer. All looks perfect for my two very lively boys!! Perfect apart from the swimwear requirements. Husband and boys categorically refuse to don the required "budgie smugglars" but it seems to be necessary at most French sites. Does anybody know of anywhere that doesn't have these strict rules or should we just give up and go to a different country?!

Different country! It is the law here - only bermuda style shorts on the beach, sorry to say.

Oh dear. I know it's the law in public pools but surely campsites aren't public? A real shame though because the French places certainly look to have the best facilities!

I ruled out a similar holiday some years ago for the same reason. No way would DSs wear those things. At least you found out before booking.

But they don't need to be skimpy speedos , most styles of Lycra swimwear are permitted including shorts style (but not long legged).

Agree with LIZS about the shorts style speedos. Also, when they get there and see everyone else wearing them, they will change their views.

Thanks everyone. We're currently trying to find a compromise! I have heard of some villages that don't enforce the rule but I suppose they need to be prepared for it.

www.speedostore.co.uk/mens-panel-aquashort/809196S116.html

This sort of thing, far more modest !

Thanks LIZS. I'm still quite sure it's the most flattering of swimwear for my husband but I've promised not to take pictures! I'm just glad I don't have to wear a thong!

I meant not sure!

Oh my, we are going to a French holiday park. I never knew this. Where can I find out about this? Are there any requirements for women?

Not that I know of kittyrobin. I certainly hope not!

You should probably check with the holiday park directly. If they say they have no rules let me know and I'll book it too

Gosh, this has kind of made my day in a cruel way, now I'm imaging my 18 stone dh in a tight pair of speedos.
I'll have to look into it.

DH was fine with a pair of not too long or baggy shorts style trunks, but was told to remove his rash vest. Which was a pain as he's pretty hairy and finds putting sunscreen on a real chore.

Does anyone know why the French seem so oddly interested in policing men's swimming trunks?

And when will you break the news to him...?

We mostly holiday in France and this is often the norm. Like others say it becomes less of an issue when everyone is wearing them. My DH isn't bothered and neither is my younger son but my teenage boy feels very self conscious in them as they leave little to the imagination. I buy him budgie smuggler type and the shorts type. He wears both at once and this provides a level of support that makes them less revealing! They usually won't allow t shirts in the pool either so we get rash vests to protect skin from the sun

I just wore some swimming shorts that looked a bit like blue football shorts at a eurocamp in France with rule. Nobody said a word. There were people with the Lycra shorts version of speedos, didn't look at all weird.

Squeegy they always says it's for hygiene reasons. I think it's because you could have worn short style trunks out and about and they could then make the pool dirty?

The holiday village we went to last year had a nudist beach - suddenly the speedos didn't seem so bad.

hmmm perhaps after he's agreed to take the dcs and they are all excited so he can't back out.
It's hard enough to get him to go swimming in big baggy shorts let alone if he's going to wear bloomin speedos.

We're going this summer and have bought my ds some tight trunk-like ones. Dh refuses to wear them. We were at a camp 2 years ago that didn't enforce the rule as most of its clientele was British, German or Dutch and none of them wore them. You could spot the odd Frenchman as they were the only ones in speedos. Perhaps you'll get lucky and they won't be strict.

There we are then. They should be grateful I'm not booking a nudist holiday

@nulgirl. Could you possibly tell me which one that was?

Thanks yumscrum , but it still seems odd. You could just have well been wearing your budgie smugglers under your clothes all day and getting all sweaty, that's just as unhygienic as going in the pool in shorts you've been wearing out and about.

We have a mobile home on a sibling site and it is one of the only pools in the area that doesn't have this rule.