Here are our ideas for days out with kids in and around Les Sables-d'Olonne, each one checked, for little ones and older kids alike. Here are 19 ideas picked from over 8,500 outings in the Trottimap app.
Leisure parks
Parc des Dunes · Brem-sur-Mer (85)
Between Les Sables-d'Olonne and Saint-Gilles, this four hectare wooded park offers around forty unlimited attractions from age two: water slides, pedal karts, inflatable trampolines, crazy golf and a toboggan run.
Sport and adventure
Le Grand Défi · Saint-Julien-des-Landes (85)
Near La Mothe-Achard, Le Grand Défi lines up more than forty tree courses and around thirty zip lines that fly over the ponds.
Leisure parks
Pop Corn Labyrinthe Olonne-sur-Mer · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
Every summer, a maize field near Olonne-sur-Mer becomes a giant maze where you move from riddle to riddle to find the way out.
Leisure parks
Up2Play Les Sables-d'Olonne · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
In the Ylium retail area, this large covered complex brings together bowling, a trampoline park, a play area for one to twelve year olds, arcade games and an artificial surf wave open…
Leisure parks
L'Île aux Jeux Les Sables-d'Olonne · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
In Les Sables-d'Olonne, this covered, air-conditioned park welcomes children up to fourteen across eight hundred square metres.
Parks and nature
Les Salines, parc d'aventure du sel · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
North of Les Sables, this working salt marsh is explored along a trail dotted with riddles.
Museums and science
Muséum du Coquillage · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
Near the harbour in Les Sables, this private museum displays more than fifty thousand shells from around the world, from giant clams to corals, along with preserved crabs and sharks.
Pools, beaches and water
Centre aquatique Aqualonne · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
In Les Sables-d'Olonne, this year round aquatic centre adds to its sports pool a leisure pool with a lazy river, geysers and bubble benches, a heated paddling pool and three slides from…
Sport and adventure
Circuit Mecamax, karting et quad · L'Île-d'Olonne (85)
Among the wind turbines of L'Île-d'Olonne, ten minutes from Les Sables, Mecamax brings together several kart tracks and a quad circuit.
Animals and farms
Zoo des Sables · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
Beside the Tanchet stream, this small wooded zoo takes about two hours to explore, with gibbons, panthers, macaws and red pandas.
Leisure parks
Parc des Sablotins · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
This park in Les Sables-d'Olonne welcomes children up to fourteen across more than fifteen hundred square metres.
Sport and adventure
Atlantic Kart System · Les Sables-d'Olonne (85)
On the heights of Château-d'Olonne, world champion Thomas Laurent's track stretches over a kilometre.
Animals and farms
Aquarium de Vendée · Talmont-Saint-Hilaire (85)
Near Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, about sixty tanks show sharks, rays, tropical fish and creatures from local shores.
Castles and heritage
Château de Talmont · Talmont-Saint-Hilaire (85)
Built around the year one thousand above the marsh, this castle is among the oldest stone castles in France.
Leisure parks
Mini-golf Croquez la Vendée · Brétignolles-sur-Mer (85)
In Brétignolles-sur-Mer, this eighteen-hole crazy golf course with an unusual layout winds through a shady park home to rabbits, guinea pigs and birds.
Museums and science
Vendée Miniature · Brétignolles-sur-Mer (85)
In Brétignolles, a huge model recreates a bocage village from the nineteen twenties, with more than six hundred figures, steam trains and moving scenes.
Pools, beaches and water
Les Canoës du Jaunay · Saint-Julien-des-Landes (85)
In July and August, two bases rent canoes and pedal boats on Lac du Jaunay, a winding lake of over a hundred hectares lined with woods.
Animals and farms
La Folie de Finfarine · Poiroux (85)
This ten hectare wooded park near Talmont tells the life of bees, from flower to honey jar.
Leisure parks
Jard Attractions · Jard-sur-Mer (85)
Facing the marina in Jard-sur-Mer, this small permanent funfair brings together a carousel, bouncy structures, a ticket arcade and claw machines.
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