Leisure parks
Try everything at Parcofolies
Parcofolies · La Baule-Escoublac (44)
Near the Château de Lesnerac, Parcofolies brings together more than fifty outdoor games included in the ticket, across five shaded hectares.
Here are our ideas for days out with kids in and around Saint-Nazaire, each one checked, for little ones and older kids alike. Here are 29 ideas picked from over 8,500 outings in the Trottimap app.
Leisure parks
Parcofolies · La Baule-Escoublac (44)
Near the Château de Lesnerac, Parcofolies brings together more than fifty outdoor games included in the ticket, across five shaded hectares.
Pools, beaches and water
Aquaparc Saint-Nazaire · Saint-Nazaire (44)
Near the Parc Paysager, the Saint-Nazaire Aquaparc gathers five pools, including a wave pool with jets and bubbles that children love.
Leisure parks
Exitime Escape Game Saint-Nazaire · Saint-Nazaire (44)
In the Ruban Bleu shopping arcade, Exitime has built its own puzzle rooms, including Sauvons Merlin, a medieval adventure open from age ten with an adult.
Shows and workshops
Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire · Saint-Nazaire (44)
This national stage on rue des Frères Pereire programmes circus, object theatre and dance, with family afternoons and performances for school classes from nursery to lycée, depending on the show.
Sport and adventure
Base Jump · Saint-Nazaire (44)
In three bays of the former submarine base, Base Jump has strung five levels of courses between the concrete pillars, open from age three.
Museums and science
Escal'Atlantic · Saint-Nazaire (44)
Inside the submarine base, you walk through the decks, cabins and lounges of a rebuilt transatlantic liner, from the promenade deck down to the kitchens.
Castles and heritage
Sous-marin Espadon · Saint-Nazaire (44)
Moored in the fortified lock, the Espadon is visited from bow to stern, past bunk beds, the control room and the torpedo room.
Museums and science
EOL Centre éolien · Saint-Nazaire (44)
Set inside the fortified lock, this centre explains how the wind turbines off Saint-Nazaire work.
Museums and science
Écomusée de Saint-Nazaire · Saint-Nazaire (44)
This museum tells how a small village became a town of shipyards and aircraft, with ship models, harbour photos and a room on aviation up to the Airbus plants.
Sport and adventure
Centre nautique de Saint-Brevin, char à voile · Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (44)
On the long Océan beach at Saint-Brevin, the sailing centre gets children from age eight rolling in sand yachts at low tide.
Leisure parks
Minigolf de Pornichet · Pornichet (44)
Opened in 1954 two hundred metres from the beach, the Pornichet crazy golf lays out its flowered holes under the trees, with obstacles of varying difficulty.
Pools, beaches and water
Complexe aquatique Aquajade · Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (44)
In the La Guerche business park, Aquajade combines a sports pool, a leisure pool, a paddling pool and an indoor slide.
Pools, beaches and water
Promenades en Brière, port de la Chaussée-Neuve · Saint-André-des-Eaux (44)
At the Chaussée-Neuve harbour, a local boatman takes families aboard a chaland, the flat bottomed marsh boat, and poles it between the reeds.
Sport and adventure
Bloc Session Loire Estuaire · Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (44)
Near the Saint-Nazaire bridge, this bouldering gym lines up around a hundred problems on low walls above thick mats, with no rope or harness.
Parks and nature
Réserve naturelle, site de Pierre Constant · Saint-Malo-de-Guersac (44)
From the Rozé lock, a flat path of eight hundred metres follows the canal to the reserve's hides.
Pools, beaches and water
Aquabaule · La Baule-Escoublac (44)
A short walk from La Baule's beaches, Aquabaule heats seawater pools all year round, including a thirty three metre outdoor Nordic pool lined with pines.
Animals and farms
Ferme Lait Prés Verts · Guérande (44)
Between Guérande and La Baule, this organic dairy farm lets families walk in freely to greet cows, calves, pigs, dwarf goats and hens.
Castles and heritage
Village de Kerhinet · Saint-Lyphard (44)
Kerhinet is a car free hamlet where eighteen reed roofed houses have been restored around a well, a wash house and bread ovens.
Leisure parks
Mini Golf La Baule · La Baule-Escoublac (44)
Since 1953, this La Baule crazy golf has lined up eighteen clay holes in a leafy garden, a few streets from the seafront.
Sport and adventure
Racing Kart Jade (RKJ) · Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef (44)
In Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, RKJ runs three tracks: electric baby karts for three to six year olds, a junior circuit from age seven and the adult track.
Pools, beaches and water
Aquaguérande · Guérande (44)
On the edge of Guérande, Aquaguérande combines a sports pool, a leisure pool and a winding slide that children happily ride again and again.
Sport and adventure
Presqu'île Bowling · Guérande (44)
In the Kerbiniou business park, Presqu'île Bowling lines up fourteen lanes fitted for children, with bumpers and light balls.
Castles and heritage
Porte Saint-Michel, château-musée de Guérande · Guérande (44)
The main entrance to the medieval town, the Porte Saint-Michel houses a lodging you explore floor by floor up spiral stairs.
Parks and nature
Terre de Sel · Guérande (44)
On the edge of the Guérande salt marshes, the cooperative's guides lead families along the banks between the pans.
Sport and adventure
Monkey Forest · Saint-Molf (44)
Five minutes from Guérande, Monkey Forest spreads twenty treetop courses and around fifty zip lines over six hectares of woodland.
Animals and farms
La Petite Ferme d'Heïdi · Saint-Père-en-Retz (44)
In Saint-Père-en-Retz, this small two hectare educational farm welcomes families to feed, stroke and brush goats, sheep, guinea pigs and ponies.
Museums and science
Musée du Grand Blockhaus · Batz-sur-Mer (44)
Facing the wild coast, this German command post is visited from the basement up to the lookout across five restored levels.
Museums and science
Musée des marais salants · Batz-sur-Mer (44)
In Batz-sur-Mer, this small museum shows with displays and models how salt workers have harvested coarse salt and fleur de sel for centuries.
Castles and heritage
Château de Ranrouët · Herbignac (44)
In the middle of the Herbignac meadows, Ranrouët shows its gutted towers and water-filled moat.