Budgie smugglers at Marriott's d'ile-de-France

[Pompey Family]

It's been a few years since I've been to the resort so can anyone who has been recently confirm whether they enforce the law that Speedo type swimwear aka budgie smugglers are compulsory in the pools? I don't possess a pair so I don't want to needlessly buy some only to find out that I'm never going to have to wear them.

I'm aware that some holiday camps allow foreign tourists to wear swimshorts in the pool but I can't find any clarification regarding Marriott's resort.

 

[dioxide45]

Well... It is the law in France after all.

 

[jp10558]

Wait... France has a law that you have to wear revealing swimwear? TIL...

 

[dioxide45]

Wait... France has a law that you have to wear revealing swimwear? TIL...

Yeah, I had to do a Google search on it myself. I had no clue. I guess I won't be swimming in pools in France.

 

[Hindsite]

Not that we've been instructed to do, no speedos in our group and nobody can remember that being a problem.
If you buy some, keep them in case you go to Portugal, where swim caps are required for indoor pools and hot-tubs, so they can be dual purpose

 

[jwalk03]

I wear speedos sometimes so it’s not a big deal- will definitely pack some!

I’ll report back and see if the law is actually enforced or not!

 

[Tacoma]

I wonder if this is in response to the fact that many men/boys have their underwear on under their bathing suit? It can't be hygienic. I have a friend who occasionally gets stopped at pools because she wears a light cover up on top to hide her arms, she waits until a man/boy comes out with underwear showing and then they usually give her permission since she only wears this cover in the pool and it is always washed and clean. Still seems like a strange rule. I would like to see a rule where backless bathing suits aren't allowed at pools. Bad enough at the beach but maybe I'm just old and prudish.

 

[Pompey Family]

Well... It is the law in France after all.

As I wrote, some holiday camps in France allow tourists to wear swim shorts.

 

[Pompey Family]

I wonder if this is in response to the fact that many men/boys have their underwear on under their bathing suit?

I've noticed that a lot in the US but I can't say it's something I really see in Europe. The reasons are twofold, the French consider that many people wear loose fitting shorts both to walk around the streets in and then go swimming (I don't think that actually happens much) and also for an environmental aspect, shorts hold more water than tight fitting trunks and if repeatedly entering and exiting the water that's a lot of water being removed from the pool.

 

[Fasttr]

I wonder if this is in response to the fact that many men/boys have their underwear on under their bathing suit?

That seems to be the case for board shorts, as swim trunks have the mesh liner and board shorts do not.

 

[SmithOp]

This has got to be a wind up.

Add this as another reason I have no desire to visit France

We always observe the shower before entering rule, and wear trunks with mesh liner. No budgie smuggling here. I also wear a long sleeve rash guard shirt, fair skin cancer no bueno.

Pools have plenty of chlorine in US, maybe the French don't?

 

[bazzap]

It may be down to local / resort interpretation of the rules, although certainly at the site in the South of France where we owned a mobile home for some 20 years they required you (and still do) to wear swimming briefs in the pool complex.
This is what the rules say though.

Port du maillot de bain obligatoire : la réglementation

Tous les types de maillots de bain ne sont pas autorisés au sein des piscines publiques. Boardshort, bermuda, caleçon ou encore string de bain, certaines tenues sont interdites pour des raisons d’hygiène, voire de sécurité morale.

www.guide-piscine.fr

 

[ljmiii]

This is what the rules say though….

Thank you!

 

[Fasttr]

Something like this might shake things up a bit around the pool.

 

[jme]

Something like might shake things up a bit around the pool.

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You talkin' literally or figuratively?

 

[davidvel]

Something like might shake things up a bit around the pool.

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You ain't smugglin' anything in that getup.

 

[jwalk03]

I wonder if this is in response to the fact that many men/boys have their underwear on under their bathing suit? It can't be hygienic. I have a friend who occasionally gets stopped at pools because she wears a light cover up on top to hide her arms, she waits until a man/boy comes out with underwear showing and then they usually give her permission since she only wears this cover in the pool and it is always washed and clean. Still seems like a strange rule. I would like to see a rule where backless bathing suits aren't allowed at pools. Bad enough at the beach but maybe I'm just old and prudish.

Certainly not a new rule. It appears to have been a law in France since the early 1900s that men and boys are required to wear speedo type suits for hygiene.

 

[Pompey Family]

I've been reliably informed by members of a Marriott d'ile de France Facebook group that the law is not applied there and therefore swim shorts are permitted.