Nautiland

Nautiland is a municipal-scale leisure bath in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, which the operator places "en plein cœur de Haguenau" and about ten minutes on foot from Haguenau railway station, with regular trains from Strasbourg. The postal address is 8 rue des dominicains, 67500 Haguenau. The water is ordinary treated pool water: the operator claims no spring, thermal source or mineral content, and the house is drained once a year for a compulsory emptying and maintenance shutdown.

The attraction set is split between an outdoor and an indoor part. The headline ride is the rivière sauvage, a rapid river the operator describes as running outdoors over more than 90 m of length with 3 metres of drop, on which bathers are carried at up to 14 km/h through slopes, bumps and eddies alternating with calmer stretches. The original speed slide has been kept in its old outer shell but rebuilt inside, with a darkened section lit by LEDs, a speed display at the exit and a hydraulic braking run-out; a second, smaller slide for young children was added on the ground floor, ending in the learner pool. There are two depth-free water playgrounds: an outdoor one with water jets, a pirate boat, a giant tipping bucket, a bird's-nest swing, roundabouts and a climbing cage, and an indoor one where lighting and projection are used in place of a conventional paddling pool. The operator does not publish a total count of pools or slides.

A relaxation area is open to all swimmers: a bubble bath heated to 33 °C, with a minimum age of 12 and a recommended limit of about fifteen minutes, and a basin with massage seats at 29 °C fed by hydromassage jets. An outdoor barefoot sensory trail of pebbles, log rounds, wood chips, gravel and sandstone setts is open to all visitors year-round, weather permitting. The separate Espace Wellness, closed to under-18s, holds saunas, hammams, cold baths, foot-bath tubs and an ice fountain, and is divided into a fully separated naturist part and a swimsuit part; an outdoor spa with whirlpool baths sits on a wooden terrace behind a slatted screen and planting, and a silent rest room adjoins. Two independent practitioners offer massages and head-spa treatments. A sports programme of aquabiking, aquaboxing, aquajogging, aquagym and swimming lessons from age 5 runs in the pools.

Nautiland opens every day of the week: Monday to Friday continuously from 12:00 to 21:00 outside school holidays and from 10:00 to 21:00 during zone B school holidays, and Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 9:00 to 19:00. It closes on 25 and 26 December, 31 December and 1 January, and once a year for the draining works.