Hi,
Im desperately searching for a place for Summer vacation where my kids can jump from diving boards, diving platforms or other. They love to jump in the water from the heights.
Can anyone help me find hotels, camping sites, water parks, beaches anything with diving boards?
Anywhere in Europe would work.
Some of the larger therme or water parks may have what you are looking for, and you will have to contact them and/or download their park maps to confirm. I go the smaller adult-focused thermes and have not gone to any of the huge family-oriented parks. From my where to go research my impression is that high-thrill slides are more common than platforms or diving boards.
I get that anywhere in Europe would work but could you give a clue? Europe is a really big place, slightly larger than the US, 104% as large.
Where will you be travelling from? Is this vacation all about the kids?
A really nice place to vacation for the whole family is the Rhein/Mosel region, a short trip from Frankfurt airport. Think castles, river cruises, hiking, wine, old-world villages, summer bobsled runs, chairlift and cable car rides to scenic lookouts... AND a swim facility with 3 different pools and a newly-constructed 4-springboard tower in Koblenz, where the Rhine and Mosel Rivers meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcKVgs29Uys&t=81s
Map of the area with transportation, hiking, town, castle information:
http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/walking-hiking.php
Mosel River towns, villages, cities:
https://www.mosel-inside.de/en/travel-guide/mosel-villages.html
https://www.eurocamp.co.uk/campsites/italy/adriatic/marina-julia-campsite
Large campsites like this are all over Europe and many have diving boards. I did a quick search and this one came up. Eurocamp is a UK travel company but you can book direct with all these sites. They have mobile homes of all different standards available.
Wow, thanks for quick replies!
We're travelling out of Denmark, and our preferred destinations would be Spain, Belgium, Italy or France.
The only place I found was actually the Marina Julia camping, but it's hard to find a lot more places through Google - or maybe I can't find the right search terms. Its definitely more common to search for slides than diving boards.
I'll check the Frankfurt option asap - thanks!!
I'll check the Frankfurt option asap - thanks!!
Check flights to FRA of course. Luxembourg and Cologne/Bonn airports also serve the Rhine/Mosel region.
As for places to stay, Frankfurt is too far from the Rhine/Mosel area to use as a travel base. You will want to look at other towns that are closer to Koblenz... like Boppard (Rhine River), or possibly Cochem (Mosel River, very close to Burg Eltz Castle.)
Most pools in Germany will have diving boards. The pool in Glückstadt is just a nice swimming facility in an ordinary town--they have 3 diving boards (2 1m and one 3m board) into a diving well as well as an 80m long, 8m high water slide and a bunch of other fun things--all of which are separate from the lap pool in which trainings and regular lane swimmers can be undisturbed. Fields for enjoying the sun in between swims and a kiosk for fries and sweets completes the offering. And again, this is common--I went to a very similar pool in St. Wendel in the Saarland a few years back. The local pool in Hamburg has the same 3 boards but a much smaller slide.
So I think what you are looking for as a bare minimum will be easy enough to find, and you can plan other parts of your vacation around that if you prefer.
You can also look into things like canyoning in the Alps or something like Area 47 https://area47.at/
But really you can find so much pretty much anywhere there is water.
Maybe Mostar bridge diving? Kids would have a blast .... https://www.anadventurousworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/things-to-do-in-mostar.jpg
We visited the Verdon Natural Regional Park in southern France back about 20 years ago and where the river leaves the gorge there were people jumping from the road bridge into the water. It was way higher than something I’d jump off but they seemed to enjoy it.
Also, it’s not Europe but I recall visiting Southampton Beach in Bermuda with family around the same time. Locals weren’t allowed on the hotel-operated beach but they swam out to the large rock outcroppings and climbed up to jump off. Imagine our surprise looking up and seeing our teenage nephew in the queue climbing up! It was another case of paying close attention to what the local folks were doing - if it were that dangerous they wouldn’t have survived to keep doing it!
Anyway, good luck with your trip!
