Originally Posted by
GUWonder
I've been to pools and waterparks around Strasbourg and Metz, and I see more and more swim trunks now than back when I was a kid in that area. But some old habits die hard.
Waterparks are fine and probably have a much higher level of chlorine. Not sure about Alsace, but at public pools in Burgundy it's not a habit. It's a serious and thoroughly enforced rule. You don't have to wear a Speedo, but nothing baggy or long is allowed. I go to one of the top swimming facilities in France so everything is taken seriously.