I was reading the Morzine Mairie Bulletin this evening and came across a mention of the “L’Aquariaz” water park in Avoriaz. Currently we are selling apartments in the new Pierre et Vacances project via our Alpine Property website. We refer to this development as a “swimming pool complex”, it looks like we might be understating things a bit. The Morzine Marie bulletin refers to this swimming pool as a 11.6m euros “Aqua park”, that sounds like some swimming pool! I have done a little Googling to try and find some more information and the best I have managed is
” which will include a 400 square metre spa, a 600 square metre heated swimming pool and a 3,000 square metre aquatic and leisure area called Aquariaz. Based on the Center Parcs concept, the Aquariaz will have water rivers, jacuzzis, water trees, wave pools and slides, all at a constant temperature of 29 degrees Celsius”
This quote came from The Post.IE , this sounds quite a lot more impressive than “swimming pool complex” and in fact will provide a brilliant amenity for the whole area. Well done Morzine.
The Morzine Mairie Bulletin is full of details of other large capital projects in the area.
An abbreviated list appears here:
Major investments in 2009
- Wood-fired generator and linked heating system: 2 800 000 €,
- Improvements to the Tourist Office square: 2 470 000 €,
Projects scheduled for the current administrations tenure
- Completion of public infrastructure linked to the Avoriaz 12 M € (communal participation of 5 M €),
- Avoriaz aqua park (L’Aquariaz): 11.6 M € (financed by Pierre et Vacances),
- Indoor pool near the Palais des Sports: 8.5M €,
- New cable car link to Morzine-Avoriaz. 1st section from Prodains-Avoriaz to be completed by December 2011: 20 000 000 € financed by SERMA. 2nd section from Morzine-Prodains (surveys under way).
We have talked about the new cable car link on this blog. I should stress that only the first part from Prodains to Avoriaz is definitely going ahead, the rest is part of the plan!
Either way that is a pretty hefty investment programme that any small town would be proud of.
