Charente Maritime is a paradise for family sea bathing and beach games. During summer, more than 90 beaches, mostly with fine sand invite you to relax. Most of the beaches have lifeguard on duty for safe swimming. Many beaches also offer Children’s clubs and have amazing facilities for disabled access.
Prepare your beach towels, buckets and spades, the Charente Maritime beaches are waiting for you !

Port-des-Barques
Also called the South Beach, it has the particularity of being equipped with a water reservoir, which allows you to ...
La Rochelle
There are 3 beaches next to La Rochelle. This one, which is not far from the old port, is pleasant with a peripheral ...
Saint-Clément-des-Baleines
It starts from the Whale Lighthouse, which is very interesting to discover, and stretches all the way to offer you a ...
Saint-Denis-d'Oléron
The Plage des Huttes is accessible by bike, via the cycle path. You can swim there, there is sand in some places and ...
Les Mathes
A beach for practicing naturism, on one side of the beach. It is wild and facing the Cordouan lighthouse in the ...
Les Portes-en-Ré
A small sandy beach, pleasant at high tide. You can walk and go to the chapel of La Redoute, which honors Notre Dame ...
Saint-Denis-d'Oléron
A beautiful wild beach, not far from the Pointe de Chassiron. It is a good place to practice board sports, such as ...
Les Mathes
Also called the Plage du Clapet, it is located in the bay of Bonne Anse. It is a family place, where swimming is ...
La Couarde-sur-Mer
A beach for swimming, where naturism is possible for lovers of this practice. It is a calm and natural place, with a ...
La Couarde-sur-Mer
It is the large supervised beach of Couarde-sur-Mer, the one where it is good to come with your family during the ...
Les Portes-en-Ré
At the end of the Ile de Ré, it is made famous by Charles Aznavour, it is a wild beach that has a lot of character. ...
Île-d'Aix
A perfect beach for swimming and relaxing, you are under the protective gaze of the lighthouses of Île d'Aix, with ...
Meschers-sur-Gironde
A wild beach, quite difficult to access, this is what gives it all its charm. You are in the hollow of the limestone ...
La Flotte
Take a stroll on this small beach, which is near a thalasso center, perfect to punctuate your well-being stay… ...
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