A Bollywood-themed sauna where very pretty boys stand around and look uninterested. Owned and operated by the Dépot team, it features dry saunas, jacuzzi, hammams, video rooms,...

The Forum des Halles is Paris's biggest and least pleasant shopping mall, although a facelift due for completion in 2012 should improve matters. Extending three levels...

A beautiful art deco pool with two mezzanine levels. It has private locker rooms, plus night swimming to underwater music. Small fee for lockers.

This sunken-level health club has Technogym fitness machines, a sauna and some of the best classes in the city, particularly for step and spinning; the classes cost extra.

Moored on the Seine by the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Piscine Josephine-Baker is back to shipshape, apparently cured of the technical problems that plagued it since opening in...

This listed complex, built in the 1920s, has one main indoor pool and two outdoor pools (open in the summer). The water is a warm 28°C, thanks to the natural sulphurous spring.

Fully renovated in 2008, this 50m pool features a retractable roof and uses an innovative, chlorine-free water treatment method. Lane-swimming is prioritised, and there's a 15m...

Tennis, table tennis and other racquet sports at most of the dozen branches in and around Paris.

With year-round summer temperatures, this water park under a giant atrium is great fun for kids. An extra charge gets you a steam bath and three saunas.

A huge indoor street course and micro-ramp, which hosts international competitions.

Although usually busy, this 50m pool with its own tropical greenhouse is good for lane swimming - but there are no lockers (check in your belongings with the attendants). It...

The largest of the six municipal walls in Paris.

Opened in 2008, this covered complex provides urban sports fans with a vast space. There are bowls and street furniture, and a funbox and beginners area are due to open in...

Built for the 1924 Olympics, this complex features a retractable Plexiglas roof, a 50m pool (often split into two 25m pools) and one for kids.