Museums
Musée des arts d'Afrique et d'Asie
Rated 4.3 out of 5, 165 reviews
Vichy
- 1 h to 2 h
- Under cover
- With the family
African masks and Asian Buddhas, brought together since 1923 in a pocket-sized museum in Vichy.
When it rains in Auvergne: our indoor ideas
Rain doesn't always give notice, and a weekend can't be rewritten in five minutes. This page keeps only the places that have been checked as visitable under cover, across all categories. You filter by département and by departure town, you look at the time on site, and you leave with a plan B that holds. For the full article on the subject, the guide is just above.
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Unusual experiences
Maison du Saumon et de la Rivière
Rated 4.1 out of 5, 348 reviews
Brioude
- 45 min to 1 h 30
- €
- Under cover
The wild Allier salmon aquarium, right in the centre of Brioude: nearly 800 fish and roughly an hour's visit.
Museums
Musée Surréaliste Boucheix
Rated 4.3 out of 5, 36 reviews
Vichy
- 1 h to 2 h
- Under cover
- With the family
The museum of an Auvergne Surrealist painter: François Boucheix shows his canvases and bronzes in Vichy, in the former Alhambra music hall.
Unusual experiences
Sainte-Marguerite springs
Rated 4.3 out of 5, 81 reviews
Saint-Maurice
- 30 min to 1 h 30
- Free
- Under cover
A real geyser beside the Allier: about every 20 minutes, the Brissac spring shoots up in the middle of a former spa park.
Games and leisure
Les Hermines leisure and sports centre
Rated 3.9 out of 5, 631 reviews
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise
- 1 h to 2 h
- €€
- Under cover
Bowling, indoor adventure park, aquatic centre and bar all in one complex at Super-Besse: the all-purpose plan for when the mountain clouds over.
Games and leisure
Cinsens Escape Game
Rated 4.1 out of 5, 155 reviews
Aurillac
- 1 h 30 to 2 h
- €€
- Under cover
An escape game in the heart of Aurillac where you have to use your senses to get out: rooms for 2 to 8 players, one hour of play, with friends or family from age 8.
Unusual experiences
Coudes spring
Rated 4.2 out of 5, 43 reviews
Coudes
- 10 min to 30 min
- Free
- Under cover
In Coudes, a naturally sparkling, iron-rich spring flows in a small building beside the road. Locals fill their bottles there.
Games and leisure
Bowling du Mont-Dore
Rated 3.9 out of 5, 285 reviews
Le Mont-Dore
- 45 min to 2 h
- €
- Under cover
Six lanes, a bar and the interactive quiz I-Quiz, in the heart of Le Mont-Dore: the obvious plan for an evening after skiing or hiking.
Spas and thermal baths
Thermes Les Dômes Vichy
Rated 3.6 out of 5, 507 reviews
Vichy
- 2 h to 3 h
- Under cover
- With the family
Under its great dome of flambé-glazed stoneware, Vichy's Belle Époque spa: cures for rheumatology and digestive disorders.
Villages
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise
- 1 h to 2 h
- Free
- Under cover
A medieval town in dark lava stone, more than 1,000 metres up, granted its charter of freedoms in 1270: belfry, cobbled lanes, four listed monuments. And Lac Pavin 10 minutes away.