L'Atoll is a private libertine club in the business park on the Rue des Vignerons at Saint-Germain-du-Puy, on the eastern edge of Bourges. Its own description is a club of some 600 square metres over two floors: a balneo area, an ambience bar, a dance floor with a reception lounge, and a large water area with a six-by-three-metre pool and a bubble bath, a spacious hammam, a sauna, coins câlins and a terrace. Its own photographs bear that out room for room — the pool under blue light, the sauna cabin, the tiled hammam, and the terrace with its table and parasol.

Weekday afternoons are the quiet half of the week; the club opens Mondays and Fridays from midday, Thursdays from midday until midnight, and Sunday afternoons, and closes entirely on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Fridays reopen in the evening and Saturdays run from 20:30 into the small hours: every Saturday L'Atoll becomes 'Le Club Privé', with a themed party, a meal included and a full drinks licence.

The house rules are its own and stated plainly: correct dress is required, the management reserves the right of admission — 'les vrais libertins se reconnaîtront' — and the club is now entirely non-smoking inside, cigarettes and vapes alike, with smoking on the terrace. There is self-service parking, and cash and cards are both taken. Admission prices are not published on the site and are not quoted here.

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