Alaïa Bay is a surf lagoon in Sion, in the canton of Valais, roughly 500 meters above sea level. It opened in 2021 as the first surf pool in continental Europe, and covers 8,300 square meters.

Nestled high up in the picturesque, snowcapped splendor of the Swiss Alps mountain range, Alaïa Bay is truly a wave pool in a location unlike any other. With a hotel, ski lodge, great restaurant, ...

There’s a swell time to be had in the Swiss Alps. Visitors are ditching crampons and taking to the waves at a pool hundreds of metres above sea level. Surf’s up! I didn’t expect to have a view of ski ...

There’s a swell time to be had in the Swiss Alps. Visitors are ditching crampons and taking to the waves at a pool hundreds of metres above sea level. Surf’s up!