Cachin Wake Park near Annecy: Prices, and Riders From Five
by Yannick SchrothAug 28, 20265 min read
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Les Îles du Chéran, the leisure base the park sits on.
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Key takeaways
- It publishes a price list, which nothing else in our cable-park coverage does. The whole 2026 grid is on the operator's own tariffs page.
- A two-pulley cable, not a circuit. The operator calls it a téléski bi-poulies and a téléski nautique 2.0: you are towed one way, then back.
- From age five, with a qualified instructor for beginners, the lowest minimum age of any park we cover.
- Its own site gives two different season starts, mid-May in one place and early June in another. We report both rather than pick one.
Prices at Cachin Wake Park, in full
This is the part worth the page. The operator publishes a 2026 tariff grid, and here it is as they give it:
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| One 15-minute wakeboard session, no board rental | 21 € |
| One 15-minute session with board rental | 25 € |
| Six-session card, no board rental | 120 € |
| Six-session card with board rental | 142 € |
| One hour with the cable to yourself, up to three people | 98 € |
| Each extra 30 minutes of private hire | 49 € |
| Wetsuit rental during the activity | 4 € |
| One hour on the inflatable water games | 13 € |
A fifteen-minute session sounds short and is not: on a two-pulley cable a beginner spends most of a first session in the water, and fifteen minutes of being pulled up is about as much as arms and forearms take. The six-session card at 120 € works out at 20 a session, so the saving is small; buy it because you intend to come back, not to save money.
What kind of cable it is
The operator describes a téléski bi-poulies, a two-pulley system, and elsewhere a téléski nautique 2.0. That is a straight line between two towers rather than a circuit: you are towed to one end, let go, and towed back. It is the standard layout for smaller parks and it is a different experience from a five-tower loop like CWC or the 500-meter circuit at Cable Park Split.
For learning, the two-pulley layout is arguably better: the operator can slow the pull, stop it when you fall, and start you again without you swimming anywhere. For obstacles and airtime it is more limited, which is why the operator sells this as initiation et perfectionnement rather than as a park to session all day.
Where Cachin Wake Park is, and getting there from Annecy
The park is on the base de loisirs « Les Îles du Chéran » at Lescheraines in the Savoie, inside the Bauges massif. The operator puts it at 30 minutes from Annecy, and the same from Aix-les-Bains and Chambéry, with Albertville an hour away. OpenStreetMap places it about 22 km from Annecy in a straight line, which is consistent with half an hour on mountain roads.
That makes it a realistic half-day from a stay in Annecy rather than a destination of its own, which is how our Annecy guide now frames it. The same base carries paddle, pedalos, canoes, towed rings and an inflatable obstacle course, so it works as a day out for a group where only some people want to ride.
Season and opening hours (the operator publishes two different sets)
On one part of the site the season is given as début juin à mi-septembre, and on another as mi-mai à mi-septembre, weather permitting. Both sentences were on the site on 28 August 2026. We are not going to pick the one we prefer: if you are planning for late May, that fortnight is exactly the gap, and it is worth a phone call.
Opening hours move with the season and the operator posts changes on the front page. A notice dated Monday 24 August put wakeboard sessions and the inflatables at 14:00 to 18:00, and gave a number for anything outside those hours.
Cable wakeboarding is its own discipline, not a cheaper version of the boat one
It is easy to read a cable park as the budget option: same sport, no boat. The sport's own governing structure does not see it that way. At The World Games, which is where the non-Olympic disciplines are contested, Cable Wakeboard is a separate event from Wakeboard Freestyle.
The Games' description of the difference is mechanical rather than snobbish. Wakeboarding is a sport in which the rider is “towed behind a boat using a rope, or by a cable skimming the surface”; in “Wakeboard Freestyle a boat is used to tow the athlete”, while in “Cable Wakeboard riders are pulled by a specially set-up cable, encountering structures on the course”. That last clause is the whole difference: a cable park has obstacles, and riding them is a different skill from riding a wake.
The judging is the same in both, and it is worth knowing what you are being measured on if you ever enter anything: riders “score points in three categories: Execution, Intensity and Composition”. Composition is the one beginners never think about: it is not what you land, it is how the run is put together.
For a first visit to a cable that reframes the day usefully. You are not learning a discounted version of boat wakeboarding; you are learning a discipline whose distinguishing feature is the features. Start without them, then add one.
FAQ: Cachin Wake Park near Annecy
How much does a wakeboard session cost at Cachin?
21 € for fifteen minutes without a board, 25 € with one, from the operator's own 2026 tariff page read on 28 August 2026. Six-session cards are 120 and 142 €. A wetsuit is 4 €.
How young can children ride?
From five, according to the operator, with a qualified instructor teaching beginners. That is the lowest minimum age of any cable park in our coverage; Cable Park Split sets six.
Is it a circuit like the big Asian parks?
No. It is a two-pulley straight-line cable, towed one way and then back, which the operator calls a téléski nautique 2.0. Good for learning, more limited for obstacles.
When is it open?
The operator's own site gives two different answers, mid-May in one place and early June in another, both running to mid-September and both weather-dependent. Phone before you plan a trip around the shoulder weeks.
Sources
- Cable wakeboard as its own discipline. The World Games, Waterski & Wakeboard: “Wakeboarding is a water sport in which an athlete riding on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings) is towed behind a boat using a rope, or by a cable skimming the surface”; “In Wakeboard Freestyle a boat is used to tow the athlete. In Cable Wakeboard riders are pulled by a specially set-up cable, encountering structures on the course”; “In all disciplines, riders score points in three categories: Execution, Intensity and Composition.” theworldgames.org. Read 13 September 2026.
- cachinwakepark.com, the operator's own site: the 2026 tariff grid, the téléski bi-poulies description, the minimum age of five, the qualified instructor, the location on Les Îles du Chéran, the travel times and both season statements. Read 2026-08-28.
- OpenStreetMap, for position and the straight-line distance to Annecy, and for the wider set of 778 named cable installations this site uses to find parks near the places it covers. Read 2026-08-28.