In Finistère, a 4 -star hotel removes its swimming pool and hammam in the name of climate emergency

The star chef at the Hotel-Restaurant La Butte, in Plouider, had already been rewarded in 2022 a green star for his eco-responsible commitment.

The star chef Nicolas Conraux, owner of the hotel-restaurant La Butte in Plouider (Finistère), decided, for ecological reasons, to remove the heated swimming pool and the establishment’s hammam, a first in the department, reports Son Braizh Izel (ex-France Bleu) Monday July 21. Nicolas Conraux and his wife Solène have owned the hotel-restaurant since 2007. A wooden floor, with a view of the Baie de Goulven, replaced the heated swimming pool of 50m². It is a new space, a “Rest room called the refuge”Indicates the star chef.

The hotel has still kept a sauna. It has been rebuilt and will be “Heated to 55 ° C, no more, because it is more than enough and it consumes less energy”underlines Nicolas Conraux. In 2022, the chef was awarded a green star for his eco -responsible commitment. Take the most energy -consuming parties of your establishment today, “It’s common sense, obvious”he defends at the microphone from here Breizh Izel.

And “I will groom my waters in the kitchen, it is not to offer customers to go for fifteen or twenty people at the same time in chlorinated water heated to 32 degrees”Is it justified. “Even in Finistère, we can see that we have temperature peaks, water management issues.”

“We must all realize that there is a real climatic emergency, she sees herself every day all over the world.”

Nicolas Conraux, starred chef

At the microphone from here Breizh Izel

This ecological decision, however, aroused a wave of criticism on the Internet. “When I read comments on social networks, I tell myself that there is still a long way to go”deplores Nicolas Conraux. However, according to figures by Breizh Izel, on the 35 4 -star hotels in Finistère, there are only 16 which are equipped with a pool. With this initiative, the starred chef and owner of the Hotel-Restaurant La Butte hopes to arouse consciences and inspire other hoteliers and restaurateurs to follow this path to “Get things to change”.

His next objective: to continue to make your establishment more sober in energy consumption, with “Solar panels, buried fridges”ensuring that he has “Still a lot of ideas” But that it is also necessary that finances follow “Because these environmental gestures have a cost.”