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Baden-Baden, Germany Report. September 2002. Having been to Germany these past four days has been a pleasant experience. I spent the past weekend in Baden-Baden. Famous for its hot springs that go back to Roman Times. I stayed at the Hotel Karlsbad Hof directly across the alley from the Friedrichs Bad, the famous hot spring spa of Baden-Baden. Friedrichs Bad is a nude only facility with a minimum time expenditure of at least 3 - 3 1/2 hours. There are 16 stations to luxuriate in and to partake of the different therapies. Starting with a shower,then a 10 minute hot area lounge to acclimate to the temperature. Afterwards a 5 minute hotter lounge area. The 4th station is the Shvitz of hot steam for ten minutes, then a massage scrub for 7 minutes, back to the shvitz for 10 minutes, and then on to a series of warm water pools. All pools are mixed genders, on the mixed gender days. (all days except Tuesday and Monday Night). There are three different therapy pools with intricate ceilings designed in the later part of the 19th Century. Towering domes and beautiful sculptures. After the pools, of 10 - 15 duration for each pool, back to the showers, cold dip pools, and 1/2 hour of resting and sleep before ending with Creme Rubs on the skin. This magnificent 3 1/2 hour excursion costs 24.70 Euros (about the same in $). There are solar beds to retain your all over tan. Other therapies, aromatherapies, wraps, massages, etc. are extra. There is another bath/spa next door called Caracalla. There is a mandatory swim suit area on the main level. However, like all sauna areas in Germany, the Sauna Level is mandatory nude. This level includes solar beds, sun lamps, saunas, steam rooms, cold dip pools and hot tubs. It is almost funny to see everyone disrobe their swim suits and spend an hour or two upstairs nude and then put on their bathing suits for the walk downstairs to the warm pools both inside and outside. Caracalla is very inexpensive and there are other therapies available. Price with discount from the hotel - Euros 9.70 ($9.70). If you get a chance to get to Germany - go to Baden-Baden and enjoy, relax, and luxuriate. Thanks CO Guy for the report.

Berlin. October 2004. In Berlin, the Berlin Luft Und Bad Paradise (BLUB!), http://www.blub-berlin.de/, has a spectacular sauna area. To get there, take the underground (U Bahn) to Grenzallee. Get out of the U Bahn using the Buschkrugallee exit. Turn left on Buschkrugallee, walk about 3 blocks, and you will se the BLUB hotel on your right. Go between the two halves of the hotel, and follow the path to BLUB itself. BLUB has a large textile-only indoor-outdoor swimming pool, and a special sauna area, labeled, from the entrance 'FKK Bereich' , nude zone. You get a computerized chip wrist band, which you can use in any open locker. The changing room is unisex, although the showers are sex-segregated. The inside part of the sauna area is designed in an Arab-Andalusian mode, with colored tiles. Inside there is a steam bath, five saunas of different temperatures, two whirlpool baths, and a small swimming pool and a cold plunge pool. There is also a bank of showers with various multidirectional sprays. The indoor area also has a large relaxation space in a glassed-in greenhouse, with lots of palm trees and chaise lounges. Outside there are 2 more saunas (90 degrees C and 100 degrees C) and a lovely garden with lots of chaise lounges. Each of the outside saunas has an hourly aufguss: people crowd into the sauna, and the attendant comes in with a bucket of scented water and ladles water onto the hot coals. He then whips the steam around the sauna using a big towel. When a gust of steam arrives in a 100 C sauna you really feel it! There is a small restaurant inside the sauna area. If you are ever stuck in Berlin for a day, this is a very pleasant and relaxing space. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey.

German Spa Experience Report. September 2002. Having just returned from a week in Germany on business, I wanted to share a glimpse of the German Nakt Kulture. We enjoyed the sights, shopped, had some good German meals, and generally had a good time. However, my favorite experience was the opportunity to bake, soak, steam, swim and sunbathe at the "SchwimmHalle" or "Hallenbad". I definitely recommend it if you a ever get a chance to travel to Germany. Pause to relax your mind as you imagine taking a trip to a typical German swimming pool/sauna complex.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.)

German Swim-Spa Places. June 2002. Most German towns of reasonable sizes have large indoor-outdoor swimming pools with wonderful sauna areas. The swimming pools are mostly textile, but the sauna areas are not. They are usually called 'Sauna Paradies' or 'Sauna Landschaft (the sauna landscape!), and they are entirely nude (FKK, for Frei Korper Kulture, free body culture), not clothing optional (towels are OK). My favorites: 1. Vier Jahrezeiten in Weil-am-Rhein, the sauna section of Laguna Badeland (http://www.laguna-badeland.de/sauna.html). To get to it you get off the autobahn at Weil-am-Rhein, and follow the signs (it is very well marked). You can also get there by bus, it is about a 10 minute walk from the Marktplatz stop. Weil-am-Rhein is in Germany, but it is actually a suburb of Basel, Switzerland. A Basel bus ticket can get you to Weil-am-Rhein. The Sauna area has lots of saunas, a whirlpool, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and a restaurant. On Sunday nights the entire Laguna Badeland is open to the Sauna users. They have a water slide that is really exciting to do nude. 2. Therme Erding (http://www.therme-erding.de), in the Munich suburb of Erding, not too far from the Munich Airport. This has a large textile thermal swimming pool, and a slightly smaller FKK area, with a thermal swimming pool, lots of saunas, a Roman Bath area, and a restaurant. 3. Taunus Therme (note from Jan: completely textile now - report from a member who visited in July 2006). Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey.

Trip Report - Germany - Lake Chiemsee. August 2003. Lake Chiemsee is halfway between Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria on highway A8. FKK Chiemsee and Camping Roedlgries (camping area for textiles) at the Bavarian sea of Lake Chiemsee. Belonging to municipality of Ubersee/Feldwies 7 hectres large, with 700 m long sand beach. FKK Chiemsee (nude only) has beachvolleyball, table tennis. Sanitary plumbings with showers (warm water), chilled water showers in the sport and couch range, kiosk with cosy beer garden with food (didn't eat there). Free entrance for children until 14 years. Discounts for pupil/student. More of a park picnic style setting with, I believe, daytime hours only, didn't see evidence of barbequeing equipment. Great place to relax and play sports if wanted. Most people (families, singles men and women) just relaxed with good books and enjoyed the nice Bavarian weather. Start: Autobahn A8 Munich heading toward Salzburg, exit Ubersee/Feldwies. Exit left back over highway. Stay on the main road for about a mile. You will see a sign for Camping and FKK Roedlgries turn left, down paved road then left again on gravel road (frontage road to A8). Can't miss the FKK signs. Parking on-site and cost for one person was 5 Euros. Take your German-English translation book. I had no problems getting by with the language. Overall nice folks. FKK Chiemsee Seerosenweg 4 83236 Ubersee ph 0 8642 598859 http://nacktbaden.de/. http://world.altavista.com/ has good English-German translator. http://www.fkk-reisefuehrer.de/Webseiten-Deuschland/Webseiten-Bayern/Bayern11.htm. http://www.healthandefficiency.co.uk/backs/m200201/travel.htm. Thanks DJ for the report!

Munich Report. Summer 2001. Only this year have I become active as a nudist. I have thought about it for years and practiced it at home from time to time but this year was my first experience in a social nudist club. I finally got motivated earlier in the summer and made a visit to a singles friendly rustic nudist resort in Indiana near my home in Kentucky. It was a wonderful experience. Since the family is not very interested I went by myself. I was comfortable from the beginning and I was hooked. It is a bit of an oxymoron that you could take off your clothes and feel very comfortable with a group of strangers but I was. I have visited there a few other times but this report is about a trip to Munich Germany after my first experience at that club... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.)

The Oase Wellness Center in Bremen. October 2005. The Oase Wellness Center is a superb sauna/swimming establishment in a shopping mall, the Weserpark, on the outskirts of Bremen, http://www.weserpark-oase.de . The Oase is near the intersection of the A27 and A1 autobahns: If you are on the A1, take the A27 north and get off at the first exit (Seebaldsbrücke). Follow the signs to Weserpark, and you will see on your right a tower saying OASE. Like any mall there is a lot of free parking. When you enter you pick up two wristbands, one with an electronic chip and the other with a key to a small valuables locker at the door. You put your valuables in the small locker (a passport, airplane ticket, car key and money in my case) and descend to the (sex segregated) changing rooms. You find an open locker, which you can then lock with your chip. The establishment has a sauna garden outside with 5 or so huge saunas of various temperatures, three saunas and two steam baths inside, a warm swimming pool inside and a large, cooler swimming pool outside, large enough to swim laps, which you can enter from either inside or outside. Unlike many other establishments in Germany, there is no textile area. The entire establishment is a ‘textilfreibereich’ - fabric free area. The place offers lots of different massages, including a hamam massage in a steambath, and activities they call ‘ceremonies’ including the opportunity to be beaten with birch leaves in the Russian Banja (an outdoor sauna at 85 degrees C). There is a fee associated with these ceremonies, but there are also lots of free ‘aufgusses’ in which a staff person pours water with aromatic oils onto the rocks of the sauna, and then uses a towel to whip the aromatic steam around the room. The saunas become crowded for the aufgusses. There is also a reasonable restaurant, with seats outside and inside. You pay with your chip. When you leave, you give the cashier the chip and she tells you how much money you owe. Note, they do not accept credit cards. I spent a pleasant afternoon there, and if I did not have to go to a meeting I would have spent a lot longer there. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey.

An Oasis in Stuttgart Report. April 2004. At work the other day, a colleague referred to it as "the Disneyland of spas." Some of you who travel frequently to Stuttgart, Germany (employees of Bosch, IBM, Compaq, Porche, BMW, Daimler-Benz, etc. etc.) may have even heard of it. It's at the Millenium Hotel (formerly the SI Centrum) and it is by far the premium spa experience I have seen in Germany. And baby, that's really saying something. I've done Baden-Baden and Saunaland at the Olympic pool in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and they are both great, but this is something special. First off, I'm not a naturist, at least not yet. I may make it down to the nude beaches around Tubingen this summer. My impetus for writing this report, however, takes me to NetNude. You see, I really need to find a place like this in the States. Because eventually, I will have to return from Nakedland (aka Germany, where I live) to the bizarrely puritanical Land of the Free (but clothed.)... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.)

Spas in Germany Report. 1999. In Baden-Baden the 2 famous spas are Friedrichsbad (Roman-Irish Baths) and Caracalla-Terme. Prices at the former are 1996--DM 38 or roughly $30 gets you 3 hrs. DM 28 is w/out the massage. The routine is written on the walls in different languages: take shower, grab towel, put on plastic slippers, hit the warm-air bath for 15 mins, hot-air bath for 5 mins, shower, soap-brush massage--rough and slippery--don't know how long--it appears to be only about 10 mins, shower, lounge under sunbeams and caryatids in on of several different thermal steam baths, swim in big pool under dome--the one mixed area, cold plunge, dry in warmed towels for 30 mins in mellow yellow silent room.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) Also: There is a place in Badenweiller, which is south of Friebourg between it and the Swiss border. I have brochures on it--Cassiopeia Therme--but they are in German. It looks like another Roman-Irish bath type place. The brochure talks about the mineral composition of the water and the temperature (Celsius) of the various pools.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) Trip report by Bill.

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