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Where to go naked in Europe in 2025
🕑 Added 2024-09-30 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
The summer season is coming to an end in Europe. Unless you're living in Spain or Greece, you're likely to see clothes-free resorts in your area close their doors or start gathering wood for the stove and heating up the pool.
For us, the end of the season is always a good time to look back at what we've seen and try to imagine what the perfect nude vacation for next year will look like. What will become the naked hot spot of 2025? Which places will change and which will remain the same? What's the one thing you just can't miss? Here are our estimations.
French resorts are changing
In recent years, it seems like a whole generation of resort owners is looking to retire. More resorts than ever are on the market or have recently been taken over. This will have a number of consequences for naked tourism in France.
Of course, there's always the fear that your favourite resort may turn textile. It happened before, but we doubt that this will happen a lot. Most of these resorts have a vast number of returning guests and going textile would mean that they need to start building their audience from scratch. Additionally, most nude resorts aren't "ideally" located for mainstream tourism in the sense that they are often a bit off-grid, away from towns, supermarkets and restaurants.
What is happening though is that the typical campground-type resorts are moving towards holiday villages with more rentals than camping spots. In the past, resort owners used to be naturist couples or families with a big dream. Today, more and more groups and investors are trying to get a piece of the nude vacation cake and are putting lots of money into their acquired resorts.
Quite some places are now also under significantly younger management and we imagine that their fresh ideas may start attracting a younger audience to naturism. We haven't seen the fruits of that yet, but such things take time.
Spain becomes a shoulder-season destination
Year after year, climate change is becoming more obvious. Large parts of Western Europe have been suffering from a very rainy summer, while more southern countries receive one heatwave after the other. We all like it sunny and warm during our nude vacations, but it seems like resorts in Spain and Croatia better start installing large fridges to cool their guests down instead of saunas to warm them up.
Another thing Spain is struggling with is mass tourism. Last year, there have been anti-tourism protests on many of the country's islands where residents just can't see another pair of white socks in sandals. We mostly notice the tourism problems on the nude beaches that get overcrowded by bathing suits. You can't blame them, when the main beaches are completely full, everyone starts searching for secluded spots. Unfortunately, these are where the nude beaches are.
Our guess is that too much heat and too many bathing suits will encourage naked travellers to rather visit Spain in May-June and September-October than in the summer months. We expect the same to happen with Greece, by the way.
What's happening with Croatia?
A few days ago, we received a message that Koversada Naturist Resort, one of our favourite resorts in Europe, is splitting up. One side will be called Koversada Uncovered and the other Koversada Covered. Those names sound good, but that's pretty much the only thing we like about those plans. What once was Croatia's first commercial nude resort will now become partially textile. The only question left is who will get the better part.
Unfortunately, this is a story that has been going on for decades in Croatia. Thirty years ago, there were three times as many nude resorts in the country than there are today. Many of the large resorts had existed since the sixties or seventies when Croatia was in the top 3 of nude destinations in the world and countries like Spain, Portugal, or Italy were not yet on the nude market. Today, this becomes a question of supply and demand. The campgrounds just became too large to remain profitable when the visitor numbers were decreasing.
This creates possibilities for the smaller resorts though. We imagine that places like Bunculuka or the day resort Biser Kandarola will grow in popularity just because they still remain 100% nude.
Relaxing in Portugal and Italy
While things seem to be changing rapidly in France, Spain, and Greece, countries like Portugal and Italy appear to just be steadily moving forward. In 2025, the new naturist campground Insieme may already be opening its doors in Italy and be added to a list of more than 20 Italian nude resorts.
Portugal suffers a bit from its remoteness. If you go to any naturist campground in Europe, you'll notice that most license plates are either Dutch, German, or British. The distance from those three countries to Portugal is far and there are lots of great naked places much closer to home.
For nude vacations to grow in Portugal, they'll either need to focus on a more local public, Portuguese and Spanish nude vacationers, or they need to start catering to people who travel by air. This is something that's already happening today. In Portugal, you'll find more small guesthouses and rentals than campgrounds.
If you do need to travel during the summer months but you're not a big fan of crowds, Portugal and Italy with their rather small resorts may be an excellent choice.
Dancing naked in the UK
Who would have thought that the UK would find a place on a "where to get naked list"? We certainly didn't, until we crossed the channel a while ago and came back very impressed about the British nude festival scene.
We will tell you more about this in a future blog post, but to summarise, today the UK has 4 large nude festivals that are multi-day events with music, arts, games and other activities. British Naturism organises three of those: NKD, EveryBody, and the most famous: Nudefest. The 4th is organised by The Naturist Foundation and is called Party in the Stark.
We anticipated in previous blog posts that nude events might become a huge thing in the coming years and let's face it, if a country with such unpredictable weather can have 4 successful nude festivals, we consider our point proven. Furthermore, if other European countries don't start picking up on the nude events trend, it's not unlikely that British events will start attracting a larger international public.
Wellness vacations for the colder months
The difficulty with nude vacations is that they stop when the weather starts to get cold. Which in some countries is not much later than the end of the summer. It's probably not a coincidence that these are the countries where the concept of nude wellness centers has gotten a decent foot on the ground.
Nude wellness centers are the most common in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, but also exist in several other countries. When we were in the UK, someone told us that this is Europe's "best kept secret". A day pass costs something between 20 and 40 euros and gives you access to an abundance of facilities. Enough to keep you busy for a day or probably more.
Several of these wellness centers have their own hotel, or are easily accessible from nearby hotels. We imagine that today, there are already people who just stopped going on holiday in summer so they can save up their time and money to go on winter nude vacations.
Comments
Mario Ginebra
We arrive on Tuesday the 15th. Can’t wait to see you two.
Naked Wanderings
We couldn't wait... We're already in Zipolite :-D
Mario Ginebra
Great summary of the EU opportunities. We are returning to Spain in Nov but that’s too cold for us. Planning on another EU trip in the summer. This is a great article to help us prepare. Looking forward to Zipolite in 2 weeks from today. Cindy and I are looking forward to seeing our ambassadors from Australia.
