About this website

Ownership:

The website is owned and operated by naturists of many years standing, who are members of the UK naturists' organisation (CCBN) and INF, and who own property for their own use and for rental at Vera Playa. Many other resident, owners and visitors are also getting involved in the development of the site.

Objectives of www.veraplaya.info :

The objectives of this website are:

1. To make information about the whole of the Vera Playa naturist zone and all the individual developments within it available to visitors and owners/residents. This will, inevitably, mean that a "warts and all" approach is needed, saying what is not so good, or is going wrong, as well as what is good and is going well. We think that most visitors to the website will realise that nowhere is absolutely perfect and that it is better to come to a resort where you know both the good and bad points than to know only the facts that promoters or holiday operators would prefer you to know. We realize that this may not please some potential advertisers - such as property developers/promoters. We take the view that, important as they are in shaping what the Vera Playa naturist zone is like, the property developers are, inevitably, transitory. When their developments are finished and sold they'll be out of here. Individual apartment and house owners, owners of hotels, restaurants, bars and shops - and visitors - are the ones with a long term interest in the success of the development. That's whom we want this website to serve well for many years to come.

2. To help foster a sense of identity for the naturist zone as a whole - owners of apartments are members of the communities in which their property is situated (Under Spanish law, urbanizacions have self-governing democratically run bodies to run the common services etc - in some cases it may take some time to free themselves of ties to the original promoter - but it does happen eventually!). As more and more apartments, duplexes, studios and houses are built at Vera Playa there is a risk that people will identify with just their own urbanicazion and not feel themselves to be citizens of the Vera Playa naturist zone as a whole. We hope this website can help foster this wider identity and we are willing to make web facilities available free of charge, both to individual communities and to any residents or owners association which may form. If this interests you, why not use our on-line forum to propose something and get things moving?

3. To provide a forum for discussion and reflection on the issues which may/will arise as the naturist zone grows and matures. Until now most of the visitors to and property owners at Vera Playa have been traditional naturists, often INF members and members of naturist or sun clubs in their original home areas - or they were people new to naturism trying it out to see whether it suited them. Now, as the amount of accommodation grows dramatically and the numbers of visitors similarly increases, people other than traditional naturists or aspirant naturists may be expected to be visiting and buying as well. The commercial interests around the zone have, with one or two notable exceptions, not been very successful up until now - due, no doubt, to there being insufficient customers to sustain them. Now that is beginning to change as more and more developments are built and completed and businesses are coming in which, understandably, are keen to offer what will sell and enable them to be viable. The recent opening of a "Swingers Club" at Vera Natura and of other clubs in the commercial centre near the hotel is an illustration of how, over time, the character of the whole development could/may change from being a naturist metropolis to being a sex metropolis. It's a long way off at the moment, but it is a vital issue for the future. It is salutary to remember that few developments of man actually turn out the way their original creators/architects envisaged! Again, if you have views on these issues, now's the time for exercising them, not in 5 or 10 years time when change is irreversible.

How can you get to this website?

www.vera-playa.info
www.veraplaya.biz
www.vera-playa.biz
www.veraplaya.org
www.vera-playa.org
www.veraplaya.co.uk
www.vera-playa.co.uk
www.veraplaya.net
www.vera-playa.net

You might be forgiven for thinking that we have cornered the market in Vera Playa domain names - which is normal commercial practice. Unfortunately, however, we haven't, though we would like to tell the owners of any of the variations that we don't own - e.g veraplaya.com and vera-playa.com - that we would be happy to take their names off their hands if they're not using them...

Why in English?

Several people have asked why the site is in English and not, say, in Spanish. There are several good and simple reasons for this:

1. We speak English
2. There was no English language website about Vera Playa as a whole
3. There are websites in several other languages, including Spanish
4. We are not competent to produce web pages in Spanish, French, German or any other language.

However, we would be delighted to produce versions of this website in other languages - and especially Spanish - if someone would like to produce the translations please (but website revenues do not at the present - and are unlikely to for a long time - enable us to pay for translation services)

Last update: 10 November 2003

 

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