Naturist Hotel Street?

[CAPTAINSCOTT]

I was wondering what the latest is with naturism on hotel street. Their seems to be bit and pieces discussed elsewhere in the forum. What's happening this year?  As i will be visiting soon, it would seem to be a bit  inconvenient to get dressed during the day just to go for a drink or newspaper.

[Bahia4me]

We have just spent a very enjoyable month at VP once again, and on occasions, we walked to hotel street. The opening of the road connecting hotel street and the urbanisations has made access much easier, and it has definitely improved the trade for the eateries and bars there. However, hotel street remains textile, and to be realistic, it's unlikely to change.

[James I]

it would seem to be a bit  inconvenient to get dressed during the day just to go for a drink or newspaper.

The situation is sheer madness. We stay in the hotel, and we've got the insanity of being able to be nude up to the front door (at which point you can be seen by some of the patrons in the closer cafes), then dress for a walk up Hotel Street, and historically up until you walked around to the very top of Avenue Castellon, at which point, right beside the Zona Naturista sign, you could -now in full view of the main road- strip off again.

The new road alongside Natura World means you can now walk from Hotel Street into the Zona proper (I believe this new road is designated naturist) which is even more insane, as it means you need to take and wear clothes for a mere 200 metres!

It's a small issue to have to take a rucksack into which we can shove our shorts and sundress when we reach the Zona, but just how much more convenient might it be to have nudity tolerated/accepted/permitted in Lower Hotel Street and now the section up to the Corner Bar, day or night?

Even some arrangement with Natura World for a walkway through their car park (exiting the hotel's car park and emerging into the new road) would be a much more convenient arrangement. Or.....something!

While on the subject of madness, does anyone else feel the 'clothes on at 8pm' rule in the hotel is now slightly outdated, given the freedom to wander the streets of the Zona, or use the pools in the urbas, at any time? Might it just be time to permit nude swimming, or being nude in its environs, up until 11pm? (As there's nothing quite like sculling on your back while gazing up at a beautiful starlit night). After all, many hotel patrons choose to sit nude on their balcony, long beyond 8pm, so textile blow-ins certainly aren't going to be shocked by nudity at closer proximity.

[Ann]

I have observed people nude in Hotel Street usually one man at a time and only 2 or 3 times in 10 years. Given the efforts made by the Spanish Naturist Associations to get nudity accepted in all reasonable places I think we should just start going naked in Hotel Street. And the Hotel's guests need to complain about these outdated rules.

[Bahia4me]

I cannot comment on the hotel, although we have been in there, we haven't actually stayed there, and they obviously have their rules for a reason, however outdated we think they are. But I think if you chat to the owners of the restaurants and bars on the street they will state that their clientelle are a mixture of textiles and naturists. Whether this is so during the day is questionable, but at night it's definitely true. There were as many folk eating and drinking there from the neighbouring textile urbanisations as there were from the naturist section. So, business is business, they appear happy with it and wouldn't want it to change.