Information about the Vera Playa naturist zone - the world's best naturist beach resort - on the Costa de Almeria in Andalucia, south-east Spain
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What is the naturist zone at Vera Playa?
It's an area which has been designated for naturist living. It comprises the naturist beach + the beach promenade + the naturist urbanizacions (residential estates) + the Vera Playa Club Hotel + the streets and pathways between and linking them. more

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A Unique Naturist Resort - Vera Playa on the Costa Almeria in south-east Spain has a warm, dry near-desert climate - mainland Europe's only all-year-round naturist resort. It has 2 kms of superb naturist beach and a naturist residential zone of over 2,000 privately owned apartments, a major 4 star hotel and bars, restaurants and shops. What makes it unique is that it is not a centre, but a zone - it is not shut away from the outside world and no club, company or other organisation owns or controls the zone as a whole, which includes public streets and seaside promenade.
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Hooray, it's May! - and Spring/Summer has come to VP
UK: wet autumn, cold winter, late spring, Spain: cold and wet winter, late spring
The ultimate culprit may be Global Warming but more directly the weather people say it's all to do with the Jetstream being much further south this last winter than it normally is. The result has been that the UK had one of its longest and coldest winters and Spain had one more like Britain's usual winter with a succession of Atlantic depressions, which would normally have been much further north, sweeping across the Iberian peninsula. Even this week many places in Spain had snow in late April - pretty unusual - and Andalucia's water reserviors are just about full - quite a contrast to just a few years ago when southern Spain was in water crisis. As usual, Vera Playa, at the south-eastern corner of Spain and on the Mediterranean, has been spared the worst of the unusually bad weather but nevertheless late April, in particular, has been unlike previous years when it is nearly the start of the "dawn to dusk sunshine every day" normal stable summer weather but this year it has been unsettled with some quite cold days (highs of around 13 to 19), rain, wind and stormy seas interspersed with warm sunny days with highs around 25 to 27. Quite a mixture!
   May has started well, with May Day itself having dawn to dusk sunshine, little in the way of breeze and a high of over 27C - much more what we expect at Vera Playa. And 2 May is on the same lines, albeit with some cloud from time to time, but hopefully nothing worse.
www.veraplaya.info - news - 2 May 2013
April storm wreaks havoc on beach

Beach amenties strewn across the naturist beach in wake of this week's storm
A strong easterly wind on 24/25 April saw huge seas lashing the beach at Vera Playa. Waves broke right over the sandy beach and flooded amenity areas beyond the promenade and covered the promenade in sand. The roundabout at the sea end of Avenida Tortuga Boba was flooded and closed off by the authorities for safety. The open area in front of Vera Natura was extensively flooded. The council's workers have spent weeks getting the many board walks and facilities such as toilets and beach showers ready for the summer season - all of the board walks have been swept away and workers had to recover the sections from all over the area. Toilet blocks have been swept off their bases and in some cases turned round 90 degrees. Several beach chiringuitos (restaurants) have been damaged. Clearing up and remedial work will take at least a week or two.
www.veraplaya.info - news - 27 April 2013
Great places to stay for your naturist holiday:
Apt. Buganvilla Hotel or apartment?
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Apt. El Mango
Apt. Buganvilla - one bedroom holiday apartment at Vera Playa The demise of the largest package holiday company offering naturist holidays at Vera Playa (see news page) will affect many visitors' plans for 2013. Fortunately there are lots of options - see our Where to stay advice page. One option is to book your holiday apartment direct with its owner. El Mango - a one bedroom, first floor holiday apartment at Vera Playa
Bahia de Vera, one bedroom apartment with private garden & terrace. One minute walk to huge outdoor pool and covered and heated pool. More Apartment owners:
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Vera Natura. View from Apt. El Mango, first floor one bedroom apartment. Urbanizacion front line to the beach. Outdoor and indoor pools just 50m away. Aircon. More
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Europe's best naturist destination
   It's been a long and cold winter in northern Europe and it's time to plan a relaxing holiday in the warmth of the Mediterranean sun - and, of course, it has to be a naturist holiday. There's no better destination than Vera Playa with its long, long sandy beach and open, relaxed atmosphere. There's a wide variety of holiday options ranging from self-catering holiday apartments varying between basic and luxury standard to a 4 star hotel within the naturist zone - or you can stay elsewhere in the area and come to use the naturist beach as and when it suits you. And there's a choice too about how you book your holiday - you can book a package which includes hotel room or apartment hire, flights and airport transfers or you can book your accommodation direct and book your own flights and car hire. And when you have visited Vera Playa for the first time you are quite likely to want to do so time and time again - or even to move lock, stock and barrel to live here - there's plenty of property purchase options available and there has never been a better time to buy property in and around Vera Playa.
www.veraplaya.info - 10 April 2013

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