Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**I tried a nudist spa in Rotterdam - here's why you don't need Dutch courage to get naked there**
By ANDREW WELCH, 11 March 2025
It feels like playing truant.
I’m sitting on the Eurostar at 6.30 on a Friday morning, fleeing the country and escaping the daily grind.
The train plunges into the dark of the Channel Tunnel, emerging to views of rural France flitting past the window.
I’m on the way to Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second city and, in particular, Elysium spa. Or as it is described on its website (elysium.nl), ‘The Ultimate Wellness Experience’.
Over here in the UK, the emphasis at what we call a spa is on ‘pampering’, and often advertised with images of prone, middle-aged women swaddled in white towelling robes with cucumber slices for eyes.
There’s a treatment for everything from your toenails to your scalp. Doubtless there’s a swimming pool and maybe a small, pine box in the corner of a room or two dedicated to sauna-ing.
To up the ante and give an added impression of a change of pace or treat to self, they often exist in grand country houses, and so if you’ve yearned to stroll around grounds designed by Capability Wotsit in a dressing gown, you can tick it off your bucket list.
In Europe, however, prepare yourself for palaces of steam, heat and water.
Treatments are available, but the focus is on a more holistic wellness, with indoor and outdoor areas littered with numerous saunas, hot tubs, plunge and swimming pools.
Another massive change from the scene in the UK is that nudity at Elysium and a great many other spas, is mandatory...
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-14483021/Naked-nude-spa-rotterdam-naturism-review.html
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