Toilets at nudist resorts?
It'll vary. One resort I've gone to has a door-less, unisex bathroom with an outdoor shower. There's a door on the toilet stall. Staff there, in warm weather, anyway, will be naked at the reception desk. Another has a conventional two-bathroom setup and requires clothes in the reception lobby for staff and visitors alike, with staff almost always dressed.
All these things vary from resort to resort. The front desk staff maybe clothed or nude, depending upon the resort. Personally I feel that if they're promoting nudism, they should be nude also. If you're a car dealer selling Fords, you don't drive a Chevy. Some of the maintenance staff may be nude or not. The same with the wait staff, although a lot of these will be just wearing an apron.
Larger restrooms with multi stalls probably will be single sex only. Small, one person restrooms may be used by anyone but are completely private. Showers may be open air or closed gang showers that can be used by anyone at any time. Some resorts also have private enclosed showers.
As a side note; when showering in a gang shower, you never know who may join you or what gender they may happen be. I've had some interesting conversations with members of the opposite sex while showering. This is just one of the many benefits of nudism.
To all these great answers I will only add that that's the biggest difference between the "rustic" and the "commercial" nudist resort.
At the rustic (aka the "Mom and Pop") resort you're more much more likely to find coed everything and a nude staff. I was a bit "put off" the first time I went to BA and saw that they had coed bathrooms. Stalls for the toilets, but everything else open. But I personally quickly got used to it pretty quickly.
You just have to figure out what designation fits the resort you've visiting; and which you're more comfortable with.
Open unisex showers are common at resorts (usually by the pools), but we've seen both unisex and separate bathrooms.
The member-owned club near us (Solair) has a unisex bathroom with individual closed stalls. The person at the main office may or may not be nude or at least topless. The staff at the grill are clothed (I'm sure by Department of Health requirements). Tours are done by volunteer members who are nude.
We've visited countless resorts and clubs and in all cases, except for one, we've found that even in a nudist environment, separate toilets and bathroom facilities are provided which, in our opinion, is the right thing to do. Regardless of our willingness to be nude in the company of strangers, using the toilet in private is something the vast majority of nudists prefer to do. The one facility we did visit that did have coed toilets and would be considered rustic. Since we would be in our motorhome while visiting this particular nudist resort, we'd confine our toilet use to our motorhome toilet.Co-ed showers are usually the norm but we have seen where both coed open showers and private showers in the restrooms are available. With some nudists preferring to groom body hair; pubic area, legs, etc. , and not be watched, the private showers in the men's and women's restrooms provide that for these nudists. Others have no problem grooming their pubic areas in front of others and they don't mind doing so in the coed, open showers.Being nudists and being naked with strangers shouldn't mean that you give up all privacy issues and situations. Using the toilet is a privacy issue and having separate facilities for men and women is something, we're sure, most ... if not ALL men and women would prefer. Take that portion of privacy away and insist on coed toilet facilities and you'll see even more women leave nudism/naturism.Nude resort, club staff dress varies. Most times, we've encountered mostly dressed staff members. Many of these staff members aren't even nudists! At our club, the office staff encounters outside vendors constantly and in an effort not to embarrass, upset or force their nudity on these textiles, they remain clothed or covered most of the day. The upside to our club's office staff, they are all residents of the club and are nudists.
Andydi is right on the money. My personal experience has been the same.
I have never been to a nudist resort and I was wondering how the bathrooms are since everyone is already naked? And how do the staff dress( if they dress)?
Like you have read many places are different.
We have stayed at the former Mystic Oaks in Southern California where they had outdoor showers as well as segregated toilets and indoor showers. No community showers. However, most women did not hesitate to walk into the shower area if they had to tell their husband something ... LOL. Same with the wife of the owner. The toilets had stalls and doors so you had privacy.
At Glen Eden they have both types of showers. Several private shower areas and a few community showers where around six can use them at the same time. All the toilets are private, though. It was always more interesting using the community showers. You could meet more people, maybe have a short conversation and get to know the residents. If you're at the club to be naked then you should have no hesitancy in showering with them too. After water volleyball we all rushed into the showers together and took turn washing off and chatting.
How the staff dresses or not all depends on what the front office is like and what management decrees.
It's already been said, most toilets are separated unless in a remote area they may only have a one stall. Showers are usually co-ed but if that's sqweemish for u, then go when nobody else is there. While talking one gal asked me to soap her back which I politely did, just so she could tell her husband and make a joke out of it later. Nothing more than that. You need to stop asking questions and visit a resort.
At Laguna del Sol near Sacramento in Northern California... they have what might be called the 3-door arrangement. Separate toilet rooms, and a common shower room. The shower stalls have walls between them, and are open at the front.
The ones on the other side of Lake Archie under the condo building? I thought they have a row of shower heads without any partitions. We have always stayed in the condos, so we don't get to use the public showers much.
It's already been said, most toilets are separated unless in a remote area they may only have a one stall. Showers are usually co-ed but if that's sqweemish for u, then go when nobody else is there. While talking one gal asked me to soap her back which I politely did, just so she could tell her husband and make a joke out of it later. Nothing more than that. You need to stop asking questions and visit a resort.
"..... You need to stop asking questions and visit a resort."
Haha :) So *true*!!
I'm all about doing one's research and thoroughly gathering info so you can make the right choices for yourself ( so many questions about "where can I go" would be answered with a simple Google search).
But yes, the best way to find out, is just GO, man, GO! And enjoy life in way you never knew possible. The freedom and joy of removing that barrier of clothing is cathartic and transforming..... wonderful!
So many great replies here by the way. Like many have said, you'll see every combo possible. Having the privacy for bodily functions is certainly greatly desired. The one rustic place Andy refers to has a row of urinals right inside the door to the bathhouse, that even though dudes are facing away, probably is unnerving to the uninitiated visitor to this unique throwback rustic communal vibe hot spring paradise (it's what we love about it) :)
And even though I had been to many c/o hot springs etc. and a few other c/o venues and B&B, it was still a jolt the first time I was taking a shower at Oaklake Trails clubhouse. The double shower is just a half open room off the main room of the clubhouse, and went in after breakfast, where most people were still covered in tshirts/robes because of the cool morning. Then in walked a woman, hung robe up, and began taking shower beside me just casual as can be (as to be expected). I don't know why, but even after plenty of previous coed social nudism/naturism, that was still a brief shock. Kind of like, "Dude, you are definitely at a nude resort now!" Ha! And the feeling that here we were, two strangers taking a shower together right off the side of a big 2 story room. Just that one-of-a-kind fun experience you can only find at a nude venue. And wonderful people there at Oaklake Trails by the way (that was 20 years ago, I don't imagine they have changed much, just bigger. Brenda and another lady gave me a personal invite to return with my wife, but that just never was in the cards. )
So ..... just GO!
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