Holidays NZnaturally
Exploring New Zealand with Holidays NZnaturally’
After years of wishing about it, we were at the first stages of planning our trip. Timing? – pretty well the whole of December, including Christmas, then back to England between Christmas and the New Year. Flights? - Air New Zealand because their ‘planes have decent legroom.
Well, that only got us so far – the bare bones you might say. Much more potentially confusing was the plethora of different ways of seeing the country. There are motorhome holidays, guided posh hotel packages, do all the tourist highlight trails etc. etc.
For us, what matters is sharing with like minded people and engaging with the countryside. Our method therefore involved hiring a car to experience as much of both the North and South Islands as we could, and as far as possible staying with like minded people in their own homes. Dress code? - Naturist wherever practicable please!
We can honestly say that the purchase of “Holidays NZ Naturally” was the best move we made when faced with the challenge we had set ourselves. In fact, with that booklet, planning our holiday wasn’t a challenge at all. All the information we needed to know was right there in “Holidays NZ Naturally”. Each venue has its own page, with location map, phone/email/internet details, accommodation details, local amenities and attractions. There are handy sketch maps of both Islands showing approximately where each venue is, which was helpful when planning our itinerary. We stayed at seven homestays and everywhere we went we were made to feel so very welcome – making friends among New Zealand’s naturists must be about the easiest way to enjoy yourself in the Southern Hemisphere (or the Northern for that matter). We continue to treasure the friendships, knowledge and insight which so many people shared with us. They opened our eyes to so much of the natural world, the great outdoors and wonderful, off the beaten track places which we would never have known about, let alone experienced, if they had not shared their enthusiasm and knowledge with us.
We are sure that, if we were New Zealanders, then a copy of this publication would also form the backbone of our planning when Naturist Holidays in New Zealand were being contemplated!
Book review by Brenda Webb, UK
The World's Best Nude Beaches and Resorts
Lifestyle Presss May 2007
ISBN 978-0-9544767-3-1
From the publishers of Bare Beaches and Bare Britain, this high-quality guide is the definitive book on bathing in the all together.
Aimed directly at today’s free spirit, the title offers an enticing look at nude beaches in Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Its emphasis is on quality destinations within easy reach of the traveller.
With 304 colour-filled pages, this eye-catching book reflects the mainstream and modern appeal of swimming and sunbathing as nature intended. The book contains full reviews of more than 1,000 beaches and holiday resorts, illustrated with over 300 colour photographs. It reflects the rapidly expanding number of beaches, naturist resorts and even mainstream hotels that are catering to the growing trend in all-over bathing.
To a newcomer the book gives a gentle but inviting introduction to dozens of countries and hundreds of beaches and holiday centres where you can bare all. To the established skinny-dipper it will be a one-stop compendium of the very best destinations, and a comprehensive source of further information.
Lifestyle Press is taking the subject on a stage from its previous titles Bare Beaches and Bare Britain. The book is a unique collaboration with The Naturist Society in the US, which for many years published the New York Times best-seller "the World Guide to Nude Beaches and Resorts" (now out of print).
Author, Nick Mayhew-Smith "I honestly believe that these days most normal people think that being naked is a perfectly reasonable way to enjoy the beach. A bit adventurous maybe, but certainly acceptable if you are respectful of other people’s feelings. New Zealand seems to represent this tolerance as well as any country in the world. It was the first place I ever visited a nude beach in fact, and I have never forgotten what a debt I owe to that first experience."
"We decided to produce a completely new sort of book about the nude beach experience, to show nude beaches at their very best. And so we decided to rename the old ‘World Guide to Nude Beaches and Resorts’ as The World’s Best Nude Beaches and Resorts’, to emphasise that there is some real quality out there, and that nude beaches are something to aspire to."
