[daveduchovny]

I don't have too much experience of Dutch and German saunas but I went to Therme Erding near Munich 3 years ago, it was fantastic, so when I was back in Munich last week I went again. Twice.

If you are ever in Munich, make sure you visit it. If you have no plans to visit Munich, you should make some just for this!

Basically it is a huge leisure complex with 4 seperate areas - three of these are a family swimming area, a kid-centric waterslides section, and a wellness section for treatments and pampering, all of which are "swimsuit required" but make a pretty good day out in and of themselves. But it is the fourth section, the sauna section which is true paradise on earth for lovers of the naked female form. Swimsuits are "verboten" (forbidden) though you see a lot of people wearing them as they walk from one area to another, and modest guests can keep a towel or robe wrapped round them outside the saunas, pool and showers. While the minimum age is 16 I didn't see any 16 or 17 year old-looking kids when I was there. I'm guessing they would all rather hang in the waterslides section!

Anyway, if you don't want to strip off you can stay out of the pool and the saunas and just chill in your robe on a lounger and watch everyone go by - you will not stand out. Personally I would say you are missing 90% of the experience, they have every kind of sauna imaginable, as well as a large warm pool including an outdoors section, complete with poolside bar, jacuzzi bubble jets with seating and lying areas, a circuit with jet currents pushing you round, and of course it is full of naked women (and men). And after sauna it is obligatory to shower, sometimes those showers get quite busy.

The split of men to women is practically even - I didn't see very many single men, most people were there as couples (and I would definitely recommend taking along a lady friend, or if that's not possible, your wife or girlfriend). There is also a favourable age profile, if anything the younger 20-30 somethings outnumber the older people. The staff speak English, you can spend a whole day there for €40 per person, you can rent towels and robes, you can buy food and drink inside using your key and pay when you leave. The changing area is mixed - there are cubicles if you want privacy but the first thing I saw when I went in was a 20-something girl in her bra and panties just standing with a friend by her locker.

Having been 3 times now and learned from the experience I think I am in a position to give some advice to help you get the most of your visit:

1) Take the train. Once you are outside the city centre there is a decent chance some of the other people on the train are going to the same place you are, and looking out for them and anticipating possibly seeing them naked is great fun. The first time I went we sat opposite a couple on the train, including a large but pretty blonde girl, I was focused on my friend so regrettably didn't pay her too much attention, completely unaware that I would be seeing her totally naked within a few hours!

2) Check the saunas for presentation times and do as many of these as you can. On my first visit we just tried all the saunas one by one, there was usually a handful of other people in there or we had them all to ourselves. The second visit we stumbled accidentally on a full sauna just before a presentation was starting. A sauna full of people pressed together is much better than a near-empty one, and you have much more to look at. Also with space at a premium you have more chance of a nice girl climbing up past you to get to a higher seat (or in one case, squeezing in beside me!). Based on my experience there will almost always be four or five pretty women within your eyeline. If you are very lucky they will assume the lifted knees position giving you an unfettered view of their pussies (I saw plenty of these over the 2 days). Some saunas are better lit than others resulting in better views. After the sauna, you have some 20-50 people all heading for the same shower or balcony area to cool off, that can be fun too!

3) In glass-fronted saunas, try and get a seat at the edge so you are looking into the sauna rather than out the window. In general lower seats are better than higher seats, a) because it's cooler closer to the floor, and b) you'd rather be looking up at girls than down at them. If you have a lady friend with you and you are trying to be discreet about looking at other ladies, rather than sit next to each other, take the next seat up behind her with her head between your knees. An occasional reassuring kiss on the head is a good way to change your eyeline and improve a view. Where you rest your hands is up to you!

4) If you are going to spend any time people-watching the two best places are the entry-area from the clothed zone, and the main entrance to the pool. At the entry area, some people just pull their costume off straight away, some do so under a robe, but if you really want to see them naked just wait until they go into a sauna or the pool. At the pool entrance, everyone is naked. There are beautiful, but modest girls who will keep their towels wrapped round them outside the pool, will keep their bodies under the water in the pool, but they can't avoid being naked getting in or out, that is where you catch them.

5) The best sauna presentations to experience are Stonehenge (because it is big, you will have about 30-40 people in your eyeline whichever side you are on, increasing your chances of seeing someone beautiful), the salt-scrub sauna (in most saunas everyone just sits still in one position, in this one imagine 20 or so people rubbing salt all over their bodies!) and the Bakery sauna/Citron sauna (you get a free bread-roll/ice cream at the end!).

I thought about doing a sauna by sauna review of my experiences but frankly it would just be a (long) list of descriptions of women and how good a view I had of their intimate parts. I have done plenty of activities with naked people in their hundreds, but this is definitely top of the list for sheer volume of attractive girls' visible labia.