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Originally Posted by massagetravel05
Point is, if you are in the city, then definitely V is easier, but if you are only passing through by air TE is. For me, I am able to much more easily arrange my Euro flights to have a long 6-8hr layover at MUC fairly easily so I can grab a cheap rental car and go to TE for a few hours. For V, there needs to be a larger block of time to dedicate to time in Berlin.
As said though, they are both pretty great places.....both for your viewing pleasure, but also as a relaxing place to spend some time.
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Berlin has an alternative to Vabali that is convenient for a flight stop. The Kristallbad in Ludwigsfelde can be reached from the airport with a 30min train ride + some 15min walk.
I’ve been there many times, although not very recently. It has several pools surrounded by lots of different saunas. There is no physical separation between the pools and the saunas, so the whole is nude only (except on Wednesdays, and Sundays during the day, when you can wear swimsuits in the pools if you want. I’ve never gone on those days).
Like most such places in Germany, it gets a more youthful and mixed crowd in the evenings during the week, and on Saturdays, especially in winter. It’s a relaxed atmosphere where you can walk about fully naked (although most people don’t) or wearing a bathrobe all the time (most tend to only wear it when resting or at the cafeteria). Quite a few women wander with just a towel on one shoulder. The changing rooms are mixed although, as it is sadly the trend in Germany, the shower rooms aren’t. Even so, after one kind of Aufguss session where everyone gets covered in mud, the women as well as the men go into the men’s showers to rinse it off.
Once it was really busy, so when I arrived I had to look around a bit for a locker that was free and not too close to someone getting naked or dressed. As I turned fully dressed into one of the aisles, I was suddenly faced with a young couple. The guy was jusr wearing a towel; she was down to her painties (white cottons). Upon suddenly seeing me, she covered her breasts and made an ENF face. I said excuse me and went on to find a locker some 10ft further. I glanced back at them, and the guy was laughing. I couldn’t hear hear the precise words but it was clear that he was laughing at her for reacting embarrassed in that particular place and situation. She gave him a “very funny, shut up” expression and proceeded to remove her painties, stand there fully nude with her hand on her hips for a couple of seconds, as if to prove a point, then wrap herself in a towel. They ignored me during this, I was getting undressed and glancing at them. She was a curvy 20-something blonde, not particularly pretty except in as far as any curvy blonde of that age is.
The picture below (which I forget where I got it from) gives a good impression of what it is like during a week, in the morning):