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Originally Posted by wownice
Brock Landers, thanks for the excellent trip report!
You made an interesting point. Are you saying that while change rooms are coed, the showers are not? ie I can't shower in the same shower area with my wife in the coed locker room? Is that case for this spa or others as well?
Thanks for clarifying.
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That depends on the specific place. Having said that, I will elaborate.
First, the outside showers, those directly outside the sauna cabins, or by the pools etc, are coed, obviously. But those are meant just for cooling off after a sauna session, and for rinsing off the sweat before entering a pool.
The showers that are sometimes segregated are those next to the locker rooms, where you are meant to take a real shower, with soap, shampoo etc, and wash yourself thoroughly. The reason why those are sometimes segregated, I think, is so that women in particular will not feel discouraged from washing “properly” in front of men.
In my experience, in Germany, larger and more modern places are more likely to have such segregated showers even with coed changing rooms. Smaller, sauna-only places (ie those not attached to textile pools) are more likely to have coed showers. Examples are Roetgen and Satama.
But in practice, in otherwise fully coed nude areas, that segregation is not so black and white. If you go with your wife to such a place, I very much doubt that anyone will complain if she joins you in the men’s showers.
I am much less familiar with such places in Belgium and the Netherlands, but from my (limited) experience there, they are more likely to have fully coed changing rooms and showers.
In Germany, it’s difficult to know beforehand what the precise set-up will be.