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Originally Posted by monsducker
Thanks! Would love to hear your stories about Z in A and TE in M. Are the sauna areas at TE in M well-lit?
Can you compare the lighting in the saunas at V in B and Z in A? I want to go to Z in A and want to know how well-lit it is compared to V in B.  |
Z in A:
Probably my favourite place overall, the audience is much the same as V in B but the layout is more appealing to what I like. The showers are mixed and well lit, the changing rooms are very open plan. The two recessed water beds are like being in a fishbowl
There is one sauna, I think it is called the Caldarium, where the lighting is intense, almost like daylight, in here I don't think you're supposed to bring the towel because you sit on stone instead of wood. When I was in there I saw a couple come in without towels and just lay down, like the steam rooms but with better visibility because there is no fog. I also like how in Z the places to hang towels up are really far away from the actual pools meaning people have to walk a long way exposed and inevitably end up giving up and just walking around naked because the towels are so far away.
TE in M:
I also really like TE but for different reasons, it feels far more anonymous because there are just so many people and so much space. Again, very similar demographic. The big pool in the middle often gets busy meaning the towel rails get full so people have to walk further from wherever they hang their towels up. The saunas are not particularly well lit, apart from the steam room. My favourite part is the section by the steam room. It is a bit of a trek from the steam room to the showers and people tend to do it without the towel because of the salt peeling that they have put on in the steam room. This is also near where people undress after coming from the rest of TE.
M in W:
This one is the most unique offering in Germany. As far as I know it is the only place that still allows nude watersliding, even if only at certain times. Of course when going down a waterslide, you cannot bring a towel, so these get left all over the place and people will spend far longer than anywhere else uncovered. People will ditch their belongings on a deck chair by the wave pool then walk up the long staircases to the top of the waterslide tower uncovered. Sometimes there will be queues and then they will end up at the opposite side of the pool, depending on which slide. That means they then have to walk back past everyone to get back to their towels, or back up to the next slide. My favourite moment there was standing around in a big group of naked people my age waiting to go down the slide, as well as seeing multiple naked father daughter trips because the mums tend not to want to go down waterslides. This place is not as "luxurious" as V and Z but it is certainly more real. Unfortunately it also has more creepy perverts as well who think it is ok to sit at the entrance to the pools and ogle the naked girls. I really don't know why they're not more ashamed of themselves because it is embarassing for them, it is so obvious what they're doing, you can even see some of them touching themselves in the water. Do they not realise that they are causing fewer and fewer people to feel comfortable in these situations, therefore ruining it for themselves? Despite this, I still enjoy going here with my gf, there really is no other mainstream place, outside of nudist camps, where you can go down a waterslide naked - by the way you end up going much faster when you hit the bottom
I really want to go back to Germany now thinking about it. The voyeurism is slightly fun but the main appeal is just being there, it is immensely freeing to exist in a society that is so carefree, even if it is only temporarily. I envy the Germans who can go to a spa and relax after a stressful working week.