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We were forced to use towels to sit on because I noticed black hairs and dirty marks on the steam room bench which was somewhat off-putting, further exacerbated by our having to use the same towels to then dry off after showering. Nobody else seems to be bothered by it and just plonk themselves straight down on the bench without any towel. The massages are actually really good, the ladies are clearly well trained and one mentioned she is continuing her massage courses in different techniques as it is her livelihood outside of Elixir as well.

Everyone is very friendly though, many have been regulars for years and are very welcoming. One other thing though: we are used to the tranquil silence of German spas so it has been quite an adjustment to get used to the loud talking in the sauna and steam room, but hey ho, this is London…. I do still prefer Clover Spa but it is just too far to go to regularly from London.

I wholeheartedly agree with previous moments about German and Austrian saunas, having been using them for a couple of years now and really enjoying the uninhibited nakedness. Even my wife now is enthusiastic about going naked in them. In Austria the sauna workers often go in naked too to perform the towel flapping routine. Anyway, I digress! After reading reviews I tried Elixir and found it really friendly and inviting. The first time I went it by chance coincided with a Christmas party so was very busy as it is very small it was rather crowded.

I have been back twice since, on Wed afternoons, and had 90 min massages which were awesome. I found the massages very sensual, entirely above board, guilt-free and I recommend them. Nor is 60 minutes! Elixir is a lovely place to be and is difficult to leave. However, as already mentioned, they really must put a hose-down facility in the steam room and scraper so that hygiene is as good as it should be.

So please, management, put a rinse-down facility in there. And ladies, there really is nothing to be concerned about, just ask my wife who was totally at ease. I did try Rios one afternoon and the facilities are great, especially as there is a pool, my favourite bit, and no evidence of dodgy behaviour however it was early in the day and there were not many people there. A couple of ladies there were covered up, either with towel or bikini, which is not appropriate for a supposedly naturist venue.

Parking is a nightmare so best go by train; having to come out after 2 hours to repark the car because of a two hour time limit is not conducive to relaxation.

Recently my wife and I tried EdenGarden in Chingford for an overnight stay. It is a naturist guest house with spa facilities and is wonderful, so friendly, and you can laze around naked dipping in and out of the sauna, steam room or jacuzzi. Hosts are wonderful. We are returning to celebrate our wedding anniversary.

We will try Clover Spa too some time. Thanks Ian, great feedback! The frustrating thing is that there is water piping right outside the steam room leading to the shower so it would be a relatively quick and inexpensive feature to install. There is a place called clubNat in Swindon but for women only but they can take there partners which is fine but know nothing about the place , has anyone been?

Is there anywhere we could go even if natural night was once or twice a week. Centre parks used to do this on a Wednesday and Saturday night which we went to no a few times when there but why has this stopped? We seem to be going backwards in this area which is strange when you see how many brits now go nude on holiday.

Partner unsure because of not many females use the place how often do you go and how many women are there on a Sunday. I have never seen any untoward staring or overtures from any males towards females, the atmosphere is always very relaxed and friendly, many of those who go to Elixir are regulars and have been going there for years.

Are we to expect a lot of touching or guys following my wife around? It is essentially a lifestyle place where pretty much anything is tolerated.

There is not even a hint of anything inappropriate. And anyway, with an average of three female therapists plus the hostess on duty every day that does help to make any visiting females feel less conspicuous. Hi Jim, I totally agree with Paul G. If you go to Elixir neither you nor your girlfriend will have concerns. The facilities are clean and modern and the hosts just so friendly and welcoming. The massage there is lovely. I booked it with a lady called Natasha.

She is tall, slim and has got very big boobs. Other than that the place is ok!! Clearly someone is living in a warped fantasy land. There is no Natasha at Elixir I know the management there well , and there absolutely would never be that kind of behaviour going on there.

Elixir is a genuine naturist spa. I am concerned that my email address on an earlier posting was made public despite a promise that that would not happen. Could someone please advise as to how to remove it? Maybe she can take a look at this thread at the same time and remove any stupid comments from idiots!

I visited Elixir for the first time today. After reading various reviews it sounded the best place. My only previous naturist experience has been on beaches.

At the reception, I paid and was given a towel and locker key I got a second towel later on as the first got quite wet eventually I entered passed the reception to a small bar area with stools, there was about three men wrapped in towels seated reading or drinking. I was shown beyond that initial room by the receptionist who was very helpful. At the end you turn a corner passed female and male toilets also a lockable small changing room. At the end is a jacuzzi with the sauna, steam room and shower located in the same area.

Everyone was very friendly and I had some enjoyable conversations with one guy. There was no awkward uncomfortable atmosphere. I felt instantly at ease. You very quickly just adjust to being naked. There really was absolutely nothing sleazy or sordid about Elixir.

She was brilliant at putting me at ease. It might be small I went prepared to not expect a massive setting so it felt right but with the amount of people that were using it never felt an issue maybe if its busy it would be an issue. When I left there was only one of the masseuses using the steam room as others had left or were having a massage.

I hope to have another visit before the summer ends. And it would probably be perfect for the winter months. Darren, Another convert I see. Yes, one visit is all it takes to be hooked. Glad you found it the same as I did. I am asexual from birth, born with no genitalia through penile agenesis.

I am incapable of sexual activity, sensation or desire. Keith, Yes, you are absolutely right and I feel the same. However, provided you can go forego the pool, which I admit is my favourite bit, then as mentioned earlier in the thread there are some rare places you can get closer to the European experience, namely EdenGarden, an excellent guest house with spa, Elixir, small but friendly and totally above board, and CloverSpa, which I am told is excellent. Do try them in between trips to Germany.

This is the reason we cannot replicate the spa experience found on the Continent. However, have you considered the idea of going to the Finnish Church in Rotherhithe?

I go about 6 times a year for long weekends to Baden Baden, Wildbad, Munich and a number of water parks, swimming pools and saunas around FFT. Fabulous — No comparison with the UK. Porchester Hall Turkish bath in Queensway — it has a plunge pool, sauna, 3 hot rooms and 2 steam rooms. You can get snacks, massages and there is ample room to relax.

Nudity is not an issue. Iron Monger Row — below the swimming pool near the city road roundabout. Both are clean and well run. There is also a place in Islington called Banya 1 but I have never been but I have heard good reports.

Go to Rickmansworth. HydeAway spa. Look no further. I tried Elixir last night for the first time, with some trepidation. Although the place was very small, and the staff were very friendly, although it took a while for me to get used to them walking around naked!

The massage was excellent, and I would go for a longer one next time. The steam room was good as was the jacuzzi although the sauna was out of action. That was a pity because alternating between the steam room and sauna is meant to be good.

Although it was 7pm on Friday, there were only me and two other guys there, one of which like me was a first timer. So none of us was brave enough to take off our towels and subscribe to the naturist ideal.

Maybe next time. That meant that they got very wet in the steam room. I was not offered another dry one. Would I go again — yes, I think so, as the jacuzzi and steam room, combined with the massage, were very restful. Expatriation is not for you.

Go home. Perhaps you should keep your comments to the BNF website, if they have one. Hello Stefanie. I found your post very interesting and while you wrote it a few years ago I see the comments keep coming. As a UK person I have only very recently had an experience of the German sauna which was quite a culture shock!

It seems to be quite a big part of the culture in parts of Germany at least. Secondly, related to that, would you say religious groups and the churches in Germany would be generally in favour of people using sauna this way, or would it be discouraged by those groups? Perhaps it is just a total non-issue, I have no idea. Just very curious to know, I find these culture differences quite fascinating. Having been to German and Austrian spas literally hundreds of times therefore, whether they be in hotels, ski resorts, municipal spas or private ones, the experience and culture is the same throughout.

This has been the case for many generations, in fact probably for hundreds of years, and stems from a desire for natural health and hygiene when enjoying the purifying effects of a sauna, steam room or jacuzzi. Germans have been doing it all their lives, as families or individuals, and therefore it is the only way they know of how to really enjoy the detoxifying benefits of a spa to the full. Any other way is considered unhygienic and less beneficial.

It has nothing to do with religious belief because there is no sexual connotation associated with it. I have many times observed groups of young or old German males and females, clearly all just friends, sitting together naked at spas and chatting or playing cards together completely in the buff, just as much at ease as if they were fully clothed.

I personally observed an American woman try to enter a sauna in a Munich hotel, wearing her bathing suits, and literally screaming in horror when she saw everyone in the sauna was naked. Studies have actually shown that many random bathing suits that have been tested have been hosting an alarming variety of dead skin cells, different bodily fluids, fecal matter, blood, etc. It is no wonder that anyone focused on hygiene would not want to sit onto a steam room bench for example, directly after someone in a wet bathing suit has just been sitting there.

Studies have also revealed a surprising fact: many people do not wash their bathing suits when on holiday, they tend to just hang them to dry in the shower or bathroom, and then pack them into their suitcases when returning home where they go straight back into the cupboard.

Other studies have shown that bathing suits or clothing interrupt the natural flow of sweat and interfere with how well the body can detoxify or purify itself when in a sauna or steam room.

By the way, for anyone wanting to enjoy the ultimate experience of a German spa, try the world famous Friederichsbad in Baden-Baden. You will leave feeling like a million bucks. And yes, it is entirely mixed and naked! Thank you very much for your detailed response. I found what you said very interesting and really appreciate the time you took to write it. You clearly are very familiar with the culture, and what you say kind of confirms what I suspected I only had the recent experience and a vague awareness of how things were there.

I had heard that German saunas were this way, as well as in other German speaking nations including Austria and the German part of Switzerland and also the Netherlands and some parts of Eastern Europe including Czech Rep. I believe. Of course putting all sensibilities aside it does make sense to do things this way. I knew about the hygiene reasons for not using bathing suits which you explained and I am sure that is correct.

Also it kind of makes sense when you are trying to sweat to allow the skin to breathe as much as possible besides that it is just very hot!

I know some other countries, like the Finnish, also stick to the no bathing suit rule but I believe they tend to be strictly single sex. What makes the German, Austrian etc. As a person from the UK it still feels kind of surreal when I think of my own experience. Straight away the changing rooms were divided into female only and a mixed area no men only section and everyone had to walk past the mixed area to go in and out anyway!

After that there were several saunas, a swimming pool no costumes allowed , hot tubs, and mixed communal showers as well as an outside area with other pools it was quite a large spa complex. People would then be in and out the various places, showers and pools before and after saunas, and towels and robes would be constantly on and off.

As you say towels were used in the sauna but just about everyone I saw did not cover up at all when they were in there I only saw one person do that and even then not completely. As you say, apparently not a sexual thing at all. It just shows how much modesty and attitudes to the body is a cultural and context determined issue. One interesting thing I observed was that in spite of the relaxed attitude to nudity there were some unspoken rules people followed, and people would still cover up in between sauna, showers, pools etc.

So I think it is all about context and situation and you know that any overtly sexual behaviour would be frowned on at the very least. Although I am certain Muslims must be an exception to this mind you there was a very large mosque just down the road from the sauna I visited. Hi Stefanie, I think this is a really interesting article. I have just started my own blog on saunas and steam rooms around the world. I live in London and love going to a sauna to relax and wind down.

And yet here we are, sitting on the wrong side of history, actively excluding transgender women from spaces they need to be granted access to. In the original article we stated that Colin Cushion, the manager mentioned, was anonymous. This was incorrect and duly amended on 6th Feb.

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