One lady on the last cruise lasted two days before finally getting naked and never looking back. It’s perhaps best to try a nude beach first just in case this isn’t for you.

If you have never tried social nudity, being stuck on a ship surrounded by naked people may seem a bit daunting. If you're looking to try social nudity for the first time, try a nude beach before booking a nude cruise © Chris Moore / Lonely Planet

On this voyage, all the drinks were included in your ticket price, so no need to carry cash or your onboard credit card which, for naturists, was a real godsend. Colorful, oddly named drinks only added to the sense of relaxation. In between the shore excursions, days at sea were spent relaxing on deck beneath large, white, gently billowing sails, dipping toes into the seawater pools when it became too hot, climbing the rigging to get a better view or lying on the net at the prow of the ship to spy dolphins and the occasional fin whale.Īs with any cruise, food was plentiful, excellent (how could it not be when you have your own Michelin-star chef aboard?) and available at all hours around the clock. We climbed, fully clothed, the leaning tower at the Unesco World Heritage site in Pisa, wandered around picturesque old towns on the Spanish islands of Menorca, Mallorca and Ibiza, visited Napoleon’s exile home on Elba (there are worse places to be exiled), marveled at Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia and strolled along Barcelona’s famed La Rambla.Ī wonderful and varied itinerary. On our Mediterranean odyssey, we sailed from Cannes to Barcelona and back to Monaco. And here’s the thing, the passenger return rate is a phenomenal 75%, a number that other companies only dream about. Today, Bare Necessities operates three or four nude cruise charters annually taking naturists all over the world from unique sailing experiences around the Mediterranean to small cruise ships exploring Tahiti and the South Pacific to 3,000-people mega liners cruising around the Caribbean. The first cruise of 300 like-minded naturists unlocked a travel niche that has grown ever since. She was chartered by Bare Necessities – a US-based nude travel company that pioneered nude cruising almost 30 years ago. We joined 218 fellow passengers aboard the Royal Clipper – a 440-foot schooner which, with five masts and 42 sails, is indeed a regal sight.

This was the most perfect, natural way to start the day and we would experience the same sensation each day for the next 12 days as we sailed on the world’s largest square rigger around the Mediterranean – in the nude. Aside from a little nudity, little separates a naturist cruise from any other type of cruise © Chris Moore / Lonely Planet

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