Strict rules you have to follow on 2000-person 'spicy' nude cruise ship
You'd think that being on a nude cruise would mean the sky was the limit.
After all, does anything sound less rule-oriented than sailing across the ocean in your birthday suit? But it turns out that this 2,000 person naked cruise has quite a few rules to follow.
One person who took a trip with Bare Necessities Tour and Travel took to Reddit to share his experiences.
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The ship set sail from Tampa, Florida and allowed holidaymakers to lap up the sights in Mexico and Honduras.
Speaking of his experience on the $2,500 (£1,965) trip, the Redditor insisted that it wasn't a 'swingers cruise or a sex positive environment'.
That would surprise many people, who would associate nudity with sexuality. But onboard this ship, there were a few rules to bear in mind.
For a start, the captain would make an announcement 30 minutes after departure about when clothes could be taken off.
The same would happen when pulling into a port.
Although it wasn't compulsory to flash the flesh, most people on the cruise chose to do so.
As you might expect, people had a lot of questions about the experience and piled into the post's comments section.
One wrote: "Do you carry a towel everywhere you go? It seems rather gross to have multiple naked sweaty bodies sitting or laying on everything that everyone uses."
The original poster responded: "Yes. One must only sit with a towel under one’s bare butt. There are clean towels all over the ship."
That's a relief.
But the most important rule of all?
No photography.
The Redditor admitted: "I was much less worried here than I have been at nude beaches. Almost no one had phones with them outside their cabin. There were many signs posted. There were a lot of staff from the charter company whose job it was to enforce good naturist etiquette.
"And I've spent time online researching nudism and I've never seen a single online photograph from the cruise except for the group shots that people voluntarily pose for. For those reasons, I wasn't concerned."
Admittedly, it would be hard to keep a phone on you at all times without any pant pockets to store them in.
It seems like nudity is all the rage these days, with dating shows following the naturist route too.
As if Naked Attraction wasn't enough, we also have Dating Naked. Rylan Clark admitted that he got the awkwardness out of the way, by looking at contestants' nether regions straight away.
He said: "I looked down and did the sweep, and they all started laughing. I started laughing, the crew started laughing and then that was it."
We're all naked underneath our clothes, right? It's the great equaliser.
Topics: Lifestyle, Travel, Cruise Ship
Ben Thompson