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Topics: Travel, Sex and Relationships, Real Life
Rhiannon Ingle
Topics: Travel, Sex and Relationships, Real Life
Unless you've been living under a rock, I'm sure we're all up to speed with the bizarre nude cruise story that took the internet by storm after it made its rounds across social media this week.
One bloke who attended the cruise in question alongside his wife has since revealed the one time you have to wear clothes - and the answer may surprise you.
The passenger took to the 'Ask Me Anything' thread on Reddit to open up a little more about cruising in his birthday suit and the strict rules he and the other au natural travellers had to follow.
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The man had just ‘disembarked from a 2,000 person nude cruise' - his first - after setting sail from Tampa, Florida, with his female partner to take in the likes of Mexico and Honduras.
He said the trip, which was organised by Texas-based charter company Bare Necessities Tour and Travel, had been 'awesome', having spent around $2,500 (£1,965) per person for a seven-day cruise in a standard room with a balcony.
He went on to explain how the captain will make an announcement after exiting a port about 'when clothes can be removed'.
"Usually it’s about thirty minutes," the man added. "Same, in reverse, going into port."
Now, he also stressed that you never had to remove your clothes if you didn’t want to before revealing that there was just one time on board when they were compulsory.
"Most people were nude most of the time," he continued. "However, since one has to dress to go to the main dining room, there were always many clothed people at and after dinner time."
Makes sense.
Understandably, people had a whole bunch of questions for the nudist, namely about the various guidelines cruisers had to follow when aboard - especially about the ship's policy on 'video recording'.
The man explained: "Absolutely. No one was carrying their phones around.
"This was a crowd with lots of nudist experience. Everyone knows you can’t take pictures of other people.
"I was much less worried here than I have been at nude beaches. Almost no one had phones with them outside their cabin."
He assured: "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."