Bristol Gardens, Brighton, UK

[Xen]

Does anyone have any experience of this naturist spa ? Would you recommend it ?

[Rik]

Xen,

No personal experience but there's a bit of info here:
http://www.armage.demon.co.uk/nuff/v...l_gardens.html

a fairly long (but a few years old) review here:
http://www.studland-nudists.co.uk/br...health_spa.htm

and a web site here:
http://www.armage.demon.co.uk/nuff/v...l_gardens.html

If you visit it yourself would you do a report for this forum?

Rik

[Naked in the UK]

That's strange. I also had a thread about Bristol Gardens Health Spa which I started here last year. And it now seems to have been deleted. Why?? It was a more in-depth thread about the venue too which would have been helpful for anyone thinking of visiting there. So am a bit pee'ved off that the thread has been deleted!!

Regular members may remember me saying how nice the place is, and that I'm a regular at the spa. Been going for a little over a year now.

Though the past few times I've been I have been disappointed with the male/female ratio present. I just went last week and there was not any females present atall. It felt more like a "mens only" health spa. Far too male dominated environment for my liking. The couple of times I went before that, there were only around one or two(can't remember exactly) females present. Why are not so many females visiting here anymore? The first several months I've visited there, there's allways been around 30% females. This place really could do with promoting the place for women a bit more, maybe placing ads in womens magazines would be a help or even placing tv ads on regional ITV.

Admittedly, my last few visits have been on a weekday daytime, including a Bank Holiday Monday back in May. Maybe very few(if any) women visit there during a weekday daytime. Saturday's and Sunday's are usually better.

As I will soon be moving much nearer to Brighton than I am now, I will try visiting here on a weekday evening to see if the mix of clientele is any better.

[Naked in the UK]

Originally posted by Naked in the UK:
Though the past few times I've been I have been disappointed with the male/female ratio present. I just went last week and there was not any females present atall. It felt more like a "mens only" health spa. Far too male dominated environment for my liking. The couple of times I went before that, there were only around one or two(can't remember exactly) females present. Why are not so many females visiting here anymore? The first several months I've visited there, there's allways been around 30% females. This place really could do with promoting the place for women a bit more, maybe placing ads in womens magazines would be a help or even placing tv ads on regional ITV.

Admittedly, my last few visits have been on a weekday daytime, including a Bank Holiday Monday back in May. Maybe very few(if any) women visit there during a weekday daytime. Saturday's and Sunday's are usually better.

As I will soon be moving much nearer to Brighton than I am now, I will try visiting here on a weekday evening to see if the mix of clientele is any better.

Update since my last post in September. Have visited on Weekends only about twice since then. Saturday's and Sunday's are indeed better if you prefer a better mix of males/females, though as usual males form the majority. Sunday's I have found offer a slightly more equal mix.

Have also visited on a weekday evening for the first time too. On a Thursday evening. Found it to be very quiet. Most of the time I was in the sauna, steam rooms, and jacuzzi by myself as there were so few people present. Indeed, a few times during my 4 hour stay I was even the only person present in the downstairs wet area. Far too quiet for my liking, don't think I'll bother visiting on a weekday again.

[Naked in the UK]

Finally decided to call it a day going to this place. After allmost two years of going regularly(about every 1-3 months). The first several months of visiting the club I found to be very good. Over the last year I've found it to be very hit and miss. The last 3 times have very much been a miss.

Visited on Sunday afternoon. The place was very quiet in terms of the volume of people at present. Dominated by men, making it feel more like a mens only venue, and not for me. Very disappointing. The only woman visitor present was as part of a couple, who actually spent more time in the "rest rooms" upstairs than they did in the downstairs wet area. Why these naturist health spas in this country has to have these silly "rest rooms" I really do not know. It spoils it really for genuine naturists, as it attracts the wrong sort of visitors to the club.

The all female staff are very friendly, and provide a good service in serving drinks, sandwiches, and snacks in the lounge. But the male dominated environment of the place is very much not for me. I won't be visiting again. Think I'll try some of the German health spas instead, which will most likely be far more to my taste and with none of these stupid "rest rooms" attracting the wrong people. Due to the extra cost involved in travelling to Germany, won't be able to visit so often, but I'd prefer that rather than wasting money going to Bristol Gardens. Plus the festival saunas I visit too which are absolutely excellent.

Something else I haven't said about Bristol Gardens which I noticed from when I first visisted. I have read somewhere else that years ago a lot of the female nurses from the nearby Royal Sussex Country Hospital used to goto Bristol Gardens on some evenings after work. Not the case now by the looks of it, god knows why. But whenever I've been in the downstairs wet area I can regularly hear the sound of female voices talking. Can't make out what they're saying, all I can tell is that they're female voices. Yet this allways happens when there aren't even females present in the downstairs wet area. Spooky or what?

If anyone else decides to visit Bristol Gardens, let us know what you think. But for me anyway, it's goodbye to the place.

[atalanta]

It's a shame to hear that Bristol Gardens has lost its character. It used to be very pleasant when I lived in Brighton a few years back and, yes, a number of the hospital nurses used to go there.