MarcG
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Joined: 05/26/03
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Loc: New Brunswick & Quebec, Canada
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Has anyone ever visited the Cap d'Adge area in France? If so, any information would be appreciated..
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Wcstflyer
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Joined: 11/08/07
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Loc: California/Florida
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We've been to Cap d' Agde many times. I don't know specifically what you're looking for but there is some information on the quasi-nudist city simply by typing in "Cap d' Agde" or "Cap d' Agde nudist" into a search engine.
Subjectively speaking, Cap d' Agde is not the French Riviera, not by a long shot. Most of the accommodations, with the exception of some new housing in the center of Heliopolis, is fairly basic. To this day there is a lack of air conditioning in the units and during heat wave summers in France you'll feel as if you're living a few miles from the surface of the Sun. Cap d' Agde is nudist from sunrise to sundown, whereupon people rush to their rooms to dress in outfits you'd only find at a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. A dungeon attired couple could be sitting at the Melrose bar alongside a Richard Simmons look-a-like in his gayest orange body suit. Evening is very adult, the hoards of screaming, crying children ever present on the beach mysteriously (and fortunately) disappear into the night to reappear the next day. And about that libertine beach down near the sand dunes; part truth and part hype and the subject of great myth surrounding Cap d' Agde. I'll leave it to you to discover at your option.
For some reason, travel to Cap d' Agde is a big question over at the Yahoo group. A decade ago the nicest way we found was to bypass the chaos of Charles de Gaulle airport and fly from the U.S. nonstop to Nice, then hop over to Montpellier the next day on a little Bombardier CRJ-200 50 passenger jet. Unfortunately the French regional air carrier Air Littoral went out of business. Today the choice is to fly into either Paris or one of the London airports and connect on flights going into Montpellier or Beziers, a secondary airport close to Cap d' Agde. An alternative is to spend the night in Paris and take the high speed TGV train down to Montpellier, which connects to a slower conventional train for the short trip to Agde city train station- a few miles from the naturist quarter.
When are you leaving MarcG?
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RichardKenner
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I've been there once, many years ago (probably 1993). I think we went JFK->LHR->MPL, but the latter flight doesn't exist anymore. It's a huge area, with something like 1-200 shops and restaurants. There are a few small hotels and some large apartment and villa complexes. The beach is very long and nudity-requires, as are the pools (I think there are two). There's a very large (and also nudity-required) campground adjacent. There are something like 40-60,000 people there in the summer. I found the accomodations very small by US standards, but typical European. The convention (but not requirement) is that people dress in the evenings. I agree that the evenings are rather adult: there are many people wearing fetish gear. It wasn't the case when I was there, but I understand that the beach now has "sex allowed" and "sex prohibited" zones.
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MarcG
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Loc: New Brunswick & Quebec, Canada
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Nothing planned, just at the "thinking" stage. I would hate to be disappointed comparing to Orient Beach...talking about the beach itself and all.
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DenitaLC
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Joined: 02/15/08
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Loc: WA State
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My daughter is in Spain right now, not far from this location: http://www.costanatura.com/ This place is going on my 'bucket list'. It looks fabulous! Anyone on here been there? I'd love a first hand review.
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Sorry Marc, not trying to thread heist, just throwing a neat looking place out there for consideration.
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BeaNJoe
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Joined: 09/07/06
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Loc: Pa.
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We went last August, and it is just like Wcstflyer described it, especially the evening attire. A nice place to visit if you are checking off the boxes but not on my to do list again. No comparison to Orient Beach.
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RichardKenner
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BeaNJoe said:
No comparison to Orient Beach.
Agreed. Much closer to Paradise Lakes and Caliente Tampa than Orient beach.
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tiger79
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Joined: 09/30/06
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Loc: England
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RichardKenner said:
Agreed. Much closer to Paradise Lakes and Caliente Tampa than Orient beach.
Probably much closer to Sea Mountain Inn in many ways... 
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Carol_Hill
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Joined: 08/01/00
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Loc: Central Florida!
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We've never been there, recently never had any wish to. Some years ago, N magazine did a piece on Cap, and the description of the nighttime atmosphere let us know the place wouldn't be one for us.. I don't know if it's possible to find that article somewhere online or not, but it was quite an eye opener..
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Marc- You ain't gonna like it ! But it is a naturist experience- and of course you do speak French which would definitely help. Particularly if you want to make friends at the groupie sex activity - middle beach late afternoon, adjoining the homosexual area. Lengthwise the nude beach is not far short of Orient Bay as I recall- well up to maybe Coco.
Started as a hippie/ back to nature camp site long ago, is certainly a heavy swingers destination now altho in daytime families are still very evident. By night anything goes- kinkier the better.
I wouldn't bother with it frankly- not coming transatlantic anyway- but sizewise you could put Club O in a corner.
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