what i found.. naked hotel @ germany

By Allan Hall in Berlin
Last Updated: 8:34PM BST 31 Mar 2009

Guests will be required to leave their clothes at reception and must be naked at all times when on the premises – "or they will be required to leave".

"We hope to open as soon as possible," Silvia Probsthain, a member of staff at the planned Hotel Rosengarten.

It will be the first comprehensively nudist hotel in Germany."

The rules state that all guests must put towels on chairs and loungers before using them, that there be no sexual harassment and that all sexual activity in "commonly accessible rooms" is strictly forbidden.

The hotel is being built in Freudenstadt, which translates into "Town of Joys". Freudenstadt's tourism director Michael Krause said: "I'm in two minds. It's always good if a new hotel is set up but I'd prefer a normal hotel concept."

Nude hiking is proving increasingly popular in Germany and two villages in the central Harz mountain range plan to mark special forest hiking routes for naked ramblers.

The practice is frowned on in neighbouring Switzerland, however, where authorities plan to fine such behaviour.

There are similar hotels catering for nudists in Scandinavia, Croatia and the south of France.