Welcome to bare-adise? ‘Ballsy’ cruise sets sail — and travellers can pack light

If you’re feeling peculiarly body-confident, past this cruise could beryllium the holiday you didn’t cognize you’d been waiting for.

Cruise company, Bare Necessities, has specialised successful nude question for 35 years, and allows customers to unbend and unwind successful their ain skin, without worrying astir pesky tan lines.

If thing else, it surely gets escaped of immoderate packing dilemmas.

Their yearly Big Nude Boat voyage departed from Miami this week connected an 11-day roundtrip visiting Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao – arsenic good as Jamaica and Great Stirrup Cay.

Travellers volition beryllium successful the buff passim the vessel ‘morning, noon, and night’, arsenic good arsenic enjoying onboard entertainment, dining, and visits to assorted exotic stops around the Caribbean.

The cruise trip adjacent encompasses what the institution describes arsenic an ‘exclusive halt astatine the cruise line’s backstage island’, wherever bare cruisers tin bask a formation barbecue, snorkel with (hopefully not snapping) turtles, and much – each ‘au naturel’.

What are the rules connected a nude cruise?

As you mightiness expect, immoderate rules govern wherever and erstwhile you tin de-robe.

Chiefly, you indispensable stay clothed portion docked successful port, successful the eating rooms, during the Captain’s receptions and whenever locals travel aboard to perform.

Bare Necessities besides goes to large lengths to accent that determination is not a intersexual constituent to their offerings, stating that: ‘If you are seeking a lifestyle/swinger cruise, we are not the close merchandise for you’.

During the uncommon occasions wherever covering is required, the institution besides authorities that ‘shorts and T-shirts are acceptable, but lingerie, fetish wear, robes are not permitted.’

How overmuch is simply a nude cruise?

Unfortunately, you’ve virtually conscionable missed the vessel connected this year’s Big Nude Boat trip, however, much trips are planned for 2026.

If the conception sounds appealing, past prices for their archetypal travel of 2026 starts astatine from $2,000 (£1,600) per person, based connected treble occupancy of a two-person cabin.

The institution is besides offering an exclusive ‘six-star’ travel connected the Scenic Eclipse II from Oct 26 – Nov 9, 2025, with prices starting astatine $13,660.

Next year’s Big Nude Boat travel is acceptable to depart February 9 – 20, 2026, and the latest accusation is disposable connected the Bare Necessities website.

What are radical saying astir the nude cruise?

Many travellers connected societal media expressed their enactment for the idea, with Instagram user @island_modeling commenting that ‘Life doesn’t get amended than this’ and redsfan3758 saying ‘Beautiful, I cant hold until my adjacent nude cruise.’

However, immoderate Reddit users did rise a fewer concerns, with @Zechs-Merquise posting ‘I’ve ever wondered if they heavy cleanable each seats and linens aft this. Maybe I don’t privation to know’ and Great_Huckleberry709 adding the going connected a travel similar this was ‘very ballsy’.

That said, FrictionMitten besides added ‘Good for them. I privation I had their aforesaid confidence.’

In the meantime (and, situation we say, somewhat ironically), the steadfast besides runs an online ‘big nude shop’ which sells – yep, you guessed it – clothes.

From T-shirts to sweatshirts, the enactment of merch is presumably to assistance amusement your enactment for the conception erstwhile you are backmost connected adust land.

In addition, if you are feeling a small bashful, the self-described ‘Captains of Bare Cruising’ besides connection tiny vessel luxury sailing yachts, which they picture arsenic providing customers with a ‘more intimate experience’… instrumentality from that what you will.

As the institution itself says (presumably with pun intended), ‘Bottom line? Being capable to unbend successful your ain tegument leads to assemblage acceptance.’

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