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8.16.07

‘European-Style’ Topless Swimming Pools in Las Vegas

Last week, we noted a guide to the top family friendly pools in Las Vegas. This week in the San Francisco Chronicle, World Hum contributor Matt Villano offers a guide to a very different Las Vegas pool experience: the topless pool. A few high-end Las Vegas resorts are now offering such pool areas—often set back behind foliage—for what can be a pretty hefty charge. “Dubbed ‘adult bathing,’ this phenomenon is an attempt to bring ‘European-style’ topless tanning to age-appropriate Vegas pools,” Villano writes. “Properties such as Caesars Palace, the Mirage and Mandalay Bay each have opened venues in the past 18 months; admission ranges from free to $30 for women and as much as $50 for guys, depending on the day.”

Villano toured the pools recently, including the Venus Pool Club at Caesars, Bare Pool Lounge at the Mirage and Moorea Beach Club at Mandalay Bay—tough gig—and offered his take on the scene:

At all three pools, topless women were perhaps what best attracted a crowd. There is so much jiggling and wiggling around the pool that an ordinary day in the sun can feel like a debauchery-filled bachelor party at the Minxx Gentlemen’s Club & Lounge, the city’s most famous strip club.

While ogling women technically isn’t permitted near the adult pools, pool visitors regularly steal not-so-furtive glances of anything they can glimpse. Even at Moorea, where a craps table is no more than 10 feet from the sand, some of my friends were too distracted to gamble.

If only they’d offered a Peruvian guinea pig lunch, Villano would have been in heaven.

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Photo by Baboona via Flickr, (Creative Commons).

Posted by Jim Benning • 8.16.07
Categories: Weblog • Las Vegas

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cool
topless hotel
and clothing optional resort
sea mountain inn
in california we love it
search for sea mountain inn

By billy rf on 8.29.07 at 01:38 PM

we also went to the sea mountain inn where they have topless pools and nude resort
very safe there are no single men on the property its awesome
You will find nothing like this in the USA--

By Jill on 8.29.07 at 01:39 PM

Excellent choices
we always go to the nude resort and lifestyles hotel sea mountain inn if you want to party naked or relax or be nude at a hotel pool -its 24 hours of fun or 24 hours of naked retreat try it for sure

By Mindy H on 5.29.08 at 07:34 PM

agreed
as the new york times said the place to be a naked or nude vacation is sea mountain inn california
couples only cool

By phil on 6.18.08 at 07:32 PM

yes
we think the sea mountain inn the nude spa and nude resort is really a bunch of hype that actually true
we went and fell in love with it
there is no better place to be nude in the usa !

By brenda malens on 6.19.08 at 08:03 PM

My wife and i much prefer the topless and clothing optional nude pools at the palm springs area sea mountain nude resort -This is for certain our favorite place from romance and to tan naked --Its exceptionally clean ,safe and nice mix of ages-mostly young people couples only but unlike other nude resorts or nude vacation places there are not single men

By on 8.6.08 at 01:50 PM