Attention Canadians, Go Nude Sunbathing at Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs, CA this year using WestJet - All of 2012 is on Sale

Come vacation at The Terra Cotta Inn nude sunbathing resort and spa, Palm Springs, California where it's always summer with a Westjet Airlines Airfare Sale and SAVE!!!. The sale ends midnight MST Thursday, February 16th. Travel until December 16th. That's Right almost the whole 2012 is on sale with Westjet.

Palm Springs is a desert. You will love our sun. We are the sunniest city in the US, which is why repeat guests from all over the US, Canada, England, Australia, and Mexico fly here for their vacations. We have the BEST year round nude sunbathing weather in the world. In 2011 for instance, Palm Springs only had 2.11 inches of rain ALL YEAR LONG. Where else can you go and be guaranteed so much sun? Nowhere, but Palm Springs and Terra Cotta Inn nudist resort.

Canadians especially love Terra Cotta Inn and Palm Springs as we are a unique nude sunbathing resort and cater to couples on vacation and are popular 7 days a week. The Vancouver Sun newspaper has picked us as their favorite destination in California to go nude sunbathing. And we are a fantastic value.

Click Here for Westjet's Sale page

Now is the perfect time for a fun, romantic, sunny, unique vacation experience. One that you will want to repeat over and over again..

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time as reported by our local newspaper, the Desert Sun, Palm Springs!

In 2010, MSNBC picked us as the Best value nude sunbathing resort in the western US. And in October, 2011, AOL Travel picked Terra Cotta Inn as one of the top 10 BEST nudist resorts in the world and the only one in the US that caters to couples on vacation. And they also picked Terra Cotta Inn as the BEST VALUE nude sunbathing resort in the world!!! Now that is really cool. And 2012 marks the 5th year in a row that Terra Cotta Inn has not raised room rates. We love saving guests money and they love it. With our great value and rates, and WestJet's airfare sale, no one Terra Cotta Inn is the smart choice for Canadian nude sunbathers.

In July 2011, the Los Angeles Times newspaper picked us as the most popular of ALL small resorts in Southern California. Pretty cool that our nudist resort is more popular than all the boring textile hotels. And they picked the city of Palm Springs as the runner up best travel destination of ALL Southern California.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free Us and Canada) to make reservations or for more information. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Visit our Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

Hope to see you this year in sunny Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn!!!

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Canadians, Westjet wants you to book your winter Vacation in Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn

Come vacation at The Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs, California where it's always summer with a Westjet Airlines Airfare Sale.
Westjet just announced a great winter airfare sale. Vacation in Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn nude sunbathing resort and spa and save!!!

Palm Springs is a desert. You will love our sun. We are the sunniest city in the US, which is why repeat guests from all over the US, Canada, England, Australia, and Mexico fly here for their vacations. We have the BEST year round nude sunbathing weather in the world. In 2011 for instance, Palm Springs only had 2.11 inches of rain ALL YEAR LONG. Where else can you go and be guaranteed so much sun? Nowhere, but Palm Springs and Terra Cotta Inn nudist resort.

Click Here for Westjet's Sale page

Now is the perfect time for a fun, romantic, sunny, unique vacation experience. One that you will want to repeat over and over.

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time as reported by the Desert Sun newspaper, Palm Springs!

Last year, MSNBC picked us as the Best value nude sunbathing resort in the western US. And this year AOL Travel picked Terra Cotta Inn as one of the top 10 BEST nudist resorts in the world and the only one in the US that caters to couples on vacation. And they also picked Terra Cotta Inn as the BEST VALUE nude sunbathing resort in the world!!! Now that is really cool. And 2012 marks the 5th year in a row that Terra Cotta Inn has not raised rates. We love saving guests money.

In July 2011, the Los Angeles Times newspaper picked us as the most popular of ALL small resorts in Southern California. Pretty cool that our nudist resort is more popular than all the boring textile hotels. And they picked the city of Palm Springs as the runner up best travel destination of ALL Southern California.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free Us and Canada) to make reservations or for more information. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Visit our Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

Hope to see you this year in sunny Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn!!!

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Canadians, Westjet wants you to book your winter Vacation in Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn

Even though today is officially the first day of winter, vacation at The Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs, California where it's always summer with a Westjet Airlines Airfare Sale.

Time has flown by. Summer and fall have come and gone in the US and Canada and many people never had a chance to take their summer vacation. No problem, Westjet just announced a great winter airfare sale. Vacation in Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn nude sunbathing resort and save 15%. You must book by 9:59pm MT Friday December 23rd.

Palm Springs is a desert. You will love our sun. We are the sunniest city in the US, which is why repeat guests from all over the US, Canada, England, Australia, and Mexico fly here for their vacations. We have the BEST year round nude sunbathing weather in the world. This year for instance we have only had 2.5 inches of rain ALL YEAR LONG. Where else can you go and be guaranteed so much sun? Nowhere, but Palm Springs and Terra Cotta Inn nudist resort.

Click Here for Westjet's Sale page

Now is the perfect time for a fun, romantic, sunny, unique vacation experience. One that you will want to repeat over and over.

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time as reported by the Desert Sun newspaper, Palm Springs!

Last year, MSNBC picked us as the Best value nude sunbathing resort in the western US. And this year AOL Travel picked Terra Cotta Inn as one of the top 10 BEST nudist resorts in the world and the only one in the US that caters to couples on vacation. And they also picke d Terra Cotta Inn as the best value nude sunbathing resort in the world!!! Not that is really cool in this economy to be the ONLY affordable luxury resort selected. So if you don't vacation at the Terra Cotta Inn this year, obviously you have lots of money to waste somewhere else on your nude vacation.

In July 2011, the Los Angeles Times newspaper picked us as the most popular of ALL small resorts in Southern California. Pretty cool that our nudist resort is more popular than all the boring textile hotels. And they picked the city of Palm Springs as the runner up best travel destination of ALL Southern California.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to make reservations or for more information. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Visit our Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

Hope to see you this year in sunny Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn!!!

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Attention Canadians: Vacation At The Terra Cotta Inn this Fall with a WestJet Airfare Sale Buy by October 13th Fly until December 15th

Time sure has flown by. Summer is gone and many people never had a chance to take their summer vacation. No problem, WestJet Airlines just announced a great fall airfare sale. Vacation in Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn nude sunbathing resort with a WestJet Airfare Sale - Buy by Midnight Thursday October 13th - Fly from now until December 15th.

Palm Springs is a desert. You will love our sun. We are the sunniest city in the US, which is why repeat guests from all over the US, Canada, England, Australia, and Mexico fly here for their vacations. We have the BEST year round nude sunbathing weather in the world. This year we have only had 1.85 inches of rain ALL YEAR LONG. And we only average 3 inches a year. This is why people in the know, only come to our resort for their nudist vacations.

From the Westjet website:

"California Dreaming

*Book by October 13, 2011 (11:59pm MT) for travel on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until December 15, 2011. Fares on other days may be higher. Taxes, fees and surcharges are extra where applicable."

CLICK HERE FOR THE WESTJET AIRLINES SALE WEB PAGE

These low airfares are only good to LAX and Orange County airport (SNA) Palm Springs (PSP) tickets will be higher. LAX is only 120 miles from Palm Springs and Orange county 95 miles.

Now is the perfect time for a fun, romantic, sunny, unique vacation experience. One that you will want to repeat over and over.

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time as reported by the Desert Sun newspaper, Palm Springs!

MSNBC has picked us as the Best value nude sunbathing resort in the western US. Due to the economy and our wanting to help our guests have their best vacation ever, 2012 will be our 5th year in a row that we have not raised our rates for our guests. And we are still one of the few nude sunbathing resorts in the US with no extra fees.

The Vancouver Sun has picked us as the BEST nude sunbathing resort in the western US.

And in July 2011, the Los Angeles Times newspaper picked us as the most popular of ALL small resorts in Southern California. Pretty cool that our nudist resort is more popular than all the other boring textile hotels. And they picked the city of Palm Springs as the runner up best travel destination of ALL Southern California.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to make reservations or for more information. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Visit our Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

Hope to see you this year in sunny Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn!!!


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Come to Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs with Westjet's big 15th Anniversary Sale

Happy St. Patrick's Day all you lucky Canadians. Westjet has a major 48 hour 15th anniversary airfare sale. It ends tonight 3/17 at midnight. They have some great bargains into Palm Springs. You can fly until 6/29. OK a few other places too if your not coming here. LOL

Click here to go to their page: SALE PAGE

You can fly into Palm Springs, PSP. WestJet also have great rates into LAX 120 miles away, San Diego, 140 miles away, Phoenix or Las Vegas 280 miles away, and San Francisco 500 miles away.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to check on availability.

Now that the Canadian dollar is stronger than the American dollar, there is no reason not to take a vacation at Terra Cotta Inn in sunny Palm Springs, California.

Terra Cotta Inn is the most popular, romantic, and fun nude sunbathing resort in the western US. We have repeat guests from all over the US, Canada, England, and Australia stay with us. We are unique, we are a vacation resort and busy 7 days a week instead of being just a weekend getaway and only popular on weekends like most nudist resorts.

In December 2010, Palm Springs Life Magazine in their Best of the Best issue picked The Terra Cotta Inn as the best small resort of ALL small resorts in the whole Palm Springs area. We were picked not because we are exclusive and snobby. Quite the opposite. We were picked the best because it is so friendly here and because the guests have such a great time.

So if you want your best, most fun vacation ever, give us a call at 800-786-6938.

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn Clothing Optional Resort and Spa, Palm Springs, CA
Call 800-786-6938 for info or reservations
Visit our website by clicking: http://sunnyfun.com
Visit our facebook page by clicking http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

An additional 15% off Westjet's special rates. Book by 12/26 fly until 5/31/10

Merry Christmas Canadians from Westjet. They have a promo for the next 2 days. Get an extra 15% off their already reduced rates. Buy by Midnight Saturday December 26th, fly until May 31st, 2010.

From their site:

"WestJet Promotion

Book your WestJet flight today and save!

Save an extra 15% off new online bookings when you travel up to May 31, 2010.

Enter promo code PCR05 with coupon code EJUCJWF on the first page of the booking process at westjet.com.

To redeem this offer, bookings must be made on westjet.com. Both the Promo code PCR05 and Coupon code EJUCJWF are required at time of booking on the first page of the booking process. Bookings must be made by December 26, 2009 and travel must occur before May 31, 2010. Offer is available on all WestJet flights. Taxes, fees and surcharges are extra where applicable. Seats are limited and may not be available on all flights. New online bookings only. No cash value.

Click Here for Westjet's airfare sale page

Topless and nude sunbathers are lucky as they get to stay in one of the best small resorts in all Palm Springs. Just this December in Palm Springs Life Magazine, the Best of the Best issue, we were selected as one of the top 3 boutique hotels in ALL the Palm Springs area, pretty cool for nude sunbathers.

Now is the perfect time for a fun, romantic, unique vacation experience.

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time!

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 for more information or to make reservations.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Nude Year!

Palm Springs businesses are marketing to the wrong customers

I posted this post back on 11/29/08. It is more true than ever today. Here in Palm Springs most businesses are still spending most of their marketing money and energies trying to woo the local Southern Californian customer. Instead, Palm Springs business needs to market more to the national and international guests.

Now it's human nature to market to the easiest customers to attract, "the locals." But, if your a tourist business and you just market to the locals, you'll only be busy on weekends and empty midweek as locals will rarely vacation with you.

14 years ago, we specifically bought a resort that had big rooms, was very spacious and was geared for vacationers. Thus, about 80% of our business comes from out of state and/or out of country. We are busy 7 days a week, not just weekends like other places. There is nothing more boring than going to a nudist resort or a town and finding out no one is around on Sunday thru Fridays because you booked a weekend getaway.

I wrote the paragraph above a year ago. We are now in our 15th year of business. We have found our out of state out of country business has grown to about 85% of our business. Last year was the first year that Washington become the #1 home state of our guests, followed by Canada, and then California.

I read in the paper this week that the states with the most mortgage problems are Florida, followed by California, Arizona, and Nevada. It said currently 1 out of every 7 mortgages in California is in default or behind on their payments.

It makes good sense to diversify your customer base which is why we are the ONLY nudist resort outside of Florida that is busy 7 days a week because out guests come from all over the US, Canada, England, and Australia.

I am a past president of the Palm Springs chamber of commerce. When I was president, I tried my hardest to teach other businesses that you have to cater to the vacation market, not the Saturday night getaway market. Unfortunately, a lot of businesses in the tourist industry did not listen and are now out of business or struggling, including some nudist businesses.

Here is a story about tourism in Palm Springs from our local paper which applies to many tourist destinations:

"Valley Tourist Hot Spots Seeing Downturn, Hoping for Local Turnout

It's the season for travel but tourist spots here in the Valley are just not seeing numbers like they used to.

"We've seen about a 10% drop in our attendance so far this year," says Kimberly Bowers with The Living Desert. She says the struggling economy is delaying what is usually the time things start picking up. Desert adventures, which offers jeep tours of the Coachella Valley have seen nearly a 20% drop in tourism...

"We've increased our advertising in the L.A. and San Bernardino areas and also here locally, we've also been doing some P.R. efforts and we also have a lot of special events coming up," says Lena Zimmerschied with Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

"We'd like to see tourism in Southern California increasing as far as regional tourism is concerned. So with our feeder markets for example San Diego and Los Angeles hopefully seeing more people coming in from those areas as well," said Bowers...

The original story was from the Desert Sun newspaper 11/28/08. It is no longer on line.

Well this year tourism is down another 20% on top of being down last year. In my opinion a lot of that is due to the short sided easy thinking of marketing local.

Palm Springs needs to do what big cities like Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, etc do, market nationally and internationally.

We have the best resort weather in the world. We are the sunniest city in the US and the last time it rained here was over 9 months ago in February. No other vacation destination can guarantee nice weather like Palm Springs. We need to constantly remind people of that.

Palm Springs businesses should be marketing to Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Calgary, London, etc. Market to where the winter weather is cold with snow and rain. Then make sure you take care of your customer so they want to come back.

Sadly, we have had more guests from California cancel then ever before this year. Always they say one of them lost their job or they are behind on their mortgage. This breaks our hearts as we have known some of these guests fro more than 10 years.

However, we have found lots of other repeat guests that have cancelled their Hawaiian, Caribbean, Mexican, European, and Floridian vacations and flown to our resort instead because we are such a great bargain.

We just had a couple from Atlanta who we hadn't seen in 11 years stay here for a week. They had been going to Club Orient in St. Martin. This year they cancelled St. Martin. They estimated that in that 10 year time they would have saved about $50,000.00 if they had continued coming to Palm Springs instead of going to St. Martin.

Palm Springs is a great value just like out hotel The Terra Cotta Inn.

So if you have always wanted to try topless or nude sunbathing, give us a call at 800-786-6938. It will be your most fun vacation ever.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Friend us on facebook at http://facebook.com/terracottainn

Hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

WestJet airfare sale, Up to 65% off - Book by midnight 9/10/09

Canadians love topless and nude sunbathing in sunny Palm Springs. And WestJet is a bargain flying into Palm Springs. Right now they have one of their best airfare sales I have ever seen. Up to 65% off!

This is for travel this fall from now until Dec 17th. The fall is a super busy time here at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa. It is tropical storm season in Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean so nudists never go to those areas in the fall for vacations unless they enjoy lots of rain.

Palm Springs is the sunniest city in the US. For instance, the last time it rained here was in February.

We still have some rooms available this fall, so give us a call at 800-786-6938 for availability. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Here's the details from Westjet's site:

"Book by September 10, 2009 (11:59 p.m. MT) for travel until December 17, 2009.
For Canadian and U.S. destinations travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays."

Go to Westjet's site for the full details and to make reservations Click here for the WestJet site

Now if you want to take a fun vacation, give us a call at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in sunny Palm Springs, CA.

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time. You don't even have to be a nudist to vacation with us.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts

Hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

And another nudist resort bites the Dust - Just say NO to vacationing at Non Nudist owned places in the Mexico and the Caribbean!

I just wrote that Glen Echo in Ontario, Canada will be closed to nudists as of
Oct 1st due to not finding nudists to buy it.

Last week Paradise Lakes in Tampa, Florida pulled out of AANR, the American Association for nude recreation instead of being suspended. Why? Because they are hosting s racy g-string review hosted by a Penthouse model. They said nudists no longer support them enough.

What's happening to nudism in America and Canada? I have heard from some nudist resort owners that this is one of the worst years they have ever had. They all say, where have nudists gone? (Luckily for us, this will be our 2nd or 3rd best year ever in our 15 years of business. But, I have worked harder than ever marketing our resort). For instance this July was our SECOND best July ever in our 15 years of business.

It seems 2 things are working out here.

First, many nude vacationers in the US and Canada still don't support American and Canadian nudism. Every time you go to Mexico, or Jamaica, or some other Caribbean island and spend a vacation at a non nudist owned resort, that is taking away money that could be reinvested in American and Canadian nudism.

Those big impersonal corporations that overcharge nudists for rooms on "nude sides" instead of prude sides, don't care about nudists. You are just a big stupid dollar sign to them. If they cared, they would charge textiles and nudists the same.

We reinvest about 15% of every dollar we receive from guests. That is one of the highest reinvestment amount percentages of ANY hotel in the US. To us, we want to deliver to nudists the BEST VALUE of any hotel. And we succeed since we are so popular.

Yet, do I want more guests? I sure do! We will probably be around a 78-80% occupancy rate this year, a rate that most hotels in the US would love to have. Yet, we should be close to 100% occupancy. And if Americans and Canadians start supporting nudism more, hopefully we will.

Even some of our repeat guests are not supporting us as much. Last weekend, we had a guest tell us they stayed at a textile resort over in a town by us called Rancho Mirage. They got a "great deal" for a hotel room. They said they got it half off. Rack rate was $259 and they got it for $129. Then they admitted they paid $22/night parking (we're free), a resort fee of $20 something (they forgot the exact amount), $12.95 for wifi (we're free). And they had to pay for breakfast (we're free). And they didn't get free afternoon snacks. Their "bargain" cost way more than our
$169/night. Their $129/night ended up costing around $215/night compared to our bargain of $169.

The guest stayed there for 3 nights. I said to them, "you know, we can use the money much more than that place can. They don't have a salt water pool, they don't have poolside misters and heaters, they don't have free wifi. You should be supporting nudist businesses in this economy instead of big corporations." The response was "oh, I never thought of that."

Nudists need to think. They need to support American and Canadian nudist resorts.

Stop going to non nudist owned places in the Caribbean Mexico. Let the citizens in those countries support their own naked places. Americans and Canadians have been supporting them for way to long to the detriment of nudism at home.

Now if you want to vacation at one of the best clothing optional resorts in the world according to tripadvisor.com and AOL.com, then give us The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa a call at 800-786-6938.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

US Chamber of Commerce encourages people to vacation in the US this year

I've been saying since last year that Americans and Canadians should only book at US and Canadian nudist resorts this year.

All the time I hear from people asking me "why aren't there more places like Terra Cotta Inn in the US." And then they proceed to tell me how they just spent like $5000-7500 in Mexico or the Caribbean on vacation.

We had one guest this spring stay with us for 3 weeks. They said this year they could afford 3 weeks at our resort for the price of 1 week in St. Martin.

Now our business has been pretty good this year. April was the busiest month in our 14 years of business. However, for instance, June has been slower than usual as it has been cloudy and cool in San Diego and Los Angeles. Many people who live in those cities don't know that it is sunny and warm just 100 miles away in sunny Palm Springs. As an example we only have 1 couple at our resort tonight from Southern California. We have more Canadians here than Californians. So we can always use more guests from out of state and out of country booking their vacations here.

American and Canadian nudists need to support our own. They need to join AANR and FCN to protect our nudist rights. They need to join nudist clubs and vacation only at US And Canadian nudist resorts. When nudists go to the Caribbean or Mexico, they are lining the pockets of non nudists who charge nudists more to go nude, than they charge textile guests. (Club O is an exception. It is very, expensive, but it is a naturist owned and managed resort).

I know more and more people are tired of being overcharged to go nude in the Caribbean and Mexico, but they need to completely stop going and support our own country and our own hard working nudists and nudist organizations.

I am surprised that more nudists have not said the same thing as I do. I know many nudist resorts in the US and Canada are hurting financially this year. They need the money much more than Jamaica or Mexico. Americans in the hospitality industry are being fired and yet people spend their vacation dollars not in their own country? It does not make sense unless you just don't care what happens to our country.

Now I see the President of the US Chamber of Commerce is finally saying people need to vacation in the US to help spur the economic recovery.

Here's the story:

"Travel and Tourism Can Help Spur Recovery

By Tom Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
June 23, 2009

Hundreds of cities and tens of thousands of small businesses depend on travel and tourism for their very survival, including the city I work in, Washington, D.C. In fact, travel and tourism is a $740 billion industry that employs 7.5 million people. It's been hard hit by the economic recession...

One thing we can do to stimulate the economy is to promote the vital travel and tourism industry. We can start by making America a more inviting place for international travelers to visit and conduct business. Passage of the Travel Promotion Act would be a huge step in the right direction...

In addition to attracting international visitors, we need to remove impediments that make it difficult for our own citizens to travel within our borders. Highway congestion, airport delays, and other inconveniences are increasingly causing many Americans to rethink travel plans. If we invest in a modernized infrastructure, we could create jobs during the recession as well as encourage more domestic travel when times are better.

Attracting visitors to our country is a lot like attracting capital--they go where they feel welcome, safe, and can get their money's worth. We want the United States to be the travel destination of the world, while making it easier for our citizens to get from point A to point B. Passage of the Travel Promotion Act would help achieve this at no cost to U.S. taxpayers."

For the full story click here

This is a story that all nudist blogs need to repeat and it should be reposted everywhere. Actually all blogs should be reposting this.

Everyone is more than welcome to repeat this post.

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
Palm Springs, CA
http://sunnyfun.com
1-800-786-6938

Air Canada Announces up to 50% off airfare sale for May and June, book by midnight EST April 23rd

We love our Canadian guests. Year round, we have more guests from Canada that stay with us than we do from the state of California. The reason is we are the ONLY clothing optional vacation resort that caters to couples on vacation in the western US. This means guests from all over Canada, the US, England, and Australia fly here for their vacations. Since we are the ONLY nudist resort that is busy 7 days a week, instead of just weekends like everyone else, everyone always tries to book their vacations with us.

Air Canada just announced a a major up to 50% off airfare sale. You must book by midnight EST Thursday April 23rd to get this great discount.

We still have rooms available in May and June. Call us at 1-800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada) for availability.

Air Canada does not fly into Palm Springs without changing planes to their US partner United. However, you can get non stops from most parts of Canada into LAX or San Diego airports. LAX is 120 miles away and San Diego is 140 miles away. We even have many Canadian guests fly into Phoenix (280 miles away), Las Vegas (280 miles away), and San Francisco (500 miles away) when they are taking long vacations in the American Southwest.

From Air Canada's site:


"Sample ONE-WAY Tango Plus fares.
Fares are valid for travel until June 30, 2009.
Fares are valid for travel on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Advance purchase may apply.
Book by April 23, 2009.
The discount is included in our fares."

For Air Canada's site: click here

Make this year the year you stop doing boring chain hotel vacations. Have some fun. Stay with us, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa, the most mainstream nudist resort in America.

Give us a call at 1-800-786-6938.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

Air Canada has major airfare sale that ends midnight April 15th

I love our Canadian guests. And Canadians love Palm Springs. Year round about 15% of our guests come from Canada. Air Canada was very nice and created a big almost tax day airfare sale. Yes, book by April 13th for discount airplane tickets and save lots of money. You can book your vacation all the way until October 31st.

Here's the info from their site:

"Our worldwide sale is on!

Your search for great deals starts here. Find a great deal to your destination now. See how far your dollar can take you when you book right here at aircanada.com.

Don’t miss out. Offer ends April 13, 2009 midnight EST (unless otherwise specified).

CANADA:
Sample ONE-WAY Tango Plus fares.
Fares are valid for travel until October 31, 2009.
A 14-days advance purchase applies.
Day-of-week restrictions may apply.
Book by April 13, 2009.

Search sale fares to your destinations

Click here for the Air Canada website

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada) for availability. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Now is the time to take a fun vacation this year at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa. We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

The Vancouver Sun newspaper in Canada in October picked us as one of the best places in the world to go nude sunbathing.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Big Airfare sale for Americans, Canadians, and Brits

Today we are 85F and not a cloud in the sky. The best topless or nude sunbathing weather in the US.

There are major airfare sales right now for this January, February
and March to Palm Springs (PSP), Ontario (ONT) and LAX.

http://westjet.com and http://www.aircanada.com/en/home.html have 40%
off sales right now. Westjet's sale ends on 1/14 at midnight and Air
Canada's ends at 1/15 at midnight.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb British
Airways has a major sale. You need to book by January 27th.

http://www.alaskaair.com has a big sale. You need to buy tickets by
January 24th

American, United, and Southwest also have sales.

Well it seems like everyone has been listening to me. They are tired
of spending $5000-$7500 going nude for a week in Mexico and/or the
Caribbean. We have had more advanced booking than ever in March,
April and May. If you are thinking about a vacation in those months
you need to book soon. People are supporting the American nudist
industry this year and are booking their nude vacations here in the
good old USA. Thank you everyone for your advanced bookings.

Now we still have rooms available in January. For instance last week
stupid weather.com was predicting we would be a high of 72F and we
were 84F over the weekend. They scared away everyone from Southern
California. We were not sold out as a lot of people don't realize how
nice our weather is in January and February.

Book now so you can enjoy the warm Palm Springs sunshine at our best
rates of the year!

So give us a call at 800-786-6938 to check on availability and to
make reservations. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

To learn more about the beautiful city of Palm Springs, visit http://palmsprings.com

Hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Palm Springs needs to market more to the national and international guests

Nudist resorts operate just like many resort cities. They market to the easiest customers to attract, "the locals" and wonder why they are only busy on weekends.

14 years ago, we specifically bought a resort that had big rooms, was very spacious and was geared for vacationers. Thus, about 80% of our business comes from out of state and/or out of country. We are busy 7 days a week, not just weekends like other places. There is nothing more boring than going to a nudist resort and finding out no one is around on Sunday thru Fridays because you booked a weekend getaway.

For instance over Thanksgiving, we have more guests from Canada here then we did from Southern California. And the Canadians were not coming here for our Thanksgiving holiday, they just wanted to getaway from the cold and snow.

I am a past president of the Palm Springs chamber of commerce. When I was president, I tried my hardest to teach other businesses that you have to cater to the vacation market, not the Saturday night getaway market. Unfortunately, a lot of businesses in the tourist industry did not listen and are now suffering as Southern Californians rein in their their weekend getaways.

Here is a story about tourism in Palm Springs which applies to many tourist destinations:

"Valley Tourist Hot Spots Seeing Downturn, Hoping for Local Turnout

It's the season for travel but tourist spots here in the Valley are just not seeing numbers like they used to.

"We've seen about a 10% drop in our attendance so far this year," says Kimberly Bowers with The Living Desert. She says the struggling economy is delaying what is usually the time things start picking up. Desert adventures, which offers jeep tours of the Coachella Valley have seen nearly a 20% drop in tourism...

"We've increased our advertising in the L.A. and San Bernardino areas and also here locally, we've also been doing some P.R. efforts and we also have a lot of special events coming up," says Lena Zimmerschied with Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

"We'd like to see tourism in Southern California increasing as far as regional tourism is concerned. So with our feeder markets for example San Diego and Los Angeles hopefully seeing more people coming in from those areas as well," said Bowers.

The tourists we spoke with say they're traveling less than before this year and that could be a silver lining for the tourism business here in the valley.

We were usually going to go to Florida for the season and we decided to stay local because of that reason," says Cindy Colberg who is visiting from San Diego...

For the full story click here

Palm Springs needs to do what big cities like Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, etc do, market nationally and internationally. We have probably the best resort weather in the world, yet, businesses here are marketing to Los Angeles, and San Diego. They should be marketing to Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Vancouver, Calgary, etc. market to where the winter weather is cold with snow. Then make sure you take care of your customer so they want to come back. Then they would be busier.

This year will be our busiest year of business. We have found lots of guests have cancelled their Hawaiian, Caribbean, Mexican, European, and Floridian vacations and flown to our resort instead.

Palm Springs tourist officials need to realize that we are in competition for tourists around the world. And the one trump card we hold is we have the best weather anywhere since we are the sunniest city in the US. I wish they wouldn't spend so much money marketing to Southern California, but instead market to vacationers.

So if you have always wanted to try topless or nude sunbathing, give us a call at 800-786-6938. Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

Westjet Airfaresale to Palm Springs

Westjet just announced a 30-40% off airfare sale Nude Sunbathing sale in Palm Springs for Canadians.


Canadians love nude sunbathing at our resort, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in sunny Palm Springs, California. Year round, I would bet around 15% of our guests come from Canada.

Canadians love vacationing in Palm Springs because we are the sunniest city in the US. When you live in a country that has a short summer season like Canada, you want to be guaranteed good weather on your vacation. Palm Springs has the best nude sunbathing weather in the US averaging less then 3 inches of rain a year.

Westjet has seasonal nonstop service into Palm Springs.

Westjet right now has a big airfare sale. You have to buy tickets by midnight (MST) Wednesday, October 22mdth and fly by February 28th.

So if you have ever wanted to try topless or nude sunbathing, now is your chance. We are one of the nicest clothing optional resorts around as this July tripadvisor.com picked us as one of the 10 best clothing optional resorts in the world.

For more information, give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free Canada). Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

To learn more about sunny Palm Springs, visit our city site at http://palmsprings.com

Click Here for Sale Information

Nude Sunbathing sale in Palm Springs for Canadians

Canadians love nude sunbathing at our resort, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in sunny Palm Springs, California. Year round, I would bet around 15% of our guests come from Canada.

Canadians love vacationing in Palm Springs because we are the sunniest city in the US. When you live in a country that has a short summer season like Canada, you want to be guaranteed good weather on your vacation. Palm Springs has the best nude sunbathing weather in the US averaging less then 3 inches of rain a year.

Westjet has seasonal nonstop service into Palm Springs.

There is good news for Canadians. Where Westjet normally starts their nonstop service into Palm Springs in the middle of November, this year it will start on Tuesday October 14th.

And Westjet right now has a big airfare sale. You have to buy tickets by midnight (MST) Wednesday, October 8th and fly by December 17th.

Click here for airfare sale information

So if you have ever wanted to try topless or nude sunbathing, now is your chance. We are one of the nicest clothing optional resorts around as this July tripadvisor.com picked us as one of the 10 best clothing optional resorts in the world.

For more information, give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free Canada). Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

To learn more about sunny Palm Springs, visit our city site at http://palmsprings.com

Hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

40 % off Palm Springs airfare sale on Air Canada

As the only nudist resort in the western US that caters to couples on vacation, we have guests from around the world stay here. Probably around 15% of our room nights year round are booked by Canadians.

And the press in Canada loves us (as do our repeat guests). This March, Canada.com which is Canada's major media company had an article where they picked the best places in the world to go nude sunbathing. Our resort, the Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in sunny Palm Springs, California was the only nudist resort on the west coast that was honored.

Right now Air Canada listed a big 40% off airfare sale to the US that expires at midnight Oct 2nd.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SALE LINK

If you have always wondered about topless and nude sunbathing, we are the perfect place for first timers as we are considered the most mainstream nudist resort in America.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada). Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

To learn more about the beautiful and fun city of Palm Springs, visit http://palmsprings.com

Hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

Naturism award presented to Edmonton Journal writer

Our resort, The Terra Cotta Inn Clothing Optional resort and Spa is a business members of FCN which is the Federation of Canadian Naturists. They do the same great work in promoting naturism in Canada that AANR does in promoting nudism in the US.

It is funny, since Canadians are a little bit more British oriented, they use the words naturist and naturism, where most Americans use the worlds nudist and nudism. Oh well, it is like the song "You say potato, I say potato...

Anyway, An Edmonton Journal writer won an award from the FCN and other Canadian naturist organizations (of course they have to have a french speaking organization).
She writes she is very proud of her award.

Here is what she has to say:

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I wanted to let you know, dear readers, that I have won a very special sort of writing prize. Not a National Newspaper Award, or a fellowship, or a grant. No, no, those are soooo overrated. The prize I've won is a specialty award, an exclusive sort of award that not just any old writer with a keyboard and a pocketful of trendy adverbs can claim.


Read it and weep: I have won the prize for: the best article about naturism in English to have appeared in the non-naturist print media in Canada during 2007. This award is presented by the Fondation naturiste du Québec in association with the Fédération québécoise de naturisme and the Federation of Canadian Naturists.


Yes, that's me! The Edmonton Journal's resident nudism beat reporter, Elizabeth Withey!

Note this prestigious award comes with a certificate and a $150 cash prize. Far out.


Honestly, winning this prize has made my WHOLE SUMMER. It truly has. I remember, shortly after I wrote the article so so long ago, that someone emailed me and said they'd entered my story in the contest. At the time, I thought, now wouldn't THAT be a hoot...and then I promptly forgot about it. Now, 18 months later....victory!...

Perhaps you've detected a trace of silliness, even mockery, in this posting. It is all affectionate teasing. I am actually quite proud of this win (and I'm not just saying that because I haven't yet received my prize money). It's an honour to be recognized with a writing award of any sort...even the Grade 10 writing award in rural Saskatchewan (yup, I nabbed that one too). So, thanks, FQN/FCN. Truly. I am chuffed. I love it. I mean, how many people can put "award-winning nudism journalist" on their CVs? It's terrific.


To read her story: click here

It is nice that this reporter actually participated in the nude swim and had a fun time. Ms. Withey, if you are in Palm Springs, you are invited to come spend a fun day at our resort. Earlier this year, Canada.com picked us as one of the best places in the world to go nude sunbathing. So I hope to meet you someday.

And if you have always wanted to go topless or nude sunbathing, give us a call at 1-800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada). Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

We have been written up at least three times already in the Edmonton Journal as Canadians love to vacation at our nudist resort.

Hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!