Terra Cotta Inn is always upgrading our resort

Nudists all know we are the nude recreation leaders of Palm Springs. That is why other nudist resorts even pay for google adwords to appear on google whenever someone types in the keywords words "Terra Cotta Inn".

Yes, even though the lodging industry greatly frowns on hotels advertising on other hotel names especially with adwords, for instance you will never see a Hilton place ads on Marriott's name on the internet, we understand that some places don't have our repeat guest rate percentages (Terra Cotta's is 80% repeats, one of the highest in the travel industry). We assume these places need short term business really bad in these hard economic times and are hoping to get some of our overflow.

Although other places have been advertising on our name for years, and guests of ours constantly comment that they would never stay at those places, even when we're full as they don't like how those places are taking advantage of all our hard work, we have never complained as those places admit by their advertising, that Terra Cotta is the nudist resort leader in Palm Springs which is why they only advertise on our name in Palm Springs.

Terra Cotta Inn has been open almost 17 years and we have always been the go to nude sunbathing resort of Palm Springs.

We opened the doors for mainstream advertising and public relations with the Palm Springs's tourism department, Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, and much more. We were the FIRST of all nudist resorts that let everyone else know it was FUN to vacation in the nude.

We were the 1st of ALL hotels in Palm Springs to convert our pool and Jacuzzi to state of the art salt water systems so we don't have to use all the harsh chemicals.

We were the first of ALL hotels in Palm Springs to install room side heaters for guests to stay nice and warm and nude in the winter.

We were the first of ALL Palm Springs hotels to install high pressure cooling systems poolside and constantly upgrade it and even now most places don't have them as they are very expensive to operate. But, then our guests comfort is more important.

We were the first of ALL hotels to propose to the city of Palm Springs that they start a recycling program for resorts in town. And they accepted that idea.

We were the first nudist resort in the US to have top of the line king sized beds.

We have always been the best value of ALL nudist resorts and one of the best values of all hotels in Palm Springs. We've been recognized by both trip advisor and MSNBC for being such a great value.

We were one of the first of ALL hotels in Palm Springs to offer free WIFI and we were the resort that convinced the city of Palm Springs to make Time Warner Roadrunner to charge hotels only a flat monthly wifi fee instead of trying to extract a daily fee from users. Thus we have never passed on our wifi costs to guests and all hotels in Palm Springs benefit now because of our hard work.

We are constantly upgrading our resort and hotel which is why we have one of the highest occupancy rates of ALL hotels in Palm Springs. Here are a few photos of our rooms as we have upgraded them. We have new tile on the floors (commercial safety non slip tile as we care about our guests). Patty is even showing you just how comfortable our new rooms are. Remember you will be sleeping at least 1/3 of your stay here, so comfortable beds are extremely important.

Guests ALWAYS tell us that they sleep better here than at any other hotel anywhere else that they have been to.

Right now, we have installed new tile floors in about 30% of our rooms as we have have just 1 person working at a time here as we don't like workmen disturbing our guests relaxation. Again, we always care about our guests. Hopefully by early next year all of the rooms will have new tile floors.

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!

Last November, MSNBC picked us as the Best value nude sunbathing resort in the western US.

And in December, 2010 Palm Springs Life Magazine picked us as the BEST small resort in the whole Palm Springs area in their Best of the Best issue. It's pretty cool that a nudist resort is considered the best place to stay in town. We were picked not because we're exclusive and snobby, (we let other places win those categories). We were picked because we are so friendly and because the guests have such a good time here.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to make reservations or for 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 summer in sunny Palm Springs at Terra Cotta Inn!!!

Shades of Facebook - Almost every single photo on my blog has been deleted last night

Shades of Facebook. I woke up this morning and found almost every single photo has been deleted on this blog.

Now with this blog, I have never shown frontal nudity only implied nudity. As a few picture without people were left up, it is as if a google employee went through every post here with a hatchet and cut out the photos to censure this blog.

Very, very bizarre.

Of course it would be nice if someone from google would have e-mailed me about this situation.

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
Located in Sunny Palm Springs, California
Our resort site at: http://sunnyfun.com
Visit our Resort Facebook page at: http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

Facebook needs an 18+ policy There's too much stupid censorship

The above topless photo is Patty, our manager at Terra Cotta Inn. This photo was our Facebook resort web page photo for Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa here: http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

A few months ago this photo was taken down by Facebook warning us that they do not allow nudity, and if we persisted, they would delete our account. Now you see more nudity in spa ads in The Los Angeles Times, etc., but don't try to argue common sense with Facebook. Also I see more nudity on Spa pages in Facebook. But, since those spas are not nudist, it's OK.

A fan of the popular Australian singer Kylie Minogue posted a photo on Facebook. I don't know on what Faacebook page it went on. The photo was taken down for "nudity." Here's the story:

"An innocent picture of singer Kylie Minogue with a teddy bear was censored by Facebook for being 'nude', all because she was holding her microphone near his nether regions. CLICK HERE FOR THE KYLIE MINOGUE TEDDY BEAR PHOTO

From the picture taken on stage at London's G-A-Y club, Minogue, 42, can be seen sporting a big smile on her face as she hugged the oversized bear, the Daily Telegraph reported.

A fan posted the snap on Facebook but the site's censors quickly took it down, explaining, "we do not allow photos that contain nudity"..."

For the full story, Click here

I have only followed Kylie's career a little as I know she is a breast cancer survivor. that changed her life. She's said "I experienced a world of illness and positive attitudes. These experiences contributed to making me a more mature person." She is also a very fun loving person as you can see in the photo.

As you can see, it's a fun photo with NO NUDITY. Facebook needs to have an 18+ rule. Google does with blogspot. This blog shows no frontal nudity, and our sister blog at http://terracottainn.blogspot.com has frontal nudity and has an 18+ warning. Flickr owned by yahoo has an 18+ section for frontal nudity.

Our Facebook page and my facebook account is set up 18+ as I don't want to have to deal with teenage boys on my Facebook account. So it would be very easy to do.

Facebook, it's time to become an adult instead of a prude. You already have 18+ in effect, let people over 18 post photos like the Kylie Minogue photo and simple nudity photos. It's 2010 not 1910. It's time to act mature towards the human body and adult humor.

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
Palm Springs, CA
Resort site http://sunnyfun.com
Resort Facebook page http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage
For more information or reservations, call 1-800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada). Rest of the world call 760-322-6059.

King of the Social Media Sites - Facebook

Facebook had 42 million American users January 1, 2009. Now it has 103 million at the end of 2009. Roughly 1 out of every 3 Americans has a Facebook account.

Facebook now has more web traffic than google. That is amazing. Now with that said, many people are on facebook due to their apps and games like farmville, mafia wars, etc.

I still find google to be the best for web traffic for my resort and I would assume that is true for other nudist resorts. But, facebook is rapidly growing in my marketing of my nudist resort The Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs.

The best segment guests for nudist resorts is the 35+ market. They have the income and the vacation time. 20 something guests are great, but they normally do not have as much vacation time as people 35 and older. My business is not built on just the Saturday night locals and selling memberships like most nudist resorts. We need vacationers as we deliver so much extra value to our guests. we are considered the BEST VALUE nudist vacation resort in the US.

We target the vacationers from around the world. Thus, last year for example, we had more room nights booked by Canadians than we did Californians because Canadians like to stay a week or longer and most Californians like to stay for only a few nights.

I just found a report on how Facebook is growing. I thought everyone might think it interesting.

"Facebook Demographics and Statistics Report 2010 – 145% Growth in 1 Year

Posted in Social Media Marketing, Social Media Monitoring, Social Network Analysis

Key Insights:

1. Facebook’s US user base grew from 42 million to 103 million in 2009. That’s a 144.9% growth rate!
2. The 35+ demographic now represents more than 30% of the entire user base.
3. The 55+ audience grew a whopping 922.7% in 2009. [My note, the fastest growing segment]...

Click here to read the whole fascinating study

Last year I started spending more time on Facebook and it is paying off with new guests and communicating more with repeat guests.

I highly recommend all nudist businesses to get more involved with Facebook.


Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa, Palm Springs, California
For info or reservations call 800-786-6938
Visit our resort site: http://sunnyfun.com
Join the Terra Cotta Inn Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

Sex and Porn are some fo the top search terms for kids

Kids are growing up fast and society is going to have to take their new "values" into consideration in passing future laws.

Here's the results from a recent Symantec study.

"Porn Among Top Search Terms for kids

In a somewhat worrying piece of news, security firm Symantec has released the top search terms by kids in 2009. Topping the lists: “YouTube”, “Google”, “Facebook”, “sex” and “porn”.

While that result set might not be surprising in the teen search rankings, it’s interesting to note that “porn” ranks 4th in the “7 and under” category, receiving more searches than “Club Penguin” and “Webkinz()“. Meanwhile, “sex” is fourth for teens and tweens alike...

...it’s also a timely reminder that kids are growing up fast these days.
For the full story and statistics Click Here

In Europe, where sex and nudity is not as repressed as it is here in the USA, I wonder what keywords the children over there would be looking up.

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn Clothing Optional Resort and Spa, Palm Springs, California
800-786-6938
http://sunnyfun.com
Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/nudist_Resorts

Nudist Colony Experts

I received a phone call today from a reporter in Texas. The writer is doing a follow up story about the Australian "nudist resort," that said it was economically forced to become a swinger resort for 1 month because of the downturn in the Australian tourism industry. They say they don't have enough business from nudists, so they have to go swinger. This story has been picked up by wire services world wide.

The reporter wanted to know how we are being affected by the recession and are we or any other American nudist resorts we know of thinking of going swinger? (Of course we are not, and we are doing fine).

I asked the reporter how did she hear about us? She said she just googled the words nudist colonies and looked for experts. I talked to her for about 25 minutes and invited her to come out to our resort. She told me I was the 3rd nudist she talked with today and the only one that really spent time talking to her about nudism and the economy.

The purpose of this post is two fold. First, as much as nudists hate the words nudist colony and nudist colonies, they are still used by the mainstream press and non nudists. For instance if you google the words nudist colony you will see that there are 4.4 million results. If you google nudist resorts, there are only 2.17 million results. So there are lots of sites still using the words nudist colony and colonies. Nudists should not be offended when they see or hear these words used. They just need to educate the user. I wasn't offended by the reporter, I also told her we don't live in colonies as nudist colony it sounds too much like leper colony.

The second point is our country is in a recession. Everyone wants business. Luckily we are doing well because we have the reputation of being the only nudist resort that caters to vacationers in the western US. We are not a weekend getaway.So we have customers 7 days a week, not just Saturdays.

PR is very important for nudist resorts. You never know how a story will end up. Last year we talked to a reporter from the New York Times for over 1 hour. She used a lot of our background information about nudism in her story, yet she only mentioned us for 1 sentence in her story.

Then a number of years ago we talked to a reporter from Newsweek about how the hotel industry was doing after 9/11. His story never ran, but he was impressed, so when he did a story a few years later about some of the best small businesses in America, we were featured. That story I am sure brought us Hundreds of thousands of dollars of business.

I am shocked. Why would a business blow off a reporter wanting to write a story that may quote them? I can't figure it out. Reporters normally are pretty helpful to nudist resorts. PR can bring is so many new guests. I will never understand some business people.

Oh well, go figure.

Now if you want to try topless or nude sunbathing at one of the nicest nudist resorts in the US, 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!

Google execs some of the most powerful people in the world according to Vanity Fair Magazine

Vanity Fair Magazine, one of the few magazines I actually read, just came out with their list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the world.

The google execs of Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt come in #3 just being Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch.

I guess when you are that powerful, if you are afraid of the sight of bare breasts and nipples, you have your staffs censor them on the net like what happened to all the popular nudist bloggers and the Eva Mendes ad on Youtube (which google owns).

Here is the top 10:

"1. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister (new entry)

2. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. (1)

3. Sergey Brin (3), Larry Page (3), and Eric Schmidt (new entry), Google

4. Steve Jobs, Apple, Disney, and Pixar (2)

5. Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (5)

6. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (23)

7. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai (new entry)

8. Roman Abramovich, Millhouse Capital (30)

9. Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt, actors, activists (new entry)

10. Al Gore, eco-warrior (19)"

To see the full list click here

And if you want to go topless or nude sunbathing at one of the 10 most popular clothing optional resorts in the world according to AOL.com, give us, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa a call at 800-786-6938. Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!