Off to Mira Vista nudist resort & the AANR West board meeting this weekend

We will be leaving in an hour for the AANR West board meeting this weekend at Mira Vista nudist resort down by Tucson, Arizona. I am on the board and am the publicity chair.

If you want me to bring up anything, leave a comment here or tweet me at

http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts or you can tweet AANR West at
http://twitter.com/aanrwest

And if you are looking for a fun vacation, give us a calla t 800-786-6938.

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

Book Now to Palm Springs on Westjet's big 50% off airfare sale

Westjet a few times every year will have a big 50% off airfare sale. They just kicked one off this week. It ends midnight Friday November 6th. We have already had guests book because of the sale.

Our guests love Westjet (if you can love an airlines these days). From September to May about 30-40% of our guests come from Canada. The vast majority fly Westjet. I bet on a percent of guests, we have the highest percent of guests that fly Westjet in ALL of Palm Springs.

Hey Westjet! If you read this post, I bet we would make a very interesting article for your inflight magazine. We've been written up in the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, and on C TV before. You would being doing your customers a great service letting them know that you fly to the top nude sunbathing resort in the US. And it's easy to get to since you have so many nonstops into sunny Palm Springs.

I have NEVER heard a single complaint about Westjet, whereas I hear lots of complaints about US air carriers.

Here's the airfare sale details from the Westjet site:

"50% off all destinations. Book Today.

Book by November 6, 2009 (11:59 p.m. MST) for travel until December 17, 2009. For Canadian and U.S. destinations travel on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Fares on other days MAY BE slightly higher. Advertised price already reflects a discount. Discount is applied to WestJet’s lowest regular fare. Taxes, fees and surcharges are extra where applicable. Taxes, fees and surcharges are extra where applicable. Seats at these fares are limited and may not be available on all flights. New bookings only. 100% non-refundable. All fares are shown one-Way."

To go to Westjet's airfare sale page: CLICK HERE

It is cheapest to fly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays but it is not that much more expensive to fly other days of the week.

This is a perfect time of the year in Palm Springs. We have been in the mid to upper 80's all week long and nice and sunny.

Palm Springs, California is the sunniest city in the US. Now is the ideal time to take a fun vacation.

Never been to a clothing optional resort before? No problem!

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

So if you want a fun vacation, now is the perfect time to vacation at a clothing optional resort. Give us, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa a call at 800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada).

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

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

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

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Funjet has an airfare sale until November 19th

Airfare sales are starting up again. An interesting airline is Funjet. They do charters. We have had many guests book them for great savings.

In California, they fly to Los Angeles, Anaheim (Orange County), San Diego, and San Francisco. They also fly to Las Vegas (280 miles away), and Phoenix (280 miles away).

Funjet sometimes packages great hotel rates for 2 or 3 night stays in the bigger cities that they are flying to. We've had guests stay the weekend in LA, or San Diego, or Vegas and then stay with us on the Sunday through Thursday nights).

Funjet Vacations just launched their Vacation Your Way Sale.

The Vacation Your Way Sale is valid on bookings made through Nov. 19 for travel between Jan. 1 and April 30, 2010. For more information: click here

So if you want a fun vacation, now is the perfect time to vacation at a clothing optional resort. Give us, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa a call at 800-786-6938.

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

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

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

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

One out of every four pageviews on the internet are on Facebook

Wow, Facebook is becoming a thousand pound gorilla of web traffic. One out of every 4 pageviews is a facebook pageview. That's BIG!!! More and more businesses are marketing through Facebook. Nudists need to get a better presence there too.

Nudiarist, who writes the best nudism blog showed the amount of traffic that nudists sites get in his blog post here: click here

He rightly commented:

"It's interesting to see how the national organizations fare so poorly when compared to commercial sites like Clothes Free International, blogs like mine, and the social networking sites. It's clear that AANR and TNS have let the Internet get away from them. AANR is trying with their blog and forum, but they are still woefully behind sites that do a much better job."

Here's the article about facebook's popularity:

"I was reading an article the other day that revealed Facebook in the UK accounts for 1 in every 7 pages viewed on the Internet. I thought wow, I knew Facebook was big but did not realize it was that big. Then I wondered what this statistic is in the US..."

In the UK, Facebook accounts for 15% of the total pageviews (or 1 in 7). In the US Facebook accounts for, now get this, 1 in every 4 or 25% of our total pageviews. Unbelievable!

Google on the other hand accounts for only 8% of the total pageviews (or 1 in 12)..."

For the full article click here

Now the article says facebook is more engaging, people play games there like farmville, mafia wars, etc. that use up pageviews. But still facebook is a major heavy weight on the internet.

So how has nudism done on facebook? AANR's site has 820 fans. TNS has 683 fans. Myself, I have 815 friends and The Terra Cotta Inn resort page has 514 fans. Skinbook has 1912 fans, Angye Fox the marketing person at Caliente has 1634 friends, and Cypress Cove has 142 fans.

Those are pretty pathetic numbers for nudism, even for me. My twitter account is almost 2500 followers.

Now maybe it is hard to get fans and friends on facebook and that is why the National nudist organizations have so little. Are people afraid to join as facebook is public and others will see that they are fans of nudism? That could be.

But then twitter is public too where everyone can see who you follow. And I have almost 2500 followers there. And on facebook there is a fan page called Sleeping Naked. It has 147,757 fans. That's right almost 150,000 fans and it is a persons page, not an organization. So obviously not everyone is afraid to say they enjoy doing something naked.

As I said, nudism is pathetic on facebook.

Oh well now that we know, time to do better.

If you want a fun vacation, now is the perfect time to vacation at a clothing optional resort. Give us, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa a call at 800-786-6938.

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

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

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

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Terra Cotta Inn has rooms available the week and weekend of November 1st

This has been a pretty good year for us here at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in Palm Springs, California the sunniest city in the US. We have had guests from around the world staying with us.

Sadly, we have also received more cancellations this year than ever before. We got a few cancellations for this week and weekend.

The weather is absolutely perfect. We have the best weather in the whole US. We will hit highs in the upper 80's to low 90'sF this week. Perfect nude sunbathing weather.

So if you have always wanted to vacation at a clothing optional resort now is the perfect time. Give us a call at 800-786-6938.

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

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!

Tripadvisor picks Palm Springs as one of the top 10 sun or snow destinations to vacation at this year in North America

Our resort, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa is very popular. We have one of the highest occupancy rates of ALL hotels in Palm Springs. We have repeat guests from around the world who vacation with us.

However, guests would not come back so often to our beautiful resort unless Palm Springs had great weather. AND WE DO!!! Palm Springs is the sunniest city in the US. The last time it rained here was over 8 months ago in February.

This weekend, tripadvisor.com picked the top sun and snow vacation destinations for this fall and winter in North America.

They picked 5 sun and 5 snow destinations. And naturally Palm Springs was one of the sun destinations.

They picked Palm Springs, CA, Laguana Beach, CA, Maui, Bahama, and Miami. Of course I was surprised that they picked Miami. According to weather.com in the month of September, it rained there on 20 days. In the month of October, it rained there on 10days. Maybe if you live in London 10 days in a month without rain sounds good, but not to me.

There is no question, Palm Springs is the best, sunniest city in the US. Come vacation with us this fall or winter!

So if you have always wanted to vacation at a clothing optional resort, this fall or winter is the perfect time. Give us a call at 800-786-6938.

We are the most mainstream nudist resort in the US and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

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!

3rd Busiest September in our History

Here at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa, we have been very busy this year. In 2 different months this year, we set records for being the busiest ever in our 15 years of being open. The other months of 2009 have also been very busy. For instance this September was our 3rd busiest September. All in all 2009 will be a good year for us.

Now we have worked harder than we ever have in our lives to stay busy. Where last year I used to work 60 hours a week, I now work about 75 hours a week. And Mary Clare is probably working 60 hours a week.

But, it is better to be popular than not popular enough.

The reason I posted this is in yesterday's local newspaper, the Desert Sun, they wrote an article saying occupancy rates were down in Palm Springs. They were down 19.2% in September compared to last year. All year long I have heard how most hoteliers are just not staying busy.

We are very fortunate to have such loyal guests. However, sadly many have lost jobs. We have had more cancellations this year than ever before. So I have to do more marketing. Also guests who used to stay 2 weeks, to save money cut back to 1 week or 10 days.

I read that a reporter was at a local nude place and wrote he was the only person there midweek. I also read tripadvisor reports about other nudist resorts and read where people write they were the only couple or maybe there were just a few couples at other nudist resorts midweek. Whereas we are very busy 7 days a week, not just Saturday nights like many places.

All nudist resorts are different. Just because we are busy and popular does not mean most others are also busy. If you like to meet nice people, we are the place to stay!

Nudist resorts are not like typical hotels like Hilton's or Marriott's where you are just looking for a place to put your head for the night. Vacationing at nudist resorts should be a fun experience. The expression social nudist is very true. That's why most people love vacationing at nudist resorts so much. You get to meet the best people from around the world and become friends.

Going to a nudist resort where you are the only person there is pretty boring. It's like nude sunbathing in your own back yard. You are missing out on the experience of being around other like minded people. It's like going to a party, but going into a room at the party all by yourself. You miss out on all the fun.

So support your local nudist resorts. Vacation at them. I thank everyone for your great support at our resort.

And if you are taking a vacation or staying midweek, we are the place to stay in the Western US.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to reserve your fun getaway here at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa. Palm Springs, California's most popular nudist resort.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

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

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

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

A Vitamin D deficiency is rampant among Americans

For some reason, American doctors went overboard scaring people about skin cancer and the sun. Many Americans are now scared of the sun. They never go outdoors without covering up and using a high SPF sunscreen. Now we find that 85% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient.

I believe in moderation. Everyone should get some sun. When you are in the sun, your body naturally produces its own Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin. Vitamin D has many health benefits from preventing breast cancer and prostate cancer, to helping the cardiovascular system.

Last year I wrote about the President of the Italian Dermatology Association recommending people spend two hours per day in the sun total body sunbathing. The doctor recommended total body sunbathing. Here's my previous post: click here It is NSFW.

Of course nudists have known for years that the sun is good for you.

Here's the article about Vitamin D deficiency and Americans:

"Vitamin D linked to cancer prevention, yet 85% of Americans are vitamin D deficient

D is a vitamin we can get for free. It comes from the natural UVB rays of the sun and when people get enough vitamin D it can protect the body’s immune system and prevent ill health.

Most of the United States population, however, is vitamin D deficient.

A team of medical professionals lead by Dr. William Grant and the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health research center conducted an analysis of breast cancer mortality rates according to geographic region location.

The study “shows the highest rates in the northeast and urban areas, and lowest rates in the south and rural areas. According to this analysis, breast cancer risk could be cut in half by sufficient vitamin D levels.”...

For the full article and to see recommended levels for vitamin D, Click Here

So if you want to increase your vitamin D, go nude sunbathing!

Our resort, The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa located in Palm Springs, California, the sunniest city in the US is the perfect place to try nude sunbathing. The Terra Cotta Inn is the most mainstream nudist resort in the US. It is perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time. You will love it here as it is so much fun.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to make reservations or for more information and to check on our availability.

Visit our site at http://sunnyfun.com

Become a Facebook friend at http://facebook.com/terracottainn

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

We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!

Terra Cotta Inn only has 1 room left this beautiful Halloween day

Earlier in the week, we got a cancellation for this weekend. We just have 1 room left today for this beautiful Halloween weekend.

We will be a high of 87F and not a cloud in the sky. Perfect nude sunbathing weather.

Give us a call at 800-786-6938 to reserve a fun getaway here at The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa. Palm Springs, California's most popular nudist resort.

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!

Southwest and American Airfare sale ends at midnight tonight 10/29/09

Looking for the warm Palm Springs sunshine from December to February 10th?

Southwest and American Airlines have a fantastic airfare sale ending tonight at midnight. Round trip airfares from $50-200. Some of the best airfare bargains I have ever seen.

Also, in December and January, here at the Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa we have our best rates of the year. On Monday thru Thursday, stay 1 night, the 2nd is half priced. And if you are really relax, stay for a week here. Then we take an additional $100 off our already discounted weekly rates. So rooms start at only $859/couple/night. We still include breakfast and afternoon snacks everyday even at those prices.

Don't forget, in January, it is the 21st annual Palm Springs film festival. It runs from January 5th to 18th 2010. Lots of guests have seen big name movie stars in the audience at these screening. This film festival is a major star festival as it begins the annual Academy Award Oscar nomination season. The movie stars flock here drumming up support for Oscar nominations.

To make reservations on Southwest Airlines, CLICK HERE

For making reservations on American Airlines CLICK HERE

The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa, located in Palm Springs, CA, the sunniest city in the US is the most mainstream nudist resort in America. It is perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

Feel free calling us at 800-786-6938 for availability, to make reservations, and for more information. We answer the phones from 8am-10pm PST.

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!