I’ll be trying the nudist baths at Palais Therme in Bad Wildbad mid-February. I’ve read elsewhere on the forum that they are quite pleasant and I’m entirely looking forward to them.
Afterwards, onwards to the Kaiser Freidrich Baths in Weisbaden.
We were last February, and we enjoyed it enormously. We stayed at the Rossini Hotel, which gives you free entry to the Palais Thermal on the day of your arrival. Walking across the square, accompanied by hotel staff, from the hotel to the Palais Thermal just wearing a bathrobe with nothing beneath felt a bit surrealistic. As I wrote last year the highlight of our stay in Palais Thermal was a dip in the rooftop pool surrounded by snowdrifts with views over the city, and we had to climb over the snowdrifts in order to reach the hot water of the pool. That was incredible!
Thank you Jacques- it sounds so enticing! I’ll be in the hotel building attached to the baths so I won’t have the chance to wander across the square in only my bathrobe but it sounds lovely. Did you happen to visit any of the other thermal spas in the area?
The hotels on both sides of the square at Bad Wildbad are part of the same establishment, Mokni's Hotel. The one next to the baths (Badhotel) was closed when you last were there (February 2019), and only the "Rossini" wing across the square was open. I think that the Badhotel, which is an older building, opens only when the number of guests is important.
Few baths in Germany are totally naturist. Usually you have to wear costumes in the pool(s), whereas the sauna areas(Saunagebiet) are systmatically "textilfrei" - only robes allowed between the different saunas and steambaths, and towels inside those places. The fact that the sauna areas are "textilfrei" is so obvious in Germany that it is sometimes either not mentioned on the website of the establishment, or you can only find the mention by going through the whole of the rules very carefully.
Other baths in the South-West of Germany (the only area that we have researched as they are nearer ou home) are Panoramasauna (53501 Grafschaft-Holzweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz, check the naturist days or times as I am not sure), Vierordtbad (76137 Karlsruh, Baden-Wurttemberg, only nudist in the late afternoons and evenings), Saunadorf-Roetgen (52159 Roetgen, Nordrhein-Westfallen, mostly saunas rather than pool), and Schwabenquellen (70567 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttembeg, which has one day a month when costumes have to be worn and is naturist the rest of the time).
The advantage of Bad Wildbad is that it is set in a small town with lots of to do for open-air persons (skiing in Winter, cycling in Summer etc.). And by the way, Mokni's hotel has a very convenient car park. We were in Bad Wildbad in the Winter, but the baths most also be quite an experience - athough more crowded - in the Summer.