Woman turns holiday home into a naturist resort where she greets guests naked: ‘It’s liberating’

A woman who has turned her holiday home into a naturist resort where she greets her guests naked has described the experience as "liberating".

Karie Jane, 56, from Derbyshire first visited a nudist beach more than 20 years ago.

Fast forward two decades and she is now running her own retreat welcoming nudist adults and hosting singles weekends.

Her holiday home, the BHH Naturist Resort in Costa Calma, Fuerteventura, is now a booming business, with some guests visiting more than five times.

Even the staff, including cleaners and pool staff join in with the nudism, removing their clothes while they carry out their duties.

The only clothing provided is an apron, to protect visitors using the barbecues on the beach from unfortunate burns.

The ex-theatre producer is keen to stress that naturism isn't about what people look like. Instead, she says it strips away any judgment and proves people are all the same underneath.

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“A lot of people think it’s sexual, but it’s not on any level,” she explains.

“If you were a true naturist, you wouldn’t see it that way at all – it’s just liberating."

Jane says holidaying without clothes is “freeing” and shows that ultimately “we’re all just body parts”.

“There’s nothing like swimming in the ocean without any costume,” she says.

“No one cares about what you’re wearing, what designer labels you do or don’t have.

“There’s nothing to set you apart from the next person, and it makes you realise we're all the same."

Jane first visited a nudist beach in 2000, when on holiday in Spain, and from then on continued going on holiday in the buff.

She bought her holiday home in Fuerteventura, with her then-husband in 2001, to embrace the naturist lifestyle more often.

“When my ex-husband and I started coming over here, we realised it’s the normal thing on the beaches to be a naturist," she says.

“We bought it as a holiday home, and then we rented it to families, and it became a holiday destination which I ran.”

Jane and her husband divorced in 2013, which, in need of a new start, gave her the perfect opportunity to relocate permanently to the Spanish island.

The property is made up of five apartments, so Jane decided to move into one of them and initially enjoyed running the business as a regular holiday home.

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But in 2020 she decided to make the resort naturist to give tourists a way of relaxing among like-minded people.

“I wanted to create a community for naturists where they could relax and have their own space other than the beach,” she explains.

When Jane told her loved ones in the UK that she was going to turn the resort into a naturist holiday destination, they were incredibly supportive, and many of her family members have since visited and stripped off.

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“My ex-husband was delighted for me when I told him the news," she adds. “My family are very proud of me and what I’ve achieved here.

“I’ve got elderly parents who, I’m sure, if they could travel, would come and join in the experience.

“My sister and my niece were here a couple of weeks ago.

“They enjoyed the freedom and not being bogged down with clothes.”

Jane says her staff are welcome to join in with the naturism too.

“If someone is in charge of a hoover it might cause a bit of danger,” she jokes.

“No more dangerous than nude people barbecuing in the evening, which is what a lot of guests do.

“I’ve had to provide aprons for them to wear to protect themselves.”

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According to Jane some naturist resorts in Europe do not allow single men to stay, but she often holds singles-only weekends.

“It’s quite a topic of conversation in the naturist groups," she explains.

“I like to talk to people before they come, have a discussion and get to know them before they arrive to make sure we are all like-minded people, which generally is the case.”

After embracing the naturist lifestyle herself, Janes says she would recommend everyone to give naturism a go.

“It’s so liberating, everyone should try it,” she enthuses.

“It will make you feel completely free.”

Additional reporting PA.