Santiago Resort Palm Springs – Clothing-Optional Gay Hotel | Review
PALM SPRINGS: Our gay couple review of Santiago Resort Palm Springs: a relaxed, clothing-optional men-only hotel with large pool, garden fire pit & mountain views.
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PALM SPRINGS: Our gay couple review of Santiago Resort Palm Springs: a relaxed, clothing-optional men-only hotel with large pool, garden fire pit & mountain views.
PALM SPRINGS: Our review of Descanso Resort Palm Springs: a gay men-only, clothing-optional escape with poolside breakfast, mid-century rooms & spa vibes.
GRAN CANARIA: Gaycation in Maspalomas with the 14 best gay men only hotels in Gran Canaria, from clothing-optional resorts to cruising-friendly bungalows.
FINLAND: Before we start with our review of the gay-friendly Klaus K Hotel in Helsinki, we want to warn you, it is going to be a very sexy gay-friendly hotel article.
NETHERLANDS: Eindhoven, the 5th largest Dutch City in the province of North Brabant is a hidden historic treasure sadly often underestimated, even by its citizens.
JAPAN: We used a unique and rare Airbnb offer to stay in an architectural icon, the world-famous Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by the architect Kisho Kurokawa.
USA: A luxury resort, a clothing-optional getaway, or a cozy guesthouse: Here are our Top 10 LGBTQ+ friendly hotels and resorts in Greater Fort Lauderdale.
WORLDWIDE: It is time for our annual list of LGBTQ+ and Gay Travel gift ideas. We are focussing on gay travel gifts that you can buy or book online and are a great last-minute present.
AMSTERDAM: We were excited to fly with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on our recent trip from Amsterdam to Miami and back in economy and business class.
BERLIN: When we discovered that Hotel am Steinplatz in Berlin Charlottenburg was part of the Marriott family and listed under the Pink Pillow Collection, we had to check it out.
KEY WEST: We stayed at the popular clothing optional gay resort Island House in Key West. In 2019, the accommodation has become “The Best Gay Resort In The World”.
ORLANDO: We stayed at the Aventura Hotel at the Universal Orlando Resort™ in Florida, located close to Universal’s Volcano Bay, Islands of Adventure, and Universal Studios Florida.
ORLANDO: Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the only Disney theme park that houses zoo-like attractions as well as rides and shows. We went on a gay-old adventure in search of the Pride mural and investigated how queer the animal kingdom actually is.
ORLANDO: Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been given a huge overhaul, creating some of the best-themed theme park areas ever seen. And being two big gay Star Wars nerds, we just had to dive into that galaxy far, far away!
ORLANDO: Join us on our Couple of Men adventure while we tell you all about the Disney Gay Days, Disney Pride Mural, and our other favorite queer things at Magic Kingdom Park!
ITALY: Gay-friendly BeVedetta in Scarlino, Italy, located high up on a hill overlooking the sea, was just the right place to experience a gaycation, far away from the stress of everyday life.
AMSTERDAM: Since 2019, we’ve been traveling around the world with our partner airline KLM. Now it’s time for us to take a closer look at how gay-friendly KLM Royal Dutch Airlines actually is!
NAMIBIA: Etosha is located in the Northern part of Namibia. Etosha National Park itself is continuously under protection for poachers and other animal threatening to guarantee a healthy and balanced environment for the animals and vegetation.
AMSTERDAM: Firstly, we won the Lonely Planet LGBTIQ+ Storyteller Award. Then we wrote our first book. And now we’re on German TV.
ORLANDO: Four main neighborhoods and its new rides: A Gay Couple in EPCOT showing you their highlights of Walt Disney’s homage to the 1964 World Fair.
ORLANDO: We stayed at the LGBTQ+ friendly Review Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, Florida, a premier resort hotel to Universal Studios Florida™, located close to the Universal CityWalk Orlando.
SWEDEN: Is there a gay bar in Malmö, you might ask? Yes, of course there is! The gay couple operated Red Shoe Bar is located in the city center of Malmö and has big plans for World Pride 2021!
SWEDEN: Is there a gay sauna in Malmö, you might ask? Not exactly. Although many of the local gays consider the Ribersborgs Kallbadhus is THE gay hotspot of the Swedish city.
MUNICH: The 4-star hotel was our accommodation for the 4-days trip to Munich this summer with enough space to play games, to dance to DJ sets, and to work in an LGBTQ+ welcoming environment.
NEW YORK: We must admit that New York his has been on our gay travel to-do list for a long time following in the footsteps of LGBTQ+ activists around the city of New York.
GERMANY: Our Gay Couple Travel Hamburg Germany – The Hanseatic city in the Northern part of Germany was high on our gay travel’s bucket list already for a while. And so we were happy to take the opportunity to visit Hamburg for three days in early summer.
USA: The Yosemite National Park in California was one of our top highlights we planned for our four weeks road trip around the South West of the United States of America.
JAPAN: One of our highlights and on top of our bucket list for our Japan Travels was without any doubt our two-nights stay at a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Mount Koya in the South of Osaka.
NETHERLANDS: A Gay Couple City Weekend in Amsterdam, the Netherlands – the Dutch capital that is the home of choice for gay travel bloggers Karl and Daan.
CANADA: It seems to become an annual habit, a good one we have to add. Starting the new year with a Gay Ski Week Pride trip to Canada is just the best way to kick off our gay travel plans for 2019. It was time again to pack our bags and pride ski outfits and fly over to Vancouver to attend the 27th annual Whistler Pride Gay Ski Week in the Whistler Mountains, British Columbia. The first Gay Pride of the season for us brings lesbians, gays, and queers from around the globe together to celebrate pride, equality, and love with the whole LGBTQ+ community and to bring rainbow colors into the winter wonderland of Northern America. Join us on our first trip in 2019 and see the winter pride festival “Whistler Pride Gay Ski Week” through a couple of men‘s eyes.
The Pyjama Park Hotel Hamburg Reeperbahn – is an accommodation with best value for the money for a stay in Hamburg. The German city Hamburg, in particular, the Reeperbahn in St. Pauli, is well known for its nightlife. Loads of bars, clubs, and restaurants next to each other creating an atmosphere until late in the night. Our Hotel, the Pyjama Park Hotel, was located right in the beginning of the Reeperbahn in an old town building above the Pyjama Bar.
A Gay Couple City Weekend Rotterdam: Rotterdam, a city of water, wind, art, architecture and a special atmosphere of independence. During Karl and Daan’s Gay City Weekend Rotterdam the gay couple traveled around the beautiful mix of architecture, water and nature atmosphere of the Major Port city of Europe. From the 5-Star Mainport Hotel Rotterdam the tour went over water with several boat trips, extraordinary good food, an inspirational visit to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, an Escape Room and a lively gay nightlife. Follow the guys on their Dutch gay city tour part 6!
SWEDEN: We stayed in a gay couple owned and operated farm hotel with southern Swedish. Janne and Peter converted the historic cottage and buildings into a quaint hotel and restaurant.
SWEDEN: Kivik with its small harbor is a perfect place to do long walks, drink some local cider and try freshly caught seafood. But Kivik is even more, home to an exceptional person of the LGBTQ+ community.
SWEDEN: The second-biggest city of Scania (Skåne), Helsingborg, is known for its beautiful old town, the ferry connection over the Öresund to Denmark and is, in fact, an important industrial location.
SWEDEN: Embedded in the rough nature of the Kattegat shoreline, we found the gay-friendly and gay couple owned café Ransvik Havsveranda with a special historical significance.
SWEDEN: During our Swedish summer adventure to Malmö, we stayed at the gay-friendly bike hotel in the Western Harbor.
SWEDEN: Fans of the vegetarian and even vegan cuisine visiting Malmö and South Sweden should put the gay-friendly restaurant Mineral in Malmö on their gay travel bucket list.
AUSTRIA: In the German-speaking South Austrian state Carinthia alone more than 80 different kinds of traditional garments are officially registered, one more beautiful than the other, for women and men, of course.
ANAHEIM: Our visit to Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Anaheim, California became reality! The Star Wars Universe arrived on planet earth. We were able to be among the first people (also known as Star Wars Nerds) to visit Galaxy’s Edge.
Our bucket list adventure with Tinggly – Gift an experience and create memories for a lifetime, that is the idea behind the world’s first global experience gift company. We live in a world and time where a lot of us have enough stuff so instead of gifting another fancy bottle of wine or a set of decorative candles, why not gift a gay-friendly experience? A voucher for one of the Tinggly Experience Gift Boxes gives you the freedom to choose from hundreds of jaw-dropping, knee-weakening or mouth-watering experiences all around the world. Also, it might be one of the easiest gifts to give but you can be sure that your best LGBTQ+ friend, sister, husband or lover will choose their favorite experience which they will remember for the rest of their lives…
CANADA: The south-eastern side of the Niagara River lies on US American ground while the Horseshoe Falls, the bigger of the two waterfalls is part of the Canadian side of the valley.