Club du Soleil de Touraine

A naturist club founded in 1967 in an eight-hectare wood in the Loire Valley, half an hour from Tours and surrounded by the châteaux of Touraine. It is a genuine club, with members who keep their pitch all year round, and thirty pitches reserved for those arriving on holiday, plus three rooms for rent, one of them wheelchair accessible. The centrepiece is the new pool area rebuilt in 2023 — a large pool, a children's pool, a sun terrace — around which revolve aqua aerobics, pétanque tournaments, ten-hole minigolf, table tennis, volleyball and the dance evenings on 14 July and 15 August. The pitches are spacious and almost all shaded by the woods, which is an advantage in summer and slightly less so at the beginning or end of the season; some report distant electric hook-ups and uneven ground for large motorhomes, and some complain of dogs barking in the evening. The managers' welcome is the point almost everyone comes back to. Open to non-members only from June to September.