Last Updated on January 4, 2024

In this post a look at some basic pointers for entering the naturist resort and finding your way as a new visitor to Cap d’Agde.

Visit Cap d'agde guide

1. Entering the Resort

Entering the resort as a new visitor can sometimes be confusing, specifically if you are driving there and staying at the campsite.

There is the main resort entrance and then an entrance that is specific to the campsite, so you need to know the rules for both.

Likewise, even without a car, you will want to understand the entry requirements for both entrances.

Entering the resort can also be affected by if you have pre-booked or not. So let’s take a look at these things below and the best way to enter!

2019 pedestrian and vehicle entrance sot
Prices good for 2019 for vehicle and Pedestrian access to cap d’Agde resort

The naturist village is a separate and secure part of Le Cap D’Agde and can be found by following the signs to the “Village Naturiste” when leaving the main dual carriageway (D612) at the Cap D’Agde junction.

There is a second secure entrance from this main area into the Rene Oltra campsite. You must go through one to get to the other.

Tip: If you instruct TomTom to go to “Port Ambonne” it will direct you to the main entrance to the village, without you having to pick your way through the labyrinth of twists and turns, dodgy junctions and Rond-Ponts to get to your initial destination, the main Naturist Village entrance.

Naturist beach

2. Documentation

There are 2 secure barriers you will need to pass if you want to get into the Renee Oltra campsite.

Firstly the Naturiste Village security barrier, which if you do not know the drill, can leave you very frustrated.

You must have a contract/ booking advice document in your hand from your pre-booked accommodation, just like a boarding pass.

You can get into the resort by purchasing a day pass normally though. This is especially useful of course if you are staying outside the naturist resort.

Note: If you are staying outside of the resort you might be asked to show an FFN card (Federation of French Naturists) as happened to some people in September 2023 when trying to enter the resort. If you are staying in the resort, then your accommodation booking should suffice.

3. Arriving by Car (without a Pass)

If you are arriving at the main gate with no accommodation contract, park up near the Post Office (on the right), or if there are no spaces, go on and swing left to the Chemist area.

You will not yet be permitted to enter the naturist Village in your vehicle.

The marina in cap d'Agde by Port Nature.
There is a marina inside the naturist resort close to the Port Nature building. This is not to be confused with the large marina in Agde in the clothed area.

Tip: Try to avoid arriving on a Friday evening or at the times of the main hotel accommodation change-over because the queue at the main security for a site pass can be immense. I have been delayed over 2 hours and missed registering with Rene Oltra because the office has closed whilst I was delayed at the Main Entrance.

In such an event and you are late the campsite Security will permit you to enter and give you a temporary pitch for the night.

If all else fails, and I did this last year when the site flooded, park your camping car in the car park near the fruit stall and arrange things the next day.

4. Entering the Campsite

Entering the resort
Entering the resort

If you are staying at the campsite and do not have your accommodation paperwork on you. You will need to get a temporary pass.

For this, you will need to surrender your passport at the main resort entrance desk. You then need to proceed to the Rene Oltra Accueil (Reception) and buy your accommodation contract.

You will need to go through the main gate side pedestrian entrance. If you leave your traveling companion in your vehicle warn them you may be some time, or else when you finally return, you might come back to some serious earache!

At the Rene Oltra security, if you are stopped just wave generally at the office entrance and say “Accueil” and they will wave you on.

Go into reception, smile and book your pitch, and pay up. Remember there might be many other people in the queue here ahead of you.

Rene Oltra will give you one armband for each person which must be worn at all times on the campsite. Do not forget to take it with you if you leave the campsite to explore the rest of the village or onto the beach, as they will not let you back into the campsite without it!

With your new Rene Oltra paperwork, you can then return to the main village entrance retrieve your passport, and purchase your main site pass.

It is an electronically tagged credit-style card that will be programmed to the dates shown on your accommodation contract.

If you extend your stay with Rene Oltra, take your new accommodation contract back to the main entrance to get your village pass extended (you do not have to buy a new entrance card, it lasts for the whole year, but sometimes they charge two Euros to re-set it, oh and you will need to remember to wear some clothes to do it)

Tip 1: If you wish they will let you go and check out where you want your pitch, so if you have a bike, it can be very useful as an asset as the site is large.

Tip 2: take your smartphone and check the WiFi signal on your intended pitch. The campsite Wi-Fi is like the proverbial, only good in parts.

You can then return to your vehicle and drive through the main village entrance, showing your new gate pass.

Naturist tools

5. Going Shopping in the Buff

Once through the gate, you are in the naturist village and you can strip off and bare all. Freedom!

Go to the shops, the wine bazaar, have a beer, starkers. You will be paying handsomely to be able to strip off so why wear clothes?

Go to the spa, grocers, the butchers and other shops in the resort, in your birthday suit!

Just remember the usual towel to sit on for hygiene reasons if sitting bar-bottomed in a restaurant or bar.

6. Evening Wear

Evenings can be different, and it can be quite cool. So mostly when dining out people put on clothes.

Mind you, some of the clothes will blow your mind, and in Melrose‘s they can come off again very nicely.

7. The Campsite Experience

Anyway, after you have stocked up in the village, had a beer, bought some bread and wine, drive to the campsite main entrance smile and wave your armbands at the guard, go and pitch up.

All pitches have electricity and water, which is drinkable but very limey. Watch out for the Mustique Tigre, the site is right next to a swamp, as are all the other sites on the Mediterranean coast.

Do not forget, no open fires so gas BBQs only, like almost every other campsite in France.

Most folks pitch first on Allee Mer or Allee Plage in the middle somewhere, just to get to know the place. The little shop in the middle of the site will be open up until about the 15th of Sept, when it starts to restrict opening hours. My regular pitch is now on Allee Oliver, right at the back, for the nice sunsets.

8. Naughty Area

The security lifeguards on the north beach will have packed up at the end of August, so the activities at the Baie des Cochon continue as ever.

If it is your first time there, try not to stare with your mouth open.

The naughty bit is only about 50m long, just where the ice cream carts park. Take a camera and they will throw you and it into the sea.

Go wearing board shorts and they (the women usually) will shout “A Poil” at you, which means “Get them off” in the local (in hair, literally).

So go and enjoy all that you want to enjoy. There are plenty of clubs, restaurants, exercise classes etc to suit all tastes. You can take afternoon tea, sunbathe, and be in your birthday suit all the time, sleep in the afternoon, go dining and dancing, have a sauna, a mousse party.

Tip: If you have been out drinking heavily and arrive back at the campsite after about midnight, the very nice security guards will take you from the entrance in their electric buggy to your pitch. It stops drunks singing and hollering through the site at night, as you do.

9. The French

Finally, remember most of the French Officials you will meet are very nice people.

The Rene Oltra Staff are pleasant and helpful and most speak English (and Dutch, German and Spanish, and Italian). Smile, be nice to them and they will be very friendly.