Europe's Top Gay Hotels & Rorts 2023 - Travel Gay

Contents:

• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• GAY PUERTO VALLARTA 2023: VIS MEXI’S BT LGBT BEACH RORT
• DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)
• GAY SPA - OUR 6 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE LGBT SPA
• GAY SPA
• BT GAY BEACH DTATNS
• EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

Although urban statns tend to be most popular wh gay travelers bee of their rich cultural offergs, vibrant nightlife districts, and chic shoppg and dg, a number of the world's most gay-popular ci also enjoy picturque settgs on the water.

Wh outstandg mms, distctive archecture (cludg several treasur by Antoni Gdi) a lively gay nightlife scene centered mostly around the sophistited Eixample district, and an abundance of stylish rtrants and hotels, Barcelona is a terrific statn for urban, yet there's a sweepg and betiful gay beach, Barceloa, jt mut om the cy center.

GAY PUERTO VALLARTA 2023: VIS MEXI’S BT LGBT BEACH RORT

The regn has been eclipsed by nearby Fort Lrdale recent year's as the state's top gay statn, but you'll still fd plenty of gays and lbians livg and playg the parts - and visg durg the several big gay circu parti held South Beach each year, om Wter Party to Whe Party to Miami Gay Pri. The largt cy on the famoly swank and sophistited French Riviera, Nice (populatn 350, 000) is not que a gay playground on the same plane as such Euro-queer hot spots as Ibiza and Mykonos, but this stylish cy wh an outstandg variety of tony rtrants and shops do have a growg gay prence (this is also te, by the way, of nearby Cann, which is smaller but also is beg creasgly popular wh gay travelers). S., and Canada, the romantic Mexin Riviera rort of Puerto Vallarta mak for an approachable, relatively affordable, and fectly fun and lively gay getaway om late fall through early sprg ( quiets down here nsirably durg the hot summer months).

R Janeiro jtly renowned for s sugary beach, and a party-driven, ftive gay scene that's ncentrated chiefly around trendy Ipanema and the more touristy Copabana areas, both of which ont the ocean and are ial for glazg, joggg, or playg the sun and sea. Sydney's gay scene is foced tradnally around Oxford Street, a 20-mute walk om the much-photographed Inner Harbour and Sydney Opera Hoe, but nearby ner suburbs like Newtown, Erskeville, and Glebe have sizable LGBT populatns and many mixed bars and rtrants.

DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)

The weather at the beach, even summer, is often ol and wdy, and the surf n be vlent—even que dangero—pecially around gay-popular Baker Beach, a clothg-optnal patch near Prid Park that affords visors fe views of the Goln Gate Bridge. It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville. This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss.

Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

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Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”. Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal.

Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people. The ftival featur a lourful rabow para and is the largt gay ftival Puerto Vallarta each Party: There are two gay “whe circu parti, ” that take place Puerto Vallarta at Mantamar Beach Club: Amerin Thanksgivg late November, and over New Years Santa: durg Easter holidays 1 5 Mexins, around 20 ln people, travel throughout Mexi durg Holy Week.

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Tim Wilson, founr of Gay PV, is the absolute thory on LGBT life Puerto Vallarta, hostg popular gay bar hoppg explas, “Puerto Vallarta’s rise to fame began the 1960’s wh the 1964 filmg of Night of the Iquana by Tensee Williams, a gay Hollywood film wrer.

BT GAY BEACH DTATNS

It’s important to support the lol enomy so vis lol food markets, de out at fay-owned rtrants and tip your bartenrs and waers Cupula is Puerto Vallarta’s bt gay luxury boutique Gay Hotels Puerto VallartaPuerto Vallarta has the largt number of gay hotels and rorts Mexi.

EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023

It’s the place to be if you want to enjoy a beach day but are keen to avoid the entrance fe at nearby Sapphire and your nights bar and club hoppg gay Puerto Gay Bars Puerto VallartaPuerto Vallarta’s gay bars are all loted the neighbourhood of Zona Romati, on the southern tip of Los Muertos over 20 gay bars and clubs Puerto Vallarta, n be dntg to navigate the LGBT nightlife scene. He’ll then suggt the bt bars to enjoy the rt of your night on the A GAY BAR HOPPING TOUR IN PUERTO VALLARTA Puerto Vallarta also offers two strip clubs, Anthropology and Wet Dreams, and a bathhoe lled Club-Sna Gay Dance Clubs: CC Slghters, Indtry, Co-DeBt Gay Hole--the-Wall: Anonimo Vio Bar, Bar Frida, Apache’s Marti BarBt Gay Mexin Canta: Los Amigos, La Cueva CantaBt Gay Waterg Hole: Mr.

There are also plenty of excellent gay-owned rtrants worth visg, such as El Arrayan, The Top Sky Bar at Almar Rort and Bistro Tera at Casa you’re lookg to dulge fe dg, jo the para of starry-eyed old-Hollywood gays who head to Casa Kimberly for a fancy feast. The Iguana Rtrant pays homage to the film where the two stars met and offers some of Puerto Vallarta’s prettit the bt tas on a gay Puerto Vallarta food Vallarta Food ToursThere’s no better way to explore Puerto Vallarta’s unique Mexin food culture than by bookg a fun, tasty and rmative food tour. While there are a handful of tour operators offerg culary experienc Puerto Vallarta, our favoure is gay-owned Vallarta Wichner is the founr of Vallarta Eats, a iendly, food lovg Amerin gay who his past life worked for an AIDS rearch non-prof.

5-hour eveng walkg tour of Puerto Vallarta’s Old Town, have your your fill of tas and other lic street food at & Pozole Food Tour: on this 3 hour tour pop to 4-6 fay-style eateri, and sample foods, such as enchiladas, tas, tamal, mole and Brew and B Tour: experience Mexi’s burgeong craft beer scene sample up to 15 artisan-produced microbrews on this 3-hour eveng tour of Puerto and Booze is a cktail bar and barbershop wrapped to and BoozeCalle Rodolfo Gómez 122, 52-322-222-8554Loted the heart of Zona Romanti, Barber and Booze is the bt gay barbershop Puerto Vallarta.