We spent 10 days in this excellent complex in June.
We are a mature couple who enjoy the freedom of clothes free on holiday but neither are able to make the long walk to the sand dunes now, so we found this complex a real haven which met all our needs.
We arrived late in the evening, tired after the long flight and were met with a smiling happy member of staff who greeted us as if we were old friends.
Our first impression proved to be correct as the bungalows are exactly as pictured on the website. They are well appointed, clean and spacious, and contain all you need for a holiday.
The pool is well kept and heated with plenty of sunbeds for the visitors with a bistro at the poolside which serves snacks during the day and meals in the evening. The staff are so friendly and nothing is a bother for them.
Although the complex is a bit out of the way for those less able to walk, there are courtesy buses to both Playa del Ingles & Maspalomas during the day and taxis are plentiful and cheap for returning in the evenings.
Most of the evenings were spent in either of those places as there was no entertainment in the complex at night ( which had the added bonus that when you were ready to sleep, you were not disturbed by noisy disco music ) and while the food in the Bistro was very good we choose to go outside most evenings. Both Maspalomas & Playa have an excellent choice of restaurants where you can eat almost any type of food you desire.
Overall our holiday was everything we hoped for and the only thing missing was a pint of John Smith's beer as we are not keen on Spanish beers, so maybe the next time we can talk the staff into having some cans of that in their fridges as well as Budweiser.
We have only one piece of advice for anyone going to the Boulevard at Faro Maspalomas for a drink or meal in the evening, watch your bill and check it carefully as twice we were badly overcharged. There was never a dispute when this was pointed out so we wondered if this was a genuine error or a "try-on" hoping that we would be either so confused with the foreign currency or had too many drinks to notice. This did not spoil our holiday but we were alert when we received our bill and always checked it carefully.
If you want a relaxing naturist holiday in an excellent complex with the option of good entertainment only a short distance away then look no further than Magnolias, we cannot wait to return.

Travelled to this delightful naturist resort in early Jan 2006. It's not a classic hotel, but an arrangement of 28 semi detached villas, surrounding a pool with a bar/restaurant.

There is a good sized pool, which is heated. The Canaries have a great climate, but we have found many resorts do not heat the pool and this can be a problem in the periods of the year with short daylight hours. One of the reasons we chose this hotel was that it had a heated pool, with good shelter from the winds that can often blow quite hard in the Canaries. We are not active naturists all year round. We don't belong to clubs etc, but enjoy the freedom of being 'clothes free' on holidays, so this resort is a good balance, giving us the choice of dressing or not. The walk to the massive naturist beach at Maspolomas is not too long or arduous, but equally staying around the pool with its ample sun beds, umbrellas, and bar is a very attractive option.

The accommodation is superb. Clean, spacious with a large bedroom, lounge/diner and bathroom with bath, shower bidet & WC. Each unit has its own garden & veranda area.

When we stayed the occupancy rate was about 70%, with people staying for a few days or several weeks. It tended to be an older age group (50+), but this was probably due to the timing of our break. It seems you get a more varied age range in the at other times of the year. It is a naturist hotel and nudity was normal around the pool and bar area all day, although the evenings were chill and most people dressed for dinner. At this time of year there wasn't any organised entertainment. Most evenings we went out to the local towns, Maspolomas or Playa del Ingles, and found quite a few good restaurants and lively bars. For the more hedonistic there are even bars for people with a liberated lifestyle.

The food in the hotel, on the nights we stayed in, was excellent, if a little lacking in choice. With a small client base they tend to have daily specials. We enjoyed the food and the wine wasn't expensive, but we avoided evenings when the specials were not to our taste. They also serve a good range of snacks & meals during the day.

You can have breakfast in the bar with a variety of hot & cold fod, but it is not freshly cooked, and in hindsight I think we would have done better to keep a little food in our room for breakfasts, etc.

The location is a little inconvenient. It is in a cul-de-sac in the Golf course area and it means a ½ mile walk to get onto the main road. As the resort in nestled below a cliff, there are no short cuts to the nearest bars, shops etc. They run a courtesy bus to the beach at Masplomas & into the shopping area of Playa del Ingles, but this is irregular and doesn't 'toot' or make itself known when it arrives. However taxis are cheap and plentiful and we used these whenever we didn't want to make the mile or so walk to the beach or town. One word of advice - on the maps it looks as though there is a short cut through the golf course, but this is fenced off with barbed wire and many hawthorn bushes, and is not really useable.

The hotel organises transport to & from the airport which was fairly cheap and arrived on time. In fact the hotel management are very helpful and can resolve most problems.

Overall we enjoyed our week and will be returning, probably later in the year when the nightlife is busier, and would recommend Magnolias to everybody.

Overall, it was a very enjoyable naturist holiday and Magnolias was a haven of tranquility that has given us many pleasant memories. Although it was totally naturist at all times, the evenings became a bit chilly and so people dressed for dinner. The guests were from a range of countries, mainly the UK, Holland, Belgium and Poland. Marta was a diligent manageress and always concerned about the comfort of guests. The whole atmosphere was relaxed and the staff friendly and helpful. Except for one or two minor things, we thought that everything was excellent there.

On our first night, there was a three-piece family group (two accordions and a girl playing the violin) from Moldovia who were spectacularly good and played for 2 hours during our evening meal. The dinners were outstanding in quality and taste. We all had little kitchens in each bungalow but few people wanted the bother of cooking for themselves, although we made our own breakfasts. The complex was only about ½ full when we arrived and by the time we left there were only about 8 of the 28 bungalows in use. We didn't realise how low the low season of May-September is in Gran Canaria. It is the time of year to go. Anyway, it was all to our benefit. The pool was superb and well maintained. The sun longers were the most comfortable we had ever had. No shortage of umbrellas either. It was wonderful to have such a sheltered complex from the winds. Our day on the beach, 20 minutes walk from the free bus stop, (2 beds and an umbrella 7.5 euros) was cut short as it was so windy. The naturist area was more popular than the textile areas as far as we could see. Marta told us about other naturist beaches along the coast at Las Carpenteras (between Pasito Blanco and Arguineguin and also at Medio Almud near Playa de Cura) but we didn't visit them.

Magnolias organised a Thursday naturist cruise, setting off from Puerto Rico for 42 euros. We saw dolphins and had a relaxing nude cruise but the boat was awfully wobbly and a number of us felt rather seasick in spite of the sea being relatively calm. It was OK but not something to repeat. No sandy beach to swim to.

There were one or two mistakes on the bar bills, due to the informal approach to recording sales. Marta has promised to improve this with a proper signature system. It didn't detract from our enjoyment of our stay.

Magnolias arrange airport collection for a reasonable fee and a day's car hire is also cheap. Don't go to Orlando Car Hire as they charge for a full tank of petrol even if you don't use it. We only used our car for one day to go round the mountains. A taxi from the airport to Magnolias would have been 27 euros each way and a car for a day would have been 32 euros.

Perhaps the main negative feature was the awful scab of developments on the East and South East coasts of the island. The wind farms were depressing sights and may militate against our going to Gran Canaria again.