Last Updated on October 3, 2023

1. How do I Get a Job at the Cap d’Agde Resort?

The truth is that it is very hard to get a job in this specific resort because many of the shops and bars places are small privately-owned establishments. Many of these are run by the owners or by staff they use every season.

You will also need to speak French and be registered to work in France. The paperwork to achieve this can be time-consuming.

Getting a summer job in other resorts such as on the Spanish coast, in truth, will be much easier for you to find.

My recommendation is to treat Cap d’Agde resort as a place to resort for a holiday or vacation, rather than as a place you are likely to find work.

2. How do I Get From the Airport to the Resort in Cap d’Agde?

You can now book an airport transfer at a fair and reasonable competitive price via A2A Taxis and they offer transport between Beziers Cap d’agde’ airport, Montpellier, Toulouse, and all other airports serving the resort.

You can also travel to Agde by train but do not that the local train station name is Gare du Agde.

You can learn more about traveling to Agde by train here.

3. What Nationalities Tend to Frequent Cap d’Agde Resort?

Being a French resort and with naturism being a popular pastime in France, there are many French visitors each summer.

You will also though find many visitors from the UK, USA, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries, as well as from Ireland, Italy, and Spain.

You also though do get visitors from a number of other countries worldwide and in the last couple of years, there has been a surge in the number of visitors from countries including Russia, India, and the South American region.

Over the course of each summer, people from over 50 countries visit this unique resort.

4. Can I Take Photos on the Beach or in the Resort?

Taking photos is banned in general.

You can though take private photos i.e. pictures of yourself and of your partner and friends.

In other words, you need the permission of the people you take pictures of.

Even if you take pictures of yourselves, if it is where other people are, you are advised against taking any photos.

Taking pictures on the beach of strangers can get you in trouble and you may find the police who are normally based by the main lifeguard tower get involved.

Other Cap beachgoers will often give you a very hard time if you try and take photos, thus it is not advisable.

If you really want to take a few photos though, you can get away with it if you find a quiet area or the inside of your own accommodation and you and your partner or friends take photos of each other.

Photography is banned in that if you photograph other people without their permission, you may be breaking the Agde Council by-laws.

You will see videos that have been filmed in the resort and these are usually filmed in private in the accommodation or they have special permission and they take place usually outside of the main season.

5. How Many People Visit the Resort at One time? How Busy Does it get? 

It was once said that up to 40,000 people are in the resort at the peak and this figure seems to get banded around.

It is possible but in reality really hard to say.

On asking others though in the Facebook group when asked about the numbers they estimate go to the resort, other visitors such as Ken replied that

…yes, in the peak months, especially on the weekends when locals go, it is easy to imagine the population being around forty thousand….

Ken (Regular visitor)

The difficulty in measuring the exact numbers is that for example, some people enter on season passes and other sometimes walk into the naturist area from the non-naturists beach which attaches to the naturism part.

I personally would estimate that there are more like up to 20,000 in the resort at once and one or two thousand on the beach at one time.

If you are asking about numbers because you want to visit a wild and vibrant resort, or because you want to visit a quiet resort, you will, in fact, be getting something in the middle.

There is a very lively side to the resort with all of the bars and nightclubs within the resort and you can have a great time at Cap.

You do NOT though generally see much rowdiness such as what you might see in Ibiza or Benidorm.

Cap is really very different and much more French in this respect.

If you want somewhere quiet you can find this at Cap in many respects if you are based in the campsite and use the quieter areas of the beach.

Many people say that Cap d’Agde is whatever you want it to be and I feel that this is an excellent way of expressing what the resort is like.

6. What Kind of People Visit this Resort?

All types of people go to Cap d’Agde including couples, families, swingers, gay and local people.

You really see all types of people at the resort. On one day when I was on the beach in the summer, it seemed to be roughly about 65% couples, 25% families, and 10% singles.

You will see many couples at the resort throughout the holiday (vacation) season whilst many of the families visit the resort during the school summer holidays which are in July and August.

The beach naturally ends up dividing into a family section (to the left looking with your back to the water), a swingers section (middle), and a gay section (right side).

This is not a given, but in the last few years this is the way people have naturally tended to use the beach.

The accommodation types also reflect the different types of visitors with most families staying on the campsite, perhaps a higher percentage of French people and large families also on the campsite, quite a few couples in the hotel, and a mixture of straight couples, swingers and gay visitors in the main accommodation blocks.

The resort is a wonderful mix of people.

7. Should I Visit Cap d’Agde on a Day Trip, on a Weekend or For Longer Holiday?

If you are visiting the resort for one or two weeks, the difference between weekdays and weekends holds little importance for the most part.

Many people tend to go out in the resort in the evenings every night whilst they are staying.

There is though a definite increase in the number of people you will see on the beach and out in the evenings on weekends.

A large number of locals buy day passes in the summer months to enter on Saturdays and Sunday’s and this is no more noticeable example than in clubs on the resort such as Le Glamour.

The beach also does get busier although sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between weekdays and weekends in peak season.

If you yourself wanted to, you can enter any day you wish on a day pass, which you pay for at the resort entrance, in the office.

If you want to avoid more crowded times then Monday to Friday is better although, in August, it is lively all week.

If you want to see more younger people in the resort i.e. at the bubbles party and in the clubs, then Friday and Saturday nights are good for the clubs and Saturday and Sunday daytime for the foam (bubbles) party.

8. Where Do I Put My Money is I am Not Wearing Any Clothes? 

When people first think about visiting any naturist resort where they might find themselves nude all day, the first question I always get asked is ‘Where do I put my money and credit cards?

There are plenty of interesting and fun answers one might give but alas, there is actually easy.

Those of you who have already attended the Cap d’Agde foam parties will have one solution which comes in the form of a plastic container that acts as a necklace.

You can alternatively of course walk with a small bag or your purse as you walk the beach but these plastic containers can also be a great idea, given that they are waterproof.

If you apply pressure to them, they are flimsy but for a week’s holiday, one of these containers at around £5 (USD$7/EUR6) does the job nicely.

9. Which Airport do I need to Fly into for Cap d’Agde?

It is more a case of which airport offers the most affordable trip and which is easiest for you to get access to from your departure point of course because there are 5 options in terms of airports.

If you are able to fly into Cap D’Agde Beziers International Airport though, you will find yourself within a 20-minute taxi ride of the resort and this will set you back only about Euros 40.

Ryanair fly into Beziers and which connects with the UK, Sweden, and a few other countries.

Montpellier Airport though is used by the majority of people flying into the area to visit the resort.

Montpellier has connections with most of the major international airlines and is connected with far too many cities for us to list here, suffice to say that you will find it much easier to get a flight into Montpellier for most people.

Toulouse, Perpignan, and Carcassonne airports are all options but only if you cannot find an affordable flight to Beziers or Montpellier airports.

10. What if I See a Neighbor or Work Colleague

Walking along a beach in your birthday suit, and walking past Maria from the office back home, can be a little bit of a shock if it wasn’t planned.

What is your work colleague also doing in the south of France at a naturist resort and what should you do?

Sometimes people wonder what on earth they should do if they happen to be walking along the water’s edge on the beach in the resort and then they see their neighbor or even a work colleague or family member, who you did not expect to see here!

The fact is that, if you see someone you know, then they themselves share the same secret and they are thus extremely unlikely to tell other people.

What can happen is that you actually find is that after this experience you end up having a better friendship or understanding with those people you know and saw at Cap, because you share an interesting experience and secret.

The funny thing is that no one seems to ever admit to going to Cap d’Agde yet, every summer, tens of thousands of people do visit the resort for a holiday or vacation.

If you are British, for example, you hear plenty of British accents through the summer.

If you visit often enough, you could see someone you know and, if anything, it is just as likely to be a fun experience as it is not.

Do not worry about this happening and just enjoy your time here.

Life is too short to worry about this issue!

I would love though to hear your experience if you have seen someone at the resort you really did not expect to see here. Leave your comments at the bottom of this post!

• Read our post on seeing a work colleague or neighbor in a naturist resort.

11. I Do Not Speak French. Is That a Problem For Meeting Others and For Getting By?

It certainly helps if you can learn a few basic phrases of French but, if you do not speak any French, I would not worry.

We have found that there has always been someone who spoke English in just about every restaurant, bar and facility we used in the resort.

A lot of the visitors to the resort are also from countries such as the UK, America and other non-French speaking countries, so not speaking French does NOT mean that you should not visit Cap d’Agde.

We found last year that many of the restaurants have now translated their menus into English and Italian also.

If you can speak some French though, then certainly you might find that you enjoy your holiday a little bit more.

Do make an effort, if you can, to learn 10 main words.

Spend one hour of your flight to France studying ten main phrases or words and already you might find that these expressions are enough to show some effort with the language, which the French locals tend to greatly appreciate.

Once you make an effort, even to try and speak a few words of French, they will normally happily speak to you in English or your native language if they speak it.

12. What Is A Good Way to Meet Others in the Resort?

Idea 1

You might want to join us all on the Private Cap d’Agde Facebook Group. Here you can meet others.

Idea 2

One of the best bars I have found for meeting others, at least if you are an English speaker, is 02 Bizoux Bar.

They have a lovely terrace, which you can sit on in the late afternoons and enjoy a decent quality wine or good beer.

If you are a little outgoing, you can often quite easily get chatting with other people here and we have met many good people over the years.

If you need to know anything about Cap, this bar and the people who drink here can be a great source of information also I have found.

Another option is to talk with others on the Cap d’Agde Facebook Group

13. Can I Share Accommodation with Other People

In one word. Absolutely. If you want to.

This can be a great option and is an option which some people do although, given the nature of this type of resort, many people are shy to share holiday accommodation with a stranger here.

To find other people to share accommodation with, your best bet is to post a message on the aforementioned Cap d’Agde Facebook Group.

The truth though is that sharing with strangers at Cap is fairly limited and this is not surprising, given that this is not a very common thing on any holiday or vacation.

14. We are Italian. Will we be able to communicate at the Resort?

(This I get asked by many Italians, probably because I have this site also in Italian) – Italian visitors account for one of the main nationals who visit the resort each summer and if you yourself walk along the beach, around the shops in Port Nature or through the campsite, you will often hear the Italian language being spoken.

In terms of being Italian and wondering if you can get by at the resort, rest assured that many visitors cannot speak French at all and it is never really a problem.

Many places in the resort speak Italian (and English if you can speak any English) and there is also an Italian restaurant, wine store, and other places with native Italian speakers working in the resort.

With Italy and France sharing the Euro currency, prices will be easy to understand (unlike in the days of the Lira when everything cost in the thousands of Lira) and many words you will understand anyway.

So many words from the Italian language now are used globally, that understanding on the French menus what a pizza or lasagne are for example, is not exactly going to be a problem given that they are Italian words and foods.

Quite simply, you will manage fine as an Italian visiting Cap d’Agde and, if you do have any problems with the language, you will find many other Italian visitors at the resort, whom you can ask for help.

Whether you are Russian, Swiss, Swedish, Japanese, Bahamian, Italian or a visitor from any other country, you will get by in this resort.

15. Are there any Special Ice Breakers for resort visitors?

If you are traveling to the resort via one of the rental agencies, there are some options for Ice Breakers i.e. meet and greet meetings with an introduction to the resort and to fellow visitors.

One option, if you are not sure how to meet people, is to post a message on the Cap d’Agde Yahoo Group, and via this resource with 4000+ members, many people arrange meet-ups in bars such as Johnny Wokkers each summer.