How many bikini's is too many?

[Suomynona]

How many bikini's is too many for an 11 day holiday?

Private villa, just me and my Partner. I spend most of the time in just the bottoms.

I know it's daft to take loads, but the trouble is I love pretty bikini's!

Take as many as you want - they weigh nothing, and don't take up any space.

Especially if that's all you're basically going to be wearing for the duration.

I take a minimum of four because I don't like sitting in a wet costume (unless I'm actually lying on the beach or by the pool) so I change multiple times a day - early morning swim, clean one for breakfast, clean one for lunch, clean one if we do anything like walk to the supermarket late afternoon etc. I would actually take one more than that too, as one inevitably disintegrates at some point too when then elastic goes!

I take 5 for a 7 day holiday, simply because I like to wear a different one every day. Let's face it, swimwear takes up very little space in your luggage compared to other clothes.

I take 5 for a 7 day holiday, simply because I like to wear a different one every day. Let's face it, swimwear takes up very little space in your luggage compared to other clothes.

I taking 4 on 7 day cruise plus a one piece. Take as many as you like.

CountFosco rinsing out a wet bikini to get ride of the chlorine/salt water isn't the same as washing clothes. I wear my bikinis for a maximum of one week a year so there isn't much point in owning loads anyway.

Thanks all - I am most definitely not a 'wash one, wear one' type of gal, and doing washing on my hols is a definite no, so have settled on around 9 or 10 nice ones, although saw a couple more beauts online last night!

Now to decide on shoes, dresses etc - yippee!

But wouldn't you even rinse them out before drying them or do they get dried with salt/chlorine still clinging to them? Maybe that's why mine always last for years because I do rinse mine. It takes seconds to do.

Mine last for years too Lonicera and I don't rinse mine out. I don't swim in chlorinated water though, just salt or freshwater.

Plus those few seconds rinsing bikinis could be much better spent doing other things, such as pouring myself a drink

Yes I'd usually quickly rinse them out, but quite frankly that's the extent of my laundry duties while on hols. To be honest, I love a new bikini or two each year and as they take up barely any space, why the hell not . LoupGarou and I are definitely on the same page.....

I take one for each day but I do change into a dry one when I go for lunch nothing worse than sat in damp bottoms whilst eating.

Just you and your partner? Wear nothing at the villa, take one for the beach.

Loads, they hardly take up space. Take ages to dry and soggy knickers look and feel horrible. That's why boardies in whatever length suits are so good.

I don't see why people take one for every day. Surely you have to rinse them out in the evening anyway so why not just wash them in the sink and take 1 or 2?

Because they aren't boring and practical like you and me Gwen. I don't look great in a bikini and only wear it at the beach or pool. To buy 7 bikinis for a one week holiday once a year is, for me, a monumental waste of money. I prefer to spend money on a different outfit for every evening rather than a different bikini every day, because I would also wear these clothes at home.

I buy one bikini every 10 years or so. Just not something I use most years. I've been to the beach this year for the first time in four years and just wore a sun dress. I do look at them in the shop and think 'that's nice' followed by 'when would I wear it?'. Just not into a week at a foreign beach I suppose.

We are indeed Suomynona I apply the same logic for how many evening dresses and pairs of shoes to take as I do for bikinis

Why not Gwen? Variety is the spice of life and all that

I don't look conventionally good in a bikini Lonicera I am absolutely covered in scars (I look like a zebra) and have had a double mastectomy. By that logic half the bikini is wasted, and I have recently stared going topless where its permitted and commonplace as it started to seem a bit silly wearing a top half. But I love wearing a bikini, I'm very happy in my own skin and I love holiday shopping.

I live in the Arctic (literally), so when I go somewhere hot I go all out, not like I'd be wearing any of the clothes I take to a hot place at home anyway, even the evening dresses I wear for work events etc would be too formal and hot for a holiday . I have to wear practical clothes for the vast majority of the year to make sure I don't die of exposure, when I'm on holiday I go all out frivolous

I always take quite a few, but couldn't imagine not rinsing them out after swimming in them.

As many as you want! I love bikinis.

No such thing as too many bikinis. They take up barely any space, so just cram in as many as possible.

I think I usually take four or five for a week

My new one from Dorothy Perkins arrived today, and I'm really chuffed with it!

God, I'd take about 15.

I love swimwear though. Buy new every year. DP goes mad about it.

I only own one bikini but it is pretty, fits well and is well made. I love my bikini.

I have 2 now!