Soi Nantha (off Sathorn Soi 1), Utopia Map, 02-213-2108. From the Malaysia Hotel parking lot make two right turns and a left (8 minute walk). World famous men's complex and sauna. Gym, restaurant, disco, internet access, jazz performances, parties. Facilities including swimming pool, sauna, steam, jacuzzi, dark maze, large gym, disco, fantasy spaces, private cabins and hotel rooms (in their Barracks section). The real fun starts after about 5pm when they open the connecting door between the two sides of the Garden of Earthly Delights (labyrinth and cabins) and circulation begins. The pool is clean and well maintained, and the gym is as well equipped. Ask for condoms if you run out. International crowd.

Comments from Utopians:

"Babylon is still good. Nice pool. Asians and farang guys." -- Winter, Mar 30, 2013

"Yeah, Babylon is still great, but a reminder about wearing any jewelry in the play areas - there are still guys who are lifting necklaces and rings off of new, unwary visitors in the dark areas, like the dark sauna. When I was there in Oct, a new customer told me he had rings lifted right off his fingers, and he didn't even realize it until hours later. So take everything off except your towel while you visit the darker areas of the sauna." -- gkwanger, Nov 29, 2012

"Babylon remains popular. The condoms available at bars are not free - only the one supplied in your locker - so you might like to take your own extras." -- Phil, Oct 26, 2012

"I have been to a few bathhouses and this is BY FAR the best sauna I have EVER been to. There are a wide range of beutiful guys of all ages, sizes, shapes, race, attitudes. The facility itself is huge, beautiful and clean. I was surprised as to how clean they were. Babylon has everything that it should: hot dry sauna, very dark steam room, cute little gym area outside near the pool area, RESTAURANT! I've never seen a restaurant in a bathhouse. They also have little cabins, multiple shower areas, a massage area - I'm sure I'm leaving some things out. But, to sum things up, you WILL find a number of guys here that are your type. The best time that I suggest to arrive is around 3pm-8pm, especially on the weekends. The cost for entry is less than US$10. Friendly crowd of guys.They give you two condoms when you arrive but they have more at the front desk if you need more or bring your own. You can literally spend the whole day here." -- aldpaco, Sep 8, 2012

"Babylon sauna doesn't need a recommendation from me, but here it is anyway. If you've never been there - GO. GO NOW. It's a very classy place with a drop dead gorgeous pool and garden. The restaurants serve good and inexpensive food. There's a decent gym where hunky guys work out in their speedos. The sauna is full of guys who just want to have fun. It's all good." -- zack77, Jul 11, 2012

650-652 Si Phraya Rd, Mahaprutharam, Bangrak, Utopia Map, 080-820-8910, email. Stylishly themed gay men's sauna club. Four-storey facility covering an area of 8000sqft. Carefully designed play spaces for all your fantasies and sensual recreation. Utopia Member Discount

4/F Warner Bld, 119 Soi Mahesak, Utopia Map, 02-266-9092, email. Sauna, steam, bar, jacuzzi and garden. Outdoor garden. Stocky/chubby and more mature Asian crowd.

Comments from Utopians:

"I found a friendly crowd of older Asian guys from 30 years up. I am a 50 year old bear and was made to feel welcome. Had great conversations with the locals on the roof top. Listened to some very good singing downstairs in the kareoke area and met a rather delicious Singaporean with the body of a greek god. All round a great evening. Arrive after 5pm." -- ghekko62, Sep 23, 2012

Men Factory Sauna UTOPIA VERIFIED JAN 2013 60/22-23 Silom Soi 2/1, Utopia Map, 02-632-8793, 081-841-1896, email. Gay sauna in the heart of Silom, only minutes from the BTS Silom Station or 5 minutes walk from MRT Saladaeng Station. Complete fecilities with gym, steam room, private cabins, lounge, jacuzzi, and free Wi-Fi. Clean ambience with light dance music. Tourist friendly. Open daily from 2pm-6am. Also Thai traditional massage available.

35/2 Soi Pipat 2 (off Soi Convent), Silom, Utopia Map, 081-817-4073. Same lane and 5 or 6 blocks away from Eat Me Restaurant. Nearest Sky Train station is Sala Daeng Station; MRT is Chang Nonsi Station. Smaller then Chakran but nice and friendly. 1/F has lockers (you get a lock at reception), a large bar, a good workout room with weights, machines and TV. 2/F is the cruising maze area with private cabins. 3/F has showers, steam room, hot sauna, and garden area lit with string lights where guys gather to talk and take naps on recliners. 4/F is another garden area with moveable, trellis-like partitions to block off an area for semi-privacy. This top floor is cruisy. Crowd is mostly Thai white collar, 30-40yo, some muscular. There are a small number of other Asians and a few westerners. Weekends, especially Sat, is quite full.

Comments from Utopians:

"Went with my Singapore friends for the Songkran festival. We liked Sauna Mania last year and thought it was nicer than Chakran in overall impression. However, this year it was a let-down because the place is really changing too much, becoming all black and dark and much dirtier than before. Original design was good. The guys were older, too, this time (maybe because they have better chance in the dark?) and less muscle, more chubs, and more aggressive grabbing. 2/F garden used to be nicely lit, but now only dark. We stayed only an hour and left disappointed. Sad, because Mania used to be a nice place near our hotel." -- Hongkuan, Apr 26, 2013

"This place is pure, raw fun. Especially crowded on naked nights. Was there on Sun, and the maze was packed with naked bodies. Some tried to be shy, but the body-to-body contact just made the shyness impossible. Crowd is local 20s-40s, with good bodies. Enjoy." -- alexbam, Apr 24, 2013

"Visited today. The staff seem to be making more frequent clean-ups of the cabins. But, for some reason they decided to paint everything black in the cruising floor. The result is that the entire maze is very dark now and you can hardly make out faces or body features. The walls used to be off-white and the minimal lighting was just enough to impart a warm glow and you could see faces, six packs, bulges, etc. Underwear nights are Mon, Tue, Wed and Sat. Naked nights (well attended) are Thu and Sun (you have to be naked when you are in the maze, but you get a large towel to wear in all the other areas and guys tend to keep hands over packages inside, so not that naked). Fri is small towel night. Entry fee depends on day and time. It seems to be B$180 on weekday nights, B$160 on weekend nights, B$200 on holidays. After midnight on weekends it's B$120. During the week it's supposedly open 3pm-2am, but they close earlier, despite the tiems posted on the sign outside, so take that into consideration if arriving late. Weekend nights it's open till 6am. Pros: the two nice, large outdoor garden areas (they need to burn some mosquito coils there); good steam room; good workout room. Cons: rudely aggressive peepers in the cabin areas; they need to burn some mosquito coils in the garden areas; lack of cleanliness, especially in the maze and cabins with used tissue papers, condoms, and fluids on floors (wear flip-flops); the maze often smells; on naked nights they lock two exit doors out of the maze/cabin area, but if there were an emergency, the locked doors would be a hazard." -- James, Dec 24, 2012

PHAHONYOTHIN -- Samsen, Victory Monument, Phahonyothin, Phayathai, Saphan Kwai, Chatuchak

1511/39 Phaholyothin Rd, Soi Phaholyothin Theater (opposite Paolo Memorial Hospital, close to the Saphan Kwai Sky Train Station), Utopia Map, 02-279-1511, email. From the Saphan Kwai Sky Train Station, take Exit 1 and walk towards Pradiphat Rd, then take the 2nd lane on the right after AMB bank (less then 3 minutes). You will see the big sign for 39 Underground at the end of this small short lane. G/F has lockers, steam, sauna; 2/F has TV and a tiny gym area; 3/F dark rooms, 4/F roof top cruising area (most are not shy there). Theme nights. Cheap admission and popular with the local Thai crowd.

Comments from Utopians:

"I have just been to 39 Underground sauna yesterday and was quite impressed. The majority are Thai locals but nearly all are very sociable. Staff are friendly, with service minds. Naked nights are Tue, Sat and Sun, and staff strictly controls that no one would wear anything including the towel on these naked nights from 2/F upwards. Exciting rooftop with abundant greenery allows sunlight to get through everyone's naked body. Lots of hot guys on Sun. A few snacks are supplied for free in the bar on 2/F to gear you up." -- petelek, Feb 4, 2013

"39 Underground is mostly a sticky rice crowd, but with patience a visitor might be accepted and have a good experience." -- Phil, Oct 26, 2012

32 Soi Ari 4, Phaholyothin Soi 7 (close by the Ari BTS Train Station), Utopia Map, 02-279-1359, 02-278-5310, email. This multi-story facility features swimming pool and large jacuzzi, steam and dry saunas, well-equipped gym, restaurant, poolside lounge, private cabins, mazes and video theater. Beautifully designed with exotic details, textures and colors -- a leisure and pleasure oasis. Utopia Member Discount

Comments from Utopians:

"We Singaporeans, on holiday for Songkran 2013, went to Chakran one night. Still a nice place, fairly clean. One problem was most of the rooms were not aircon. Nice pool, but nobody was using it. The place is overall small, but OK still. It's kind of gym or fitness club atmosphere. Guys are upper 20s and average looking and shape." -- Hongkuan, Apr 26, 2013

"We went to Chakran on a Mon afternoon - not the best time to visit, of course, but it started to get a bit busy around 5pm. Beautifully designed and a good change from Babylon, though it's looking a little shabby and could do with a thorough clean. Only complaint is the staff - they were very uninterested in helping and mostly glued to their iPhones. Only the woman at the entrance was at all friendly. A shame, because with just a little effort this sauna could really rival Babylon." -- Richard, Mar 21, 2013

1448/6-7 Phahonyothin Rd (opposite Major Cineplex Ratchayothin), Utopia Map, 02-930-3538. First branch of this local neighborhood sauna.

108/3 Pradipat 19, Saphan Kwai, Utopia Map, 02-618-4505. From Saphan Khwai BTS station, walk towards Pradipat Rd parallel to the Sky Train track, and turn right into Pradipat Rd (about a 15 min walk). Pass the Liberty Garden Hotel and look for Soi 19 to your right. Walk some 50m until you see the Farose sauna sign on the left side of the lane. Turn right into a housing estate, follow the road turning to your left and you'll find the house number on a multi-storey gray wall with an impressive doorway. There are five levels in two wings in this huge complex, with the most happening in the right wing (go to the rooftop for access or to the door at the back end of the locker room). Sauna and steam, dark room, video, snacks. Mostly young Thai crowd, a few mature men, a few foreigners. Open until 6am daily.

Comments from Utopians:

"I went to Farose on the 2nd night of Songkran with my Singapore friends. It's an old place, but kind of interesting. It looks like an old boarding house upstairs with small rooms. Not so clean. Beds are not really beds, but something like a circle shape sofa piece and only about 1m circle, so too small to lay all your body on. The garden roof is good and they served some Thai food up there. There were two karaoke rooms, one up on the roof and another on 1/F which was very large. There's a video room with a wall you can stand behind and watch the video through a slit and play around with the guy next to you if you like. Shower on 1/F is quite small and also not so clean. Really huge fish tank was impressive. The guys were mostly older and I think only Thai, with the only foreigners being me and my Singapore friends. Some young guys came in but they wore their clothes and hung out socializing with each other and didn't do anything." -- Hongkuan, Apr 26, 2013

RAMKHAMHAENG

Ramkhamhaeng 21, Soi 2, Utopia Map, 02-618-4505, 02-618-4515, email. A second branch of this popular local crowd sauna offers entertainment fitness gym, sauna, swimming pool, karaoke, food and drinks.

SUKHUMVIT -- Sukhumvit, Thonglor, Ekkamai

Sukhumvit Soi 48, Prakhanong, 02-391-9317, 081-510-8572. Soi 48 is between the Prakanong and Onut BTS stations. Walk down Soi 48 to an industrial building with the letters BNPC on it, turn right past the guard hut, left at next soi and then right; it's on the right corner with good signage. If you take a "motorsai" tell them to take the bridge (bai saphan) because you must cross over to the other side of the klong via the inbound side of Sukhumvit. Sauna is in two 6-story shop houses. This venue is cheap and clean, but not crowded and almost entirely Thai. Downside is the six flights to climb up and down, plus no air con! But for a very Thai-Thai gay experience, it's fun and easy to reach. Facilities include private rooms, clean steam and sauna rooms (up top), plus karaoke and free beverages (Coke, water and ice). Massage also available but only a couple of masseurs. Inexpensive entry. Open daily from 2pm-midnight.

THONBURI

Soi LG (near Soi Taksin 14), Taksin Rd, Thonburi, Utopia Map, 02-466-0707, 086-006-5565. In the same no-name, dead-end soi as Shape Massage and Spa (between Soi 14 and Soi 14/1). There is a footbridge (the 2nd one along Thaksin Rd after turning left from Thonburi Rd/Thaksin Bridge Rd) at the entrance to the soi and an LG shop on the corner. EDOK is on the left past LG.

Soi Bhorom Ratchachonnani 15, Bhorom Ratchachonnani Rd, 081-841-1896, email. Ten minutes walk from Central Plaza Pinklao. Largest sauna in the Thonburi/Pinklao area. Facilities include sauna, steam, gym, Wi-fi, roof garden and bar, plus a number of private cabins.

OTHER AREAS

383 Sukhothai Rd, 02-241-3385, 02-668-2392. Neighborhood sauna, nice decor, local crowd.

Rama II Soi 52 (opposite Big C and HomePro), 02-848-1190. Facilities include wet and dry sauna, small gym, TV lounge and karaoke. Local crowd. Inexpensive.

Ladprao 113 (about 1km down Soi 113, on the right), 02-734-0536. Clean and friendly. Steam, jacuzzi, cruise floor on 2/F. Inexpensive an good food. Crowd is mostly Thai and Asian.

Bang Khen, 02-953-4039, 086-994-3943.

Comments from Utopians:

"I usually go to Paradise Sauna during weekends. The place is a large terrace house in a housing estate near a local market. Next to the lobby is a karaoke room, which will turn to a foam party room with hot coyote boy dance show on a special Sat of the month. At the back (behind the staircase in the middle) is a dining area, which serves soft drinks, whiskey, and herbal drinks, while on special Sat ngihts (at higher entry fee) they serve a meal with rice and at least two dishes in a buffet style. Beyond that at the very back are a sauna room, steam room, jacuzzi, and video room. 2/F is equipped with gym room, dim maze, cubicles, video rooms, and a massage room (at affordable price). 3/F is a rooftop with large plants serving as curtains dividing into many rooms. The place used to set themes for each night, like nude night, towel night, or underwear night, but now the only theme left is 'underwear night' for every night." -- petelek, Feb 4, 2013