1/F 22A-B Jln Padang Belia, Brickfields, 012-345-7178. After exiting the Sentral KL Monorail Station or the Tun Sambathan Monorail Station, look for the YMCA. You will see a 7-Eleven behind the YMCA, on Jln Padang Belia. Walk straight ahead on this road to shop #22. You will see a yellow shop with a huge orange signboard for Chakran (downstairs is a dental clinic). Use the side door to go upstairs. 1/F is reception, massage, body scrub, and showers. 2/F is the steam room, sauna, reading area, TV and resting room, and showers. 3/F has a beautiful rooftop garden with sheltered jacuzzi, plus day beds for resting and reading in a lush garden setting. Friendly staff and management keep up the high quality of this men's social club. Open from 2pm Mon-Thu, from noon Fri-Sun and public holidays. Closing is 11pm nightly.

Comments from Utopians:

"A bit dated, but one good thing is that it has a few private rooms with city view, but no light." -- PeteLek1, Aug 15, 2009

2/F 27-2 & 3 Jln Tun Sambanthan 4, 2260-6018. As you exit the tun Sambantham Monorail Station, turn left and walk down the covered walkway next to the school yard. Keep going forward, across the intersection. and then look for the Sentral Bistro restaurant in the first shophouse on your left. Right next to it is a stairwell with a sign overhead saying Blind TMC Centre. Go up to 2/F to the unmarked glass door entrance of Senses. Here you will find reception, massage rooms and, behind a secure door, lockers. 3/F has a Net area with three PC stations, an aircon dark room, TV lounge, steam room, dry sauna, two shower areas and a popular, dim "rain room" (there's always some humming in the rain here). Be careful of slippery wet floors and also changes in levels in the dark areas which are not clearly lit! Popular and friendly. Clean and well-managed. The friendly crowd is more mature (30s and over) with plenty of uncles and chubs (nice, big towels). Same owners as Sentral.

Comments from Utopians:

"Tried Senses for a change. A great place for fun. Loved the rain shower. The rest of the facilities are so so. Much better than Sentral. Lots of uncles and chubs at both places early evening." -- lustysnake, Oct 24, 2009

1/F Jln Thamby Pillai, Brickfields (next to Super Blind massage), 2260-1018. As you exit the Sentral KL Monorail Station, turn left and then left again immediately and walk 2 blocks behind the station. Turn right and walk along the restaurants and shops to the stairway up to Sentral Massage. Facilities include coffee area, satellite TV room, sauna, dim relaxing space and more. Very popular with masculine, mature men, chubs, and their admirers. A friendly mix of races. Skilled blind masseurs on hand. Open daily 11am-11pm.

BUKIT BINTANG / KL CITY CENTER

Bukit Bintang is jammed with bustling shopping centers, restaurants and many of KL's popular hotels which are right in the center of the action. The neighborhood is easy to navigate using our Utopia maps:

2/F 109-2, Jln Cerapu 1 (off Jln Cheras at Sang Kee Restaurant), 9282-5303, email. From city center, go to "Jln Cheras 3 1/2 Miles" and pass by the tall Menara PGRM building. Stay on Jln Cheras another 100m, past the Petronas petrol station, and turn left onto Jln Cerapu 1 (there's a well-known restaurant, Sang Kee, with a red rocket at this corner). Take the next right turn within the shophouses and Kakiku is in the building on your left. You can see some stylized black footprints on the windows of 2/F. Go up the stairway. Gay-owned and very well-managed men's complex. Very large and clean facilities include steam, dry sauna, jacuzzi, broadband Net, mini-cinema, TV lounge, and café bar. 1/F cruise space and foam room opens about 7pm. Crowd is local, mixed races, in their 20s-40s. Open Mon-Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat, Sun and public holidays 2pm-midnight. Utopia Member Discount

Comments from Utopians:

"Kakiku's small gym has a max trimmer, a stepper, a 5-in-1 machine with chest press, shoulder press, leg press, bicep curls, and a range of free weights. Admission is R$20 on weekdays and R$25 on weekends." -- Fip, Mar 11, 2010

Comments from Utopians:

"Went to 101 sauna on Sat. Quite dissapointed with the crowd there. Not many choices. The price is ok." -- saunaqueen, Mar 6, 2010

"101 sauna club in Shamelin Perkasa has a hot steam room plus the usual sauna facilities. Two Desktops offer Net access. Mon admission is R$5 only for aged 18-26, otherwise it is R$10 before 6pm and R$15 after 6pm. Tue you pay R$15 for two persons. Wed-Fri is R$10 before 6pm and R$15 after. Sat is Underwear Night and Sun is Nude Night, both for R$15 all day. Open weekdays are from 4-11pm, and weekends 3-11pm. They also have several local masseurs offering traditional massages and body scrubs, facial treatment, hair cut and wash, manicure, etc for additional charges. The ambience is very nice, and the crowd ranges from young to middle ages of all ethnic groups. Call Digi-644-6727 for info." -- Fip, Feb 3, 2010

"A new sauna, called 101 has opened in Shamelin area at 7-1, Jln 5/91, Taman Shamelin Perkasa. There is a steam room, a dark room and 8 cubicles. They also have massage." -- yinghuantang, Dec 5, 2009

CHOW KIT

1/F 7a Jln Ipoh Kechil (off Jln Raja Laut), 4044-3369, email. Only a couple blocks away form the Chow Kit Monorail Station, Star PWTC LRT station, and KTM Putra commuter train station. The nearest taxi landmark is the Grand Central Hotel. Walk up the lane, with the hotel entrance on your left, to the last block of shophouses on your right. Just past the karaoke pub is the stairway up to Otot². If you hit the stairway to PT Foundation, Malaysia's GLBT AIDS outreach offices (marked with a large pink triangle), then you've gone just a bit too far. The name means "muscles" in Malay and is also a naughty play on the Malay notion that something else is a muscle, too. The decor and design is beautiful (it retains a bit of the comfort and charm of the original Babylon in Bangkok). Large gym with modern equipment, aerobics room (yoga and body pump classes are also on offer), coffee area, satellite TV room and lockers are on the reception level. 2/F (which is open to the sky) has seating areas with lots of potted shrubs, a beautiful and private jacuzzi area, showers, a steam room and a large, dark resting area. Open 5pm-midnight weekdays and 1pm-midnight weekends and holidays. All ages and races make this a truly international men's facility.

Comments from Utopians:

"OTOT² sauna is well designed, but there are no private rooms available so you might get someone else touching all the time." -- PeteLek1, Aug 15, 2009

JALAN IPOH

No. 344 & 346 Jln Ipoh 2 ½ Miles (entry is in the alley behind the shophouses), 4043-8088, email. About 15 minutes walk from the Titiwangsa Monorail Station along Jln Ipoh. Look for a Shell petrol station on your left, followed by an Indian Temple and then an overhead bridge. Take the next alley on your left to the rear of the shophouses. There is an empty lot for parking. Look for the rear entrance to Mclub and climb up one flight of stairs. There is a café for casual dining and an Internet area. G/F has lockers and shower area, steam room, gym, dry sauna, and an outdoor garden. 1/F, which is also called the Japanese floor, has private rooms, Japanese bathing area, and a dark room retreat. 2/F offers a reading area, more lockers and shower area, private rooms, and a TV lounge. 3/F offers yet more lockers and shower area and a double-decker shared room. At the very top is a roof garden. Open 24-hours. Crowd is a mix of ages and races, but more mature. Utopia Member Discount

OLD KLANG ROAD / TAMAN DESA

31 Jln 109E, Desa Business Park, Taman Desa, 7980-3900. Turn into Taman Desa and immediately you will see a bomba (fire station). Turn left immediately after the bomba. Look for two panel glass doors with long wooden handles (pull to open, not push) in the center of the 2nd block of shophouses. No sign. To ensure privacy the owners have chosen a quiet corner overlooking garden greenery in Taman Desa. "Mandi beramai ramai sambil bersuka ria" means bathing together while enjoying pleasures -- aptly describing this world-class men's spa. Three levels of sleek modern spaces are run by friendly staff and populated by men who share the same passions and tastes in life. Facilities include security-monitored lockers, dry sauna, huge steam room maze, rain showers, dry and wet toilets, TV/Net lounge, private cabins that lead to a maze and group activity room, and café.

Comments from Utopians:

"Mandi Manda was great experience when I went there. However, a bit shocked that the receptionist kinda not friendly enough to a newcomer like myself." -- markyek, Jul 13, 2009

PETALING JAYA / KELANA JAYA

29-B Jln SS 24/11, Taman Megah, 016-209-3935, 012-344-3318. About 15 minutes walk from the Kelana Jaya Putra Station. Along the same stretch as RHB Bank, directly opposite the Futsal Centre, above a car battery/repair shop named Maxxis. Steam room, Japanese style pool. Guys there are shy earlier, but wild later into the evening. The counter staff is helpful in providing gay scene info. Crowd mostly a mix of middle-aged and chubs. Utopia Member Discount