Overview: The only standouts in the
Los Angeles area are the two Hollywood Spas and the Flex Spa. Flex
is the only bathhouse in LA that has an outdoor pool making it ideal
on sunny afternoons. The Hollywood Spa on Ivar Street is a morgue
during the daytime and only comes alive at night. The Hollywood Spa
on Vineland has a good afternoon crowd and a rooftop sunbathing
patio. The other bathhouses in LA are nothing special.
Midtowne Spa
615 South Kohler Street
Near Sixth & Central Streets
Bus: 16, 18, 53
213 680 1838
24 Hours. Lockers 100 Rooms 62
Has a heavy black and Latino clientele.
Indoor pool.
Tuesdays are very busy [half
price day]. The crowd is about 75% Latin.
Flex
4424 Melrose Avenue
Melrose Ave. & 101 Freeway
323 663 7786
24 Hours. Lockers 150 Rooms 30
Only bathhouse with an outdoor
pool. Great on sunny afternoons. Located on Melrose at the
Highway 101 off ramp. Ivy covered brick wall facing the street.
Go around to parking lot to enter.
Hollywood Spa
1650 Ivar Street
323 463 5169
24 Hours
Located around the corner from
the famed intersection of "Hollywood & Vine" the very large and
nice establishment has 3 floors and more rooms than anyone else.
It is, however, totally dead during daylight hours and only comes
alive at night, especially after hours.
North Hollywood Spa
5636 Vineland Avenue
818 760 6969
24 Hours. Lockers 100 Rooms 45
A very nice place with dozens of
rooms and a counter service snack bar and deli. Outdoor roof top
sunbathing deck. Near Universal Studios.
Roman Holiday
12814 Venice Blvd
310 391 0200
24 Hours
Lockers 8 Rooms 24
Minimum age for entry is 21
West Hollywood
Melrose Spa
7269 Melrose Avenue
3 blocks west of La Brea Ave.
323 937 2122
24 Hours
Lockers 60 Rooms 29http://www.midtowne.com/
I'm fond of this place because
it's where I find straight men. And they don't frequent the
other places like they do this one. There's something unique
about a "neighborhood" spa from the past. Unlike the bigger,
more commercial bathhouses, they draw a much different clientele. And
if you blink while driving by, you'll miss the building, which
adds to the secrecy of it all (thus, making it good for
straights). If it ever closes, I'll be out of a place to go, as
the other bathhouses are frequented by the crystal-meth crowd, which
doesn't interest me.
Advertises itself as a
bathhouse to the Latino community. It is
primarily busy during the afternoon and early evening and is know
for a large bi-sexual Latino crowd. The place is very old and run
down.
In its hey-day it was a regular haunt of Rock Hudson.
Slammer3688 Beverly Blvd
2 blocks east of Vermont213 388 8040
Hours Vary
Dress code may apply:
Leather, uniforms, jockstraps...http://www.slammerclub.com/
West Hollywood [Adult Theater]
TomKat Theater [Studs]
7738 Santa
Monica Blvd.
(323) 650 9551
The TomKat
Theater has been renamed the STUDS THEATRE. It was originally
the called The Monica [a mainstream neighborhood house] until it
became the premier straight porn theater "Pussycat." Then in
1993 they wanted to experiment a little and booked a gay feature
called "Sunsex Blvd." The financial success of that movie
changed everything. From then on it became a gay cinema, never
to return to straight movies again.
The theater has been remodeled and now contains 5 screens. Four
screens are gay porn and one is straight porn.
Article from L.A.
Weekly newspaper: From the Pussycat’s ashes the Tomkat theater arose, manlier and
smuttier, where all day, every day, it’s spank-the-monkey time. The
all-male watering hole for the trench-coat crowd is a teary reminder
of the adult world’s yesteryear, when you didn’t need an Internet
hookup to watch filth. With X-rated movie houses near extinction,
thanks to home rentals and multiplexes popping up faster than you
can say Starbucks, the Tomkat is one of the few gay porn theaters
left. Part of the chain that once operated more than a hundred
Pussycats across the state, the theater started showing skin flicks
in the early ’70s, house favorites like "The Devil in Miss Jones"
and "Deep Throat" had lines of enthusiasts wrapped around the block.
It turned into an all-male review in 1993. For the low price of
admission and popcorn, you can, ahem, take in "How the West Was
Hung," "Ocean's Eleven Inches" or "The DaVinci Load." Outside, there’s a porn walk-of-fame
with the foot and handprints (sorry, no genitals) of John Holmes,
Marilyn Chambers and porn-star-turned-anti-porn-activist Linda
Lovelace.
West Hollywood
[Hotel]
San Vicente
Inn
845 San
Vicente Blvd
800 577 6915
Excellent location. Within
walking distance of West Hollywood bars and nightlife. Only
drawback is the parking situation which requires that you
leave your car keys at the front desk since they need to
shuffle cars around occasionally due to tandem parking.http://www.gayresort.com/
Hollywood [Hotel]
Coral Sands Motel
1730 North Western Avenue
323 467 5141
58 Rooms
Although the hotel's website
makes it look rather plain it has quite a notorious
reputation. Very good parking situation. Rooms all ring around a
swimming pool. No one from the outside can enter except the
guests. Lots of cruising. http://www.coralsands-la.com/index.htm
West Hollywood [Hotel]
Holloway Motel
8465 Santa Monica Blvd
323 654 2454
This is a 22 room motel in the
heart of West Hollywood. No pool and no nudity but it is
moderately priced and has a terrific location in the very center
of the West Hollywood--Santa Monica Blvd district. Ideal
for bringing home one nighters.http://www.hollowaymotel.com/
West Hollywood [Hotel]
Ramada Hotel
8585 Santa Monica Blvd.
This hotel doesn't really
qualify as a "sexy place." It is a typical chain hotel and
quite expensive. However, it has an absolutely ideal
location in the very center of West Hollywood's cruisiest
district. And it is located across the street from the
ultra-sexy 24 Hour Fitness [see below].
http://www.ramada-wh.com/home.html
West Hollywood [Public gym]
24 Hour Fitness
8612 Santa Monica Blvd
This is a public gym that is
more fun than most bathhouses. It has a cavernous wide--open
locker room down below and a fantastic men only steam room,
sauna room, 10 stall group shower and 12 man Jacuzzi.
Sexual activity is not
allowed. The management sometimes has "spies" that wear only
towels and keep an eye on everything. If you don't behave and
keep your hands to yourself they will threaten to "hall your ass
to jail" [Your webmaster found this out the hard way. No jail
time, just embarrassment].
Despite the limits on sexual
activity this is a great place for the voyeur. Right in the
heart of West Hollywood every male here is either drop dead
gorgeous, hung like Chad Hunt or barely out of High School.
Since admission isn't restricted to those over 18 some guys may
be underage [beware].
The place is a caldron of sexual tension. Despite the threat of
spies, jack--off sessions do break out in the steam room and an
occasional hand job is given below the water line in the
Jacuzzi. Men will get full erections while showering and strut
around like proud peacocks.
Since sexual activity cannot
take place at the gym, 24 Hour fitness West Hollywood acts
something like a gay pick up bar [except with nudity]. Many men
check each other out at the gym and then exchange phone numbers
or simply leave together and hook up at someone's apartment or
hotel room.
Be sure to keep
your eyes open while at the gym. Since 90% of the world's pornography is made in
the Los Angeles area the odds are very good you will come across some of your
favorite porn stars and centerfolds.
