Here is my review of my Friday 5/5/23 experience. Arrived at 5:30 p.m. . It was my first time so I sat for about 15 minutes seeing who came and went. Went down the steps of the basement and paid my $30 entrance fee. They accepted cash, I didn't have to sign in to any registry or show any id. The guy gave me athletic shorts, a synthetic material t-shirt and my locker room key on a elastic band. The locker room was tidy with an older Asian man sitting cross armed kind of staring blankly. He seemed to be some kind of attendant but not doing anything. Later I saw him doing one of the body scrubs in the spa area. I started by putting on their gym attire and walking briskly on a treadmill for about 20 minutes wrapping up my work day/emails. Wifi. After that I checked out the Jade room, a wooden paneled room at 120 so very warm but not as hot as a sauna. There were little wooden blocks I guess to rest your head or feet on. It smelled nice, I didn't stay long. Then I headed in, got undressed and headed into the spa area. Single sex, nudity required. There were six or seven men in the area. As old as Maybe 80, as young as Maybe 40.. There are about five showers along the wall. A glass panel separates, to some degree, you showering from whoever is sitting in the tubs. About a foot wide partition separates each of the shower stalls so it's mostly just a gang shower. I was concerned about how cruisy the place was going to be and about 2 minutes into my shower a guy got into the next stall and when he bent down to pump from the soap dispenser he made this weird lean into my stall so that his head was about a foot away from my hip. It wasn't a great start but I turned away and he made no further gestures. It was definitely more than me being on high alert. Anyway, there are three six-person tubs. One is supposed to be hot but isn't really hot. One is I guess room temperature but I didn't get in it other than up to my shins. The third is the cold tub but isn't really cold. That has a aggressive drop of water coming out of a ceiling pipe, felt pretty good massaging my shoulders but made a ton of splashing. No Jets or bubbles in any of the three tubs. I split my time for the next 2 hours between the hot tub, the cold tub, the dry sauna and the steam room. Whoever designed the dry sauna, they put that stone facade stick on on the walls which gets so hot you can't lean back or be comfortable. There is a sign warning you not to lean on the walls because they are hot. You have to sit up or lay down and the latter isn't fair to others coming in because it's probably only about 12 ft long, single row bench. Two people could probably lie down head to foot. Temperature was hot but not uncomfortable. Got a good sweat in there. I think I went into the steam room four times. One time there were seven people in there including myself and four of them were stroking themselves or their neighbor. The room was very steamy and painfully hot. Like it hurt to breathe for me. I have no idea how anybody could get excited in that environment. Of the four times I went in that was the only time anybody was acting up. Somebody took my nice, folded dry towel and left me a damp wadded up towel. No other towels were available in the locker room and the attendant was missing. The place seemed clean and neat, reasonable price. Three times I tried to start a casual conversation but got nothing more than a grunt in return so don't expect to go making friends. I would probably return if I was to go with a friend, someone to talk to. Otherwise it was a bunch of fellows walking around staring at their feet. I get that everybody's just trying to relax and not there to talk about the NBA playoffs (or whatever). When I left there were probably 15 men in the spa. I would call it busy but not crowded. My final review is, I wouldn't see the need to go again, but I also wouldn't avoid going again if the situation was right. Also nice is that your $30 entrance fee is put towards either a $75 scrub or a $105 massage. I didn't know if I would like the experience so I didn't sign up for any services.

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