Sauna Damrak 54 (Closed Permanently)

terrible

Waste of time

nice & soft for unwinding

The sauna is split on 2 floors. The first floor has the bar, a TV playing sports or news or what ever show the bartender likes, a tiny chaning area, showers, a dry sauna and relax chairs. The second floor has a large steam room, a hotter dry sauna, a small jacuzi, lie down matt, a normal shower and a cold shower. It also has an open terrace with some seating area where you can sunbath or chill. There is also a private sauna and a massage room in between for which you have to make seperate arrangement. On entry, you pay 17.50 and you are offered a big towel and a small one. There are 2 tiny screened rooms where you can quickly change. You can hang the dressing on the open hangars, it is not locked. They offer a little lockable letter box for your valuables. The key stays with the bartender. So make sure you don't take anything that you don't really want. If you do happen to take a bag or you are not comfortable levaing you dress on the open, then the bartender offers to store it behind a locked door to which only the he has access. The staff is friendly and respectful. It is indeed a little expensive for the facilities on offer. It is not morder, trendy or fashionable but it is has a disarming look and feel to it with a relaxed atmosphere. Newbees and curious kind who are not really so in to it but like to try some will feel much at ease. By that I mean it has no dark rooms, mazes, porn tvs, BDSM on offer. It also does not provide lubes or condoms. Infact, I think they have a sign that says no fondling in the second floor but its fine so long as the others don't mind it and it happens away from the eyes of the staff. So you know why you go there and you can choose to have a good time if you like any of the fellow visitors or just have a nice conversation and relax. There is no semblance of pressure nor any expectation or stalking or any of that stuff. There are always opportunities for some soft sex like fondling, hand job and blow job give or receive. I have never seen any penetrating sex so far, I doubt if it happens at all. The crowd, well, so to say, ranges from couple of men to a may be a dozen men at the very peak. It is not crowded in there. There are no real peak hours or any pattern. Though during day time you can generally expect older men. The visitors are generally around 40 or older. They come in all natural sizes lean, normal, average and big. I haven't seen any real muscular, body builder, bear types. You might run in to a younger man in 30s or even late 20s but this is rare and pure chance. There is also the occassional tourist. I like it more when there are 4 or 5 other men so as to see a variety and also have some privacy if I choose to do get in touch with someone. It is open from noon till evening 9 o clock on all days. Recently they have changed the opening times, there are now open till mid night from Wed - Fri which is a nice thing. Probably they should try to stay open later on weekends too.

is it gay?

Have lived in Amsterdam about 20 years and have yet to meet someone who has been to this place.