Sauna Guide International: & Gay Bathhouses [Paperback]

Briand Bedford (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2000

Translated into English and German, this practical guide will show gay bathhouse fans the way wherever they want to go worldwide. User-friendly pictograms are used to indicate size, price and hours, type of clientele, services and particular features of each establishment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh; 2nd edition (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3861871556
• ISBN-13: 978-3861871552
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,408,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks detail and descriptions, August 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sauna Guide International: & Gay Bathhouses (Paperback)

The guide lacks detailed descriptions of the suanas. The author/editor could have culled descriptions for at least ONE of the baths in each major city, instead the listing includes address, phone number, website and a key showing pictograms of what is offered in terms of steamroom, video room, showers, etc. While that is fine it leaves out a lot that should be included about each facility (cleanliness, facilities highlights, types of patrons, etc., etc.) Sometimes a brief sentence tells of pricing or notes that the facilities gives free condoms. The guide does not help you decide which place to visit in a foreign town. Further the listings seem spotty, I can only speak for California when I say that popular venues were left out.

The guide is well layed out and one major plus is that it does list website addresses for bathhouses that have them. The book does little to stand itself out from the other gay travel guides, in fact like the others this one also has advertising on some pages - albeit from the bathhouses of that locale. It also has a number of pages of scantily clad men - but that lends nothing to the content of the guide. I would recommend skipping this guide and instead doing a internet search and visit the website, ..., which has listings of bathhouses through out the world along with other venues to meet gay/bi/curious men.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just So-so for my needs, July 14, 2002

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Frank Lee "volkp3" (Pachuca, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sauna Guide International: & Gay Bathhouses (Paperback)

This is a great resource if you're travelling in Europe, the United States and most anywhere in the Western World, but it is woefully inadequate in its treatment of Latin America. I mean, come on, no listings for Venezuela? And the most popular sauna in San Jose is missing completely. If you're cruising for Latin meat south of the border, look for your information elsewhere.

3 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sexy guys on the cover, October 24, 2001

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Asakayor Cokca (INDIA, Bulsar) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sauna Guide International: & Gay Bathhouses (Paperback)

I bought this book for the sexy guys on the cover. They are really cute. I thought I would find a sauna with these guys in it. I didn't. However the book does tell you where you can go (...) You will have to travel though, as I found out India has no gay saunas.

Definatly recommended for homosexuals.