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First timer in Nice and hopefully not my last time. I saw La Cage Aux Folles both times but never knew how many gays are in this huge beautiful resort. Contrary to my expectations it's very upscale.Very warm. The central beach is potato sized rocks but great for sunbathing and swimming. The trendy Old City has a dozen gay bars snd a sauna or two. The guys are very cruisy and there's ten ads on RM and a couple dozen on Romeo Hunqz at a time. Many direct flights, even from NYC. 
A Paris by the Sea in style and food.
Heres the gay bars and saunas in just Old Town:

Nice is nice.
couldn't resist. It was actually my first time in Nice last summer and I loved it so much I skipped Barcelona and stayed an extra week. There are very expensive hotels down in the Old Town beach area but there are also very nice reasonable hotels in the center. I stayed in the new high-rise Holiday Inn Express which is really nice and great location across from Notre Dame de Nice for just over $100/night. 85-year old ladies in couture fashion and flawless makeup and hair would walk their poodles by us while we were having breakfast at 8am on the terrace. The food is amazing and amazingly cheap. There's a group of restaurants in the center locals all go to (and tourists "in the know"). The speciality is Riviera Pizza which is just amazing but a bite has calories for a whole day. More art than Paris as it was the working home for so many top artists. The real Old Town is 5 minute Uber from the center. It's sky high and lower quality. It has over a dozen gay bars, a gay sauna, a strip club and an Eagle with muscle dancers on the bar and in a sling in the back room taking tips. (the HIE has a gay drag/strip club down the block that i think is Nice's largest.) The guys on the beach are healthy and stunning muscles (no sand , just rocks). I enjoy the "French" lifestyle more there than what's left in Paris and for a lot less $$ than Paris or Barcelona. (i did a trip report here but too lazy to find it). Nice is big on Hunqz. But it's gay sauna really needs rentboys. 
 

Nice is nice.
couldn't resist. It was actually my first time in Nice last summer and I loved it so much I skipped Barcelona and stayed an extra week. There are very expensive hotels down in the Old Town beach area but there are also very nice reasonable hotels in the center. I stayed in the new high-rise Holiday Inn Express which is really nice and great location across from Notre Dame de Nice for just over $100/night. 85-year old ladies in couture fashion and flawless makeup and hair would walk their poodles by us while we were having breakfast at 8am on the terrace. The food is amazing and amazingly cheap. There's a group of restaurants in the center locals all go to (and tourists "in the know"). The speciality is Riviera Pizza which is just amazing but a bite has calories for a whole day. More art than Paris as it was the working home for so many top artists. The real Old Town is 5 minute Uber from the center. It's sky high and lower quality. It has over a dozen gay bars, a gay sauna, a strip club and an Eagle with muscle dancers on the bar and in a sling in the back room taking tips. (the HIE has a gay drag/strip club down the block that i think is Nice's largest.) The guys on the beach are healthy and stunning muscles (no sand , just rocks). I enjoy the "French" lifestyle more there than what's left in Paris and for a lot less $$ than Paris or Barcelona. (i did a trip report here but too lazy to find it). Nice is big on Hunqz. But it's gay sauna really needs rentboys. 
 

We were there in June and it was perfect. Warm enough for shirts off and cruising. There are a lot of US tourists in close-in Old Town by the beach but you can avoid them (and their prices) more in the center right next to Old Town where the trendy people live. People in Provence pride themselves on being friendly, their food, and their art.  Of course I hear half of Paris is there in August so IDK then. 

Thermas is most certainly 100% escorts and clients. No one goes there for anything else.

That's great to hear!  I'll be there for my first time in September and am looking forward to Thermas.
The only observation on this thread regarding Thermas being slow is from a patron who visited later in the evening found about a dozen tops but no bottoms.  He said he was told to arrive between 3pm-7pm for the best selection of men, which matches the information provided in this thread.

All the guys i know who used to pile in Steve Skarsgaard's car and go to Zurich for a month for clients mostly travel around to various cities now. Dusseldorf/ Ruhr area is popular. And the Brazilians who used to frequent Thermas and Patagonya are definitely doing a EU circuit now instead. It's like playing whack-a-mole on Hunqz figuring out which city they pop up in any given day.  They never seem to be in one city more than a few days. Ukrainians and Russians seem to prefer Prague for language ease and there are a lot of both there now. My assumption is the many, many sex workers in Berlin are still from Romania and Bulgaria although i haven't been to that sex hole recently. Axel Berlin seems to be a make-shift brothel for rentboys now. 

I meant to say twinks, hahaha. Sorry. 

no hustlers in Alt Lampe??. I visited (new location) last fall and it was packed. It was dangerous though as the guys would rub against you and follow you out in the dark so i waited inside for my Uber. There were about 10 or 12 escorts there and everyone was very drunk and overly grabby. Hunqz was much safer. 

Nice is nice.
couldn't resist. It was actually my first time in Nice last summer and I loved it so much I skipped Barcelona and stayed an extra week. There are very expensive hotels down in the Old Town beach area but there are also very nice reasonable hotels in the center. I stayed in the new high-rise Holiday Inn Express which is really nice and great location across from Notre Dame de Nice for just over $100/night. 85-year old ladies in couture fashion and flawless makeup and hair would walk their poodles by us while we were having breakfast at 8am on the terrace. The food is amazing and amazingly cheap. There's a group of restaurants in the center locals all go to (and tourists "in the know"). The speciality is Riviera Pizza which is just amazing but a bite has calories for a whole day. More art than Paris as it was the working home for so many top artists. The real Old Town is 5 minute Uber from the center. It's sky high and lower quality. It has over a dozen gay bars, a gay sauna, a strip club and an Eagle with muscle dancers on the bar and in a sling in the back room taking tips. (the HIE has a gay drag/strip club down the block that i think is Nice's largest.) The guys on the beach are healthy and stunning muscles (no sand , just rocks). I enjoy the "French" lifestyle more there than what's left in Paris and for a lot less $$ than Paris or Barcelona. (i did a trip report here but too lazy to find it). Nice is big on Hunqz. But it's gay sauna really needs rentboys. 
 

Nice is nice.
couldn't resist. It was actually my first time in Nice last summer and I loved it so much I skipped Barcelona and stayed an extra week. There are very expensive hotels down in the Old Town beach area but there are also very nice reasonable hotels in the center. I stayed in the new high-rise Holiday Inn Express which is really nice and great location across from Notre Dame de Nice for just over $100/night. 85-year old ladies in couture fashion and flawless makeup and hair would walk their poodles by us while we were having breakfast at 8am on the terrace. The food is amazing and amazingly cheap. There's a group of restaurants in the center locals all go to (and tourists "in the know"). The speciality is Riviera Pizza which is just amazing but a bite has calories for a whole day. More art than Paris as it was the working home for so many top artists. The real Old Town is 5 minute Uber from the center. It's sky high and lower quality. It has over a dozen gay bars, a gay sauna, a strip club and an Eagle with muscle dancers on the bar and in a sling in the back room taking tips. (the HIE has a gay drag/strip club down the block that i think is Nice's largest.) The guys on the beach are healthy and stunning muscles (no sand , just rocks). I enjoy the "French" lifestyle more there than what's left in Paris and for a lot less $$ than Paris or Barcelona. (i did a trip report here but too lazy to find it). Nice is big on Hunqz. But it's gay sauna really needs rentboys. 
 

Dario Dolce, the ex-Bel Ami star, is based in Bratislava. He's on RM and well worth seeing.
If you're visiting Bratislava, make sure to visit the UFO.

Perfect!  That's just how Zurich's Paragonya Wellness Club is, and I loved it so much last year that I'm stopping by Zurich again this year after Barcelona.  I'm looking forward to the lower prices at Sauna Thermas compared to Paragonya.

Thermas is most certainly 100% escorts and clients. No one goes there for anything else.

Ah thanks for the response, but I already left Barcelona. Thank you though.

I think the peak hours 3p ish to 8p at Thermas are comparable to before, Thursday thru Saturday…maybe even better depending on your taste in men because the mix is different .
However, the parties have affected the overall attraction of Thermas because it’s not 24/7 like it was.  I used to really like the off-peak and morning hours.  always had good luck & that is just not an option anymore because of the parties.  
and it’s true - I know several former Thermas guys that have moved on & doing euro circuit - seems like London, Vienna, Hamburg & BCN are the stops.  
 

Where did you get the info that Thermas has been slow? Every time I've been in the last few months it's been similar to how it's always been: a varied mix of working guys, from muscular gym types to twinks. Friday and Saturday are always the best time to go. 

As much as I love Stiges and the week-long gay pride there, the main attraction of BCN to me after several visits is frankly Thermas and if it's permanantly slow now, I'd rather spend more time this summer in Nice. Last year I skipped a week in BCN for an extra week in Nice. While the sauna there is not many escorts, the nude bars and the Eagle have plenty of "negotible" guys who are attractive. And Romeo and RM are plentiful I find the rates online are the same in both, even though Thermas is much less. I really want to try the French Navy in Toulon too. Several gay bars there I've never been to.  

Id say 99% are "bi-sexual". All anyone ever says.There's a different definition of "sex" here as in a lot of cultures. 

Thanks for sharing. And I’d say similarly to Paragonya in Zurich too. Is that a trend in Europe now?

this is good news & if it is transitioning to a new business model, then that would require them to be discreet in advertising & promotions.  

it’s very close to the old Sauna Adan location, but appears as a different address ?  
I’ll be surprised if it lasts tho - just doesn’t seem to work in Madrid for whatever reason. 

almost any tv actor. sub-par actors compared to (some few) movies.
 
I get the feeling AI and CGI could replace most of them. Probably be better.

I'd certainly try with Filip (Profil-Masseur). He's a champion bodybuilder and also a super nice guy. I think Filip is just 25? Just hard to get a date with. You have to take when you can get and be ready for a date change etc. But 100% worth it. Adrian Serdar got that awful platinum dye out of his hair today and now it's natural color. 

I go with fraternal twins since several years. One's a famous porn star. Years ago I went with close "Irish Twins" a while and learned the hard way that anytting you do with one you also HAVE to do with the other. That takes stamina. Twins have different personalities but naturally have a bond and attraction to each other. 

I'll add comments of general interested for tourists in Barcelona to the 2024 thread; but, I'll post my observations of Thermas in this one so they can be viewed in context with the valuable decades of Thermas posts that are invaluable to read for a good time visiting this unique men-for-hire sauna.