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3 reviews

139-143 Whitfield St

Very central gay cruise and sex-on-premises bar. Underwear and naked nights: check web. Entrance includes coat check, a drink, re-entry and Wi-Fi.

Saunas

London

Sweatbox Soho

1 review

1-2 Ramilies Street

Sauna, gym and massage facility in the center of town, minutes from Soho’s Old Compton Street. £17 for 24-hour entry.

Saunas

Edinburgh

Steamworks Sauna Edinburgh

1 review

5 Broughton Market

Steamworks is Edinburgh’s only gay sauna, a men-only health club set right in the city’s Pink Triangle at Broughton Market, steps from the Broughton Street bars and about a ten-minute walk from Waverley station. Spread over several levels, it offe...

Saunas

London

The Locker Room

1 review

8 Cleaver St (Kennington)

South London sauna. 16-man sauna and steam room. Chill-out lounge. Free towels, locker, tea, coffee and juice. £13 weekday/£20 weekend unlimited.

Saunas

London

Pleasuredrome

Arch 124 Cornwall Road

Pleasuredrome is a gay sauna in London for gay and bisexual men. This gay-owned and gay-operated gay spa offers a 300 locker changing room, London’s largest gay spa pool (up to 20 guys), two steam rooms, two saunas, open shower rooms, 25 private r...

Saunas

Plymouth

Manticore Spa

1 review

2 Union Street

anticore Spa is Plymouth’s only gay sauna, perched on the top floor of a city-center building with a relaxed lounge bar whose windows look out across the city toward Cornwall. Its wet area centers on a 12-person Obeche-hardwood dry sauna and a 25-...

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Manchester

Alert!

various venues

Alert! is Manchester’s biggest and longest-running monthly gay fetish night, with more than 20 years of dancing, darkrooms and debauchery behind it. Held on the third Friday of each month in the basement Sub101 space beneath Cruz 101, on the edge ...

Saunas

Manchester

Basement Complex

18 Tariff Street

Basement is Manchester’s only male gay sauna, and it has been a staple of the city’s LGBTQ+ scene for years. Located in Ancoats, the venue blends classic sauna facilities with a relaxed, social atmosphere that really comes alive at night. Inside, ...

Saunas

London

Covent Garden Health Spa

29 Endell Street

Covent Garden Health Spa is one of the most centrally located gay saunas in London, a men-only spot on Endell Street just two minutes from Covent Garden tube and a short walk from Soho’s gay bars. Open since 1985 and spread over several levels, it...

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London

Hard On @Union

66 Albert Embankment

Monthly kink party. Fetish, sex, dance, porn perfomers. Strict fetish dress code: rubber, leather, sports etc. Membership req.

Saunas

Newcastle upon Tyne

Number 52

52 Scotswood Road

Number 52 is Newcastle’s only gay sauna and the sole venue of its kind across the whole North East of England, a gay-owned spot in the city’s Pink Triangle, a short walk west of Central Station, opposite Jurys Inn and next to The Eagle pub. Recent...

Saunas

London

Sailors Sauna

574 Commercial Road

Sailors is East London’s biggest gay sauna, a four-floor venue on Commercial Road in Limehouse, a minute from Limehouse DLR and right next to the White Swan pub. Its facilities include a 20-man jacuzzi, a dry sauna, a steam room, open showers, pri...

Saunas

Leicester

Splash Spa & Leisure

61 Bedford Steet South

Splash Spa Leisure is Leicester’s only gay sauna and the largest for gay and bisexual men in the East Midlands, a gay-owned venue of over 6,000 square feet on a discreet side street near the city center. The ground floor has the wet area, a dry s...

Saunas

Brighton and Hove

The Brighton Sauna

75 Grand Parade

The Brighton Sauna is the city’s biggest and best-known gay sauna, a gay-owned, men-only venue on Grand Parade right opposite the Royal Pavilion, a short walk from both the station and Kemptown’s LGBTQ+ nightlife. It packs in a 20-man dry sauna, a...

Saunas

Glasgow

The Pipeworks - Glasgow

5-10 Metropole Lane

The Pipeworks is Glasgow’s only dedicated gay sauna and one of Scotland’s largest men’s health and leisure clubs. Located at 5 Metropole Lane in the city centre, it occupies three floors devoted to relaxation, socializing and decidedly more intima...

Saunas

Blackpool

Acqua Sauna

Lewtas Street 29

Acqua Sauna is Blackpool’s longest-running gay sauna, a friendly men’s venue on Springfield Road just two minutes from Blackpool North station, freshly expanded to three floors after a full 2026 refurbishment. Facilities include a rebuilt dry saun...

Saunas

Bournemouth

Bournemouth Saunabar

140 Commercial Road

Saunabar is one of Bournemouth’s gay saunas, located in the heart of the Triangle. Saunabar is billed as the largest gay and bisexual sauna bar on the south west coast and is open 7 days a week, from 12pm to 9pm every day! At Saunabar, you can tak...

Saunas

Wallasey

Dolphin Sauna

129 Mount Road

Dolphin Sauna is the North West of England’s oldest gay sauna, open since 1984 and recently refurbished, set discreetly in New Brighton on the Wirral, about 20 minutes from Liverpool by car or Merseyrail. Spread over three floors, it welcomes gay,...

Saunas

London

E15 Club

6 Leytonstone Road

Set in Stratford in the East End, E15 Club is a long-running gay sauna that’s easy to reach by public transport from across London. The venue covers all the essentials — a large dry sauna, steam room, infrared sauna, cruising and relaxation rooms,...

42 Scotswood Rd

4-5 Lower High Street

Heroes Health Club sits right in the center of Stourbridge, a five-minute walk from the town station and easy to reach from across the Black Country. Recently refurbished, it offers a dry sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, cinema lounge and private cabin...

217-221 City Road

Foundry Wharf

ME1 Sauna and Steam is the only gay sauna in Kent, a friendly, gay-owned male-only complex tucked discreetly off Rochester’s historic High Street, a few minutes’ walk from the station and just 37 minutes from London St Pancras. Spread across three...

Saunas

Belfast

Outside Sauna

1-5 Donegall Lane

Outside Sauna is Belfast’s gay sauna, set in Belfast’s Gay quarter. Theme nights. Sun deck. Open everyday from noon until midnight except Thursdays until 2am.  

Saunas

Dewsbury

Plastic Ivy Sauna

33 Leeds Road

Plastic Ivy is Yorkshire’s busiest and longest-established gay and bisexual men’s sauna, in a discreet building on the Leeds Road just outside Dewsbury — about 20 minutes from Leeds and a short hop from the M1 and M62. Across two floors, it offers...

Saunas

London

Saunabar Portsea

2 Portsea Place

Saunabar Portsea is a small, discreet gay and bisexual men’s sauna in central London, tucked just north of Hyde Park, a few minutes’ walk from Marble Arch and Edgware Road. Intimate and traditional rather than sprawling, it offers a hot dry sauna,...

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London

SBN & NBN @ UNION

66 Albert Embankment

SBN NBN is one of London’s largest and most popular naked parties, a Sunday-afternoon institution drawing 400-plus guys every week to the UNION club in Vauxhall. SBN, short for Stark Bollock Naked, runs a strictly nude session with DJs, live stag...

Saunas

Birmingham

Spartan

127 George Road

Spartan is Birmingham’s longest-running gay sauna, open since the 1980s, set in a converted terraced house in Erdington, facing leafy Brookvale Park. A friendly, no-nonsense male health club, it offers a dry sauna, steam room, a small gym, two TV ...

Saunas

Leeds

Steam Complex

Ledgard Way

Steam Complex is one of the largest all-male saunas in the North of England, a gay and bisexual men’s spa in Armley about ten minutes west of Leeds city center, with 60-plus free parking spaces right outside. Across multiple floors, it offers a fu...

Saunas

Brighton and Hove

The Boiler Room

84-86 Denmark Villas

The Boiler Room is one of Brighton and Hove’s two gay saunas, a friendly, intimate men’s venue just a few minutes’ walk from Hove railway station, three minutes by train from Brighton. Recently refurbished with air conditioning, it offers a 12-man...

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Manchester

The Eagle Bar Manchester

15 Bloom Street

The Eagle Manchester is a 100% male bar, with a very masculine crowd. Located in the Gay Village.

Saunas

Darlaston

The Greenhouse Sauna - Darlaston

Willenhall Road

The Greenhouse in Darlaston is the largest gay and bisexual men’s sauna in the Midlands, set over four floors and home to the region’s only indoor pool. Alongside the pool, you’ll find steam rooms, a dry sauna, relaxation lounges, and a café-bar, ...

Saunas

Luton

The Greenhouse Sauna - Luton

23 Crawley Road

The Greenhouse in Luton is a large, modern gay and bisexual men’s sauna and spa, run by the same team as the Darlaston and Newport clubs and spread over three floors. Inside you’ll find a jacuzzi, dry sauna, Turkish steam room, and a café-bar, wit...

Saunas

Newport

The Greenhouse Sauna - Newport

24 Church Street

The Greenhouse in Newport is the largest gay and bisexual men’s sauna in Wales, a city-center fixture for more than twenty years and recently refurbished across its several floors. Inside you’ll find a spa pool, dry sauna, steam room, a licensed c...

Saunas

Leeds

The Pipeworks - Leeds

3-75 Albion Street

The Pipeworks Leeds is the first English venue from the Pipeworks group behind Scotland’s largest gay sauna, a slick, purpose-built men’s health spa over four floors in the heart of Leeds city center. The ground floor houses the wet area, a dry sa...

37 Wharfdale Road

Henry Street 9

Touch Sauna: Swindon’s discreet gay sauna and cruising venue Located close to Swindon town centre, Touch Sauna is a spacious gay sauna and cruising venue primarily designed for gay, bisexual and curious men. Spread across two floors, it combi...

13-16 Allhallows Ln

1-3 Charles Street

W3 Complex is one of Blackpool’s two gay saunas, a popular, multi-floor venue in the heart of town, just a couple of minutes from the Gay Village and North train station, and has been open since 2007. The ground floor has a dry sauna, a large stea...

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