The Crew Club

The Crew Club is Washington, DC's only gay bathhouse, tucked discreetly onto the second floor of a 14th Street building in Logan Circle, right on the same corridor as the city's main gay bars, so it folds easily into a night out. Open around the clock, the well-kept space has a Finnish sauna, a steam room, a maze, gang showers, a modern Technogym-equipped gym, free tanning and a hydro-massage bed, plus 65 private rooms each with four-channel video. Founder-owned and community-minded, it enforces a zero-tolerance stance on racism and hostility, keeps a flexible dress code from towels to harnesses to nothing at all, and offers free membership and locker access to men aged 18 to 24 every day.