Guadalajara Neighborhood Saunas

 Federalismo Sur Street # 634, Centro, Guadalajara.

Hours: 

Monday to Saturday 06:30-20:30 

Sundays: 06:30-14:30     *as of 1/1/25

A traditional mens only sauna in the heart of Guadalajara.  Opens early most days at 7am and is usually hopping pretty early.  For $130 you gain entrance and get a thin towel/wrap and a locker.   The lockerroom is pretty big and lots of guys who like to strut around and let it hang.

There are two floors.  The first floor has a small lounge and a full bar that also stocks water and Gatorade.  You then enter an enormous group shower room with marble benches and a massage area off to the left.  Off of the showers are three saunas with temperatures ranging from slightly hot, to furnace.  

The crowd types vary based on days and times, and even though there are times, weekday mornings and lunchtimes where there is a large straight crowd, there is action in most areas.

The showers are interesting.  Lots of showing off, men flexing, and during the weekdays older straight men hanging and talking, even washing each other’s backs.   The saunas are quite hot so frequent cool showers are taken. As expected. Most play takes place in the cooler saunas, but lots of “bonding” takes place throughout.

There is also a massage area behind a semi closed door.  A 45 minute massage was about $13 USD plus tip.   The times I’ve had one it’s more of a super thorough body washing and scrubbing.  A little tug and rub, lots of toe and finger cracking and stretching also.  I highly recommend getting one.

At about 10am (or earlier if it gets too crowded) the second floor opens.  Up a long stairway is a large open outdoor roof area with a 10 man hot tub and lounge chairs.   This area gets very busy weekends later in the day.  Past this area is a row of private locking showers, which see a lot of action.  Next to the shower is a darker not so hot sauna that gets interesting. Many men cruise in there and visit the private showers outside.  

In the 4-5 times so far I’ve been there, I’ve seen completely different crowds.  During the week before and after work hours there are mostly older men in their 50’s to 70’s.  I would say about 80% straight.   There’s a bar in the lobby so even at 8am guys are drinking beer and hanging in one of the saunas talking.  They seem to have little to no problems with guys at the back of the room getting sone action. It’s very chill, everyone is polite and keeps to themselves.   There is also that turn on to having straight guys somewhat semi-watching you get off.

Saturday morning was a different experience.  It was pretty crowded by 9am, and overwhelmingly gay.  Many guys came in pairs with friends and partners.  Lots of action in all the saunas and a much younger crowd.  A very different vibe, fun, but if hanging with naked straight guys is your thing Saturdays might not be the best time to go.   At 10am, when the second floor opens (again sometimes earlier) the hot tub is full and the single upstairs sauna is very cruisy.  Many guys go to just hang in the hot tub and laugh and drink.

I suggest going at different times and days to find what works best for you.   Highly reccomended whether you looking for action or just want to unwind and get a good massage/scrub.

For more information about times and prices they have a Facebook page with hours.

Tips:  Sandals, like in all GDL saunas, are suggested as everything is slippery tile. They do have a good amount there but if you’re a size 13 like me bring your own.  Bring coins or small bills to buy drinks.  

Andrés Terán 462, Santa Teresita, 44600 Guadalajara

Mon-Thurs- 7-8:30

Sat, Sun 7-10:30

  *as of 1/1/25

On a busy street full of tented vendors selling everything from clothes to costumes for pets, this 70+ yearold neighborhood sauna is easy to miss and you’ll probably walk past it the first few times.  

From the lobby you can tell this place is way past its hay day, and its last repairs were done around the time of the great Mexican Colima earthquake of 1973.   So, If you’re looking for luxury, this place might not be for you, BUT…trust me, it’s worth a visit.

You’ll pay 130 pesos at the main floor counter to enter, which is the priciest neighborhood sauna in Guadalajara I believe.  As you walk past the the shrine to St Theresa, head up the stairs into an aging neighborhood sauna which was very clean but in much need of restoration.

The 2nd floor opens up to a huge space lined  with 2 hallways of well over 50 small (tiny) private changing rooms, a row of lockers and a small rustic bar.  After you change into your towel and walk back past the bar you’ll enter into a giant open room filled with at least 20 open shower stalls, a massage area and a raised curtained platform at the end of the room with a large hot tub.  

I showered off and nodded to about a dozen elderly men, many eager to show their goods.  As I walked to the end of the huge tiled room, I opened the hot tub curtains and stepped back. One older man shared the heating and jets haven’t worked in forever but asked me to join him but the stains on the tub were enough to make me decline. 

I had flashbacks to the 1970’s when I went to the YMCA after school, with all the naked older men everywhere out in the open. So even though not everything worked, there was a strange sexiness about the place.

Off to the left of the shower room there is a very large steam room which was out of order and used as storage.  A smaller steam room next door, about 10x20 feet, was working and quite full.  Everyone friendly, no one pushy, but lots of tugs and rubs.  Nice guys. Mostly men over 60, with a younger college age guy “taking care” of a few grandpas.  After a casual backrub by a silver haired grandpa, I left to explore further.

A second visit at 9pm. (closes 10:30 Fri and Sat, other days 8:30pm) had a slightly younger crowd of 50’s and up predominantly.  And much more crowded.  So much going on in the steam room, and heavier action as well.

Next to the working steam room was a small wooden sauna.  The door was removed and the housing for the heating unit missing.  It still was a busy hang out for some locals to use to chat and take breaks from the steam.

Although the changing rooms were only maybe 4’x3’, at my nighttime visit they were much more “in use”.  Guys hanging in the rooms nodding and waving you in”.  A few guys hanging outside an open room waiting for their turn with an eager to accommodate resident. Even action in the tub.  

I talked to some local gays who confirmed my suspicions, but said it does get pretty action packed after work and right before closing time weekdays as well.  Lunchtimes were popular with many locals paying entry to run upstairs, unzip, and then quickly leave.

Even though this sauna has not been renovated in decades, there was an erotic retro feel to it.  No one was rude, pushy, or on any obvious substances which was a nice change from similar US places. Pretty chill.

Yes this was pricy at $130 pesos, about $6.50USD, but I can only imagine it 70 years ago, packed with neighborhood men using that  giant space, and every changing room and locker in use, it must have been amazing. I could see it being a neighborhood hub for local men back then, you could imagine all the male bonding!

Pros: it is what it is, you’re not going for a lounging spa day, you’re going for fun naked times with cool older locals, watching a few guys take on as many abuelos as they can, and a cool retro shower area that needs to be used in a few porns if it hadn’t already.

Cons:  the whole place is in desperate need of a deep renovation and general repairs, but I doubt there is enough revenue to make that happen.  A bit higher than other neighborhood saunas which are about $80 pesos, but not a big deal.

It’s definitely not for everyone, but knowing this before you go in will help.  Fri and Sat nights are fun, and if you’re looking to fill up your score card with an older audience, this might be the place for you.

Tips: bring bottled water, as there is only an d water fountain.  There were some flip flops to use but I highly encourage you to invest in a decent pair with treaded bottoms for all of the neighborhood saunas.

Have fun and don’t forget to thank Saint Theresa at her lobby shrine on your way out.

69A Cabañas Street , Guadalajara, 44360

This place is great, very odd and old,  but great!

“Grandpa lovers” take notice!

Hidden on a busy street full of shops, food stands and street vendors, you may walk past it like I did before you find the battered sign above the door.

You pay at a window on the street and can either choose a changing room + admission for 100 pesos or a locker for 60. ( roughly $5 and 3 US).  I chose the changing room, which  was a small 3x3 closet and a few clothes hooks that staff locks and unlocks for you.  Lockers do not have locks so I felt this was a better option.

From the moment you walk in you notice the broken tiles, old fixtures, and areas in much need of repair.  That being said it was spotless and smelled good.  Once you leave the changing areas, you’re given your thin sheet piece to wrap around your waist as is with most Guadalajara saunas.  

You then enter a 20’x20’ group shower room with 3 saunas off to the left.  There is a small rustic massage area towards the back with another sauna  in the rear.  The saunas range from raging hot as hell, hot and well lit, warm and no lights, and the fourth a dimly lit room with a menthol scent in the steam which reminds you of a cool old barbershop smell.  

It’s very clear that the majority of clientele are elderly men in their late 60’s to 80’s with a spattering of handsome married men who work in the neighborhood.

It’s very interesting that the steam rooms, especially the darker ones, were half older men either sleeping or chatting, while very obvious action is happening just feet away from them.

In fact, the whole set up resembled an amateur  grandpa porn movie you’d find on pornhub or such.  Lots of rubs and tugs, but everyone very polite and chill!

I went twice:  a Saturday morning at 8am who had about 20 folks rotating in and out, and Monday at 7am which had a good share of sexy older men seemingly on their way to work to relax or “relax” before  they started their day.

Staff were present but only to clean and not interfere or disrupt any goings on.

This is a traditional neighborhood mens sauna.  It’s been here for over 50 years and is clearly a neighborhood fixture.

If you are into grandpas, older married guys and average senior joes, or Jose’s… this place is worth hitting.  Remember you are not going here for a spa day with comfy lounges and pretty decor.  This is as barebones as you can get. 

Pros:  clean, cheap, casual and if locals over 65 are your thing you’re in luck!  Close to Centro, easy to find, very early hours, and no pushy staff to worry about! 

Cons:  none.  It is what it is.  You’re not going to get pampered or lounge in fancy tiled saunas and that’s part of its charm.  It’s totally erotic feeling like you’re entering a very old established  neighborhood sauna, hanging with the naked locals, and soaking up lots of octogenarian attention. 

As always in Guadalajara, bring a pair of  flip flops.  Floors are wet tile throughout and they aren’t always intact or level.  Some places have pairs to borrow, this place only had a few in smaller non gringo sizes.

Tips:  

I advise you hit the Oxxo on your way in, get a bottle or two of water.  Some places like Banos Guadalajara have a bar and snacks… this place does not.  There was a water fountain but unless  you’re a native I would avoid drinking from the tap.

-Also carry a few pesos to tip the lockerroom attendant, especially if you’re getting the private changing room.  20 pesos works.

I highly recommend this experience. It’s a good way to see what the locals do, and interesting to be in this simple traditional “interactive environment”.  A must for grandpa fetishists

C. Chihuahua No. 1456, San Miguel de Mezquitan, 44260 Guadalajara

Calle los Ángeles #72 

44469 Guadalajara 

If you’re coming into Guadalajara from the old bus station, it’s only about 3 blocks away.   Now, I hit this place twice to for a better review, once at 9am on a Saturday morning and once at 5pm on a weekday.   I wasn’t sure what to expect as reviews online range from obviously fake rave reviews to ones that basically say “it gets the job done”.

I will say I walked past the sauna about 3 times as the sign is difficult to see, just follow google maps and you’ll be fine.   You walk up into a storefront lobby with a few chairs and a small front desk.   A vapor general gets you in with a small changing room for 150 pesos.  

You walk through the lobby and into a lockerroom which leads to a small bar and employee that opens and locks your room for you.  After undressing and towling up I walked into a large bright room with about a dozen open shower stalls and two very out in the open massage tables with no privacy.  As you walk through the shower room you see a raised good size pool maybe 10x12 feet. Very clean but cold.  

The website boasts three saunas/stamrooms.  The first is a small 6 person wooden sauna next to the pool which although had no heat the times I went still had a handful of patrons hanging out talking. If anywhere in this establishment there was a place to get to know each other better this was about it.  If there had been heat, the cool pool would have been great after the sauna. Maybe next time?

Walking past the wooden sauna,  the hallway came to a very large yet non functional steam room.   If it was working I’m still not sure how relaxing it would have been as there was a large amount of fluorescent overhead lighting and a row of sunlit windows beaming in that ran across the side wall.  The times I went this room was empty with the door propped open.

The last sauna was back around past the pool.  You enter two connecting rooms, the second room with decent heat and good steam was where most patrons seemed to hang out.  Although the steam felt good, again… more intense overhead lighting and another row of sunlit windows along the ceiling.   This bright combo did not encourage any fraternization in the least.  Although I didn’t see any action in this sauna, there were a few winks and nods and a few gents either followed each other to the wooden sauna or a bathroom in the area.  There was a little showing off here and there but that’s where most of it ended.

The crowd both the times I went, and from what I’ve heard from others, are mostly elderly married men and over 70, and older neighborhood workmen from the local shops (many mechanic businesses in the area) who come in for a shower, quick steam and out.

Although the sauna stays open to 8 or 9 depending on the day, from talking to a few guys there or online, this isn’t a hookup spot and there is very little out in the open action to participate in or watch.

Now a sauna doesn’t always have to be action packed to get a good review… but considering two of the three saunas were out of order there wasn’t much to rave about.  If the saunas were hot and I could have enjoyed the cool pool after I’d be happier.

What puzzles me is that you pay 150 pesos to enter, which is much pricier than some truly great neighborhood saunas in the city with full working services. 

I stayed about an hour each visit and that was all I could do without getting bored.  I’m glad I checked it out, because you never know when you’ll find a hidden gem… but sadly this wasn’t one.

As always, please don’t take my word for it, go give it a shot.  If you ever go after work on a Saturday night please let me know what you thought!  As well as if you’ve had other experiences different from mine please let me know. I’ll also update once it’s saunas and steam rooms are back working.

So…

Pros: it was clean.

Cons: I felt 150p was pricy. Only one of three advertised facilities were working, and I found it crazy bright throughout, especially the working steam room lined with windows.

Tips: as always… invest in a pair of flip flops you can throw in your backpack, as Jordon did not offer loaners here and a basic new pair for sake was about $70 pesos. Bring a bottled water and a few pesos for the staff who unlock your changing room.

Calz. Lázaro Cárdenas Pte. 2412, Del Fresno, 44909 Guadalajara

Calle Prisciliano Sánchez No. 6 

Casi Esq. Calzada Independencia