Royal Hammam Sauna

For starters. I LOVED THIS PLACE Yes everyone has to buy a membership to get into ANY cruise bar or bath in Italy. It’s on literally every review and website for every establishment. Accept the fact and quit being childish and giving the establishment a lower rating because they charge that. $25 euro entry fee is fair and good value for a place this big and well staffed. I counted at least 15 but probably 20-30 staff working to keep the place clean and organized. That costs the operator alot as does the rent for this HUGE venue with DJ and amazing pool. They had three bartenders that’s most than most bars I found in the city. I have been to baths, and gay hotels on almost every continent and would have to say this is top 5, maybe number 1. It reminds me of Semana Santa in Puerto Vallarta. I have to say it’s hard to explain this place. It’s the biggest bath I’ve been to and with the sheer number of people of all body types. It’s better than any gay hotel I’ve stayed in. I was there on a sunny Sunday afternoon and the place was packed. All ages styles and body types of people. No one type was unrepresented. Huge busy dark room/ Labyrinth, sauna steam baths, whirlpool, and pool. Everything here is oversize, and I mean everything. 😉 The music was great, happy, friendly, unpretentious crowd. The pool area with the sun beds way better than anticipated. My only regret is that I don’t speak Italian. I’ll know for next time… One (two) last thing…. The language barrier can often be considered as the staff in any place being rude. If the staff is learning english; at first, they learn simple yes and no and not the complexity of politeness. It’s best not to go into a foreign land and expect people to be polite in your native language or to even understand you for that matter. Especially when you don’t speak their language, and are wanting something a simple response of “no” might be all that they can give you. If you learn to say please and thank you in every language, it will get you further in life and the smile. Finally, when I am the first one to smile in the interaction I find the smiles are often reciprocated.

My visit was on a sunny Sunday, which is the busiest day for this sauna according to google. It's my first Italian sauna but I've been in many in Germany and the Netherlands : Positives Crowd: the best I've seen in any sauna, tons of hot in shape men, 25-45 year average. Was very busy. I was the only tourist it felt like. Premises: the biggest whirlpool I've seen in a gay sauna with an additional beautiful outdoor pool. Hard to beat. Hygiene: OK. It was cleaned regularly throughout the day. Duration limit: there was none, you can stay as long as sauna is open Negatives: Not many, the sauna is located in a very shabby and dodgy neighborhood that smells like piss and littered with trash, and there's no entrance label, but as soon as you're in, you forget about it. All in all, this went far beyond my expectations and belongs to the best sauna experiences I've had in my memory. It's a must visit for anyone on a sunny Sunday for sure. At 3.7 rating currently it's criminally underrated, it's as good as Pluto, if not better. The price as of September 2023 was 25 euros