New Years Day Recovery at Century Spa!

UPDATE: I'm here. Key #63.

Hey guys... I'm sure you'll all be partying on New Year's Eve, but why don't we have a meet up for New Years Day at Century Spa? Sweat out all the booze you drank the night before, or otherwise just relax one last time before having to go back to work on Wednesday.

I'll probably get there sometime around 12:00pm or 1:00pm. (Or later, if I don't wake up early enough! Haha) As always, I wear a black digital watch, and I'll wear my locker key on my left ankle. I'll try to post my locker key number here when I arrive.

Please post if you think you'll be there. And if you see me there, please say hi!

[CLOSED] Official Spa Buddy Posting Open Thread

NOTE: I'm locking this thread and starting a new one because there are too many comments here. Use the new one instead. It's here: http://guysspaguide.blogspot.com/2013/04/official-spa-buddy-posting-open-thread.html

Hey guys,

I decided to create this post specifically so you guys can post in the comments if you're looking for someone to go to a spa with, or meet up there, or whatever... makes it a lot easier than going through all the previous posts to see if people have posted there. So if you're planning to go and want to meet people there, you can post (or look) here instead!

A few guidelines...

(1) Post some information about yourself...physical description, age, ethnicity, interests and hobbies... I really don't care. I'm not going to force you to reveal everything about yourself, but I'm not going to drive all the way to Koreatown to hang out with someone that I know absolutely nothing about.

(2) Sign your name, nickname, user name, whatever you make up to identify yourself. It makes it a lot easier to reply  to you, as opposed to "hey, third person to reply to this comment"

(3) Be specific...

•  GOOD: "I'll be at Century Spa from 7pm-11pm tonight (Dec. 21), wearing a black digital sports watch and my key on my left ankle. And carrying a green water bottle."
•  BAD: "I'll be at Century Spa tonight. I'm the guy with a towel. Say hi!"

(4) If you want to talk to someone privately, leave some kind of contact information! It can be a blogger profile that you're logged into, an adam4adam or dudesnude profile, your email address, whatever. One idea is to post something on Craigslist... when you do that, they give you a throwaway temporary email address that forwards to your own email... it's useful if you don't want to post your email address here.

(5) Maybe make some mention of your expectations. If you're looking to jerk off (or more), say so. If you absolutely don't want to do anything sexual and just want to hang out nude with other guys, say so. Not everyone is going there for the same thing.

(6) Be respectful. Don't be racist, ageist, etc... Remember that this isn't your private home, and you can't just tell a certain class of people that they're not welcome.




These guidelines are totally voluntary, so don't feel like I'm restricting you to post something you don't want to post. I'm just trying to make it easier for everyone. This is just an experiment right now... if I don't really like the way it's going, I may delete it. I may delete it anyway and start a new thread in the future, too, if this gets too popular.

Finally, have a great holiday season. Because of family obligations, etc, I probably won't get to the spa before next weekend, so enjoy it without me!

-Guy's Spa Guide Guy

Grindr complaints.

I recently updated my profile "About" text on Grindr. I included that I was interested in nudism.

Apparently, talking about nudism is against the rules on Grindr, so they deleted my "About" text.

Then I changed it to nude beaches. And they deleted it AGAIN.

Seriously??? We're not allowed to mention nudism AT ALL??? That's so fucking ridiculous.

Black's Beach

I had a great time today relaxing nude at Black's Beach in San Diego. The day was gorgeous, and so was the eye candy!

I love being naked!

Review: Grand Spa, Koreatown

Amenities: 3/5

Cruisiness: 2.5/5

Price: $15

Pros: Price is ok. Good supply of small towels. Three pools.

Cons: No privacy in the sauna. Tends to be crowded with mostly straight Asian guys. 

Yay, another review! Did you miss me?

I'd been to Grand Spa before, over a year ago, but I wanted to go and get a fresh look at it before I wrote up a review. (I had forgotten a lot about it anyway) I didn't have anything going on after work today so I swung by on my way home.

I'd forgotten from my earlier visit that the entrance is up this side staircase... for some reason, the outer hall is all done up in this ancient Egyptian motif; it's kind of odd.

Upon entering, the locker room is very small; doesn't seem like it's much bigger than a 10x10 room. And inevitably, there's someone with a locker really close to me, so we're doing the whole awkward changing-too-close-to-each-other dance. When you open your locker, there's a robe, a small towel, and a large towel. Note that this large towel is the only one you'll get. They keep a supply of small towels by the shower, however.

From the locker room, I entered a glass door into the spa area. There are showers in there (upright on the right, seated showers on the left)... the body wash is in loose bottles; they look like they were from the 99-cent store or something, and smelled way too floral for my tastes.

Once past the showers, there is a steam room on the left. I really liked the steam room; the temperature was just right for me. Hotter on the upper bench, but less so (such that you could sit in there for a while) on the lower bench. It also pleasantly smelled like cinnamon. The steam room is fairly large, and although the wall is glass, the steam is enough that you can't really see too far into the steam room.

The dry sauna is right next to the steam room. It's fine, temperature-wise, but again it has a huge glass wall that means it's not at all private. There's also a big-screen TV in there (and also facing the other direction, outside of the sauna) showing the latest in Korean television. 

Across from the sauna and steam room are the pools: a cold pool, a warm pool, and a hot salt-water pool. I've said before that I like when they give us a choice for temperatures; when there's only two pools, the hot pool tends to be TOO hot. But here, the warm pool felt great.

Back outside of the spa area, there's a TV room with a bunch of recliners, and a dark, quiet sleeping room. The sleeping room is quite private (if there's nobody else in there), but when I was in there there was a guy snoring loudly... something about Korean spa sleeping rooms, I guess; I always seem to find ones with loud snorers.

The place was fairly cruisy though. The clientele was roughly 2/3 Asian, but I could tell that a few of them were looking to play. I was in the steam room and this older Korean man was being fairly obvious about checking me out. Not my type, but I didn't really mind... I didn't let it go any further than looks though.

There was another attractive (white) guy, we fooled around a little bit in the steam room and the sleeping room, but with the amount of people there on a Thursday evening, it was difficult to get much privacy. As I was leaving, there was another Korean guy that I'm pretty sure was checking me out, too.

Anyway, Grand Spa is fine; nothing to get too excited over though.

Grand Spa
2999 West 6th Street (at Virgil)
Los Angeles, CA 90020
http://www.grandspala.com/

Mini meetup?

Thinking about heading to CJ Spa Hermosa on Thursday after work (6:00pm to whenever), if you're interested. Post something if you think you might go.

Review: CJ Spa, Hermosa Beach

Amenities: 3/5
Cruisiness: 4/5
Price: Normally $20, but they're having a $10 "Summer Special" going on through the summer!

Pros: Clean, quiet, sauna and steam room are kind of hidden and private, saunas are perfect temperature (in my opinion)

Cons: Towel stinginess, small spa area, no seated showers, doesn't really have a cold pool.



So last Friday, I was again in the South Bay so I decided to head to CJ Spa in Hermosa Beach.

This one was hard for me to give an accurate rating. On the one hand, the quality of the facility is good. The temperature of the sauna and steam room was my ideal temperature, and the whirlpool was pretty close to that too. The place is clean and everything.

However, it's SMALL. There aren't all of the standard amenities one would expect in a Korean Spa. For example, there's no cold plunge pool, only an awkward-to-use rock pool with waterfall that's scarcely a replacement. There are also no seated shower stalls, and only three regular showers. Well, four, if you count the odd one between the whirlpool and the scrub table. Like its sister spa in Northridge, they only give you one bath towel and a hand towel when you enter.

Despite all that, I actually liked this spa quite a bit. Why? Because although it wasn't very crowded while I was there (no more than 5 guys at any one time during the 4 hours I was there), pretty much every guy there was looking for action. (except for one really cute guy, sadly). The door to the steam room is frosted glass--with no other windows-- and the dry sauna only has a small window on the door. This means there is quite a bit of privacy in these rooms. Employees seemed to constantly be walking through, though, so one would have to be careful.

Side note: the male employee that was working the front desk was one of the employees always coming through. When I was in the sauna (By myself, usually), he'd stick his head in and ask if everything was all right. Not sure if he was doing this purely from a customer service standpoint, if he was checking for inappropriate conduct, or if he just wanted to see me naked. Honestly, the latter option is the one I find the least objectionable... He was actually kind of cute. :-)

Anyway, based on my Friday evening experience, I thought it might be a good place for a future meetup, if the front desk employee would stop coming through. (especially during the $10 summer promo!)

CJ Grand Spa
1601 Pacific Coast Hwy. #280
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254

http://cjgrandspa.com/