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"Fresh" bar & dance-club
ChinShan South road, section 2, no.7 - (02)2358 7701 / (02)2358 7706 Three floors, bar on the 2nd, dancing floor on the 3rd, and chill-out room & balcony garden on the roof. Now with a restaurant (called "Spice") on the first floor |
Kama lounge bar
#3, alley16, lane 266, RenAi rd. sec. 4 close to the Cathay Hospital Nice atmosphere, luxurious indian setting, and fantastic champagne cocktails : don't miss their Diamond Fitz ! |
Going
=== N O W C L O S E D === (B1) #9 NanKing East Rd, section 3 - (02)2506 8636 Gay disco in a small alley at the North-East corner of NanJing East Rd. and JianKuo North Rd. Admission fees 350 NT$ (US$10), 500 NT$ for girls, and you get a drink with it. REALLY crowded on Saturday nights. Wall to wall with cute sweating dancing young men and young "bears"... |
Funky
The oldest gay disco stil operating in Taipei. On WenChow St., near the intersection with ChongHsiao Admission fees 350 NT$ (US$10) for boys, and you get a drink with it. Girls get a "Special Price" : 500 NT$ ! (based on gender as on ID card, so DragQueens and transverstites get in at the regular price) Quite busy on Friday and Saturday nights. Very traditional "Chacha time" at 1 o'clock, and Karaoke before 10 pm. |
Texound
=== C L O S E D A G A I N === (B1) #217 NanJing East Rd., section 3 - tel : 02-2546 1071 / fax : 02-2546 1072 The mecca of techno music in Taipei. Complete with lasers, fluorescent lights and the whole alien-teenage population and there strange attires. VERY controversial place. Has opened and closed many times in the past two years, mostly in relation with use and abuse of illegal recreational drugs Check their website for mote info. |
Grandma Nitti's
#8, lane 93, ShihDa Rd. - (02)2369 9751 "Your home away from home", 3 floor restaurant in the ShihDa area The best place for late dinners (on the terrace in Summer), or for Saturday and Sunday brunches. Sometimes gets quite crowded, come before 11 if you want a table on Sundays. |
Salsa LATINA
#6, lane 231, FuHsin North rd. That Tapas Bar opened recently ! Very promising... |
Le Pigeonnier - La Librairie du Quercy
lane 97, SongJiang Rd. - (02)2517 2616 A unique French bookshop in Taipei Zyl, the owner, can talk for hours (as long as you pay for the drinks) about Taiwan that she knows quite well. She's been around for 25 years... |
SAMSON - Special hair cut . Hair colour . Fashion . Image
#59 lane 187, TunHua South Rd., section 1 - (02)8771 0268 The best place for your hair Samson will help you to study what best suits you and your hair. No more "bad hair day", just give him a call ! And if you want to know about the latest parties in town, bars that opened or closed, or Connie's favorite hair style of the moment, just ask him ! |
Bar Dietrich
255 Consell de Cent A very nice bar to start the evening with (from 12:00 to 3:00). Short drag shows every evening, every now and then. No entrance fee, and lots of fliers and info on the latest discos. You will often be handed invitations to discos at the door. |
Salvation
19-21 Rnda Sant Pere A large disco, two dance floors (more techno on the left, more local music and "disco/Abba/nostalgy" on the right). Fri. & Sat., midnight to 6 o'clock. Starts to get animated after 3 o'clock (on Saturdays, you might have to queue up). Invitations/reductions available at the Dietrich bar. |
Arena
C/. Diputacion 233 (Metro Universidad) - 487 83 42 A nice disco in a very animated area by night Fri. & Sat., midnight to 6 o'clock. Good Spanish music. Starts to get animated around 1 or 2 o'clock. You can get an invitation on the net, or at the bar Punto BCN (C/. Muntaner 63-65) |
La Cerveceria
Just on the top of the animated part of the Ramblas, on the right side when you just left la Plaza de Catalunya, a tapas bar with an excellent restaurant on the 1st floor. |
Las Ramblas
This is the place where you want to go to see and be seen. Everything happens on "Las Ramblas", they are the "Champs Elysees" of Barcelona, going all the way down from the "Plaza de Cataluna" to the sea. |
Salva G
Plaça de les Olles, 4 - Barcelona 08003 Small hair salon in the Bario Gotico. If you can, ask for Fatima. |
Le Queen
Avenue des Champs Elysées The most famous gay disco in Paris The entrance can be quite selective, if you wear the wrong brand of sport shoes... Disco night on Monday ; check their homepage for an updated program |
Le Dépôt
10, rue aux Ours, 75003 - 01 4454 9696 A HUGE disco on two levels, ground floor for dancing and underground... to make new friends !(DR, etc.) As usual, when cruising the men-only basement : don't carry any valuable, and keep safe ! |
Les Mots a la Bouche
6, re Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie - 01 4278 8830 The best GL bookstore in town. Nothing else to say ! |
Univers Gym
20/22, rue des Bons Enfants, 75001 - 01 4261 2483 4 different theme nights a week. Clean, confortable, and a nice clientele. |
Trance
Yongsan-gu Itaewon-dong 136-42 - (02)797 3410 A tiny little gay disco-bar, with local Drag Queens (Ugi, and "La Bouche", and others) putting on a wild act whenever they feel like it : don't miss it ! Take a taxi to "Itaewon, Hamilton Hotel" ; from the Hamilton main door, cross the street, walk down your left for a few minutes, and take the first intersection on the right. "Trance" is in a small lane going up from there, on your left. |
California bar
Very cosy bar, maybe the only gay bar in town for the moment. The very friendly boss can speak French, English, Spanish, and Mandarin ! Take a taxi to "Itaewon, Hamilton Hotel" ; from the Hamilton main door, cross the street, walk down your right for a few minutes until you see a sign on your left that says "California". Go down the stairs, and you're there ! |
DJ Station
8/6-8 Silom Soi 2 - Bangkok The most popular gay disco in town. Show at midnight every night |
Freeman
address - tel Another good disco-bar. Show at 23:00 - a good mix of fun and calssic performance. |
Mango Tree
37 Soi Rajanakarindra 1 (Soi Anuman Radjadhon) Surawong Rd. Excellent Thai food in a nice setting, just a few yards away from the Tawan Gogo boys bar (off Silom soi 6, off Soi Than Thawan).
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Eat me !
Soi Pipat 2 (off Soi Convent), Silom Excellent food, very nice service The food could be called "French" if France were somewhere between Bangkok and Pattaya... Don't miss the lemon-grass chicken ! |
V Club
51/1 Soi Aree Phaholyothin, Phayathai, Bangkok 10400 Very nice massage parlor, clean and homy. If you are not sure what you want exactly, ask Veronique, the "Mamasan", to help you out : (s)he has a thing for guessing what will please you ! Check out their site if you wan to preview the boys... |
Chakran
34 Soi Aree 4, Phaholyothin, Phayathai, Bangkok 10400 An alternative to the huge "Babylon", this private club is managed by the owner of Vclub. Steam room, jacuzzi, bar & restaurant by the pool, gym, maze, etc. Not as crowded as some other places, a little away from the rumble of Silom, this is the ideal place to relax, meet people, or spend a lazy afternoon with some friends... or alone ! |
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His
Silom Plaza, 2nd floor, 491/10-11 Silom Rd. Massage parlor with really good masseurs. Cream, oil, scrub, etc. The service may not look like much at first, but if you know what you want, just say it, and you won't be disappointed. The boys actually *can* give good massage... For an unhurried, well done and exhaustive service, you may ask for Tosh : the guy does not talk much, but he sure knows how to use his hands ! For a more playfull experience, the stronger-built Minh is also a good choice... |
X-treme bar
894/11 Duangthawee Plaza , Suriwong Rd, Bangkok (Soi duangtawee is the gay go-go bar Soi just opposite Suriwongse Hotel) Go-go bar with a good-taste show... Young dancers bouncing all over the place ! Dancing shows every night at 22:00, 23:00 and midnight |
Angel
Szovetség u. 33, Budapest VII The largest gay disco in Budapest, huge basement. Drag Cabaret on Fridays, show starts around 11:45 PM. |
Amstel River Café
Párisi u. 6, 1054 Budapest Excellent food in a nice "French café" atmosphere. And the personel is really cute... |
Botanicus
Mostecká 4/57, 118 00 Praha 1 Mon. to Sat., 10 AM to 8 PM ; Sat. 10 AM to 6 PM Many shops all around town. The best place to buy your herbs and oils, for sensual massages, and all aromatherapy. |
Sissi Hotel
Angyal u. 33, H1094 Budapest Three stars hotel well placed in Pest. Friendly and helpful staff, very nice and clean rooms. |
Hotel Cloister Inn
Konviktská 14, 110 00 Praha 1 Three stars hotel very well placed in the old downtown Prague. Check their website for more. Large and very clean rooms, nice and uninquisite staff. |
Drake's
corner of Zborovska & Ptrinska, Praha 5, CZ 150 00 Gay Bar & Sex Club - open 24h, all year long The entry fee is a bit high, but lets you in for 24 hours - Weekly pass also available |
Action bar
V. ker., Magyar u. 42. (Budapest) Gogo boys bar with excellent ambiance, boys get on stage around 12:00. Packed on week-ends, get there early ! They even have a website. But be patient with the Flash animations, it's well worth it !... The bear at the door might sound grumpy at first, but is very nice when you get to know him. A mother bear. |
Rudas bath
I Dobrentei tér 9, Budapest The most Turkish of all the baths in town. The best kept too. Men only. Don't expect any "action" in here (you'd better go to Királi or Rác for that), but this is the ideal place to relax in the most Turkish tradition. |
This is not intended to be an exhaustive lists (!), just some places I have been to and I liked.
If any of the information on this page was wrong, or turned obsolete, please let me know : I wouldn't want my fans to go and risk their lives in the streets of Bangkok, or catch a cold in the middle of the Korean Winter, for a gogo-bar that closed down already !...
I'll update and/or replace things on this page whenever old places fall into disgrace, so make sure you write them down in your little red notepad if you like them longer than I do !
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