Club Houzz Sauna 18

4/F Canton Plaza

1125 – 1127 Canton Road

Mong Kok

Kowloon

Hong Kong

MTR:  Mong Kok Station, Exit A 2

Tel: 3484 2770 
Staff may or may not speak good English- updated 28 November 2012

http://clubhouzz.hongkonggay.info/

NOT open 24 hours;

Open daily from 3pm to 3am

Nude Nite after 8pm  

Friday night party from 7:30pm - all private rooms locked 

After a gap of 10 months since he last did a review of this joint (see Club Houzz Sauna 11), FuelMix dropped in mid-week about 8pm on a cool, damp and murky evening.

Well fags.........it's official.  FuelMix hereby withdraws his endorsement of Club Houzz Sauna.

Here's why:

1.  The twink on duty could barely speak English. That was not the case when the place first opened. The owners and the staff spoke very good English and notices were also in English. Not any more. Plus their new website is now predominantly in Chinese.

2.  The drinks cooler has stupidly been moved adjacent to the Reception counter.  So when the place goes Nude and a customer needs a free soft drink, he has to open the door and step out, thereby running into fully dressed incoming clientele.

3.  The previously well lit Locker Room now has one yellow spotlight that is hideous, impractical and annoying.  The Locker Room is dimly lit and just plain grim on entering.

4.  The previously immaculate shower area is grubby as is the wall with the towel racks.

5.  One shower head would only work in intermittent spurts because the control lever wouldn't hold. The shower next to it was out of commission because there was no control lever.

6.  The floor boards outside the shower area were soaking wet, with extensive puddles.  They were extremely slippery.

7.  There were no fresh towels on the rattan basket adjacent to the showers.  A dripping wet customer had to come down the steps and knock on the office door.

8.   The Management helpfully stuck a (very small) sign on the wall next to those steps.  From memory, the notice said something like, "Trip Over With Care" [sic]

9.  The squealing twink on duty was swapping spit with his favourite customer of the day.......

10.  The heated floor mats that did such a great job in January 2012, were only partially effective in November 2012.  Why more than half the floor area of the Dark Room was stone cold, isn't clear.

11.   The only trash bin was overflowing. 

12.   The clientele was off-the-scale Attitudinal Fugly.

Sadly, the initial allure of this place, about which FuelMix had earlier raved at some length, has evaporated.  The management of this place has definitely gone downhill and a regrettable EEEeeww factor has crept in.  

It's an amazing fall from grace from a venue that had so much star quality and potential when it first splashed onto the scene (which was not long ago) - but which now relies on silly gimmicks like rainbow coloured strobe lights on one of the (operating) shower heads.

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