Big Top Gym And Sauna 20

3rd Floor, Yuet Yuen Building

17 - 19 Mong Kok Road

Mong Kok

Kowloon

Hong Kong

MTR: Mong Kok Station, Exit A2

Tel: 2628 6196

Website: Big Top Gym & Sauna

Note: Open 2pm to 8am the next day; 
On weekends and public holidays open 2pm till 10am the next day. 
Staff speak good English 



Received from a reader yesterday:

I went to this place on a Saturday afternoon around 4pm. The entrance was rather on Mong Kok Road than as its official Canton Road, opposite to the Dynasty Theatre. The entrance was discreet and the building where it situated in looked like it had a mix of resident and commercial purposes. It was a metal gate and was kept locked. On the right hand side there's a panel of buttons with which one called for the property owners to unlock the gate. The button of "Big Top Sauna" was clearly marked and after pressing it the answer was prompt without delayed embarrassment standing outside. There was still the security standing inside and there were two lifts available. 

The entrance of Big Top was just outside the lift. After ringing the door bell, the door opened and two members of staff were sitting in the reception , greeting.  They offered me to register with them then I would enjoy rewards of various discounts. For the locals, phone numbers would be used for registration and travel documents for the visitors. Otherwise, the full price was $138. 

1.   The Layout 

My first impression of this place was ,it's rather small. The decor was sort of similar to My Way. The first lounge after entrance was a gym room without any users. On the left were the lockers and right the living lounge. There were a couple of sofas and a payable coffee vending machine. Lockers were plentiful but be aware, The lockers were quite small and shoes were normally placed under the locker shelf or above. After changing, there's a dimmed corridor leading to the T junction to the wet area and the dark maze. On the left was the wet area where the showers and steam room were. The steam room had two entrances connected by a pitched dark, long narrow passage. It looked very interesting and cruiseable but it was not quite as busy as the dark maze.

The dark maze had two entrances too and the structure was roughly a circle with some cabins en route. It probably was as dark as the steam room and was only lit by some small screens playing porn videos.  


2.   Clientele 

It's rumoured that Big Top's target is to rival Hutong but according to the clientele , I don't think it's the case or it has managed to achieve that goal. There were around 30 guests when I got in and there was a stream of steady arrivals afterwards as well as departures. All Asian Oriental, mostly aged 30-50, all shapes and many Fuglies. Tons of attitude and standing modelling and what surprised me was sometimes it was the Fuglies that had the highest attitude and worst manner.   


3.   Verdict 

I don't think I will go back. I don't find this place entertaining. But for a registered member, the price might be very attractive.  


FuelMix says:

1.  It's been a while since FuelMix dropped into Big Top, but we would have thought that the crowd on a Saturday afternoon around 4pm would be pretty good.  Unless of course it got better on a Saturday nite, which is certainly possible.  And we recall Big Top can get packed on a Saturday nite.

2.  Big Top does not have an exclusion door policy and accepts all customers of all ages.  We've seen 30 -50s and beyond, whites and Orientals.  A gay sauna is like a casino.....you pay your money and you take your chances.  Big Top certainly does get a large number of twinks and college boys.  Perhaps the timing was off and they'll show up later on Saturday evenings.

3.  Yeah, Big Top can have tons of attitude as well as Stand and Model. But we saw that in My Way and Jungle - and there's apparently tons of that in Hutong too.

Thanks for the update.

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