Sweatbox - London

Maybe this is because I'm not from London, and this was 3am on a Saturday night? The place was busy, mostly a younger, student crowd, all seemed like they'd been to a club and this was the last chance saloon. There was no air conditioning, even the showers and "hot tub" were boiling hot. It was a little nauseating.

Most people seemed to be wandering about in little groups, and absolutely no one seemed interested in ******** or having ***, I didn't see any of that at all even in the public areas. Went into the "lounge" area to purchase a bottle of water. Waited 30 mins, rang the bell several times but staff blatantly ignoring me and others in need of a drink whilst they helped themselves to some and chatted on their phones.

This is a place called "sweatbox after all"! I noticed a drinking fountain in the locker rooms but it was broken. Apparently they have had some trouble with GHB in the venue so are paranoid about anyone carrying a bottle of water outside the lounge, if you can even get one.

I was so annoyed I decided to leave at this point and warn others what a terrible experience I had. So disappointing. As I left one of the staff on the main desk had the cheek to ask me for a cigarette, and one for his co-worker (who couldn't speak a word of English) the same staff who couldn't be bothered to get their customers a bottle of water.

I have been here many times and I do like it, plenty of guys and lots of fun at the weekends, especially over London Pride weekend. However over Pride 2014 they were not issuing the p*** outs and rather than have to pay each time I ended up in Pleasuredome and had a better time over pride. Not saying I won't go back but am going to use another sauna for a while as I have felt it not as good as it used to be and needs some minor attention to detail like condom and lube buckets in the cabins to encourage safe *** as I found there was a lot of unsafe *** on offer.