TotallyOz Posted January 6, 2013 Posted January 6, 2013 I wrote this a while back as my friend Stephan Lacoste helped me to fall in love with France. I spent a long time with him in Paris and I loved the city. If it were not for the expense, I'd be living in Paris today! I have almost decided that I'll eventually move to France or Spain and have tried to find a place that I'll love and feel comfortable and not break my wallet. I have enjoyed my trips to Montpellier and think is it lovely. Langue Cock Boytoys Guide Montpellier, France The Best Kept Gay Travel Secret In The World! Imagine a warm Mediterranean city filled with young gay men who speak English but without any of the tourist shops or hassle you have to deal with when you visit Nice, Cannes or Paris! If that sounds like fun, Boytoy wants to let you in on the best-kept gay secret in Europe Montpellier, France! Located in the Languedoc region of France near the Spanish border, you'll find many men ready willing and able to speak Langue Cock! Once considered off the beaten path, the development of cheap flights from London and fast trains from Paris over the past dozen years has turned this student town into one of the most popular gay destinations in all of Europe! Yet, the word has yet to catch on in America so the French here don't hate us yet, prices are much cheaper than Paris and your cut cock will still be a novelty item to the Montpellier boys! The median age for Montpellier residents is 30 years old, and the city has a higher per capita gay population than Paris or London meaning that you can find all the gay men you can swallow and almost never have to see a gray pube on your entire trip! Better still the weather is almost always warm, there is an entire nude village nearby, you can be on the beach in about 15 minutes and easily get your ass to the clubs at night, without breaking the bank! You'll find that even in high season, hotel rooms in Montpellier cost about half what they do in Nice or Cannes, and the beaches are far less crowded than any of the marquee Mediterranean beaches. But, you'll want to visit soon, because a gay vacation destination this good won't remain a secret forever and you want to get your ass over here while you can still find fresh meat! The city also has a fairly compact and pedestrian-friendly center of town, lots of resources for English speakers and its own quality cuisine to fill your belly before you head out to score! So, my delightful drag queens, delicious divas, smooth twinks and burly bears, let us take you somewhere you've never been before to the Roman ruins and kick-ass clubs of Montpellier, France! Clubbing For Cock In Montpellier, satisfying your cockaholic cravings is all about hitting the club scene and shaking your sassy ass! Unlike most of the gay bars and clubs in America, the Montpellier gay scene is mixed between gay men and lesbians so on any given night you'll see both boys and girls in any bar or club. In the center of town, Heaven is the most well-known and longest running of all of the gay bars and where you want to go early in the night. The bar opens around 8 p.m. and people start dancing around 10. The scene is always hot, but because they only have a 1 a.m. license the night tends to end early! Heaven is a mix of young student types and older sugar daddy types. Twice a month they hold lesbian only nights called Ovaireland - which you'll probably want to avoid. For a harder scene, you can visit TNT in the city center which is a newer, trendier and much more hard core gay bar which also closes at 1 a.m. If you want to dance the night away, the larger gay clubs don't open until midnight and most of them stay rocking until around 5 or 6 a.m. They are all located outside the city center, but most of them run shuttle buses between the train station and the clubs all night long during the spring and summer. Of these, the most legendary is Villa Rouge which attracts famous DJs from New York and London and is famous for having one of the largest and dirtiest back rooms in southern Europe. The gay clubs around Villa Rouge are constantly changing their names but all of them are known for dirty dancing and delightful dicking! If you are tired of speaking French and feel like grabbing a cocktail before the gay bars open, you can visit the Vert Anglais right around the corner from Heaven a mostly straight, but very gay friendly, bar where all of the staff are British, Canadian or English. Their cosmos and chocolate martinis have brought Madame Ovary to her knees! Marche Aux Fleurs Most of the center of Montpellier known as Centre Ville is one large gay neighborhood. You'll find tons of restaurants with rainbow flags, flyers for the gay bars and clubs and lots of men checking each other out everywhere you go. You'll even discover Carla's Eyeworks a gay eyeglass shop! In fact the only places that are not gay friendly in Montpellier are the two Irish sports bars but these homophobes are obvious and easy to avoid! Just walk away as soon as you see a Guinness sign! But, the gayest part of this gaytown is the Place du Marche Aux Fleurs, behind the Prefecture. Here you'll find four gay daytime cafes surrounding a beautiful French square. Heaven is right around the corner as are several sex shops, a gay sauna and several gay clothing stores. It's the heart and soul of gay Montpellier! Promenade Du Peyrou At the edge of Centre Ville and roughly three blocks from Marche Aux Fleurs is the Promenade Du Peyrou a beautiful garden from which you can see all of Montpellier, the Mediterranean and the mountains while being just steps away from cockalicious cruising! The entrance to the Peyrou features an exact replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. When you walk through the arch and cross a street you'll be in a large stone garden, filled with giant trees and beautiful flowers. Keep walking and you'll approach a manmade pond and then the start of the Roman aqueduct. You'll also be at the highest point in Montpellier. From here you can see lush mountains in the distance and the entire layout of the beautiful city! The aqueduct is old old old, but has been restored several times over the past few hundred years. If you walk down the steps of the aqueduct during the day, you are likely to find older French men playing a regional version of bocce ball, known as petonk. At night, however, this area becomes cruising heaven with men literally lining the streets looking to hook up and there are always a fair number of male prostitutes in the mix so if you don't want to pay for it, make sure your man is a volunteer! To Dress Or Not To Dress The Montpellier Beach Question If you visit Montpellier in the spring or summer, you'll want to hit the beach and visit either Palavas Les Flots or Cap D'Agde. Both beaches are an easy and inexpensive to get to via the local mass transit system. Palavas Les Flots is a free beach on the Mediterranean surrounded by nice restaurants, gaudy tourist shops and the smallest, most fagtabulous casino you may have ever seen. It's all very James Bond in the casino, with men required to wear jackets and waiters ready to bring crisp gin and tonics right to the blackjack table for you. The beach itself is a nice mix of straight and gay and if you want to feel extra fabulous you can rent a beach chair for a modest fee and have drinks brought right to your favorite tanning spot all day long. For those more adventurous among us who like to let it all hang out, Cap D'Agde is one of the hottest beach communities in the world. Not only is the beach itself nude the entire village is nudist. You can go to the bank, the post office and even the local restaurants wearing not a stitch of clothing which means there's eye candy everywhere, even if you'll have to see a few fatties along the way! Place De La Comedie If Montpellier was a princess, the Place de la Comedie would be the jewel in her crown. Located right in the heart of the city, this square looks like a wedding cake come to life. The giant square is surrounded by four huge cafes. The Opera House and the Esplanade Charles De Gaulle mark off either end of the Comedie which has some of the best people watching in the entire world. The Montpellierans are very relaxed about their cafe culture so you can easily sit in the Place de la Comedie and nurse a coffee for hours while you watch the people go by. Behind the Place de la Comedie is the city's English language movie theater, several sex shops and the Rockstore a gigantic club that features four different types of music a night in large separate rooms until 5 a.m. Most of the cafes here close early so the Place de la Comedie is a total daytime gaytime activity! During the day, the Esplanade at the end of the Place de la Comedie is home to a giant open-air market, where you can buy anything and everything from new shoes to beautiful tapestries! It's a bargain hunter's wet dream! Musee Fabre The most spectacular tourist site in the city is the recently reopened Musee Fabre just steps away from the Place de la Comedie. The museum was originally opened in the 1825 and was only closed for renovations for about four years at the turn of this century. In 2007 it had a fabulous reopening and now is a wonderful showcase for paintings by Rubens, Dufy, and Marquet among others. It's a little bit of culture in this otherwise sin soaked city! The Montpellier Botanical Gardens The Montpellier Botanical Gardens is the oldest botanical garden in all of Europe, commissioned by Henry IV in the 1500s. Today it remains a giant public garden, filled with rare fauna from around the world and open to the public seven days a week, 365 days a year. You can literally get lost among the flowers and easily spend an entire afternoon in the Botanical Gardens as long as you remember to stop and smell the roses! Montpellier Shopping Montpellier is a small European city but it is filled with some of the top name brand clothing stores and boutiques, just like the ones you'd find in Paris. However, in Montpellier the prices are lower and the stores are almost never crowded so you can get a full, big-city shopping experience at Hermes or Armani without any of the big-city hassle! It was enough to make me update my entire wardrobe! I'm still on a shopping high! For the most fabulous shops, wander up and down Rue Foche and Rue de la Loge, connecting the Place de la Comedie with the Peyrou! It will take your breath away! Take A Visit To Montpel-Gay! If you are tired of the tourists and want to go on a great gaycation where you can shop til you drop, hit the beach and even do your banking au natural Montpellier, France is where the boys are! All you have to do is get your sweet ass over there. cc boytoy.com 2012 Theolover and lookin 2 Quote
Members RA1 Posted January 6, 2013 Members Posted January 6, 2013 Heretofore I thought Montpelier was the capital of Vermont. Nice report. Thanks. Best regards, RA1 TotallyOz 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 The sauna there not only has a loyatly card so that every fifth visit is free, but even if you don't have the card you get free entry on your birthday. They also made one of the streets near heaven an official city sanctioned cruising street after dark - you walk up and down the street at night an literally guys are lined up on the street to fool around for free. Quote
Guest Posted May 11, 2014 Posted May 11, 2014 Where's the best place to find a cutie for hire in Montpellier? (other than maybe Gay Romeo) Quote
TotallyOz Posted May 11, 2014 Author Posted May 11, 2014 Where's the best place to find a cutie for hire in Montpellier? (other than maybe Gay Romeo) GayRomeo is the best. But, you might find some on Grindr if you word your profile right. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 11, 2014 Posted May 11, 2014 Plenty of student twinks who need money hang out at Heaven. A loto f the boys who cruise the peyrou at night are working boys and Grindr will have lots of options. The average wage for people under 30 in Montpellier is currently 1,400 euros a month so pretty much every young guy needs cash. AdamSmith 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted May 11, 2014 Posted May 11, 2014 BBB, welcome back! Now tell us all about it?! Quote
Guest Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 Plenty of student twinks who need money hang out at Heaven. A loto f the boys who cruise the peyrou at night are working boys and Grindr will have lots of options. The average wage for people under 30 in Montpellier is currently 1,400 euros a month so pretty much every young guy needs cash. Thanks for the advice. What's the going rate there? Quote
Guest Posted May 14, 2014 Posted May 14, 2014 Should this thread be in the European section, just to help people find it in future? Quote
Members axiom2001 Posted May 14, 2014 Members Posted May 14, 2014 great info Thanks My sentiments as well.... Quote
Guest Paragon Posted May 16, 2014 Posted May 16, 2014 When I was in Montpellier, I picked up this gorgeous 18 year old gymnast, so smooth you could slide right over him if you weren't careful. Thankfully, all I had to do was grab hold of his mammoth cock and hold on. But that's not the story I am here to tell. After our foreplay, kissing and light nipple play, he pulled my underwear down and saw my single gray pube. He got so excited, saying he didn't see many of those, but he thought it was so fagtabulous that he sucked me twice, each time going down so far that he could lick that gray pube. I finally gave him a photo of it since my cock was almost raw by the end of the night. In retrospect, I should have just cut it off and given it to him. Quote
Guest Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 This visit is a severe disappointment so far. No one cruising around anywhere near the Peyrou. Tried about 3:00 pm, 8:30 pm and just before 10:00 pm. Including the far side down the steps by the aqueduct. Heaven is closed until June. One other gay bar I found listed seems to be closed without trace. The bars around the Marche Aux Fleurs are just ordinary cafes which happen to attract a few small gay groups. All the boys I like on Gayromeo are top... Thankfully this is a pleasant town to spend time in during the day. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 10 p.m. is too early fo the peyrou. And yes you have to go down the steps and follow the aqueduct down a bit. The past couple of days because it's been warm a fair number of the in-town gays have been down in the gay section Cap D'agde (the nude gay resort.) Weird Heaven is closed. I was planning to go there tonight. They must be doing some sort of renovation. Le Mens should be open. https://plus.google.com/100971101312432769076/about?gl=fr&hl=en Last week the gay sauna was packed with dudes fucking and there were a few obvious rent boys there. Quote
Guest Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Which of the saunas do you mean? I visited Koncept sauna at about 9:00 pm. There were about 5 other people there, mostly fairly mature. Steamed myself for a short while and left. There's been a fairly stiff breeze in the last 24 hours, so I don't fancy braving the beach. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Well the saunas are mostly a daytime activity. Also you need to remember that yesterday was a national holiday so there were less people out and about in general. I was at my regular straight bar last night - which usually has about 50 or 60 people in it and there were only about eight peole there. The french don't do anything on their holidays. Which makes sense, if you tried to go out in America on Labor Day a ton of shit would be closed too. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 And 9 p.m. is the worst time. French people eat dinner between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Sauna 36 should be open. Checking now to see if the one I was at last week is open today or if they closed for the holiday. http://www.sauna-le36.com/ Quote
Guest Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Thanks. What's a likely time to find a cute rent boy there? Or where else should I look for one? And at what time? Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 It's going to vary day by day to some level. I'd say early afternoon after lunch - around 3 p.m. or after dinner around 11 p.m. Those boys generally still live with mom and dad who will expect them to be home for both lunch and dinner. Between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. can also be good, because married couples often go out for the "six a huit" cocktail hour, leaving the young men with time on their hands. I'm surprised you didn't find some action at Cafe de la Mere, the super gay cafe in marche au fleurs. Usually at night that place is a meat market. Though they do tend to get the overflow from Heaven, so if Heaven is doing rennovations or whatever, their business may be down a bit. Personally when I want a rent boy I head to the peyrou around midngith to 1 a.m., though I know there are people who don't like picking up street boys. I sent out a facebook message to some of the boys I know party hard and asked them if they know which places are going to likely be open/good even though it's a holiday weekend. Le Men's was great the last time I was there - but you know what gay bars are like. Super trendy and popular one day and suddenly considered yesterday's news the next day. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Ok. Heard back. Sauna 36 is supposedly the place to go sauna wise. When I've gone to saunas on my own I've liked Sauna de la Gare - but it is sleezy. Sauna 36 is much, much more upscale. Quote
Guest Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 I went to sauna 36 at 5pm and stayed to 6:30, which is the busiest time for saunas in many countries. There were 4 other customers when I arrived and probably just one when I left. Thankfully one was a nice Asian who made it a worthwhile visit. Le Mens appears to be closed permanantly. I wandered around and couldn't see any evidence of it, despite gps saying I was in the correct location. Comparing the photos on their website with my photo of the street, it seems there is a not very gay looking business called Tralala occupting the site now. There is a newish looking gay bar called Cubix. As the music was already too loud for me whilst outside the building and the guys inside didn't appeal, I didn't venture inside. Montpellier is a nice enough town, but it's gay scene is nothing special. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Cubix is opening tonight. I didn't want to mention it just in case they had something fail and they had to put it off until tonorrow. Tell then you know "Enda" from "The Black Sheep" and you might be treated very well. I think your problem may be you are going out too early. It's now 11:15. I'm thinking of going out an hour from now. Quote
