Members pauleiro Posted December 15, 2016 Members Posted December 15, 2016 Has anyone any news about San Juan gay life and escorts ? Thanks ! Quote
Guest bobbalino Posted December 15, 2016 Posted December 15, 2016 It appears there are strippers/gogos in some clubs, including a place called SX Bar (some naysayers call it brothel-like) where close to anything goes in terms of private'n'inexpensive lap-dances very late at night with performers outnumbering patrons. But it is hard to acquire clear and useful info about how worthwhile it is. We need a guinea pig to go in and assess. Or a member here who has been and is willing to spill the goods via post. I was at a conference a few years ago near the so-called gay beach but virtually empty on sunny winter days there. I was too busy to get to any nightlife. Puerto Rico is apparently a popular and welcoming LGBTQ travel destination. I would consider it more were it not for the prohibitive cost of USD currency. And I have seen the sights there a few times over several decades, though brief trips not particularly oriented to gay scene, such as business or cruise ship port of call. On one trip from cruise ship pier to a gay area 30 years ago, one of us left a passport in the cab and the driver later went out of her way to hunt us down through the crowds amongst a half dozen establishments. The vibe was so fun, my friend was not too perturbed by his awareness of the recently lost document, but obviously pleased and impressed with her kind diligence. Quote
Members Darkseraphim Posted February 26, 2017 Members Posted February 26, 2017 I plan on visiting San Juan this July for some sightseeing. The travel and lodging costs seem reasonable however since the economy is strongly tied to the US I'm a bit anxious to see how much the local prices are. I chose Puerto Rico over Peru for the time being because the air fare was significantly cheaper and the guys on Grindr appear to be attractive, eager and willing to play Quote
Members pauleiro Posted January 24, 2019 Author Members Posted January 24, 2019 I will be visiting San Juan this month during an extended week end. Any recent experiences anyone ? How many paper towel rolls should I bring ? Darkseraphim 1 Quote
Members Popular Post pauleiro Posted January 26, 2019 Author Members Popular Post Posted January 26, 2019 The ‘gayborhood’ in San Juan is on the other side of the highway from the traditional tourist areas of Condado and Ocean Park. Its an easy 10-15 minute walk from most hotels to the three main clusters of bars, discos and bathhouse located in the Santurce Arts & Culture District. Gay Bars in San Juan’s Condado Tourist Area: Although Condado used to be the center of all gay nightlife, over-gentrification has left the traditional tourist strip with only one remaining gay bar. But don’t worry – its a short walk under the highway to the Santurce Arts District where all the action continues just a 10 minute walk from Condado hotels. #11. Oasis (formerly Splash) – 6 Ave Condado across from the Marriott, next to Sandy Beach Hotel. Monday night is very popular with lots of strippers, low lights and much too much artificial smoke/fog/yuck… Look for Walgreens and CVS and walk toward the beach. Open afternoons til night. Neighborhood bar and tapas restaurant just a few steps to the beach. Atlantic Beach Hotel/Oceano Restaurant Beach – Also check out the beach in front of Atlantic Beach Hotel and Oceano Restaurantwhich is still very gay most days. Two blocks from Oasis (formerly Splash) if walking on the beach. Look for Calle Vendig if arriving via Ashford Avenue. The Atlantic Beach Hotel is listed in many gay guides – but call them and ask if you will be allowed to bring a friend up to your room – in the past, travelers have reported a strict ‘no visitors’ policy. Street Cruising – Lots of gay guys and gals live in Condado – so cruise along Ashford Avenue any time of day or night! Gay Bars and Clubs in Santurce Arts District: If you are at any of the Condado hotels – you can get to the Santurce Arts District by just crossing over or under the highway. There are three clusters of gay bars in the Santurce Arts District: Stop 18 at R.H. Todd Ave & Ponce de Leon Ave near the Metro Theater and Museum of Contemporary Art. Stop 22 is further down Ponce de Leon Ave at the intersection of De Diego Ave near the Fine Arts Center & Puerto Rico Museum of Art. Stop 24 is another 7-10 minute walk near the the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Calle Bolivar or Calle San Jorge. You can easily walk between each of the areas in about 10 minutes or grab a taxi. Note: ‘Stops’ or ‘Paradas’ are how locals estimate location along Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Arts District. This is a remnant from the old trolley system which hasn’t run since the 1940’s. There are no signs with the numbers (even at the bus stops) but all locals and taxi drivers will understand the general location from the ‘stop’ or ‘parada’ number. Santurce: Stop 18 Gay Bars – across the highway from Condado near Metro Theater & Museum of Contemporary Art. These are on Calle Condado (mislabeled Avenida Condado on the street sign) which is one block to the right if you are facing the Museum of Contemporary Art. The street has abandoned buildings and looks very seedy – but is generally safe. If someone approaches you just say ‘No Thanks’ and move on, just like you would in NYC. There are also a few straight bars on the block, so be careful and don’t assume everyone is gay – use your ‘gaydar’ and be respectful. If taking a taxi – just tell them ‘Stop 18’ and then go one block to the bars. #6. SX – 1204 Ave Ponce de Leon – Late night strippers and dance every night. Find the stainless steel door (usually with a doorman) and then go downstairs. There is a straight bar just next door at street level, so don’t get confused. Hot bartenders, strippers, loud music, dance floor in the front. Go upstairs at the back and then downstairs to find the darker, less noisy ‘hang-out’ area. #7. VIP – 613 Calle Condado – Very popular with the young Reggaetón and hip-hop crowd. Starts late and stays open after the other bars have closed. Same building as Scandalo but closer to Ponce de Leon. #8. Scandalo – 613 Calle Condado – late night strippers and more. #9. El Chinchorro de ‘W’ – Calle Condado on the block before Circo. New gay bar and snacks with great Happy Hour prices. Very popular late night! #10. Circo – 650 Calle Condado – Multi-level video bar and disco. Mansion Lounge – this is a straight bar in the middle of all the gay action on Calle Condado.KRASH Disco – 1257 Ave Ponce de Leon (next to Metro Cinema). Closed permanently for several years, but is still in many guides – so we’ve listed it for reference only Santurce: Stop 22 Gay Bars: Across the highway between the Fine Arts Center & Puerto Rico Museum of Art. If taking a taxi, tell them Ponce de Leon & Ave. De Diego – Santurce. #4. Tia Maria Bar & Liquor Store – 326 Ave De Diego – Neighborhood Gay Bar. Open from afternoon til midnight or 1am on weekdays, later weekends. Make sure you go on Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday nights for gay Karaoke from about 9pm until ??? #5. The Palace – 1501 Ave Ponce de Leon (2rd Floor) – 2nd floor disco and rooftop bar/terrace. Just around the corner from Tia Maria. Update April 2, 2016: They have now put up a new sign saying ‘Coming Soon’ and the entrance around the corner has a notice ‘Coming Soon’ as Papi’s Club… so not sure what will emerge… I’ll update as soon as I get info… Santurce: Stop 24 Gay Bars: This is the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Calle Bolivar. If you arrive from Ocean Park via Calle San Jorge, go past the San Jorge Children’s Hospital and up the hill to San Mateo Church. Then only one short block downhill to Ponce de Leon. If walking along Ponce de Leon from Tia Maria and The Palace, you go past the Ciudadela Condo Complex, First Bank, Arrivi Theater, Cobian’s Plaza (turn right for Temptation) and some vacant buildings until Abracadabraand Hotel San Jorge (for Zal Si Puedes). If taking a taxi, tell the driver ‘Stop 24’ at Leonardo’s or Cobian’s Plaza & walk one block. Bartender Angel at Temptation! #1. Temptation – 608 Calle Bolivar – Just one block from Cobian’s Plaza (3 blocks from Tia Maria and The Palace). Club is open from 9pm every night with Happy Hour Specials (see below for details). No cover charge. Everyone is welcome! Weekly Drag show at 2am on Saturday night! Temptation is easy to get to from all major hotel areas by taxi, driving (plenty of free street parking in the area) or even by walking from Condado/Ocean Park or a short walk from the other bar areas. www.temptationpr.com Happy Hours EVERY NIGHT at Temptation! #2. Zal Si Puedes – 1700 Ave Ponce de Leon. Small, friendly club catering to the 40+ crowd. Open Wednesday – Sunday nights from about 10pm til about 2am. Drag shows are mostly Thurs – Sat nights about 11:45pm but a diva may show up at any moment. Friendly and Fun! Located at Hotel San Jorge. The bar has seating for about 15 people – but often has up to 50 crowded in for shows plus spill-over on the street. You’ll see all the classic Latina Divas – like La Lupe, Yolandita, Paloma San Basilico, plus Barbara Streisand and Donna Summers thrown in if you’re lucky! #3. Xteamworks – 1752 Ave Fernandez Juncos. Bathhouse on second floor open from 6pm til about 2am Sunday – Thursday and until 6am on Friday and Saturday nights. A little hard to find, so check out their website for map. It’s next to a gas station with 24 hour mini-mart and upstairs from a sign store. Look for the doorbell next to the steel mesh gate on the right side of the ground floor entry. Very discrete from the street – very hot once you get there! Too far to walk home, so make sure that they help you call a taxi back to your hotel – or head back to Zal Si Puedes (two blocks away) or Temptations (four blocks away) and continue the fun! -------------------------------------------------------- From a recent gay guide on san juan. Pretty exciting ... AdamSmith, pazubane, Tomcal and 9 others 8 4 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted January 26, 2019 Author Members Posted January 26, 2019 As usual barmen seem to be quite sexy men ... axiom2001 1 Quote
Members endlessdream Posted January 29, 2019 Members Posted January 29, 2019 I was there about one year ago and didn't find any visible 'meat market'... Old San Juan is lovely, but very touristic, Miami price. Quote
Members pauleiro Posted January 30, 2019 Author Members Posted January 30, 2019 11 hours ago, endlessdream said: I was there about one year ago and didn't find any visible 'meat market'... Old San Juan is lovely, but very touristic, Miami price. Did you go to these lapdances places ie SX and Scandalo ? Quote
Members endlessdream Posted January 30, 2019 Members Posted January 30, 2019 3 hours ago, pauleiro said: Did you go to these lapdances places ie SX and Scandalo ? No. I replied on Grindr, next door dudes... Quote
Members Lucky Posted January 30, 2019 Members Posted January 30, 2019 Years ago I was in San Juan and wanted to go to the strip shows. So I checked out the one most famous during the daytime and learned that showtime was 2 and 4 a.m. That's a little late even for my younger self! Quote
Members Tartegogo Posted February 6, 2019 Members Posted February 6, 2019 In Old San Juan there is a regular arrival of cruise ships full of people with lots of dollars and probably horny (because no gay escort on the cruise ship itself!). If an escort had a small apartment in old San Juan, he could try to target them: when you get off the cruise ship, you can spend a couple of hours with him then do some walking around, and then walk back to the cruise ship, no transport needed, easy. It would probably be a nice business for the escort. axiom2001 1 Quote
Members BenjaminNicholas Posted February 7, 2019 Members Posted February 7, 2019 Or, there's always the former-Steamworks, now named Xteamworks https://www.yelp.com/biz/xteamworks-bath-house-san-juan Not exactly strippers, but diversion just the same ;) Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 21, 2019 Author Members Posted February 21, 2019 On my way to Puerto Rico ... Quote
Members msclelovr Posted February 21, 2019 Members Posted February 21, 2019 1 hour ago, pauleiro said: On my way to Puerto Rico ... Enjoy yourself (and others) @pauleiro and please report back. axiom2001 1 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 23, 2019 Author Members Posted February 23, 2019 Arrived in San Juan last Thursday and went to OASIS the first night. Only gay bar remaining in Conrado. Good music. Nice and friendly barman, Henry. As expected even though they claim to open at 9 pm, at 9.30 pm I was the only customer. A screen display softcore gay porn (white party in Fort Lauderdale). As usual in Puerto Rico the temperature inside the bar is feeezing cold. Outside is a little bit hot. Inside is definitely too cold. It is the same everywhere : restaurants, museum, shops ... back at 10.30 pm there are a few customers but no boys. "2 might come" says Henry... hay que esperar (we must wait) as they say in Latin America. Puerto Rico is American for the rules (for a foreigner it is the same as entering mainland US, $ is used, there are Walgreens and CVS ...) but is is clear we are in latin america : everyone speaks spanish. Most speak English of course. Roads are as bad as in latin america with big holes in the middle of the street. Back to OASIS, I waited until 0.30 am and no boys show up. Henry said that there would boys for sure on saturday and best night was monday for the black mondays. Pity I am no longer in SJU on monday. OASIS party seems to be hot and worth attending. OASIS is very near to the gay beach and it might be worth going there in daytime. axiom2001 and flipao 2 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 23, 2019 Author Members Posted February 23, 2019 View of the terrasse of OASIS and the program for monday nights flipao 1 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 23, 2019 Author Members Posted February 23, 2019 With a weak OASIS boywise and a weak Grindr (only place in the world where I see so many mature guys on this site), I was thinking that I might remain boyless for the week end. That was before I went to SX Friday night. OMG ! Lots of horny gogo boys. Cute and sexy bartenders not only bartending. An active pitch black dark room. Everything to make a gay man happy ! I will post more later axiom2001, flipao and likeohmygod 3 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 24, 2019 Author Members Posted February 24, 2019 SX Friday night. They claim it opens at 10pm but when I arrived at 10.30 pm I was the only customer ... but for the 3 barmen. I chatted with 2 of them and they were very friendly. Very cute also ... one is caucasian with very pretty face and nice defined body. His name is Yol (not sure of spelling, except that there is a "l" at the end). The other looks like the famous pictures of Che Guevara with beard and long hair. Che is the most friendly. We shake hands and chat a little about best timing to come and the gogo boys. According to him, there should be 15 boys tonite. When we stop chatting he makes sure to pass against me so that I can feel his ass. Che is very good looking. As a barman I imagin that he is off limits. Bit I am wrong : not in SX ! Back at 12 noon. Much more people now. And 12 to 15 boys. All types : from the tall and muscular black athlete to the skinny twink with afro haircut looking like a teenager. Boys ate not shy and come to you for a lapdance. For a few $ you can touch and gently wank their dick or put your hand in their underwear to grope their ass. There is a part of the bar separated by a curtain where you can take boys for serious action. 40 $ is the rate to wank, be wanked, finger, ... fucking can be performed in the toilets ... All barmen wear only their underwear to bartend. Che loves to keep his underwear lowered to show his perfect bubble ass and half of his dick. Sexy. He has a nice defined chest with tattoes. A great smile. Yol is bartending with a girl but frequently leaves the bar to be gogo boy. He has a great muscular body with a S of Superman tattoed on the left part of his chest. With a few $ or more, you can wank him. He is huge and seems to enjoy being groped. Firm ass with a hairy crack leading to a tight asshole. The boys are available for sessions outside and I saw a couple of customers leaving with a gogo boy. 60 to 80 $ seems to be the rate. I wonder if Yol is available .... I guess that he is. Good music. Cheap booze (beer is 3 $). Sexy and available boys in underwear always ready to rub their asd and dick on you or dancing in the nude. SX is a great discovery. ... For horny peoole, there is a backroom. Pitch black. "Solo para hombres"(only for men). A long corridor with lots of cocks out and in erection waiting to be wanked or sucked. Or couples kissing and fucking in this pitch black zone ... I went to SX on Friday and Saturday. Both nights were very good with friendly and cute gogo boys and sexy bartenders. The area where SX is located, is not so nice : definitely closed shops, huge agressive tags, no maintenance of the streets, garbage everywhere ... At 8 pm the zone is a bit scary : no one in the streets. But at midnight or at 2 or 3 am, there are many people in the streets. Since VIP and Scandalo aka the Toxic Bar are within a wzlking distance from SX, I walked to these places to check at around 2.30 am. VIP is claiming free entry and gigi boys from wednesday to sunday There were indeed a couple of boys when I checked both nights. But the place which is rather small was almost empty. Same for scandalo. At the same time, both nights, SX was full. I also went Saturday to Oasis around 2.30 am. The mast customers were already leaving. I did not see any gogo boy. Finally, if you go to SX by car (uber is operating in San Juan) there is a parking lot open 24/7 for the restaurant in front of SX. Enjoy PR ! Some pictures Sexy barman in underwear in SX Some boys flipao and Primeone385 2 Quote
Members msclelovr Posted February 24, 2019 Members Posted February 24, 2019 Great reports @pauleiro Thank you indeed! May I ask one question: is Puerto Rico just like the US when it comes to tipping for any and all services, and would you say 15% is the usual expectation? axiom2001 1 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 24, 2019 Author Members Posted February 24, 2019 27 minutes ago, msclelovr said: Great reports @pauleiro Thank you indeed! May I ask one question: is Puerto Rico just like the US when it comes to tipping for any and all services, and would you say 15% is the usual expectation? As in the US, bills come with indication for tipping with values of 15%, 18% and 20 % of the amount of service without local tax. It seemed to me that service was calculated in US on the total amount of the bill (including any tax). Maybe I was wrong. Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 24, 2019 Author Members Posted February 24, 2019 Some more pictures on SX axiom2001 and flipao 2 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 27, 2019 Author Members Posted February 27, 2019 VIP and Scandalo Two clubs very close to SX (100 m). Both claim to have gogo boys. I went to both clubs 2 consecutive days when I left SX around 2.30 am to check the gogo boys. I saw a couple of bored boys in VIP and in Scandalo but almost no customers. Compared to SX which was totally full at the same time with good quality gogo boys, choice is easy ! VIP and Scandalo are in the same building flipao 1 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 27, 2019 Author Members Posted February 27, 2019 The Bear Tavern Different style. For bear and admirers. They claim it is a good way to dtart the evening since they open at 6 pm and clubs are almost dead until 11 pm. I went on saturday around 7 pm and .... I was the only customer ! Since it was very close to the place I stayed, I went there around 2.45 am the same saturday night. It was still pretty busy with good music ftom the 70s and 80s. A few admirers. Only one was of interest to me but I was not of interest to him ... anyway it was time to go to bed at 3.30 am ! Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 27, 2019 Author Members Posted February 27, 2019 The boys at SX (pictures from internet. Most boys are no longer in SX). Enjoy and go discover the current boys ! Primeone385 1 Quote
Members pauleiro Posted February 27, 2019 Author Members Posted February 27, 2019 Bartender s outfit in SX and the pitch black backroom (for modern art specialists) Quote
