Goiânia Report

[Xclay]

In case you like to explore off-the-beaten path destinations, here is a summary of my five nights in Goiânia (120 miles southwest of Brasilia):

● Goiânia has 1.5 million residents, 2.6 in the metro area (roughly the same size as Porto Alegre). As about the 12th largest metro, it should have a sufficient base to support a GP sauna and it does: Thermas Botafogo.

● Thermas Botafogo: Address, photos here.
Website here but more info on Facebook. Instagram here.

PROS:

● Fairly large facility. In the photo, you can see the spacious, airy bar area. Big lockers. Downstairs level has steam, sauna, and rooms (most with showers). It also has an amusing "dark room" that always had the lights on (and no people).

● Low prices. Rooms 25. GPs can be 100 (local price). One guy seemed very happy with the 20 extra tip.

● Owner Márcio is a good, friendly guy.

● Saturday night was packed with over three dozen clients and maybe 12 or more GPs. That ratio is not bad because many men come to have a beer with friends and not bed anybody. Also, my estimate of GPs is inexact because some guys I thought were clients were GPs. I later learned that GPs are supposed to have locker keys with a thin red rubber band on their wrist, but not all do. Clients have thin black bands.

● Saturday night had a fairly good variety of GPs. Two or three were especially handsome. Saturday nights are billed as party with a (happily) short lipsync show. 

DISAPPOINTMENTS:

● Wednesday and Thursday nights only one star GP (Fabio) was there to save the night amid the half-dozen Italian-looking GPs in their 30s with bellies and no pecs (who might have been hot 10 years ago).

● Friday and Sunday were better than Wed/Thurs but did not match Saturday.

● Goiânia itself was disappointing. The art deco "district" is in sad, crumbling decline. The art galleries were closed for renovation. And the Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center is a mess. It has to be the least interesting architecture the man ever designed, acres of concrete with a few third-rate Brasilia reruns (although it looks OK from one distant vantage point).

● As RioBard noted previously, "Pirenópolis and Cidade de Goiás are two colonial/gold towns worth visiting."  Alas, each is a couple of hours away, and I was not eager to spend four hours RT in a car for a day trip.

SUGGESTIONS:

On 2/21/2021 at 11:48 PM, davet said:

As with Brasilia, I'd expect Goiania's garoto scene to be small and quiet but with the possibility of finding one or two unexpected gems. Sexual excitement benefits from gambler's excitement, which requires striking out now and then.

Just so!  If you like that gamble, you may like a long weekend in Goiânia. Perhaps combine it with a short flight up to Brasilia if you've never been. For me the Goiânia gamble paid off, with two GP gems that I plan to keep in touch with. But otherwise I would have struck out.

[bucky13]

5 hours ago, Xclay said:

● Goiânia has 1.5 million residents, 2.6 in the metro area (roughly the same size as Porto Alegre). As about the 12th largest metro, it should have a sufficient base to support a GP sauna and it does: Thermas Botafogo.

Sao Paulo has 12.3MM population and a huge gay presence.    Why?? oh Why?? can it only support ONE decent GP Sauna???  

[Xclay]

Good question. Sadly the owners of failed 555 (intended as the new Fragata) blew it with a terrible location.

 

[davet]

Thanks for the thorough report. I could see revisiting Brasilia, where I found the 1-2 gems and that was all I needed, and swinging through Goiana and the colonial towns (which I'm a sucker for) and maybe on to Manaus.