Spa Excess

I've been to 3 different bathhouses, this is my favourite, mostly due to the atmosphere. I often travel there on Friday nights (3 hours) after work to spend the night and travel home Saturday mornings. I find it a place to chill, there is a wide variety of cliental, facilities are clean, and varied enough to let you be "in the mix" or find a quiet space to relax. I almost didn't attend due some other reviews but have visited enough to see they have a core staff that are fun and friendly (that is a two way street, don't bring a poor attitude looking for someone to cheer you up) and when they do get staff that are not a good fit, they cycle them out. If you're a first timer I've never found anyone who didn't give me space when requested.

Every single time I come to spot access something become significantly less enjoyable than my last visit. During my last visit, the man at the front counter was so incredibly rude and withheld my five dollar deposit because I was a few minutes late checking out. This time the gentleman at the front counter a different individual questioned my sexuality verified my ID in order to ensure that I was old enough - let’s be clear I’m almost 40 and I’ve been coming here for 20 years. He refused me and my partner service for no reason would not provide any explanation for it be that he felt we were under age, perhaps intoxicated, perhaps any other reasonable explanation. And simply turned us away. I am very much looking forward to hearing back from management, or ownership, within the next few days in order to rectify the situation before I escalate to the city’s Liquor license board and business license council clearly there is a reason that we were denied entry and that was not shared with us. As far as I’m concerned that’s discriminatory and I’m sure the Canadian Human Rights council will feel the same way.

The place was very clean and well maintained and made for people to enjoy, but on a Sunday evening there were only four people there so it was probably not the best time to visit. I was from 10:00 pm to 12:00 am, There were no handsome guys, only grown-up gentlemen. Dear tattooed man at the reception desk! Please don't be hysterical when talking to guests. It's only because of this obnoxious guy that I don't want to go back to this place. The second administrator, an adult, was very polite. Well, as you can imagine, impressions are made up of all these factors.

Every time I travel to Toronto, I always spend one night here at Spa Excess and one night at Steamworks Bath. I don’t know if you ever put yourselves on the other side of the counter and experience things as a customer. At every visit, I face the same situation. The excitement I feel when I arrive here doesn’t last more than 15 minutes. It’s impossible to truly relax and enjoy myself sexually for three reasons that make me leave after about one hour every time. The music is not suitable for a sauna but feels more like nightclub music; the voice announcements to call people who are late or to announce the bar’s closing have no place here and kill everyone’s erection. The décor, with small pink lights next to the sling, feels a bit too feminine. Thank you as well for the smoking terrace, but it makes no sense to put smokers right next to the door and non-smokers at the back of the terrace—the opposite would be much more logical.

I have always like this place. Clean, good crowd, always lucky, fresh water, free towel exchange and I always got back the $5 towel deposit no questions asked. I got to watch the world cup, too, between sessions.