yes-have seen them too-but the custom for them would/is not there either.
Re Chiang Mai- HOUSE OF MALE, the best known ChMai sauna, long established, just behind the parking lot of the KadSuanKaew=Central shopping centre and close to the main uni. Reportedly there is another sauna in the Club 1-7 ''resort'' also open for outsiders, but I think this is not regular.
Old-style Thai house, nicely decorated, but all open-air, so you also enjoy the cold and heat of ChMai-and the mozzies. Fairly large pool with also shady huts beside. Not too big, so even a small crowd can look it like busy. Entry was 130 bt, no freebies, except drinking water and mouth-wash from a tank-listerine type.
Farang on my visit seemed to make out 30-40% of all. Many visitors seemed to be regulars and chat with one another. Customers very mixed with a fair lot of young Thai too, many just popping in+out after a quickie. There are just 5-6 cabins, in an AC-area, not tissue, no condoms(bring yourself), and if busy, waits have to be endured. Also a very dark maze or so, too dark for me. Caution: many up+down steps anywhere-take heed or stumble. Later in the evening one may even see Thai getting close in public-not very common elsewhere.
Perhaps it was my newcomers luck, but quite soon I was nearly dragged off into a cabin.

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