Bordeaux Sauna Ferrère 18 rue Ferrère 33000 Tel: 05.56.44.53.01 large, 50% Gray  Nice Le Bains Douches Rue Gubernatis 7 Le Bains Douches attracts a mixed crowd of younger and older gay men, but the atmosphere is lively and energetic, especially on Wednesday nights and weekends. This gay sauna is a great place to relax in Nice after a day on the beach or a heavy night in one of the town’s many x-rated clubs. Facilites include Jacuzzis, hammam, air-conditioning and a sauna. It also has a bar, darkrooms and cabins. Entry 10 Euros per person. Paris  The main gay area of Paris is concentrated in Le Marais region (East of the Centre Pompidou) especially in and around Rue Vielle du Temple.  However this area is fairy youth-orientated, although now there is quite a mixture and some new graygay or at bears bars have opened. It also has some particulalry good restaurants and cafés. The EuroMens Club sauna and Alexanders' Bar are about 5 minutes walk from each other. Unfortunately, the Vagabond has closed since July 2011. Interesting history of gay paris in the area near the Opera here Bar Alexander's bar 2 rue de Marivaux, 75002Paris, Tel:01.42.96.40.79 18.00-02.00 Very friendly bar situated near the Euromens Club Sauna. Recently changed ownership but bought by one of the regulars. Very busy in the early evening from around 6-8.30pm with a mostly mature crowd and some admirers too - partly becuase of the excellent free bar snacks. It also attracts a late night crowd for a nighcap after dinner. Gray 70 %, Admirers 30%, Rent 0%, Music Level 1, Cruise 6, Elegance Factor 6. Bar/Hotel Bar Central/Hotel Central 33 Rue Vielle du Temple (Metro: Hotel de Ville) Camp but fun bar has occasional mature clients or at least more than most of the other bars in the area. The small, gay Hotel Central Marais is just upstairs. Gray-20%, -20%, Rent-5%, Music Level 7/10, Cruise Factor 7/10, Elegance 5/10 Le Classic Bar 12 Rue des Haudrietts 75003 Paris Venue Tel: 01.42.71.56.60 Call for hours Opened 30th November 2001 in a converted disco. Bruno, the owner, is a friendly younger guy who loves older guys and felt there was a need for a larger venue in Paris. The first real Gray gay bar in the Marais area and a great addition to the scene (Pewit) One Way 28 Rue Charlot, 75003 (Metro- République) For bears, chubbies and chasers Nightclub Le London 33 Rue des Lombards, 75001 (Metro - Chatalet) 10pm - ? Tel: 01.42.33.41.45 Attracts a mixed crowd with some older guys. Has a fairly large bas and disco with "interesting" dark passageways. Bar/Restaurant  Le Vagabond  (after 53 years!) Restaurant Le Gai Moulin 4 Rue Saint Merri (Metro: Hotel de Ville) Tel: 01.42.77.60.60  12am - 2pm, 7.30pm - 11.30pm, Sat/Sun 7.30pm - 11.30pm Gray-10%, Admirer-5%, Rent-0%, Music Level 2/10, Cruise Factor 2/10, Elegance 8/10 17 Euro 3-Course Menu Established more than 20 years ago as one of the firstgay-owned, operated and gay-friendly restaurants in the Marais,Le Gai Moulin packs in about 35 diners at two rows of small square tables squeezed side-by-side. The owner, Christophe, and his brother, Pascal, wait tables with particularly good humor, make friends with all their clients and sell T-shirts to GaiMoulin fans. gay or straight, with the tables so close and the devil-may-care attitude of the mostly gay clientele, it is almost impossible NOT to strike up a conversation with your neighbors and end up in a more animated and party mood than you entered with. The quality of the food is very good considering the price. There is an "entrée du jour," "plat dujour" and "dessert du jour" to choose from as well as about six traditionally prepared dishes on the menu. All in all, this is an excellent bargain for a good meal and a great time. Reservation advised especially weekends. Le 3 (was Fond du Cour) 3 Rue St Croix de la Bretonnaire (Metro Hotel de Ville) Tel: 01.42.74.71.52. Open 8pm-midnight. Meals from €15-40. (Restaurant is down small allyway off side street near Bar Central) Mixed but mostly gay upscale restaurant with excellent food. Reservation advised especially weekends. Recent change of ownership but quality has not dropped. Gray-10%, Admirer-5%, Rent-0%, Music Level 2/10, Cruise Factor 2/10, Elegance 8/10 Chez Stella 3 Rue Thérèse 75001 Paris Tel: 01.42.96.22.15 Nice "gay friendly" restaurant, eventhough not exclusively gay some graygay and no gay couples and /or tourists. Older Men: 40% - 50% Admirers: ? Cruise 0% No hustlers. Elegance: 5 Price: 65 /69FF including dessert. Just two steps from the "Vagabond". Open: 12 to 22 (10pm) weekends closed Sauna/Baths  Euro Men's Club 8-10 Rue Saint-Marc, 75002 (Metro - Bourse/Grands Boulevards)  Mon-Sat 12pm-11pm, Sun 2pm-12am.  Tel.:01.42.33.92.63 Gray-50%, Admirer-50%, Rent-0%, Music Level 3/10, Cruise Factor 10/10!, Elegance 8/10 Very large sauna on 3 levels with 2 saunas, steam room, TV/rest room, porno cinema, 10-seat jaccuzi, swimming pool with Greco-Roman painting around the walls, cabins, dark room. Free condoms and lube on entry. You name it - it's got it, and hot and cold running men of all ages too! (Report 05/04) The changing areas and the TV room on the entry level are at last being renovated to a high standard with new painting and lighting as well as the formerly lethal stairways - part of a long renovation. Sauna Victor Hugo Bains d'Odessa, 5 rue d'Odessa 75014 Paris  Tel: 01.43.20.91.21 Daily from 12.00pm-2.00am Metro line 4,6,12 and 13, station Montparnasse Bienvenue, use Rue D'Odessa exit. Located next to a Multiplex movie theatre Gaumont Parnasse on Odessa street in the courtyard of a building. Landmark building from the end of the XIX century entirely renovated and with great taste. All facilities on 4 levels (-1: sauna, dry hot room and jacuzzi and video room. ground floor: dressing rooms (3) vending machines and smoking lounge, 2: cabins.3: glory holes, black rooms video rooms and so on). Free condoms. This place use to be a regular bath house but it closed a couple years ago and re opened last July (2004) as a gay sauna. Gray 60% Admirer 50% Bains Montensiers 7 rue de Montreuil 94300 Vincennes (Close suburb north of Paris facing Chateau de Vincennes) Large modern place 40% gray, gay bachelors and bears Le Riad 184 rue des Pyrénées (M° Gambetta) 75020 PARIS Tel: 01.47.97.25.52 Owners Report 09/01: "A new fabulous sauna oriental style with a lot of mosaic everywhere. The music is very low and oriental style also. This place is very good too relax and more naturly. It is on 2 levels with sauna, stream rooms swimming pool. The Cabins are very much more large then others sauna and the mattress more thick. When going here you are really in Thousand and one nights atmosphere. The choice of the owners is to make any selection on age or type of gays. You can find here some yougmen, older men, married men...Looking each other one. There isn't any segregation. Every one here is welcome and this is very nice. They have a website: This is the only one place to go to find nice people in a nice place and clean. All other sauna for oldermen in Paris are a little dirty." Organisations Les Gais Retraités (LGR) Les Gais Retraités (Retired Gays) is a social group for gay seniors and admirers in the Paris region. Association de convivialité, dîners, bavardages, promenades, voyages, théâtre/cinéma, réunion entre retraités et sympathisants (gérontophiles,...) Adresse: BP 15 92114 Clichy Cedex Tel: 01 47 37 75 07 de 12h à 17h Email: l.gr@wanadoo.Fr S Photos from Gay Pride Parade Montpellier  Bains du Peyrou  Nice Bars Le Rusca 2, rue Rusca - 06000 Nice Tel 04.93.89.46.25 18h-2h30 Jacques knows how to treat his guests. The clientèle is 'older'. Jacques changes his decor every 2 months. Best late at night. Music varies from techno to disco.Once a month now he organizes an evening for bears and their friends. Best Time: Midnight Sauna/Baths  Le Sept 7 Rue Foncet 06000 Nice Tel 04.93.62.25.02 13h30-21h The oldest sauna in town and therefore not always so clean. Older clientèle. Report 08/2001: "This place was heaving with silverfoxes on the Sunday afternoon that I went (late July). Many appear to have been tourists from Paris." 80% Gray, 20% admirer Azur Sauna 4 Quai Papacino (at the port) Tel: 04.93.56.25.00. It is quite good with 30% Gray factor and 8 cruise factor. It is a mixed sauna also, but did not stop anyone. Toulouse  Sauna Le Président 38, rue Alsace Lorraine 31000 Toulouse Tel: 05.61.21.52.18 . E-Mail at ponsolles.patrice@free.fr Opening Times: 11:00am to 09:30 pm Price: 100FF or 15,25 Euro Gray 60% The sauna is well know for meeting mature men and is open all year round. The sauna is located in a cosy apartment close to the centre of town