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Like a Swiss enterprise!
Visited November 2012. This bathhouse is managed with the utmost efficiency. This multi-story labyrinth is right in the middle of Boystown. Rooms are adequate (with multiple porn channels) and everything is very clean. There are vending machines for foods & drinks. And there are always men around to whom to play. Train station is just a couple of blocks away.
bottoms up
I am a fan of STEAMWORKS and this is another review about the place. Like I said before during the week is not that crowded even though I have had really good shags on different weekdays however I became aware of something that I never paid attention to and that is the place is full of bottoms(I am one of them) but I don't walk around too much I relax just by been in my room every time that I go to STEAMWORKS I come from work and I don't feel like walking I always rent a room and if someone is interested they just go to my room and I decide if I let them in.However in one of this visits I got to talk to a very handsome young guy who was upset because everybody was a bottom and it was a very busy night mind you and he had a great body and ass, on another night a guy that I have sex with every time that I see him at the club told me that they were all bottoms on that night, for him is perfect because he is a top. So I paid more attention and walked around the rooms and there were a lot of asses up in the air so I guess is true , at the club there are a lot of bottoms but also great looking guys and in some weekdays the clientele is not very attractive but I guess we cannot have it all all the time , still the best bathhouse to go to at least for me.
Made me feel so roman!
This was my first bathhouse and I had a great time! There was one guy who got too aggressive with me but he backed off before things got too bad. All ages were there, I wish I'd at least tried to come on to the twinks but I was too nervous. Met a nice guy and will go again if I ever get the chance.
save your time and money and go to Manscountry instead
It was my first and my last time at Chicago's Steamworks. It was nothing like the glowing reviews it is getting. It has a single floor of room maze, compared to 3 floors of Manscountry. The overrated Steamworks jacuzzy turned out to be a small triangular area sufficient for 5 guys, the water was foaming and seemed dirty. The gym is full of old style machines and free weights and as a rule is empty except occasional 1-2 guys. The croud on Saturday midnight was 99% bottoms, young, middle aged, with puffy or sagging bodies. There were 2 hot black guys. I hooked with one of them but the crowd of bottoms followed us everywhere and would not leave us alone even when asked explicitly so we had to give up doing anything. The place is designed so that you can't get any privacy anywhere and have to give free sex shows to the hordes of sex-hungry bottoms constantly circulating around. That is, unless you get an overpriced room. Manscountry is way better because you can always hide with your man in a corner or a rest room without being bothered by hordes of insolent bottoms. Being located in the middle of Boistown, I expected Steamworks to be queeny and filled with lame sex experience but not to the extent I witnessed! The place is simply no fun if you really wanna have hot sex with hot guys in private.