Club Hispalis San Jose

Club Hispalis

Club Hispalis

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Calle 19, San Jose, Costa Rica

Club Hispalis is a male-only sauna and fitness centre close to the gay centre of San Jose.

The sauna offers lockers, a jacuzzi, heated pool and darkrooms downstairs.

Men here are often willing to play, but maybe brush up on your Spanish as some tourists have had difficulty with the entrance attendants.

Reviewers mention the wide range of hot guys, a good mix of ages and types. Make sure to go in the early evenings, not late at night like most saunas.

Nearest station: Museo

Features:
Bar
Darkrooms
whirlpool
Rate Club Hispalis
3.6
Audience Rating

Based on 49 votes

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Enrique Cambronero

3-Feb-2024

Best action

The only way you can pay with a card is if you were from Costa Rica. They have a system called SINPE. It works just between banks in Costa Rica and that is how you pay for everything even hispalis. So if you are a foreigner take cash as a visa, mastercard etc etc will not be accepted. The entrance fee is 6000 but because the rate of exchange has changed ( good for locals but not for tourists) what used to be $9.50 is now $11.50 to enter hispalis. They did away with the smoking section. All the action is downstairs 14 rooms for free as there are no rooms for rent. It opens at 12 noon up until 9pm. The best days are Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 3 pm to 7 pm. It is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The clientele as I mentioned before is not that diverse. You'll find mostly young guys and the regular paunchy guys from the beautiful to not so beautiful a lot of super hung guys. I would say a lot of BB 50/50. It is crowded on Sundays. If you want to take a drink downstairs ask for a plastic cup. Lube and condoms, better take your own. They'll give you sandals but you can take your own if you want to. A lot of action in the labyrinth but you can take someone to the free rooms. You can find all kinds of play and group acitivities in the hallways is common. Thursdays are slow but you can always find someone. When they give you a key to your locker let's say # 25 that means that there are 25 guys in the club so on and so forth. The usual walking around but probably you have not seen so much sex in one place. I live in the USA and the club that I go to, it is just walking around endlessly with not too much sex going on. At hispalis, there is a lot of sex going on. To me hispalis is the best non-stop action. To get there take UBER and when you leave take UBER as I understand at night even though looks like a nice area it is not. Personally I wouldn't take anyone where I am staying. If you are a tourist and like gay saunas HISPALIS is a must.

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Enrique Cambronero

28-Oct-2021

Update

The price of entrance remains the same 6000 colones $9.50. The best way to get there is UBER (very cheap)if you compare it to UBER prices in the STATES nowadays. They open at 12 and as soon as you get in you can hook up if you are so inclined. A lot of the guys are hung horse. The age factor like any sauna between 18 and 90. However older guys hook up with guys their age. The younger ones tend to hook up with guys more or less the same age. Since you don’t pay for the rooms you don’t see guys waiting in the rooms. You take the guys from the glory holes, sauna, steam room to the rooms if they feel like it. The clientele or half of it is very attractive. If I compare it to MIDTOWNE SPA in LOS ANGELES; HISPALIS is way way way better in terms of good looking guys. HISPALIS is a long block away from the NATIONAL MUSEUM better to take UBER. The drinks got cheaper a rum and coke $3.20. Wednesdays and Fridays naked days The music so so but it got better. Bring your own lube and condoms. Come on over and have a blast or several if you can.
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Enrique Cambronero

16-May-2021

Update

Thursday is not a good day to pop in as it is always almost empty . If you enjoy poppers bring them with you as in COSTA RICA there isn’t a store that sells them. Take UBER as it is easier to get to HISPALIS. Unlike other gay saunas like in the USA . There are a lot of PYT’S if you are into that . I don’t .It is very easy to hook up go to the glory hole/maze and you pick up a guy either to have fun in the cubicle or you take the guy to one of the rooms. If you are a bottom/ pasivo with buns in the air in one of the rooms . Ya They think that you are sleeping or resting that concept of buns in the air they are not used to it and obviously like any sauna there are guys walking in circles looking for the ONE. The condom thing is up to you and your partner. I would say that as the years go by there is more BB even though there is no PrPE in COSTA RICA . They don’t even know what it is as of yet.The entrance fee is 6000 cólones more or less $9 no credit cards . Open Wednesday thru SUNDAY 12 pm to 9pm. The action starts around 3 pm to 7 pm nude days Wednesday and FRIDAYS. I can’t say that is a diverse place as you don’t see blacks or oriental guys maybe one here and there mostly Costa Rican’s or guys from other Latin American countries and guys from the USA sometimes. You cannot rent a room like in the USA or some saunas in EUROPE It is a huge place . The music has gotten a little better nowadays HISPALIS in my personal opinion can compete with other saunas if I place MIDTOWNE SPA in LOS ANGELES (which is not my favorite sauna) and HISPALIS side by side probably I would pick HISPALIS . I live in the STATES so the bathhouse that I really love is STEAMWORKS in CHICAGO which is closed at the time due to the pandemic but while I am in COSTA RICA HISPALIS is the best. If you are a gay tourist visiting COSTA RICA and like gay saunas take an UBER and go to HISPALIS.
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Enrique Cambronero

19-Feb-2021

Open sauna

CLUB HISPALIS is open from 12 to 9pm weds day thru sunday. Costa Rica is one of the few countries open for tourism. They follow all the rules in terms of COVID 19 upon entering you have to fill out a health pass upon leaving if you are going back to the STATES you have to have a COVID TEST 19. All that been said . HISPALIS is back and so are his customers . A variety of guys to choose from most of them ready to play bring your own condoms and lube some of them go BB the other ones condoms. I visited this FEB 2021 and the guys are ready to play as they have been lock out for almost a year so they are ready to go back to the the way it used to be. So if you miss your gay sauna experience try COSTA RICA at least it will remind you of the way saunas used to be. The action starts around 3 pm . The labyrinth is more or less where you pick the guys and take them to your room. The bar is open. Nude days Wednesday and FRIDAY.
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Enrique

25-Oct-2020

Opens Jan 1 2021

It will be interesting to see how it will turn out meaning if there will be new rules to follow if guys will be ready to go back because of COVID 19 and the economic situation in the country which is dire. In the last few years I noticed less customers even though it is a huge and clean place and I always managed to have great times . I hope that it will be a success for all our sakes and the sauna.
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Kris

15-Jul-2020

hot ticos

I went there in August 2019. the location is not easy to find but it's all worth it. I saw all types of body:twink, chubby.. with various ages. I was the only asian so I did get quiet attentions which I really enjoyed ;). Bring your condoms. Jacuzzi is nice, you can chat with other ticos, they're friendly. A staff handed me a note with his number . Next time I'll stay somewhere closer to this sauna so it will be more convenient. Ticos are so hot!!!
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doug

22-Jul-2019

doug from Florida

nice facility, but poor directions if walking. Walk all the way down the pedestrian Central Avenida to Calle 19, go short distance and cross the railroad tracks. Take a right between the bldgs and entrance is to your left. This info should increase the no. of tourists seeking the club while on holiday.
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Sergio

10-Mar-2019

very nice place

Friendly staff welcomes you ; the whole place is quite big, nice little jacuzzi, quite huge steam bath, big 2 rooms finnish sauna (the 2nd room is very dark) Lot of various people, a very nice place to go.
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Enrique

13-Nov-2018

The only gay sauna

A few blocks away from the museum. If you are foreigner is best if you take UBER. Busy days Wednesday, Friday, (naked days) Saturday’s and Sunday’s busy, too. It gets good between 3pm and 8 pm. The music is not very good. There is a bar, beers , hard liquor etc. Last time that I went 5500 colones $9 as the colon is plunging. Once you pay the entrance they let you in and they give you a blue cloth and sandals. Ask for a towel instead. It is a huge place with swimming pool, jacuzzi, labyrinth ( small) but basically, that’s where you hook up and at the glory hole section; bring your own lube and condoms. Ticos in that place tend to stick together but foreigners are very well welcome. The customers are from all ages from twinks to 80 years old. Some are very handsome some not so much a lot of paunchy guys. There is a small room diagonal to the bar where you can smoke. There is a lot of bareback and also guys who have just have fun with condoms, more than likely you'll get what you want.

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