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kleinbl00  ·  538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 12, 2023

Rule of thumb: Koreans do their spas less hard core than the Russians/Scandinavians but they also tend to be gender-separated. I prefer the Russian spas because they tend to be more hard-core. LA's is built in a former crematorium; one of the body-burners is now in the hot banya, with railroad tracks still leading out of it.





uhsguy  ·  537 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there one you like in Seattle/Bellevue ? The one in Everett is pretty hard core but it’s not the cleanest. The Korean one Q is ok, it’s probably really close to you.

kleinbl00  ·  537 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Banya 5 is dope. It's the only one. The one in Everett is skanky but I hear it's being remodeled/sold/whatever. I still have trigger finger in one of my fingers from a visit to Q in 2018, fuck that place.

uhsguy  ·  537 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How did you get trigger finger from the spa? Staph infection?

One day I’d like to build my own but is pretty expensive to do it correctly and information isn’t readily available in English. The kits you buy are basically all garbage.

kleinbl00  ·  537 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They do a cursory scrub-massage-thing where some dude pulled on my fingers and pretty much ripped my middle finger out of its socket. It made a loud CRACK, he looked at me, shrugged, and kept going.

If you're gonna do it, go KLAFS.