Rio Spa is perhaps the most well known of all the Macau saunas. I don’t know if that’s because the Rio Hotel is so visible, because the facilities are so large and lavish, or because the sauna has such a large and diverse staff. If I had to guess I’d say it’s probably a combination of all of these things.
Rio is possibly the easiest to find of all the saunas in Macau. Well, at least the building that houses it is. The Rio Hotel boasts a large neon facade that can be seen from quite a distance, day or night. It also helps that it’s located on the edge of a park, which makes it even more visible. The sauna inside isn’t exactly well advertised but it’s not hidden either. When you enter the Rio you simply head to the elevators and press the button for the fifth floor.
Rio Spa in Macau
Rio Spa is without a doubt one of the nicest saunas in the Special Administrative Region of Macau. That really means something since all the saunas are basically top of the line when it comes to male entertainment. Rio is comparable to most other saunas but it has a sort of executive or first class feel about it. The prices definitely reflect that feeling. Rio is also one of the most expensive saunas in town.
You do what Rio what you’d do at any other sauna. Drop your things in the locker, take a shower, take a dip, and head into the lounge. There’s nothing special to mention about the attendants who help with these things.
Facilities and surroundings
The lounge room on the other hand is a little special. It’s not necessarily any different or even any better than other sauna lounges, it’s just gigantic. There are plenty of rows of reclining seats. What’s great is that they face televisions and walls rather than other chairs as is common in Macau saunas. Despite the layout and size of the place it can get quite crowded, which I find off putting. I remember visiting once on a Tuesday night at around 10 pm and the place was almost full. I had a Japanese guy seated directly to my left. A Chinese guy was sleeping and snoring directly to my right.
Personally, I’d much prefer it if every place I visited was completely empty. I’d love to be the only customer everywhere I go. Of course I realize that this is the direct opposite of what the businesses want. I’m usually happy with something somewhere in the middle and I believe it would actually help business too. A full room can really cut into the “executive imagine” I referred to earlier.
Sauna services
Don’t get me wrong. Rio isn’t always crowded. There are times when it’s almost empty. In either case there are lots of services available and plenty of people to render them. Most of the hands-on attendants are Indonesian or Vietnamese. Like the other saunas, these attendants were special colored outfits to indicate their work.
The light green outfits are worn by the women who do foot massages. The women who do other massages wear light pink outfits. The light red outfits, which look a lot like the light pink outfits, are worn by the women who do the “thigh massages”. Those who have read my previous Macau sauna reviews or who are otherwise familiar with the scene will know that your thighs don’t get nearly as much attention as your dick and balls do during these massages.
Thigh massages at Rio happen right in the lounge. An attendant recently told me they are no longer allowing them in private rooms. Apparently some customers were going for the cheap happy ending then heading out the door. Since they would have to pay a sauna fee in that case (which is waved when you take a full service girl) I don’t see what the big deal is, though I can understand why they would want to get the maximum revenue out of each customer.
Service quality
I don’t really have any complaints about any of the services except that on exceptionally busy nights (like the Tuesday I mentioned) it can take a few minutes to find an attendant to provide the service you’re after. This may sound like a small complaint but when I’m shelling out hundreds of dollars I expect a certain level of treatment. I don’t want to have to track people down. The prices are a little high. A round of pecker priming is 237 Hong Kong Dollars ($31 US), and the other services are 193 HKD ($25 US).
The food at Rio is good but not great. Since it’s free I don’t really have anything to say about it. Rio does have a pretty extensive paid food menu that’s larger than any other I’ve seen. I’ve ordered from it a few times but I didn’t get anything that much better than what’s given at no cost. The portions were just a little larger.
Women at Rio Sauna
The line up is where Rio really shines. There can be a hundred or more women on call at any given time and all it takes to see them is to ask for it. The management usually tries to find at least one other customer to make it more worth their while but they’ll go on if it’s only you. The line up is done is the pool area. I prefer when they’re done right in front of your lounge chair as they are at places like Familia Nobre and Golden Sauna. But I understand why it’s done this way at Rio with so many women working here.
The full service staff at Rio is as diverse as it is plentiful. On my last visit there were Vietnamese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese women available. Nearly all were attractive. Quite a few stunningly so. There’s also a large number of busty women here, both of the natural and the artificially upgraded variety.
Full service
Once you pick your woman you will head back to the full service rooms. These seem to have slightly lower ceilings than some of the other full service rooms around town. But they also look a little nicer. They have big bed and large shower attached shower rooms. The standard flat screen television with porn on channel ten is also there, along with a few mirrors. The shower table is of the more expensive variety. Rather than just a flat table, this style is a sort of a shallow tub that allows some of the water to stay in the table while you lay on it. It’s comfortable enough, even without the “milk bath” that the attendant may try to sell you after you chose your lady (I’m all for quality upgrades but this is just some white stuff mixed in the water).
The full service is pretty standard, which in the case of Macau saunas means great. Things always depend on the provider you get and the chemistry between the two of you, but you can be sure that you will leave satisfied. While each lady has their own way of doing things I will say that I’ve nearly always got the old tongue lashing up the backside at Rio, even though it usually doesn’t last that long. When it comes to the oral action, both the hot and cold (sucking with a mouth full of warm tea followed by sucking with a mouth full of ice water) and minty (sucking with a mouth full of mouthwash) varieties commonly make appearances.
After showering you get everything you would expect. More sucking following by strapping up and going at it. This is followed by another shower, with your girl washing you up and drying you off a final time before showing you back to the lounge.
Summary
To give you an idea of the prices at Rio I can tell you that a sauna session including two dick and ball massages, two foot massages, two head and should massages and a round of full service fun with a Chinese gal will come out to be about 3650 Hong Kong Dollars, which is the equivalent of $470 US dollars. That’s quite a chunk of change. If you get into ad-ons like the private lounge room and milk baths it’s going to be even more than that.
Rio Spa’s best features are its size, the level of luxury, and the number of women on the full service staff. Negative aspects are the prices and how crowded the place can get (which also makes the service slower). Balancing the two against each other still leaves you with an overall positive experience.
Rio Spa really is an amazing place. Compared to almost anything in the world it’s really up there toward the top. On the other hand, when compared with other saunas in Macau and considering things like the price and how busy it can get, it doesn’t seem as spectacular. In giving Rio a score I wanted to make sure to be as fair as possible while taking all of this into account. After some consideration I came up with a solid four, which I think is just right. 
Rio Spa. 33 R. de Luis Gonzaga Gomes, Macau. Click here for a map. Open 24 hours.
Note: RIO has closed.
Great review. Thank you for the wealth of information on this site- I’m amazed at the coverage of so many locales, I wish I’d found it sooner. I’ve thought about a trip to Macau for some time now. I wonder if you can give a comparison between the best of the sauna girls and the best of gogos in Bangkok in terms of looks? I’ve always been tempted by Macau and prefer Chinese women to the darker Thai beauties (but love both), but when I’ve had a chance to make the trip I always seem to go back to Thailand, partly because I know it’s great and partly because the whole experience there is so much fun.
That would come down to your personal preference. There are plenty of Thais in Macau, but no Chinese working Thai go gos. The Thais in Macau tend to be of a lighter complexion. For me the benefit of Macau is the relative peace of the place. Roll into a sauna, relax as long as you want, get waited on hand and foot, then chose a woman from a lineup. In Thailand there’s a lot more travel, racket, searching, and more. That also has it’s place of course, especially if you’re into partying. Cheers.
Hey,
I love the website, and it makes me want to travel! I have read in other forums that Japanese and Korean girls in Macau saunas are not really Japanese or Korean… they just are called that, so that the sauna can charge a premium. You mentioned that the Rio spa had both in their lineup. Do you think those girls were really Japanese or Korean??
Thanks, and keep travelling!
I’m not sure. Some of them appear to be “fake,” whatever that means. I did meet a Korean in a sauna once and she looked and spoke Korean. She may be a Korean from China or Russia. I don’t know. But I had no reason to doubt that she was in fact what she said. The Mongolians are real in my experience too. If you’re set on finding a Japanese or Korean girl, the obvious places to look would be Japan and Korea. The US or possibly New Zealand would be second (at least for Koreans). Cheers.
Rockit are ther any spa places like Macau’s FN in Bangkok?
Teo
There are soapies and saunas but nothing like Macau saunas in my opinion. There are so many other options in Thailand it’s rarely something I consider. Cheers.
Rockit,
This site rocks. Your writing is so entertaining- I wish my college lit classes read like this and I would’ve been an A student.
How do you even find out about all these things? Macao sounds like heaven. I imagine you’re the guy in the Dos Equis commercials!
I found out through experience. Nothing more, nothing less. When I started out in this game the internet was nothing normal people had even heard of. I was surprised to find that even after the internet had become mainstream, few sites existed covering the scene internationally. That’s why I started this. Glad you enjoy. Cheers!
PS. No literature classes but I’d be happy to do some one on one consulting via email, Skype or anywhere else. Especially if you want to pay me a professor’s salary.
Ohhh man — I’ve been waiting for this review for a long time. I’m going to be in Macau for the first week of May, and I’m still making up my mind about how to spend my nights. Looking forward to more info about your exploits in Macau, Hong Kong, and Seoul!
Thanks for the comment. Cheers!
Hey man the website is awesome!
A quick question- how much do you usually tip after full service?
Thanks for the comment. Tipping is a Western advent. It’s neither required or expected in most of Asia, including Macau. The only time I’ve ever tipped anyone in a Macau sauna was when I wrote a few dollars up for a girl who worked as a robe putter onner. That was purely out of pity. Cheers.
Thanks for replying! That’s good to know. Now, does that apply to other establishments, namely darling 1 &2?
It applies to pretty much everyone and everything in Asia.
Hey Rockit,
How are the sleeping arrangements at Rio? Do you just have to sleep in the chairs, or do they have a separate sleeping area like at Familia Nobre?
Also, when do the line-ups stop? If I show up at 1am or 2am, will I still be able to get with a girl?
I’ve never slept there so I can’t answer that, but I do believe there have sleeping rooms. They even have a private lounge area so I don’t see why they wouldn’t. It’s truly a 24 hour operation. I’ve had lineups as late as 1 am. After that I’m sure you’d get one, but the number of ladies on staff would probably be lower than normal. Cheers.
Hey Rockit,
do you have a recommendation from your list of spas that are better for overnight stay? will be laying over in macau and it seems like a good idea to spend a night in a spa instead of a hotel.
Hi. I don’t make recommendations on this site or suggestion anyone do anything. This is purely for entertainment. That said, if I was going to have a layover in Macau and I was looking for a sauna to spend my time in I’d probably choose Familia Nobre or Emperor. That’s not necessarily due to any private sleeping quarters. It’s more about the generally peaceful nature of these places and the good services and values they provide. Cheers!
Hi Rockit
any sit down shower service by the girls in rio spa?
There very well may be one but if so I haven’t seen it or been offered it. Of course the full service girls give showers in the private rooms. Cheers.
thanks a lot. your website is a great help and because of this, I had a great fun when I was at emperor and familia sauna in macau.
just want to add on that in familia, there is this body scrub service which I enjoy greatly, should give a try when you r there!
One of these days I’ll get around to trying every service they have. Cheers.
Tks for the review. Visited rio after reading your review.
Picked a stunner and had a great time.
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
I loved this place. Don’t remember every last detail, but the high points where: decent laptops to rent, big screen TVs with many channels, never facing other men, flirty and hot waitresses, good free food, and finally, last but not least, super hot girls.
The atmosphere is fun here, too. I didn’t expect to laugh while at a sauna, but some of these blokes could pass for comedians. There were some guys inspecting the lineups, so serious about it..asking their friends about the girls and thinking for a solid few minutes about their decision. This struck me as quite hilarious and I couldn’t help but laugh quite heartily. The girls and staff saw me giggling and started chuckling as well. This just made me feel good.
This was the second time in my life where I had a girl that could really tighten her snatch. Almost like squeezing your willy with your hand, that’s how tight she could make it (but of course feels a lot better than a hand). It’s really an amazing experience. We GFE sex, she did actually seem to enjoy it. After all this screwing in Macau, it was actually getting hard for me to get a hardon. Not with this girl. After I blew one off, she let me lick and admire her body for the rest of the time (a good 60 minutes, at least).
Thanks for the report. Some of those guys study lineups like it’s a puzzle. And you can definitely bang yourself out of juice in Macau! Cheers.
Currently at Rio, the girls are pretty good her, it is a Monday night not too many customers so not too many girls maybe around 30. Had the first shot with full service and thinking of having a second but little Bro seems to be tired. Tried the thigh massage with a ugly chick so couldn’t get it to work. So resting a bit. Got the package at shun tak at HK$2269, +500 for model.but the second shot will be only $300 cheaper from the original price. So really had to think hard, or make the little guy hard.
Thanks for the comment. Cheers.
Yup after waiting for an hour, I decided to go for a second round of FS. I only recover to my 90% performance but I had so much fun. At the end I paid 500 for the 1 shot with model and 2230 that was with the discounted price for 2nd shot, so the total came out to 2730, that was with on top of the package $2269 at shun tak. So my total was around HK$5000. After that I went to gamble a bit on baccarat and won $1400 so my damage was $3600 for the evening from 6pm to 9:40pm.
If first time in Macau and a Sunday night, which sauna would you recommend? And would you recommend going to two different saunas the same night?
Sorry, I don’t give that kind of advice. This website is for entertainment only. Cheers.
hi rockit,
i’ll be heading to macau next week was contemplating between rio and 18 spa, having a huge dilemma at the moment. Also could you give me a rough idea of the prices there? further more is the discount at sanado still available? sorry may be the wrong place to ask about sanado but planning to go 2 spas during my visit but may worry financially. Please advice thank you . Love your blog
Hi. I don’t give recommendations. This website is for entertainment only. That said 18 and Rio are two of the most expensive saunas in Macau. Sanado is a little cheaper and Familia Nobre is one of the cheapest. There’s no idea to give an idea of total prices since it’s dependent on how many services one partakes in. Cheers.
Hi, love you reviews! Does Rio offer massage with happy endings or is it only full service?
They offer both. Cheers.
So I’m going to spend a day in January in macau on my trip to Hong Kong and bangkok. Am leaning towards emporer – good choice?
You can see my review of the place. I like it. Some others feel differently. Cheers.
Hey – thanks for your reviews, very entertaining stuff. I’m curious – is there a VIP service at Rio or any other of the Macau spas, perhaps where they have even better girls or services for a premium?
Hi. I think a few places may have some special packages and of course there are “models” in most line ups that charge a lot more for their services. Rio has a private lounge that punters can use for a premium too. A company called Macau Stag used to advertise on this website and I believe they also offer some kind of VIP packages. Cheers.
My exerience today was more of a 1 or 2 star, obviously these things are always varied but im afraid this place has gone downhill since your report.
firstly, i found the cameras in the changing room a bit creepy. not sure if all saunas are taking pics of our junk or just rio but I was uncomfortable right from the start.
secondly around 5 pm the place was empty, maybe 2 other customers and still no massage girls around. one really fat old one, and one 5/10 that i couldnt find half the time. Tons of servers on for some reason though.
I found the place to be cold, i was shivering when i wasnt under my towel fort. The food service was good the massage not so much, cock massages are apparently no longer offered unless you pay 1000 dollars for the happy ending massage.
I tried to take a nap and wait for more staff to show up but the staff was chatting and laughing so loud it was so annoying. very loud environment for the tiny amount of people that were there. Finally had enough I dont know why i bothered but I called for a line around 730, large selection but not as many hot girls as nombres currently has. Im sure this changes and is also up to personal preference but I think this line up should have been a lot less money. Anyways I picked what I thought would be the best one… it wasnt great. They try and sell you on a room with mirrors for 300 extra dollars… Again nombres rooms were nicer, had a ceiling mirrors and didnt cost anything.
Also no freebie ad ons like I reported at nombres.
My bill was the same price with half the services and it wasn’t particularly enjoyable, would not repeat
Rockit which of the saunas will have the best line up around midday?
In my experience many saunas have no line up in the middle of the day. Women show up at Darling 1 in the early afternoon but that’s not really a sauna. The only sauna I’ve seen a good line up at early in the day was Emperor. Cheers.
Do any of the saunas offers bare back blowies ?
In my experience it’s the usual practice at all Macau saunas. Cheers.
just checked out Rio spa last night. Had a fabulose time, my first sauna experience but I would highly recommend, albeit slightly pricey. There was a very pretty Indonesian mama with glasses there that wasn’t on the menu which I was a bit sad about, buy the lady I picked was great
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
Awesome report!!! And this site really rocks.
Can I select two girls for the full service at the same time to have a threesome.
And will these girls be bisexual?
There is an option to take two ladies at once though there is really no way to know their sexual orientations. You probably want to know if they will interact with each other and I guess that’s something a customer could ask a manager though they may or may not know. Cheers.
Went to Rio Spa in the last week. Amazing place. All activities perfect as per your review.
Took two chicks from the selection area. As you told they were not so interactive with each other. Either I did not understand anything from them. Gave a nice bang to both the girls. Nice room and lobby. Took some rest and had shoulder thigh and head massage. Food is not bad. Staffs were friendly and few were able to speak English.
Thanks for your report. It was really a great guide for solo traveller like me.
Thanks for your comment. Cheers.
Is CIM available io or another of the high-end Spas ?
It happens from time to time. Cheers.
Posted a review of Rio Spa on the forum, went 2 weeks ago. Anyone planning to go to Macau should check it out.
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
sorry but I also had today a mixed experience. For sure the place is beautiful, even impressive. Admittedly -and this possible impacts my feeling- I came early: 14 girls onyl, of which only 4 Viet for the basic rate. Nothing special, chinese models were very nice but over 5K HK dollars, forget it. AFter a shower delivered by a balinese girl ( not beautiful but nice eprson) but without BJ, I went to the massage which was included in my package I bought at Sheung Wan ( by the way, a car was supposed to catch me at the ferry arival but there was none). These girls either serving drinks/food or giving the various massages were nice attitude but everything a bit pushy. They came every 2nd minute for a massage which I rejected (1 was included in the package for free). Except my beer, all other consued drinks and food were supposed to be free but when leaving I still ahd to pay 260 HK dollars, explained in chinese so don’t know why..but paid, what could I do. About the sessions it self I took a viet who did it very professionnally ( of course !), got the “ice and fire” story but frankly also I think it is more “fun” than exciting. When asking if later there would have been more girls they told me maximal 20. So while not a bad experience, I had better ones in many places for much cheaper in many countries. Would not repeat. Based on this unique experience I would say far too expensive for what you get in this spa, unless you like great architecture.
Thanks for the report. Rio certainly isn’t my favorite sauna in Macau by I don’t think it’s too bad either. As I said if it were anywhere else it would look even better. I’m not sure where you got the 5000 HKD number. That’s almost 650 US dollars. It definitely doesn’t cost that much for full service with a Chinese woman at Rio. Cheers.
Well, that was the price indicated on the package at the terminal as well as by the manager during show-time. Girls prices were: 2200 for viets, 2500 for 2-3 chinese “non models” and 5100 for models, not speaking about 2 very beautiful japanese for 7000 ! A bit expensive for a fuck !!! As sais the ebst was the facilities but while agreable this is not the aim of the visit, right ?
Okay that makes more sense. As mentioned in the review Rio is one of the most expensive saunas in Macau. “Models” charge a lot in every sauna but other services cost less in most other places nearby. Cheers.
Rockit. Thanks for the post. Friends and I are going in a few months. But we are just spending a night. Do you suggest just to stay in the lounge area to sleep for the night in the Rio sauna? Is there additiinal charge? Or there are private rooms for overnighter. Can you get out of the sauna after the “business” and get back in for the night?
For 2nd round for the followjng day for other services like massage, do they provide discount if you stay for the night? Are all massage come with hj? Or fs? How much are their massage and duration.
I don’t make suggestions or recommendations. This website is for entertainment only. There is no extra charge for sleeping in a sauna. A single entry fee covers a certain amount of time inside and even that fee is waved when customers spend a certain amount of money on services. There are private rooms available but they are limited and can fill up fast. As far as I know customers cannot leave and come back without paying another entry fee. There are various types of massages that end in different ways. The sauna has a menu that lists them all. Cheers.
Hi Rockit,
I think this was the spa we went to a few years back the place was full when we went and we had a hard time getting drinks and food while sitting on the chairs. When it came to the lineup at first I was disappointed as for me the girls weren’t stunners. My friend however was pushing me to pick already and while I was contemplating just waiting for the next show lineup a late girl showed up and man she was a 10. I immediately picked her and although she didn’t know much english I had a great time. We might be planning another outing soon and I’d like to try your 5-star review spa.
Here’s my question, how many times can you cum with the girl you picked with in the full service room? If you cum from the bj for example is it all over and if you want to go again you will be charged for 2 on your bill? is it YMMV? I ask cause I remember holding back during the wet massage blowjob parts and after the deed I wanted to go again but decided not to. Nice to know as it would be a treat if the only constraint with the girl is time but if it is by the number of times you pop then it would be better getting a new girl so you can experience the wet massage again.
I don’t know if there are any set rules. Guys typically pay for a session with a time limit. The women decide how each session will go. Cheers.
I really envy Rockit’s life style!!Sounds like a paradise for men if you have enough money. I just wish to try this place once in life as I can’t afford 500 usd for one night. I would rather spend the money in bkk for 5 sessions with different girls. A great read though, Cheers!
I’ve also always been curious. It’s not just the money, it is also the freedom to keep travelling at all times.
Rockit, sorry to probe, but can you tell us in which line of job are you?
Thanks!
No I can’t. Though I will say that freedom is the most valuable thing a man can have. Unfortunately many men don’t have it. Even more unfortunately many seem to have forged their own chains. Cheers.
Everyone has to make their own choices. Some would say that a $100 would better be spent on 20 visits to McDonald’s instead o one to a nice restaurant. I don’t think there is anything in Bangkok that compares with the Macau saunas. The again there isn’t anything in Macau that compares with Bangkok blowjob bars. Cheers.
It’s easy folks. Don’t trade time for money. There are better ways.
I think it is a trade off. I did travel a lot before but I didn’t have enough money. (Still, don’t.) As I got older, my stamina went down a bit. I do have money to travel more but as far as spending money on pay4sex, I look for best deals fro my money’s worth. The most I spent was at a sauna in Qingdao was about 100 usd for a hj. She was very good looking and nice but I would rather spend on 4 bj bars in bkk, though:) I do agree with Rockit it is nice to go to a good restaurant once in a while!!Cheers!!
Went to Rio and LOVED it. It’s plush and feels like a 5-star hotel setting – the pool areas, the lounge, the private rooms, etc. The line-up around 5pm was 18 girls or so (pretty good for a slow time). In the lounge, I once had 4 girls tending to me – 1 on each foot (massage), 1 giving me a head massage, and one giving me a thigh massage. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Most girls in the line-up were pretty, but no stunners. I picked a Vietnamese girl who supposedly instructs the new girls in the sensual arts. I received amazing service and she was begging me to extend to 2 hours (after I gave her multiple O’s). My 6 lounge massage sessions plus the 1 hour of private time cost me ~3,150 Hong Kong dollars.
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
I am traveling Macau alone. Young professional asian american who is budget minded but willing to spend for the right value (valuate/invest in companies for work). And my chinese is elementary so I only spoke in english. Also, writing this from my phone so please excuse any typos.
Having noted above I spent 4days in Macau so far (I am writing this from Macau) and visited Familia nobre, rio, east spa, and golden. I can write a review on the others later. Think rockit did a excellent job giving his opinion but I wanted to provide mine as well and give you guys an update/insight.
Before I go in to the details of the Rio, I want you guys to know that prices of all the sauna has went up hkd 500 to hkd 1000 (for full service/sex) since some of rockits posts.
To go in to Rio, I will write my impression from the moment I entered Rio Hotel (Sauna).
Entrance: Located in Rio hotel and ambience is much higher than other suanas (especially fam nobre which has entrance in front of a bus stop on the street). More discreet (compared to East spa where you press sauna floor when riding waldo hotel elevator with bunch of tourist families).
Locker: Filipinos who speak english in the front. Locker very modern and much bigger than what it looks like (could fit my 30L bag). This is contrast to fam nobre lockers which is frankly outdated. I dont care about the lockers themselves as long as they keep my belonging safe. However, worth commenting as it is part of total ambience.
Sauna tubs: very spacious bigger than fam nobre which has reputation for having a big tub.
Restaurant and massage area: luxurious interior (can post pictures). Massage service far greater than other sauna. To give color I received foot, shoulder, head massage (except fam nobre which doesnt offer one) from every sauna I been to and, without question, rio provided the most legit massage of all of them. To compare, other sauna were more like rub instead of actual massage.
Girls: Showtime every 30mins. The hottest chinese and korean selection in my humble opinion. And the value totally outweighs the cost. Viet, thai, filipinas comparable to other saunas. If I rate rio chinese girls at 10 others were like 4 to 6. That much of a difference! I chose a chinese girl what we call Bagel (baby face but glamorous body). She had paper thin waste but awesome ass and tits. Most importantly, she was service minded and finished me on top. She was sweating so much at the end from all the “hard exercise”. In fact, I liked her so much I took her back to my hotel afterwards for round 2 and 3 and gf mode sleeping. Initially she quoted hkd 5000 (wtf). But I told her i dont snore and negotiated to hkd 3500. Awesome value given that I was even allowed to take few pic with her. Think the girls vary in terms of what time they leave but she got off at 2am. Girl is on my wechat and I am thinking of another round with her tomorrow before she goes to work at rio around 5pm (girls work 9hour shifts 6days a week).
Price: many saunas offer 1 free massage service of your choice (fam nobre 2 if entered in happy hour 1pm to 8pm) if you buy sex service. Given all of the above, in my opinion totally worth 10 to 20% premium and the best sauna in macau.
Thanks for the report. Feel free to email me some of the pics. Cheers.
Dear Rockit
how is the thigh massage actually performed in the lounge? is there a screen or any cover, or are given a very much intimate massage infront of everyone?
Thanks, Alex
Your question in answered in the post you are commenting on. There are no screens or anything like that but the massage is done under a large towel so no one can see what is going on. Anyone uncomfortable with public nudity would probably avoid saunas anyway since the showering and bathing is done in view of others. Cheers.
Hi was here tonight, there are pros and cons to this place, in terms of pool and lounge area its the best i’ve been to, the entrance fee at about 700 MOP is steep however is wavered if you do a full service and most food and drinks are free here as well. Do feel cause its bigger, lacks abit of atmosphere. The little item massages are done by oldish Vietnamese women, who just come up to you and ask for a massage which is boring compared to FN (familia nobre) or GS (golden sauna) as the girls there actually talk to you a bit more. The line ups here are done every hour more expensive than the other 2 places id say 80% are Chinese who are absolutely stunners, 10% are Vietnamese, with the rest Russians and Japanese. what i didn’t like here compared to golden saunas is the the models don’t come out and talk or try to sell, they just sit in their room. I chose a Chinese model, thought she was a bit boring maybe because i don’t speak Chinese and she didn’t speak Vietnamese or English so i didn’t feel there was any chemistry and felt more mechanical compared to me normally choosing a Vietnamese girl and also harder for me to get her number etc as well as normally I am able to do. so out of the 3 that i’ve been to this 3 days in order the best is GS, then FN, last is RIO. Based on price, food, atmosphere, masseuses, and models available and FS given.
also what i didn’t like it here compared to the other 2 places is than normally if you do a full service you get a mini massage for free, here they didn’t offer that. so this is why i rated this place lower than the other 2 saunas mentioned.
Thanks for the report. What you say sounds accurate in my experience. Cheers.
Hi, I plan to visit macau in march and rio spa is one of my destinations there.
But I have some questions before visit there.
Is it the safe place to use credit card? or they accept cash only.? Thanks
I don’t know what is and isn’t safe. Different people probably have different ideas on that. I know that Rio accepts credit cards and many people use them there. Cheers.
Was at Rio recent days. Probably my 10th Macau Spa visit over years. I’ve tried 3 different ones. Rio, FN and Darling 1. I’m afraid the prices are now just obscene and make this completely not worth it. The cheapest girl for FS at RIO was 2700 HKD. She was not pretty at all (5/10) and her body was only a 4/10), heavily scripted and fake beyond belief (baby, baby!). What do they teach them these days? “Super” models were going for nearly 4000 HKD. I can take a European pornstar up the ass for that! Even Darling is now 2000 HKD for your basic service. Macau now a rip off. I’m done with it.
Thanks for the report. Prices are going up in many places. I just talked to someone the other day who was telling me they spent 9,000 Baht on a short time experience with a “model” go go dancer in Pattaya. That’s 2200 HKD. Not exactly the same but much higher than one might expect only a few years ago in any event. Cheers.
Prices are driven by demand. There’s a lot of new money guys in China and around Asia who can afford to spend that much. Japan and the West have been stagnating in comparison but their men are hornier than ever, so they put up with the price increase. That’s all there is to it in a nutshell.
Given a modicum of time and effort you can still find gorgeous girls for ~30 USD in Pattaya, Phnom Penh and off the beaten track in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Thanks for the comment. Nice to hear from you. I don’t know that “classic economics” always soundly applies to the commercial sex industry. I’ve seen people try in vain to explain pricing in places like Yangon with “supply and demand” and “local purchasing parity”. Besides there are other factors that can include inflation and currency fluctuations. A lot of the West is stagnant but not all. The US dollar is currently strong and offering real benefit to USD holders in the Philippines and Indonesia while it is slightly down against the Baht compared to one year ago. Macau seems to be getting less customers now than it did only a few years ago while other places like Sihanoukville are filled with tens of thousands of newly arrived Chinese. The USD is up slightly against the Chinese Yuan from a year ago and Cambodia has a dollarized economy. I definitely agree that there are mainly lovely women offering sexual services for around $30 USD all around Asia. A thirty dollar blow job is still available in Tokyo even! A strong dollar doesn’t say everything though. People still need to get their hands on the dollars first. Cheers.
That’s all true. I can’t speak for the average person but I’ve been holding multiple currencies for a while now, including USD and Thai baht. I couldn’t trust the Euro since the chronic political instability in the EU makes it too volatile a currency.
The best banks in Asia will allow you to open an account in USD upon request. Of course opening a bank account in Asia is becoming increasingly difficult for foreigners, especially in places like Singapore and Hong Kong that are awash in Chinese money and won’t always deal with Westerners unless they can make a substantial deposit or they own a business locally.
On the other hand, it’s still fairly easy to open an account in Cambodia, even on a tourist visa. As you mentioned Cambodia has a dollarized economy, so the Kingdom of Wonder offers non-Americans a cheap and easy way to hold some USD. For what it’s worth, interest rates on Cambodian savings accounts are also much higher than in the West (6% on average).
Another way to do it (and without traveling) would be to open a virtual account in the United States with Payoneer. They have a smartphone app as well as a website and you can easily manage your money with either. They also ship a MasterCard debit card to your address, that you can use to withdraw cash from any ATM in the world.
Then again, guys who are smart enough to do such things can probably also avoid being ripped off by adult venues in Asia. As mentioned, sex is still being sold for next to nothing in parts of Southeast Asia and anyone can find those bargains with a bit of legwork. We are also lucky that we have a site like yours covering the scene in depth across three or four continents. Cheers.
I remember when the Euro bought two dollars and many people thought it would stay that way. Most Asian currencies are down against the dollar. The Baht has bucked the trend. It can be easy to open dollar denominated accounts in Cambodia but things can get difficult. There is also a tax in place. I don’t know about the average person since there is so much variation around the world but there are billions of people today living check to check or worse who aren’t holding any kind of currency at all! Despite it all sex is sold in Germany for 50 Euros while some “models” in Thai go go bars are now getting 5000 Baht for a short round of sex without even doing a blow job! It’s a wild world. Cheers.
Price is not driven by demand, because that would require limits on the supply side. As long as there are Chinese girls reaching adulthood, and Issan girls leaving their villages for the bright lights and western nobs to polish, there is nearly endless supply. In this case, prices are driven by the flexibility of pricing. As with cigarette smokers, the product on offer will always be procured even as the prices go north. In this metaphor, I can still roll my own with one or two regular honeys who like spending their time and treasure with me for 1500 to 2000 baht a night.
Thanks for the comment Jack. Cheers.
Hi Jack. To be clear, I wasn’t making the classic supply-demand contraposition. In fact, I didn’t mention supply at all. I simply said that go go dancers can afford to charge up to 10,000 baht because lots of men are willing to pay as much. How would you describe that, if not as high demand?
I just looked up “demand” and a reputable source defines it as “The amount of any given commodity that people are ready and able to buy at a given time for a given price”, so I don’t think I used the word improperly. It’s a vague term in and on itself.
I maintain that demand is the driving force behind the increase in go go bar prices. The bars are always packed. If the bars were empty you would see the girls slashing their rates faster than you can say “farang kinok”. Supply doesn’t enter this conversation at all, since we are talking about a service — not a product. (An “unskilled” service at that, since any woman with a pulse can offer it.)
Lastly, as a smoker myself I’m not digging the comparison with cigarettes. Cigarette prices are high only in *certain* countries and mainly because of two reasons: (a) high local taxes on tobacco products, and (b) high cost of living in general within said countries.
You can’t really compare that to Thai hookers, because (a) the Thai government won’t even admit that prostitution exists in the country, let alone put a tax on it; and (b) go go bar prices are remarkably at odds with the cost of living in Thailand, which is still fairly low in general. It’s a bad comparison overall.
I’m done being a smartass, have a nice day. I just wanted to clarify my point since you replied directly to my previous comment. Plus it’s fun that somehow we get to talk about economics on a site like this.
Coming to think of it… supply might have something to do with it, after all. It just occurred to me that Thailand and the Philippines are pretty much the only countries with go go bars (and as far as I know Macau is the only place in the world with that sort of saunas).
It might be that customers are paying a premium because of the “experience”, not for the sex itself (which would explain why so many guys travel to Thailand and Macau even from countries like Japan and Germany, where P4P is readily available).
If every country in the world had sex saunas and go go bars, I imagine that fewer men would travel to Thailand and/or Macau for those experiences, which in turn would drive the prices down in those countries.
It reminds me of strip clubs in the West. There are men wasting thousands of dollars in strip clubs without receiving much of anything in return, when they could have sex with multiple women for the same amount of money. Why they do it is anyone’s guess, but there’s obviously a market for that, so strip club owners (and the strippers themselves) capitalize on it. It’s the same with go go bars, I guess.
Perhaps we should differentiate between the various types of adult venues if we seek to understand the pricing behind them. Just throwing these thoughts out there… I’m still trying to figuring it out myself.
It’s definitely an interesting discussion but I don’t think it can be figured out in the comment section here. There are so many variations and parameters involved it would most likely require serious study. In Pattaya there are women getting 5000 Baht for a short round of sex within walking distance of women providing sexual services for less than 500 Baht. Thailand and the Philippines have the only “Southeast Asia” style go go bars with the exception of Blok M in Jakarta. But there is even a lot of variation there. On P Burgos in Manila the bar fine does not include payment to the provider. In Angeles City it does. On Soi Cowboy there are Coyote dancers who don’t even have sex along with fully nude dancers. In Nana Plaza it’s a different story entirely with dancers inside and freelancers just outside the entrance doing sex on the cheap.
In the West there are strip clubs that don’t even allow contact but there also strip clubs in parts of the US but there are also strip clubs where customers can have sex with the dancers in cities like Vienna. Macau has its famous saunas. There are saunas of the same or a similar type in Mainland China and Malaysia. Some would consider the saunas in Jakarta to be the same type of venue.
The large commercial sex scene in Pattaya grew out of circumstance when US soldiers were stationed there during the war in Vietnam. Before that it was a sleepy beach town inhabited by some fishermen. It seems now there are more European and Asian visitors than people from the US which is also probably down to circumstance with the US being more distant than Germany or Guangzhou.
The same goes for Angeles City which of course had the fortune of being near to the Clark Airforce Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. Once the sex industry was built up it continued on. Korean punters now seem to be among the most common. There are direct flights from Incheon to Clark. There are no direct flight to Clark from the United States.
Prices in some areas have gone up while in other they have actually gone done. In some of the richest countries of the world sexual services are regularly available for the equivalent of $50 USD or less while at the same time guys are regularly paying some sex workers in Cambodia $200 for a short round of sex.
It’s really something!
Another thing to note is that tourism to Asian countries has increased *massively* in recent years. That alone would explain a lot. Just the other day I was watching a documentary on some island-country in Oceania where the locals can barely afford stuff anymore because of mass tourism driving up the prices of everything.
As a rule of thumb, anywhere foreign capital pours in prices for select goods and services tend to skyrocket beyond the local standards. See the city center of Sydney, Australia as an example, where the locals are being priced out of the housing market by wealthy Chinese immigrants. I’ve heard similar complaints in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
Bangkok has been ranking as the most visited city in the world for a couple years now. I’m sure that has something to do with go go bar prices getting out of control (though it’s obviously not the whole story).
It doesn’t help that many (most?) of the new guys discovering the adult scene in Asia don’t have a clue about how much the locals pay for sex. We clearly see that in Vietnam, where hot tocs are charging foreigners 3x or 4x the going rate for locals. Prices are also creeping up at hostess bars in Cambodia, and across the board everywhere.
There are many factors at play here, and a lot has changed since the “good old days”. We are now in the middle of a perfect storm consisting of increased tourism, economic development across Asia, the birth of a gigantic middle class in China, growing sexual frustration among Westerners, the internet making more people aware of the adult scene, and probably other things as well. All these factors collectively conspire to increase the price of sex in Asia.
At the end of the day, the only reason why Asian hookers are charging more and more is “because they can”.
I’ll stop here before I get a headache. Who knew you could learn so much from whores.
Again it depends on a variety of factors. You’re right that a lot of visitors are uninformed even in this age of unbridled access to information. I still see Western tourists walking around Southeast Asia with printed guide books! Locals in Cambodia and even expats in the know with a grasp of the local language aren’t paying much more there now than they were five years ago. Sihanoukville is a special case with a huge surge of Chinese residents and capital but apparently Chinese guys are even showing up in Phnom Penh hostess bars with some frequency now.
In Thailand a lot of women are now freelancing with the help of the internet instead of working in bars. They regularly charge 1000 Baht for sex that is often more vigorous than anything the go go dancers do with their customers. The ladies in their early twenties seem especially adept at this and indeed they may even be raking in more money than the bar girls.
In other places where the currency has weakened against the US Dollar some USD holder may be paying less today than they did a few years ago even as prices for sexual services in the local currencies have increased.
It is indeed an interesting discussion and it could go on for ages without us getting any closer to an absolute theory of pricing!
Cheers.
Can we at least agree that the “mainstream” red light districts (i.e. places like Walking Street in Pattaya or P Burgos Street in Manila) have become little more than tourist traps? I’m fairly young myself but I have it on good authority that a decade ago you could have a great time in such places without spending a fortune, which is definitely not the case anymore.
You can still find amazing sex for cheap, no doubt about it, but you need to venture outside of the main hot spots, or you must be able to speak a bit of the local language as you said. Today more than ever it pays off to do some research beforehand, whether on the ground or on the internet.
I don’t even mind personally, since I’m all clued in at this point, but I cringe when I see rookies getting ripped off left and right. I was at a hostess bar in Saigon a few months ago and I saw a girl going back and forth between two different customers (unbeknownst to them) and extracting drinks from the both of them at the same time. It was hilarious! When I paid my bill and left she was still at it and she had racked up something like a dozen drinks in half an hour.
Assuming she even left the bar with one of them (plenty of chicks don’t do barfines at all these days), she must have charged something like 2 or 3 million VND. Meanwhile I was having sex with other girls from the same street for 500k VND. The bargains are still there but unlike in the past, you can’t just show up and expect everything to go well (if it ever was that simple… I can’t say for sure).
On my last trip to Jakarta I banged an 18-year-old for less than $20 at a place not many foreigners seem to visit. On the same trip I visited the (now well-known) King Cross only to find out that the rates over there had more than quadrupled in the span of two years! So it’s a mix of both. Plenty of fun to be had around Asia, but also increasingly scams. Sometimes within walking distance of one another!
Anyway, I didn’t mean to paint too bleak a picture. I agree with most if not all of your observations, and you undeniably have more experience than me with Asia. But I feel for those who have no skin in the game at all. Or maybe I should just laugh it off and enjoy the circus.
At one point 500 baht was the standard rate in Thailand for sex workers. These days you can still have sex for 500 baht if you know what you’re doing… or you can pay 9000 baht like that guy mentioned before if you don’t know any better, or if you have money to burn. That’s a month’s wage for many Thais.
Anyway, thank god for Asian women and for all the entertainment they provide us, naked or otherwise. I’m back in Europe at the moment, just in time for another cold Winter and yet another “crisis” in the Eurozone (they call it a crisis every time someone farts in Bruxelles), so reminiscing about Asia is making me nostalgic, even though I just spent a full year there. No matter the problems and the annoyances, I can never get enough of that part of the world.
My uninformed theory is that the uninformed newbies with wads of cash keep prices reasonable for those of us with more experience. For example: my regular Thai lady does one hour massage and HJ to get her 300-500 baht, several times a day. Then she’ll spend the night with me for 1500-2000 (depending on her pleas and my generosity – on payday I’ve even left her with 3000) and it’s full service and GF experience. No doubt there are noobs who would pay out 5000, but with experience we can still get pretty good value for money.
Some people want a tourist experience. Others are looking for cheap sex. Still others want a “girl friend experience”. Among all these people there are guys who miss the prices of the old days and newbies who are amazed that sex is sold at such a low price. Ultimately it is all a matter of perspective. Cheers.
entry sauna 1200
rio models or viet girls 2600/2700
european(russian) 3200/3300
chinese 3800
japan/korean 4500
japanese model/supermodel up to 5100-5200
if you want the milk bath with the girl you need extra 300/350HK$, session 60 and 1shot, with the girls starting number 6(chinese mostly) you have 2shots and 70min. If you have VIP card you can get a discount around 200/300 on every girl. If you choose 2nd time a girl discount again(500).
Thanks for the report. Cheers!
no entry fee when you choose a girl of course
I have seen 3 blond russians, 1venezuelan(she looked very bored or just tired?), most of the girls over 30 I think, around 20-25 girls where there but I did not count, guys 10-15max(many japanese), at show time 9-10, so lot of space and time to choose :-)
Thanks for the additional info. Cheers.
Rio sunday early afternoon(after 1pm), only 2girls(viet,china). Few guys there, no massause therapy ladies, only after 2 one really old mama and one 40y old phillipina. Around 3pm at showtime 8girls, later at 4 around 20 or more(5russians), guys 10-12. Pricelist in the washroom, sorry for the bad photo quality
https://imgur.com/a/tuYRXyb
Thank you very much for the report. Would you mind if I incorporated the photograph into this post? Cheers.
no problem
If I want a girl, you just tell at entrance directly? (In order to avoid the entry fee?)
That is not typically how saunas work. Customers enter the facilities and chose a lady for full service at their leisure if at all. This has been explained on this site before. Cheers.
Hi! Thread keeps quoting in HKD but Macau money is MOP. Can use HKD at Rio? Is it 1 HKD to 1 MOP? Going to Macau for the first time this week, and plan to visit Rio. Thanks!
Officially the Hong Kong Dollar is a bit more valuable but in practice they are often used on an equal basis with the local currency in Macau. In other words Hong Kong Dollars are widely accepted in Macau at the same rate. When a sauna bills someone for 700 Patacas they normally accept 700 Hong Kong Dollars are payment. Many people coming from Hong Kong use Hong Kong Dollars rather that exchange money in Macau. Cheers.
Thanks!
Went there first time.
Pleasantly surprised.
Girls are very hot. Decent large selection when I went at like 8pm, not too late yet I guess it gets busier later. There weren’t rows and rows and rows, but there was enough to flow off the stage.
There were Japanese, Korean, Blonde Euros, Chinese, Viet, etc. large selection.
Now many gentleman when I was there throughout my stay until 11pm.
Big facility, luxurious, clean, food and drinks free but nothing to write home about.
Chose a Chinese girl with very long legs and long straight black hair. She was a 9/10 for me and I paid around 3050MOP (forgot exact amount). I applied for VIP to get discount for future, I think she was like 3300-3400 without discount. Entrance fee waived after choosing girl. Charges are tracked on your bracelet, pay with credit card or cash when done.
Rooms were chilly in beginning but heats up during action, can turn the AC off. After showering we went at it for a constant 40 minutes. Language spoken was Mandarin with her as she was from China.
Thanks for the report. The private rooms can indeed be very cold. Especially after a shower! Cheers.
Meant to say, not many when I was there Thur around 8pm.
Went on Friday and chose at 11pm. There was a lot of guys so the best girl selection decreased quickly. You have to choose fast or you have less choices. The girl told me selection is best earlier evening probably 8pm. They seem to go to work around 5-6. Morning and early afternoon there are none.
Thanks for the update. The lineups aren’t what they used to be in a lot of the Macau Saunas. And timing does ultimately have a lot to do with who is available. Sometimes the numbers of ladies are also low in the evening only to pick up later. Cheers.
I had been there in September and once again for 2days this week. Prices same, vietnamese massage ladies too and they even recognised me. First day I choose 2 chinese girls, first one nr.850 with really good english and quite a funny lady, but in the bed not the best. Tired after a minute when she up, problems with my dick, she always told me slowly, too big(I am average size only, ok for chinese maybe bigger a little bit) and therefore she declined doggie style, so not satisfied with her performance. Second one I choose a girl nr.117 with a pretty face. She was even worser, too much cleanness maniacs. She cleaned me maybe 3times, cleaned condom 2times and after i cant touch my dick(condom) with my hands, she changed condom after 10min and so on. Omg, she sucked only the top of the dick and same as the girl before tired after a minute and no doggie. So first time in my life very bad experience in Rio. I think the second girl had some problems before too because at the end when they call from the room that we finished they wanted to hear me if it was ok or not(never before happened to me).
Second day I counted the number of girls at the first show, 34 so with a few still in the rooms with customers maybe 40ladies that day and only 2russian. I did not see the 2chinese girls from yesterday, decided to give a chance one young japanese lady nr.339. She was OK, no english, not GFE but OK not tired, no problems with positions so I can not say a bad word about her. Second time around 2am I wanted to give a chance first time in my life in Macau for a russian girl but at the show I recognised my chinese lady 2month back nr.805 so she was the winner of course. This time she was even better, great GFE, she can speak only few english words but it is always funny time with her, pretty face 24y and I was as much satisfied with her performance that at the end I prolonged for an other hour. But the last 20-30min I was really exhausted, I am an old guy so really tired after 90min and she wanted to fuck and fuck, crazy young girl :-) She started at 3pm and finished with me at 4am, during that period 7sessions for 3000(she get 1500) so after 13h of working time she went home with 10500MOP but she deserved that I am sure, very nice and friendly girl I can only recommend her to other people!
Thanks for the detailed report Marco. What you say about the lady making a hefty sum of money in a single shift rings true. Some ladies I’ve talked to including one I reviewed for this website made similar salaries. Cheers.
I heard In the old days there used to be a lineup of 100 or more girls but now it seems a lot less, meaning less choices for punters like us:( Cheers!
There are still quite a few ladies there. But it certainly not what it used to be. Cheers.
Hi Rockit,
Is it cool to just enter the sauna, pay the entrance fee , have a look around and back out . Walk away ? Of course wasting the entrance fee yea but is it okay to just go inside and feel it but not actually getting to pick one up?
Customers pay their tabs on the way out. A guy can enter and exit without getting any services. Though they would be charged some sort of access fee that is normally waved for customers who partake in the in house services. Cheers.
Rio is unfortunately closed. So these days you can find the best lineup at Familia Nobre or try Excellent Sauna inside Grand Emperor Hotel.
Thanks for the report. Cheers.
Yep, Rio is closed. I didn’t wanna believe so I actually walked in and tried the elevators, the floor with the Rio Spa has been closed and they don’t stop at the floor.
Yes indeed it is. Cheers.
Hi,
Someone told me Rio reopen. Anyone can confirm that? Thank you.
I haven’t heard that. Perhaps someone else can confirm. Cheers.